Unless you are using a fire-wire input on your PC you always require a USB driver to be installed in the PC, or its impossible to transfer images even although the PC knows that something is connected to it. These driver discs are always supplied along with new camcorders but unfortunately thats the only time! as they cannot be purchased as an accessory afterwards. Of course if using fire-wire you still require to have a video capture / manipulation programme installed (e.g. Nero 6 or 7) but not a driver disc.

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