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So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!

While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)

I tried:

- to uninstall and then insert the SD card again to spark a reinstall.

- update driver but was told it is already the latest.

- checking for solutions made me laugh because it offered none.

So it is back to Google to offer me a solution (I Googled the whole error message).

Now the solution appears to be uninstalling AVG. And true enough, it works.

To replace AVG, I have installed Avast and Avira.

I’ve always been a fan of overkill.

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