Sorry but I can't help with the problem as to why you are seeing "Device
failed to initialize, make sure it is properly connected" however turning
to your drive letter query, that shouldn't be part of the problem. When
you add a storage device to a sub port it will be automatically allocated
the next available drive letter which in your case with one hard disk
partition as C and having two optical drives using D & E will mean the
camera should be assigned F. If you were to allocate say X and Y to your
optical drives (I'm not suggesting that you do) then the camera would be
allocated D as its drive letter.

Returning to your main problem. With the camera removed try booting to
Safe Mode, open the Device Manager and delete all USB related entries
including any that appear for the camera. Reboot back into Normal Mode
and let Win Me redetect your hardware. Reconnect the camera and see if
Win Me now detects its presence and corrects the problem.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Arcury wrote:

Thank you for your advice I followed and now Olympus digital camera
showed up on My computer.
Even though, I can not make them communicate. I wanted to view the
picture. But can not fiend the camera.

I clicked on the camera icon on "my computer" the error message I got
was "Device failed to initialize, make sure it is properly connected"
I tried all 4 USB connections; my mouse which uses one of USB does
not have a problem.
Connection is good.

Could you think of anything?

Back to my original post, so it does not make any difference I have CD
drives taking up drive D and E?
Just because I remember when I had only one CD drive, the camera
showed up as drive E.