Ok, I got the SD Card to mount as others have mentioned. It did work, but there is a bug in the Video Player App on how it reads from the Video Library.
Here are the steps I used to mount the SD Card:
1. On the SD card create a folder called "Program Files" (D:\Program Files)
2. Create a SD folder in the Windows folder Program Files (C:\Program Files\SDCard)
3. "Right-Click" the Computer Icon (or hold your finger over it and then release it) to bring up a menu window and select "Manage"
4. Select "Disk Management.
5. In the middle-top area of the window, under volume, right-click the SD Drive (New Volume (D: ) and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..."
6. In the new window, select "Add"
7. In the next new window, select "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder" and then browse to the folder you created in step 2 (C:\Program Files\SDCard)
8. Hit OK twice and exit "Computer Management".
That mounts the SD card. I found those instructions online. It's not clear to me that step 1 actually does anything. When you look in C:\Program Files, the SDCard folder now has a shortcut icon and inside it has all the folders on your SD Card.
Now create a SD video folder that will become part of the Video Library:
1. On the SD Card, create a folder called "SD Video"
2. You may want to put your movies into the folder now before doing the remaining steps or you may run into the bug described below.
3. On the left side of File Explorer, select Library->Videos
4. At the top of the window, select the "Manage" tab, select "Manage Library" and then "Add"
5. You need to select the SD Video folder by browsing through the C Drive path to get it to work (C:\Program Files\SDCard). If you get to the SD Video by way of the D Drive path, you will get an error message about it being a removable drive. If you go through the C drive path, it works fine, even though either way it is the same folder.
Ok, you are done. Now test it out:
- Hook up a portable USB hard drive or other method and copy a couple of movies to the SD Video folder.
- Go to the Video App and open it up. Under "my videos" on the left, the movies should show up. It will only show up to 3 here. If you have more than that, they will show up when you select "my videos". If it is all correct, then you will see the movie "picture" with the filename title to the right of it. They will show up as "all" or "other" selected but not if "movies" is selected. I assume that movies you by from MSN/XBox have some kind of tag that makes them show up as "movies". I haven't figured out how to make this tag for movies I already have from other sources.
Here's where the Video app bug comes into play for me. Try adding another movie to the SD Card, Open up the video app, and it doesn't show up for me. There appears to be some sort of "memory" of the titles it thinks are in that folder. Once it gets set, it seems to be frozen and never update.
I moved the movies to an alternate folder and then removed SD Video from the Video Library. The Video App then showed no movies which is OK. I added the empty SD Video folder back into the Video Library and opened up the Video App, and it shows the movie "tiles" again even though the folder is empty. If you click the movie tile, an error message says "Cannot find file" which makes sense. I resolved this by creating a new folder called SD Video2, putting the old and new movies in it, and then adding that folder to the library and making sure that the old "SD Video" folder is not in the library. The Video App then shows all the movies correctly for me.
Bottom line: If you make a folder with 10 movies and never change it, it works fine. Every time you add a new movie to an existing SD movie folder, the video App will not show it correctly. You can work around this the way I described. You could also probably create a new folder every time you add a new movie and add that folder to the video library to work around the bug in the Video App.