About The Memory Card Explorer (MCE) Demo And MCE In General

MCE 3.21 was the final revision of the software, released in January of 2005.

Elan Digital Systems Ltd. was placed into liquidation in late 2011, and is no longer manufacturing any products or updating any software. This means, to all intents and purposes, MCE is an End Of Life product (discontinued).

We have some excellent alternatives, including a stand alone software package and portable PC Card readers with that software bundled. We strongly recommend all our customers consider those options since they are current and maintained products that run under modern versions of The Windows, whereas MCE's compatibility ended with the 32-bit version of Windows XP.

The product line we recommend is from CSM/IPI and you can view the whole range of their products, including USB 2.0 based PC Card Drive/software bundles on this page:

PCMCIA PC Card Manager Software for OMNIDrives and SoftDrive Professional

OmniDrive devices and their related software work with all modern Windows installations, including the 64-bit version of Windows 7. PC Card Manager and SoftDrive Professional offer all the same capabilities of MCE including the ability to erase, checksum, query, copy to and from, and create byte-for-byte binary images of PCMCIA PC Card memory devices.

All that said, there are still installations of Windows XP and older that will run MCE. In some cases, customers have a reason for running the software and or this demo version -- frequently to identify an unknown PC Card -- so we will carry MCE until our supplies are exhausted.

CAVEAT EMPTOR

MCE and MCE demo are End Of Life products with no upgrade path and no update potential. Moreover they are unsupported products. We will not provide any support on them at all and can't guarantee that the FAQs and support documents on Elan's website will be available in the long term. Install the demo or purchase MCE at your own risk. Again, we recommend all customers purchase the CSM/IPI products discussed above in lieu of MCE.

Because MCE is an End Of Life Product, Synchrotech is offering a massive 50% discount discount on the retail price.

Memory Card Explorer