With cameras, you need to plug the USB cab;e in andturn the camera on, assuming its fine with the connection, it should detect the new hardware and begin a snall installation process.

Usually Windows XP has the drives and software pre-installed so you only have to plug it in and play, but with some camera's seperate drivers need to be installed to allow the camera to talk to your PC proparly.

This kind of thing is never usually a problem especially if your camrea is fairly new.

Are you running XP? Did your camera come with setup drivers?