Connecting my Droid Incredible to my laptop

I am trying to get my Droid Incredible to connect to my laptop so I can pull the pictures off of the phone and SD card but I cant get my laptop to recognize my phone is connected.  I tried downloading the VCast Media Manager but that doesnt help.  My phone shows up on the left side of the screen for a second then disappears.  If I go into file manager within windows it doesnt show my phone is connected either even though the screen on my phone says its connected via the USB symbol and mounted as a disk drive.  Can someone please help me figure this out?

Thank you to demmo86rt and budone for your contributions.  I have provided additional instructions from page 44-47 of your owner’s manual on how to connect your phone to you laptop computer.  I have also provided a link below that will take you directly to your online manual.
http://support.vzw.com/clc/devices/index.html?p=5269&m
Connecting your phone to a computer
Whenever you connect your phone to a computer using the USB cable, the Connect to PC dialog box displays and prompts you to choose the type of USB connection. Select one of the following choices, and then tap Done:
Charge only
Select this mode if you only want to charge the phone’s battery using your computer.
HTC Sync
When selected, the phone automatically uses HTC Sync when connected to your computer and lets you synchronize Outlook and Windows Address Book (Outlook Express), contacts and calendar events between your computer and your phone. For more information, see “Using HTC Sync” in the Accounts and sync chapter.
Disk drive
This mode is available only when you have installed a microSD card on your phone. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb drive, and copy files between your phone’s storage card and your computer.
When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the computer, you will not be able to run applications that use the storage card, such as Music or Gallery. For more information, see “Copying files to and from the storage card” in this chapter.
Mobile Broadband Connect
When you do not have Internet connection on your computer, you can select this mode to share your phone’s mobile data connection with your computer. For more information, see “Using Your Phone as a Modem” in the Internet chapter.
If you do not want to show the Connect to PC dialog box everytime you connect the phone to the computer, select the Don’t ask me again checkbox in the Connect to PC dialog box. The default connection type will be used when you connect the phone to the computer.
To check or change the default connection type and to show or hide the Connect to PC dialog box, press HOME > MENU, and then tap Settings > Connect to PC.
Copying files to and from the storage card
Connect the phone to your computer using the supplied USB cable.
When the Connect to PC dialog box appears, tap Disk drive, and then tap Done.
On your computer, the connected phone is recognized as a removable disk. Navigate to this removable disk and open it.
Do one of the following:
Copy the files from the computer to the phone’s storage card’s root folder.
Copy the files from the phone’s storage card to a folder in your computer or computer desktop.
5. After copying the files, unmount the removable disk (that is, the connected phone) as required by your computer’s operating system to safely remove your phone.
6. Do one of the following:
Disconnect the phone from the computer.
If you want to keep the phone connected to the computer but want the phone to be able to access the storage card, open the Notifications panel, tap Disk drive, select an option except Disk drive, and then tap Done. See “Opening the Notifications panel” in this chapter to learn how to open the Notifications panel.
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