Preview unavailable for this image

I have a Canon 7D and just purchased a 8gb Sandisk Compact Flash Card 60MB/s (UDMA) . I couldn't download the image from the camera to Lightroom and to be backed up on my hard drive (My Pictures) - message said - unkown error occured
When I downloaded images from camera to Zoom Browser this wouldn't work - message said - there are no images in the camera or memory card to match download conditions - images are on card as I can view them in camera.
I downloaded the images from my card reader ok to zoom browser however when I tried to import them into Lightroom it wouldn't work and a message came up where the image would normally show saying - preview unavailable for this image
Hope someone can assist

You don't say what OS you're using. I think XP and Vista need an additional OS update/Raw viewer plugin to view the 7D in the OS, which is what Lightroom uses for the Import preview.

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