Sd card Formatting

[Mike Parr]

Evening all, I ask your help for a collegue of mine, he has formatted his card in his camera and it no longer recognizes it, I have the card here and have had it in my card reader, i used a demo of "Photorescue" and managed to see the photos on the card so I know that it is functioning to some degree. I know there was an issue with some cards and formatting in a pc. Can anybody shed a light on a solution as he really dosent want to piurchase another 1GB card
regards
Mike

[Stephen]

Re: Sd card Formatting

Evening all, I ask your help for a collegue of mine, he has formatted his card in his camera and it no longer recognizes it, I have the card here and have had it in my card reader, i used a demo of "Photorescue" and managed to see the photos on the card so I know that it is functioning to some degree. I know there was an issue with some cards and formatting in a pc. Can anybody shed a light on a solution as he really dosent want to piurchase another 1GB card
regards
Mike

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[lumix]

Re: Sd card Formatting

Evening all, I ask your help for a collegue of mine, he has formatted his card in his camera and it no longer recognizes it, I have the card here and have had it in my card reader, i used a demo of "Photorescue" and managed to see the photos on the card so I know that it is functioning to some degree. I know there was an issue with some cards and formatting in a pc. Can anybody shed a light on a solution as he really dosent want to piurchase another 1GB card
regards
Mike

This may sound a bit far fetched but same happened to a friend of mine. I suspected his camera had developed a fault so to test it I put my card in his camera and it recognised it ok. Now sure that it was his card I put the card in my camera and that worked ok. Really stumped by now so swapped the cards back to there correct cameras and strangely they both worked ok. Still don't know why this should be but all's well that ends well. I'd love to know what caused this to happen. Maybe just a case of his camera had locked up and needed a card swap to get it going.

[Ian]

Re: Sd card Formatting

Evening all, I ask your help for a collegue of mine, he has formatted his card in his camera and it no longer recognizes it, I have the card here and have had it in my card reader, i used a demo of "Photorescue" and managed to see the photos on the card so I know that it is functioning to some degree. I know there was an issue with some cards and formatting in a pc. Can anybody shed a light on a solution as he really dosent want to piurchase another 1GB card
regards
Mike

There is formatting and then there is... formatting. Some cameras just rewrite the table of contents and others will reset all the sectors on the card. If Photoresuce can see the card OK on your PC, I would suggest reformatting the card using your PC, but ensuring that the format type is FAT (or FAT-16) but not FAT-32 or NTFS. Don't choose Quick Format, you want a thorough sector by sector format.

If that doesn't enable his camera to see it, then there may be an electrical problem with his camera.

Ian

[Mike Parr]

Re: Sd card Formatting

Hi Ian just got in and saw your reply, i actually did exactley as you suggested
as i had come to the same conclusion. I will speak to my friend tommorrow as he will test it out tonight Ill let you know
many thanks
Mike

[Mike Parr]

Re: Sd card Formatting

It worked, i have one very happy work friend, hes over the moon, thanks to all, now lets hope he does not do it again
cheers
Mike