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Old 02-07-2009, 02:10 PM
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Thumbs up SD card formatting WTF is this all about? Update: Resolved

Ok here is the story I have a oldish camera that will not accept the new SDHD cards up to 8GB plus.

So I have just bought 2 x 2 GB SD cards from a company via Amazon (waiting for reply from seller)

Here is the problem:

Both cards take photos no probs and show in the camera screen perfectly.
But when I put them into the PC to view on screen/edit/save whatever the PC says the card needs to be formatted so I formatted both of them in the camera menu facility.

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Back to taking more test pixs on both and again the PC asks for the cards to be formatted offering me to do it there and then in Windows....

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.....So I let it do it and hey presto it tells me Windows was unable to format the frigging card!

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Please can anyone throw any light on this as I am now stuck.

BTW the 1GB card I have used for a couple of years works fine.

And both the new ones are NOT locked
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