hey guys, my friend have a "card Error" when he inserts his xD into his Olympus mju 300 digital, camera. .. well,... he did a big mistake by formatting his card with the PC .. now he has 2 cards rendered unless for the camera... the camera is fine... i've tested it using a working xD card .. the xD cards can be accessed from the PC .. but the camera will display "card error" on the xD card which is formatted using the PC ... + it is impossible to format the xD card with the camera.. it gives "Card error" error again .. anyway has suggestions ? ..
That STINKS!!! First thing that comes to mind is to contact card manufacturer. Not sure if I would be so open about how the cards got screwed up... Good Luck!
Can you ask him to format the card using the PC again, but this time, using FAT16? Technically, it shouldn't be a problem using PC to format the card.
Since xD is a specialized format, it could have certain parameters that the PC might have erased when formatting it (as a PC would just treat it like any other memory card).
you cant format it using NTFS .. no option to do so .. i've formatted with both FAT & FAT 32 .. ... no hope ... is there any software which will do an exact copy of a xD card.. i have a friend who has a working xD card.. yesterday i tried doing a back up of that xD and restore it to the problematic xD .. doesnt work
Seems like you are not the only one... http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/8691/142105.html http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=43473&forum_id=22
The reason why I ask him to format as FAT because that's what most camera supports, some may not support FAT32, not because it's Microsoft product or not.
my camera even supports FAT32 .. but one thing i do realise camera's like to format using 16k size allocation units ?
DYKT: There are many old cameras pre-2004 that doesn't suport FAT32 because at that time, even 1GB cards are virtually not heard of.
Hmm.. Can't his camera format the card?? Even my CF card occasionally has weird problems. All I need to do is format the card using my camera.
yea.. that really sux and i dont know who is using fuji camera in college.. but friend came bout 2 weeks ago .. using fuji camera... but left de too late ...