Re: Ooops - SD card won't format

TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote:
I have a 1GB SD card and a Nikon D50 - everything was great for a month or so - then when I turned on the camera it said "card was not formatted". I used the camera to format it - all was fine until a few hours later - not formatted - then it won't format at all in the camera. Yet from in a card reader on the computer I can read and transfer files.

I think I did a bad thing a few weeks ago and erased images on the card from the computer, not the camera. I know that is a bad thing. ...

Thanks for the advice and suggestions posted here.

Well, I took my camera back to Nikon Canada this morning (only 30 minutes from home) and they took two minutes and checked the camera and it formatted and read their SD card fine. So I purchased a new card from Henry's and all is fine - it was not the camera.

I will never use the computer to write, erase, format or "anything" to the SD card again. I used to have a CF card with my old Coolpix5700 and would erase and write to the disk all the time with no problems.

But I blew this card. Luckily there were no images on it.



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