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I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
(Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business). It
appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First one is
just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but cameras (Nikon
990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give message "no card
present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that card, but now my
brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The camera, D70, seems
to recogize the card is there, but says it needs formating. Camera will
try to format, but formating does not complete and I can't use the card.

Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to connect
to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can format the
corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the cameras to
recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera. I'm at the
extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be appreciated.

Can u do a fdisk in dos or linux and then try to format it as FAT32?


Digital Images wrote:

> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business). It
> appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First one is
> just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but cameras (Nikon
> 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give message "no card
> present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that card, but now my
> brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The camera, D70, seems
> to recogize the card is there, but says it needs formating. Camera will
> try to format, but formating does not complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to connect
> to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can format the
> corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the cameras to
> recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera. I'm at the
> extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be appreciated.

Digital Images wrote:
> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business).
> It appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First
> one is just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but
> cameras (Nikon 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give
> message "no card present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that
> card, but now my brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The
> camera, D70, seems to recogize the card is there, but says it needs
> formating. Camera will try to format, but formating does not
> complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to
> connect to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can
> format the corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the
> cameras to recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera.
> I'm at the extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be
> appreciated.

Try Format on the card reader (Via XP obviously) and don't make the number 1
classic all-time mistake of formatting as FAT32, use FAT16 (which might not
be the default selection!).

Digital Images wrote:
> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business).
> It appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First
> one is just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but
> cameras (Nikon 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give
> message "no card present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that
> card, but now my brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The
> camera, D70, seems to recogize the card is there, but says it needs
> formating. Camera will try to format, but formating does not
> complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to
> connect to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can
> format the corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the
> cameras to recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera.
> I'm at the extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be
> appreciated.

Try a Format on the card reader and don't make the number 1
classic all-time mistake of formatting as FAT32, use FAT16 (which might not
be the default selection!).

Digital Images wrote:
> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business).
> It appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First
> one is just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but
> cameras (Nikon 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give
> message "no card present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that
> card, but now my brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The
> camera, D70, seems to recogize the card is there, but says it needs
> formating. Camera will try to format, but formating does not
> complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to
> connect to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can
> format the corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the
> cameras to recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera.
> I'm at the extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be
> appreciated.

Try to re-format your card in the card reader (Via XP obviously) and don't
make the number 1
classic all-time mistake of formatting as FAT32, use FAT16 (which might not
be the default selection!).

Digital Images wrote:
> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business).
> It appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First
> one is just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but
> cameras (Nikon 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give
> message "no card present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that
> card, but now my brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The
> camera, D70, seems to recogize the card is there, but says it needs
> formating. Camera will try to format, but formating does not
> complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to
> connect to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can
> format the corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the
> cameras to recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera.
> I'm at the extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be
> appreciated.
Try to re-format your card in the card reader (Via XP obviously) and don't
make the number 1
classic all-time mistake of formatting as FAT32, use FAT16 (which might not
be the default selection!).

Formatting a CF card in my Canon S500 automatically erases all the data that
was on the card. You might want to find out if formatting a card in your
camera or on a PC will erase the images, before trying it.

Morton



Digital Images wrote:

> I've had a problem with my USB compact flash reader connected to my PC
> (Flash-Link by New Media Technology, I think no longer in business). It
> appears to have corrupted two of my Compact Flash cards. First one is
> just an old 64mb. Computer can read and write to it, but cameras (Nikon
> 990 and D70) don't recognize the card at all (give message "no card
> present"). I wasn't too concerned about losing that card, but now my
> brand new 1Gb high speed Lexar card is corrupt. The camera, D70, seems
> to recogize the card is there, but says it needs formating. Camera will
> try to format, but formating does not complete and I can't use the card.
>
> Anyone know of a fix? I am expecting to buy a new USB reader to connect
> to the computer and am hoping that there is someway I can format the
> corrupt cards from the PC (running Windows XP) and get the cameras to
> recognize them enough to reformat them with the camera. I'm at the
> extent of my knowledge here. Any helpful advice will be appreciated.

On 2005/3/30 8:45 PM, "mort" <> wrote:

> Formatting a CF card in my Canon S500 automatically erases all the data that
> was on the card. You might want to find out if formatting a card in your
> camera or on a PC will erase the images, before trying it.

Formatting always erases the contents. There are disk repair programs that
might be able to recover some of the data, but that should be tried before a
format.

I would suggest getting another card reader. USB memory card readers are
cheap. But if neither the card reader nor the camera can successfully format
the cards, there may be problems beyond what reformatting can fix.

Thanks all for the suggestions. I copied all the images off the card
before it had the problem so don't care about losing anything in a
reformat. Since I think my USB reader is funky and caused the problem,
I'll get a new one (brand name this time) and give the fdisk and format
FAT16 suggestions a try.

Bob Haar wrote:
> On 2005/3/30 8:45 PM, "mort" <> wrote:
>
>
>>Formatting a CF card in my Canon S500 automatically erases all the data that
>>was on the card. You might want to find out if formatting a card in your
>>camera or on a PC will erase the images, before trying it.
>
>
> Formatting always erases the contents. There are disk repair programs that
> might be able to recover some of the data, but that should be tried before a
> format.
>
> I would suggest getting another card reader. USB memory card readers are
> cheap. But if neither the card reader nor the camera can successfully format
> the cards, there may be problems beyond what reformatting can fix.
>

Digital Images wrote:
> Thanks all for the suggestions. I copied all the images off the card
> before it had the problem so don't care about losing anything in a
> reformat. Since I think my USB reader is funky and caused the
> problem, I'll get a new one (brand name this time) and give the fdisk
> and format FAT16 suggestions a try.
>
I still think it's been formatted in FAT32, which cameras don't read! Trust
me.