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xd card won't format -
usajet - Sep 23, 2007
My xd card won't format. and there is a picture on it and won't erase either.
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shuttertalk - Sep 23, 2007
Hey usajet... how are you trying to format it? Is it write protected by any chance (that little tab on the card)?
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usajet - Sep 23, 2007
the card has a notch on the side of it.
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Keith Alan - Sep 24, 2007
But does it have a little sliding switch?
This will lock it, causing what you describe.
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matthew - Sep 24, 2007
The xD cards that I have can't be locked out this way -- if it won't format in the camera, then I suspect it's a bad card.
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usajet - Sep 29, 2007
It Was The Media Reader
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Kombisaurus - Sep 30, 2007
I used to have an Olympus compact digicam that took xD cards and had a similar problem. The camera refused to format the card. I think from memory (this is going back about 3 years) it would format on a PC, but the camera just wouldn't recognise or reformat the card.
I ended up taking the xD card into a local camera shop and reformatting it on a non-olympus camera that took xD cards (was it a pentax perhaps?). Anyway, this immediately fixed the problem and I could format and use it on my olympus again.
I've also seen Media Card
Readers that have a write-protect tab on them, rather than it being on the memory card itself. In fact I also have a Micro-SD card where the
adaptor (to standard SD card-size) has a write-protect tab on it.
Hope you get it sorted.