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October 30th 04, 01:02 PM
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1gig compact flash problem
hi all
i have been given a cf card and it dont want to work... it is reconised in xp but tells me to format it have tried to but at the end it say's cant complete format looked under disk tools and it does not have a file system tried a couple off file recovery programs and i finds files but they are gobbly gook...ie .exe and .txt files it seems it has been writen in RAW format how do i completely clean the card and reformat in fat16? is there a way round the write protect if thats what it is for the record it is a SanDisk 1.0GB card thanks for reading and waiting with anticipation!!!!! 
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October 30th 04, 04:29 PM
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Have you tried inserting it in your camera and formating it from there?
"nelson" wrote in message ... hi all i have been given a cf card and it dont want to work... it is reconised in xp but tells me to format it have tried to but at the end it say's cant complete format looked under disk tools and it does not have a file system tried a couple off file recovery programs and i finds files but they are gobbly gook...ie .exe and .txt files it seems it has been writen in RAW format how do i completely clean the card and reformat in fat16? is there a way round the write protect if thats what it is for the record it is a SanDisk 1.0GB card thanks for reading and waiting with anticipation!!!!!
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October 30th 04, 04:29 PM
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Have you tried inserting it in your camera and formating it from there?
"nelson" wrote in message ... hi all i have been given a cf card and it dont want to work... it is reconised in xp but tells me to format it have tried to but at the end it say's cant complete format looked under disk tools and it does not have a file system tried a couple off file recovery programs and i finds files but they are gobbly gook...ie .exe and .txt files it seems it has been writen in RAW format how do i completely clean the card and reformat in fat16? is there a way round the write protect if thats what it is for the record it is a SanDisk 1.0GB card thanks for reading and waiting with anticipation!!!!!
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October 30th 04, 06:16 PM
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ok...will give it a try
thanks "Bill Crocker" wrote in message ... You should always format memory cards, in the camera you intend to use it with. Even with cameras of a common manufacture, such as Canon, will format them differently, in various models of their own cameras. Bill Crocker "nelson" wrote in message ... hi all i have been given a cf card and it dont want to work... it is reconised in xp but tells me to format it have tried to but at the end it say's cant complete format looked under disk tools and it does not have a file system tried a couple off file recovery programs and i finds files but they are gobbly gook...ie .exe and .txt files it seems it has been writen in RAW format how do i completely clean the card and reformat in fat16? is there a way round the write protect if thats what it is for the record it is a SanDisk 1.0GB card thanks for reading and waiting with anticipation!!!!!
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October 30th 04, 07:24 PM
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"nelson" wrote in message
... hi all i have been given a cf card and it dont want to work... it is reconised in xp but tells me to format it have tried to but at the end it say's cant complete format looked under disk tools and it does not have a file system tried a couple off file recovery programs and i finds files but they are gobbly gook...ie .exe and .txt files it seems it has been writen in RAW format how do i completely clean the card and reformat in fat16? is there a way round the write protect if thats what it is for the record it is a SanDisk 1.0GB card thanks for reading and waiting with anticipation!!!!! One thing you should understand is that you cannot format 1 GB in FAT 16. FAT 16 is an obsolete disk format that can only support 512 megabytes. I seem to remember reading that FAT 32 is the simulated format used on memory cards. I say "simulated" because I'm not sure that the physical format on the memory card has much in common with the track/sector formatting on a disk. The interface makes it appear that way. Finally, yes, let the camera do the formatting, not the computer. Alan
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October 30th 04, 08:00 PM
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Alan Meyer wrote:
[] One thing you should understand is that you cannot format 1 GB in FAT 16. FAT 16 is an obsolete disk format that can only support 512 megabytes. In fact, FAT16 supports 2GB. David
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