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"Smartmedia card can't be formatted" ???
I can't format it in my computer or camera. Is there anything else I
can try? It looks fine. |
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I can't format it in my computer or camera. Is there anything else I
can try? It looks fine. I mean it looks fine physically. (No obvious damage.) |
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In article , some guy wrote:
I can't format it in my computer or camera. Is there anything else I can try? It looks fine. I mean it looks fine physically. (No obvious damage.) It may have fallen victim to electrostatic damage. This time of the year, the humidity is often low enough so you get static zaps reaching for things. Ideally, the camera (and everything else involved, such as the computer which is reading it) would have metal touch-plates to allow you to drain off the static charget before you reach for the CV card (or whatever other form of digital media which you may have in mind). Unfortunately, these days, many of the camera bodies have precious little metal to which to safely discharge. My Nikon D70 has (as visible metal) the tripod socket, the flash shoe, the strap brackets, and the lens mount (plus the D70 badge itself), and the shutter release button and surround. I have no idea how many of these are actually connected to a common point within the camera body (and I have not yet tested them with a low-current ohmmeter). I would expect the shutter release button to be grounded, and perhaps the tripod socket, and the flash shoe. Anything else doesn't get any bets either way. And once you are holding the CF card (or other) and reaching towards the socket in the computer or the card reader, do you think to ground yourself on the computer's chassis? (And, in a laptop, it may also be all plastic.) So -- you risk zapping either the flash card or the computer each time you connect. (Some readers have a metalization on the outside which may server the purpose.) *If* your media has suffered a static zap, I sincerely doubt that any data will be recoverable, and that any attempt to format will be successful. And static damage will not leave any visible signs on the outside of the card. You would need to examine the raw chip inside with a powerful microscope to see what has been zapped, and you would need to know what a static damaged chip *looks* like. Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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