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Dean Harrington · February 25th, 2010, 03:01 AM

I've got a problem ... I have 2 32gb sdhc cards that are sandisk extremes. They worked on the ex3 and then I foolishly reformatted the cards in a mac as fat. The camera tells me to change cards and will not re-format ? Any ideas on how to wipe the card clean so that the camera will format?

Paul Kellett · February 25th, 2010, 04:08 AM

Can you not reformat them in a pc first, then reformat in camera ?

Paul.

Dean Harrington · February 25th, 2010, 04:24 AM

I think ... read this somewhere ... the pc/mac formats fat but the computer also writes something in bios which makes the ex camera not respond to re-format? I'd love to find a solution for this as I have 2 32gb cards in this condition.
I did actually re-format several times in the computer ... erased ... reformatted in fat. This didn't change anything.

Marty Welk · February 25th, 2010, 06:03 PM

i had heard of that before, but i dont have that problem yet, format in fat32 with large clusters ?? dont use the lame formatter in Winders systems, go for the "disk manager" (known to be in "administration" tools) where you can select everything.

Dean Harrington · February 25th, 2010, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marty Welk

i had heard of that before, but i dont have that problem yet, format in fat32 with large clusters ?? dont use the lame formatter in Winders systems, go for the "disk manager" (known to be in "administration" tools) where you can select everything.

Marty ... I guess you are referring to a windows environment? I shall try formatting on a windows machine today or tomorrow ... have to get one first.

John Hedgecoe · February 25th, 2010, 06:53 PM

Try reformatting the card as FAT32, not FAT. In the windows world, FAT = FAT16 (not FAT32). Don't know what it would mean in the Apple world.

Another alternative is to try using a partition manager, such as 7Tools.

February 25th, 2010, 03:01 AM	#1
Dean Harrington Major Player Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Tokyo Posts: 898	reformat sdhc cards in camera ... I've got a problem ... I have 2 32gb sdhc cards that are sandisk extremes. They worked on the ex3 and then I foolishly reformatted the cards in a mac as fat. The camera tells me to change cards and will not re-format ? Any ideas on how to wipe the card clean so that the camera will format?

February 25th, 2010, 04:08 AM	#2
Paul Kellett Trustee Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Bristol UK Posts: 1,273	Can you not reformat them in a pc first, then reformat in camera ? Paul. __________________ Round 2 GH5,FZ2000

February 25th, 2010, 04:24 AM	#3
Dean Harrington Major Player Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Tokyo Posts: 898	Paul ... I think ... read this somewhere ... the pc/mac formats fat but the computer also writes something in bios which makes the ex camera not respond to re-format? I'd love to find a solution for this as I have 2 32gb cards in this condition. I did actually re-format several times in the computer ... erased ... reformatted in fat. This didn't change anything.

February 25th, 2010, 06:03 PM	#4
Marty Welk Major Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: East Bay Cali Posts: 563	i had heard of that before, but i dont have that problem yet, format in fat32 with large clusters ?? dont use the lame formatter in Winders systems, go for the "disk manager" (known to be in "administration" tools) where you can select everything. __________________ ----------------sig----------------- Re-learning everything all over again, one more time.

February 25th, 2010, 06:53 PM	#6
John Hedgecoe Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Posts: 146	Try reformatting the card as FAT32, not FAT. In the windows world, FAT = FAT16 (not FAT32). Don't know what it would mean in the Apple world. Another alternative is to try using a partition manager, such as 7Tools.