corrupt SD card!! help!!

[RedDevilUK]

cheers everyone... im home from work now going through the pictures... sorting them into folders.

folder one for keeping
folder 2 for sending to the printing service
folder 3 for pictures printing larger

PS

obviously these cards where originally formatted in a Canon camera, is there a way i could low level format them, then format them Nikon style, and IF i did would this solve the corruption problem? or are they just bad cards full stop?

 

[sabbath999]

I don't know on a PC, but you could do it (low level format them) on a Mac with Disk Utility.

 

[Mike_E]

Hi RDUK, while they are in your reader and connected to your PC, first check if they are in fat or fat32 (I'm thinking fat32) and then try a security wipe where everything is all 1s or 0s, a low level format might also work. You could look with an fdisk utility to see how it's put together but I would try formating in camera after this and if that doesn't work then try on your PC.

good luck

mike

 

[Peniole]

It might have been a formatting problem, but do you really want to tempt fate twice. You got lucky getting the images back this time. I would bin them.

 

[RedDevilUK]

i agree peniole

but i was going to take a load of nonsense pictures to test them... it might just be a case of wrong format... in which case, i could be throwing away totally good cards!

if not... then jump up and down on them in anger.... then bin em

 

[sabbath999]

Anger is good...

 

[holga girl]

i am glad you got your photos back. in the future, i would suggest format your cards when you first get them and after every batch download. you will have much less headache in the future.