My pro duo card has an error, and my camera will not format it.

try using a pc with card reader / writer to format the memory stick pro duo and then try it again in camera it should work........If you have troubles formatting the same using a PC as well check if gets detected as removable disk and then try using a antivirus to scan it and if you find any virus, remove it first and then format it. it should then work.............

first try to format it in your camera. if that doesnt work, try another camera or on your PC. If that doesnt work try formatting on a different card reader (maybe on another PC)

if that doesnt work, it might be really defective. Have it replaced

I inserted adapter and memory stick in my sony cyber shoot camera and keep getting format error. How do I format the memory stick

You can try to format it on your computer, but usually when this happens it means that the memory card is not any good and will need to be replaced.

I would suggest formating the memory card through the options on your camera. If you reformat the memory card and you still get the same error then you have a bad card. Just like anything else the cards will break down internally over time.

Download the pics to your computer using a separate memory card reader. Then, format the card in the camera.

If you put the memory stick back into the camera can you see them thru the camera menu? If so your computer's SD card port may be having issues. try using the card in another computer or use the cameras USB cable to transfer the pictures from the camera to the computer if it has one. Do other memory sticks work in the computer ok? If you cannot see them in the camera either then the pictures will be corrupted and probably cannot be recovered. Then the card will need to be formatted to erase any errors on the card. Always use the camera to format a card whenever possible...Hope that helps.

did you already formated your memort stick? try to remove your memory card from your camcorder and insert it again. look for the settings on your camcorder. it might cause the problem. hope that helps!


CHARCOIS

Well alot of the time there is a issue with the formating that the camera does on the stick and also when formating it on the computer it formats it another way as well. some in FAT and some in FAT32 this is ushally a error for the most part I would definatly plug your duo stick into a card reader and then go to my computer and the find the drive that the stick is in and right click on it and go to properties and do a error check on the stick to make sure that there is no errors. and if you can defragment after the scan then by all means do it and then format the card and try it and hopefully it will work out to your advantage.

*note this problem seems to only happen with the non branded duo sticks not the sony branded ones.*

THE CARD PROBLBLY HAS NOT BEEN FORMATTED...ARE YOU SURE IT IS A MEMORY STICK PRO "DUO" THERE ARE DIFFERNT KINDS OF MEMORY STICKS (PRO DUO, PRO, QUAL, ETC.)