Scan card says not initialized

Try using SD Formatter in your computer to format the card, then try again in the camcorder.

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1. Purchase a micro-SD card with an adapter for a normal-sized SD card.2. Plug in the micro-SD card to the back of the phone. Make sure the power is off when you do this, of you could unintentionally harm your phone.3. Power back on, and transfer the pictures to the micro-SD card.4. Shut the phone back off and remove the card again. Place it into the adapter.
If your Gateway laptop has a SD card reader:
5. Put the adapter into there.6. Transfer the pictures to you computer. Done!
If your laptop doesn't have a SD card reader:
5. You'll need to purchase a second adapter that adapts the regular-sized SD card to a USB port.6. Following the manufacturer's instructions, put the SD card into the second adapter.7. Transfer the pictures to your computer. Done!


Best of luck, Juseppi

What you have is probably a CF reader. You're best solution probably would be to get a card reader that uses one of your computer's USB ports, presumably where you were initially trying to connect your camera.

hi.
sd port is use for read yr sd card.. put yr sd card in sd port then yr can read it from clisk my computer icon and ten yr card will be locaten in g/h/f or try click 1 by 1 memory stick drive

regards

Had you ever initialized (formatted) the card, especially when you first got it? If not, an unformatted card will work fine initially, but almost always corrupts with time after many pictures are added. To prevent this issue permanently, you should always format a new card. But note formatting will erase the card! If you haven't saved your pictures yet, and you're having trouble locating them on the card with your computer, see this article. After you've recovered and saved your photos, format the card IN THE CAMERA using the camera format feature (look for it in its menus). This will rejuvenate the card, and prevent this from happening again.

Lets check the SD card first.

Take out the SD card and put it in external card reader connected to computer.

Copy/transfer all the photos from the SD card to computer.

goto My Computer and right-click the 'Removable Disk' (the SD card drive) and click Properties.
click Tools and click Error checking - Check now button
select the option 'automatically fix file-system errors' and click Start button.
if any errors was found and fixed, you can also Format the SD card. And your SD card should not drop photos again.

Now put SD card back in the camera.

Now take 20 test photos and check if something is missing.
if not take 20 more test photos and check if something is missing.
if all is ok then you can delete all test photos and start taking normal photos.

Some computers have a card slot built in the front of there case,if not, you need a usb card reader. They are very cheap. You put the card into the reader,plug the reader into a usb port and windows
will open the card as a folder. It is used just like a hard drive, you can copy and paste or just drag something into the folder that is
your sd card.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10038332

You can also get a reader that can handle several different kinds of cards.

Card not Initialized

i have seen this error and i dont know why it does that. you may want to try buying a micro disk setup that fits into a sd adapter that will fit in your camera.

then you can take out the micro disk when full and put it on a usb adapter and plug right into a usb port.

i know this sounds like more work but so far i havent had a lock up on that or error yet. go to tigerdirect.com if you want to see the different adapters for the sd disk and micro disk and usb etc....

maybe this might help