This is the 3rd compact flash card that after a few weeks says card error. If I restart the camera, it will change to card full. Every few times it will return to normal, but after taking 2-3 pictures it says card error again. When I try to format the card either nothing happens or it says unable to format and returns to the card error screen.
I hope you never tried to put in a memory card in, the wrong way around. This could have damaged the contacts in the camera. Or perhaps only one or two contacts in the camera are dirty or oxidised?
With a bright light and perhaps a magnifying glass, look in the memory card holder, to see of all contacts are clean and shiny and not one is bent, ir has a little dent.
If a contact is dirty use a little wooden or plastic tooth pick, to solve the problem. eventually make the point of the pick a bit softer, be cats for rubbing of some dirt, this will be enough. You never should use sharp looks in or close to a camera.
Testimonial: "Thank you, I spent 2 hours using cotton swabs and air pumps to get rid of any dust I could see. I knew it could not be a card issue because every now and then the photos would show up on the camera again. Anyway, after a thorough cleaning it seems to be in perfect working order again, hope it stays that way! Luckily none of the contacts were bent either. I think it is also possible that the battery contacts were affecting the problem."
SOURCE: xD card Error
Hi all. I too had the same problem and after trying all the possible solutions (aperase, smprep, smformat, etc.) I finally found one working application that helped me solve this problem. Download Flashdoctor from here http://driver.zol.com.cn/detail/10/95395.shtml Insert your xd card into a card reader connected to your PC then run Flashdoctor. Format your xd card using this tool then insert it back in your camera, voila! I formatted it again through the camera just to be sure, now everything's working fine. Hope this helps as it helped me. Good day!
SOURCE: Olympus c350, Memory card
Hi!
According to the user manual - the maximum size of memory card it can support is up to 256MB only. However, many users claim that it can support up to 512MB.
Have a nice day!
SOURCE: clean or format card error on Olympus XD card
Google "Pc inspector smart recovery" and they can recover the files for you, Mine is still in progress so I wont know how much of it is being recovered properly.
SOURCE: Olympus 2G xd M card with pictures - error message "clean card" or format
Just had the same issue today. The Olympus Helpdesk told me that the fact I had printed one of the picture from the Xd card in directly inserting the card in the printer slot for Xd created the problem....
The guy from the Helpdesk strongly recommended to transfer the pictures from the camera to the computer exclusively using the USB cable of the camera.
In the end I have saved all my 505 pictures in using the Smart Recovery from PC Inspector but why the hell this problem only happens with Xd cards?
SOURCE: Format problems of Olympus 1Gb card with C-750UZ
The problem is that the largest xD card that your camera can support is an M or H 512mb card. The 1gb card is not compatible. The firmware in the camera cannot support memory storage with that capacity. The camera came out before those cards did and there no plans to upgrade the camera to allow those types of cards to be supported.
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