My camera - Olympus 720 SW (7.1 megapixel) - the moment I start the power on button, it shows XD wirte protect >>>> how to proceed now?

It's on the bottom of the camera, under the same cover as the battery. And by the way, the Stylus 720SW uses xD Picture Cards, not SD cards.

Lets see, what windows are you useing?

1. Sand or foreign object in the lens cover.2. bad motor or gears.
Try cleaning with canned air while powering the camera up/down...

It can be that if you have a SD card in it you might have somehow clicked the protect small lever. if so take out the SD card and check the sides of it and see if you find a small square like lever then try sliding it up or down however it will go. My SD card has it and when I sometimes put my camera away I slide it to write protect mode so that if my kids somehow get a hold of my camera and play with it they wont erase my pictures. Then when I need to use it I slide it back to unprotected mode. Hope that is your problem.

Press the DRIVE button to display the drive mode selection screen. Press the DRIVE button repeatedly until the one-handed clock appears.

To shoot with the self timer: have the camera in shooting mode - press teh down arrow on the back of the camera until the symbol shows that looks like a clock - this turns self timer on.

After it is set to ON - fully depress the shutter button - this will start the self timer process you have 12 seconds if you want to be in the shot -

This is a one shot deal. If you wish tio take another photo using self timer you have to set it up again.

http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_xd.asp

Here is the link to the Olympus website where you can check for xD card compatibility for your camera.

There should be a menu with settings in record for videos.
there may be a joystick button with settings which can be changed to set to video mode.
Press the camera Icon/ camera icon/ Press SCN and select the movie camera Icon.
http://www.retrevo.com/support/Olympus-720-SW-Digital-Cameras-manual/id/200bh650/t/2/

hi

better try these go select photos go to properties than uncheck " readonly" than try it it works

try using a memory card reader that supports a xd card-very generic plug and play no software to load and computer should recogtnize card-if not open my computer and you will find new drive letters for card reader in there