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Card not initialized

When i turn on my digital camera, i am not able to take pictures because the screen says "card not initialized" How do i fix this?

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Gloria Saperstein Benitez Silverman Dec 01, 2007

when i turn on my digital camera, i am not able to take pictures because the screen says "card not initialized" How do i fix this?
basic_cel Jan 07, 2008

when i turn on my cam th screen say card not initialized
ducksdelite Apr 14, 2009

when ever my battery run not my card says to me (card not initized) is this because of reformatting problems
skieh May 14, 2009

"card not initialized" on display screen... how do I format it?

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Re: card not initialized

When you goto format, make sure you click over to okay because ifyou dont then your just clicking cancel over and over

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Thanks- that did work, but all my pictures got erased. Oh well, at least everything works now :)

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Thank you so much - you saved me on this one - i was so worried that i had ruined the memory card! life savers!! :)

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That actually worked. Wow. Thanks. I had no idea what I would get when I googled this POS cam.
Thanks again!

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It so work go to format number 2 on top and then reformat and it work thanks !

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That works!!! Thanks so much!

Posted on Apr 02, 2007

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Go to Set-up and reformat your media card.. dam.. that's really late - apr 29, 2006 - now 31 jan 2007

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IT DON'T WORK BE MORE SIMPLE AND PACIFIC COME ON NOW

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GOthcha! thanks! it workS, but sad tO say i Lost my pictures! aLot... but that's fine!

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I bought a new memory card for my finepix A330 camera When I turned on the camera after putting in the new card, the screen read "card not initialized" and won't take photos.my son is going holidays 13/9/08 could you help me please Alex Richardson

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Go through the setup menu and go to "Set", then option 1 and format. Should do the trick, as long as you don't have capacity issues (how big of a card did you buy?).

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SOURCE: How do I initialize a picture card?

Turn the camera viewer on (on your finepix 3800, it is the middle position where you preview photos). Press the "menu" button and you will be presented with four options, and the top option is FORMAT. Select format and your card will be usable again. Two things to keep in mind. Any pictures on the card will be lost, and when you press the menu button as I described it may take a few seconds before those four options appear. As an FYI, the most common cause of the card needing to be reformatted is when the pictures are loaded to a MAC computer and the USB cable is pulled before you eject the camera.

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