Wrong format on HP M425

I have an HP M425 digital camera with a 1GB San Disk. Took a lot of pictures and it just simply conked out.WWhen turned on it says "Card has Wrong Format....Press OK to format card". When I do in fact press OK, it says "Unable to Format"...Help!!!

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Anonymous Feb 10, 2008

Same problem as above...how do I retrieve pictures taken.
Anonymous Feb 11, 2008

Same problem...how to recover and usually, how much
amandangel Feb 23, 2008

i have photos on the scandisk 1.0 gb card and my camera is saying cannot format? i press ok to format and it wont do anything. how is this fixed?
margaret shuttleworth Mar 26, 2008

when i turn camera on it says wrong format press ok when i do that it says unable to format
Anonymous Apr 10, 2008

and me and me
joshbenden Apr 10, 2008

Same problem as above for me to Same problem as above for me to
TexasTrouble May 18, 2008

Same here!!!

Anybody got any ideas?! Same here!!!

Anybody got any ideas?!
Anonymous Jun 01, 2008

memory card just saying wont format memory card just saying wont format
Anonymous Jun 04, 2008

I'm having a lot of difficulties when I have a lot of picture taken and then I got stock when trying to save one by one or in a small group of them either into my desktop, or in my documents. One day I could and then I couldn't send it as an attachment in one E-mail.
Anonymous Jun 11, 2008

Same exact issue

Same exact issue
Anonymous Jul 23, 2008

I have bought a new card and it didnt help
Anonymous Nov 16, 2008

took lots of pictures - downloaded to my computer - would not download all and then when I put the card back in to the camera it read "format card - Unable to format" assuming it was the card I purchased a new card and it says the same thing - Format....unable...

I think it is the camera not the cards.
joannlerma Mar 03, 2009

when i turned it on it reads card has wrong format,then it says, press ok to format card,i then press ok but is unable to format
trebmarge Mar 04, 2009

my camera is always asking to format the memory card. ut when i'm formating the card it doesn't work.what i need to do?
Anonymous Apr 12, 2009

Exact same issue Exact same issue
Anonymous May 22, 2009

i have same problem i have same problem

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Just fixed this problem on a M525 camera (same physical construction).

Do a search with M525 and format.

Posted on Oct 10, 2008

Anonymous Oct 10, 2008

I just had the same problem - all I did was remove an SD card (that had been in
the camera over a year with no problems) - and put it back in. Then when I turned
the camera on, a red screen appeared "Card had wrong format - press OK to format".

When I pressed 'OK' it said "Unable to format".

I tested the card in an external reader, and all the pictures were there.
I could offload them, and format the card just fine.

Solution:
What I found by peering down in the battery compartment with the card plugged
in, was that one of the gold contacts that that touches the pads on the card
seemed to protrude a little further out than the others, and looked just ever so
slightly twisted, as well. After removing the card, and looking down inside with
a very bright light, it appeared that contact finger had been bent over a bit when
I had reinserted the card. I used a fine metal dental tool with a tiny crook (less
than 1/16 inch) on the end to pull up on the contact from the center of where
it appeared bent, and sure enough, it straightened up to around a tenth of
an inch longer than it had been in its bent condition.
I reinserted the card carefully, observing all the time that the contact in question
was sliding up the side of the card with the pads on them, and not getting folded
under the leading edge of the card as I put it in.

Problem gone!

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The HP site states that the M425 Camera was tested with SD cards from 16MB to 256MB. You need a High Speed SD memory card for anything beyond 256MB.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00059053&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=1147733

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