Xd picture card error - will not format - Olympus Camedia D-390 Digital Camera

SOURCE: XD Card format

Have you sent the camera to olympus for the free upgrade to enable the xd 512gb and 1gb card? go to the olympic site and then to their support page for c-50zoom and look for instructions for the upgrade,you must have the product ID from the package and the sales receipt and make sure you have purchased the olympus sponsored card mfg.This is listed in the instructions. They get the job done pretty quick and pay for the return shipping.

SOURCE: Olympus 2G xd M card with pictures - error message "clean card" or format

I also have had this problem.. I rang Olympus & they sent me a Digital Image Recovery Freeware.. Im currently trying that. They told me that for some reason wen we put our XD cards in our card reader it puts a file on the card, which can sometime corrupt the card. If you cant get the pic off your card using a recovery program, you can send away & get it professionally done..(probably at a cost). The only way to get rid of the error is to format your card again try to remember to upload pics with your cable rather than the reader.
(Fingers crossed I can get my images from this software)

SOURCE: clean or format card error on Olympus XD card

I tried solution #1 using PC inspector Smart Recover. Worked flawlessly. recovered every single picture on the guard, which is DAMN lucky because they were my college grad pics.

SOURCE: I installed a 2gb Olympus xd picture card and

wow that is kinda long did you format it in the camera or on your computer? also if you turn down the video/picture quality it will not take so long but 2 min is kinda long you might have a bad card take it back where you got it and see if they will swap it for a different one format it in the camera and try again if it is still slow try to format it in your computer and use FAT32
this is the most compatible and should work best Thanks 8^)