The
normal answer to this problem is to start talking about the 'lock'
slider on the side of the memory card. However, your problem must be
different because your camera uses the xD-Picture card... and it has no
such slider! In this case, the most likely reason is that the card has
been corrupted in some way, and the camera's error message is more of a
general nature, triggered by some inability to write to the card. Your
best bet is to make sure that you've copied all you want off the card
and then use the camera's 'format' function to reformat the card. I
advise using the camera for the format function because this guarantees
the correct file system. If you use your computer to format it, you may
easily get the wrong one. However if you need to do it this way, see
which file system is currently in use on the drive before you start. Go
to "My Computer" and right click on the correct drive and choose
"Properties". Examples
of filesystems are "FAT" (probably FAT16), "FAT32" and NTFS; to make
sure your reformat is successful, ensure you use the same filesystem as
before.
Actually, I'd like to thank you for drawing my attention to this, because I've been advising people with SD cards that the error must be caused by the slider... however, from what I've learned now, it's also possible that their cards can be fixed by reformatting, too.
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