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Posted on Feb 05, 2011

My canon 5d mark II won't format memory cards. It keeps asking me to format, and then telling me it cant format that card and to switch it out. I've tried 3 different cards, none of which have ever been used in a different camera

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I've encountered this problem with a 5D Mark II and the problem was the card. Our card was a 16GB Sandisk Extreme that was just as new as the camera. Make sure your camera's firmware is up to date. If your card is high in GB your camera will have a hard time poring with it if the firmware is old. But as we figured out, our card was bad, plain and simple.

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