Hi, i gave the same problem of the cam' asking me (on the blue screen) to either turn the cam' off or format the card, (which will erase al the pic's and i dont want it to happen) on the other hand, i cant use that card on my PC bcs it gives me a message of : "the disk drive F is not formatted, do you want to format now?" and i know its not the PC or the CAM' bcs i tried to insert a differant card into the cam' and it worked with no problems both on the cammera's screen and on the PC, i also had no problems with uplaodint the pic's to my PC from the other card. the weird thing is that i was going through the pictures and had no problems, and suddenly the screen of the cam' just turnned into blue and gave me the message of formatting the card.. what to do..? is it "doomed" to loose all the pic's..? please help... thanks! Maya.

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Did you happen to write files to one of the cards from the computer, or delete files from the card through the computer before that happened? This problem has been known to happen in such cases. Remember to only *copy* files from the card to the computer using the card reader, and only delete files using the camera. Anyway, try turning off the camera, pulling and re-inserting the card. If it doesn't work - try it a few more times. If it still doesn't work and you've got nothing to lose, try deleting any files you may have written to the card using the computer, and then try again. But the fact that the new card didn't work as well might mean that it won't help. Good luck.

SOURCE: olympus C-750 Trouble formatting card

What you say Jeap is good. But before replacing the card, I would try cleaning the gold surface with a very little amount of denatured alcohol. Sometimes dirt on the surface will interfere with the contact.

Greg Cann

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• Posted on Sep 11, 2007

SOURCE: Olympus camedia says format or power off

First do not panic! It is possible to recover your pictures if you take care. Take the card from the camera (powered off)and if it has a "write protect" tab then lock it now. Do not try and write anything to the card or you risk causing more problems. If you are comfortable with using a PC then you can download a FREE utility that will recover your photos from the following link: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec If you need something a little more "user friendly" then you will need to buy the software. If you search the web for photo recovery software you will find many. One I have used successfully is RescuePro that used to be bundled with some Sandisk products. Now you can get it from the link below: http://www.lc-tech.com/software/rescuepr... You can try the demo to see what you can recover before buying. Remember - Do NOT try & write anything back to the card until you can recovered your pictures to your PC safely! If you are unable to read the card in the camera use an external card reader with these programs. Please update the question & let us know if the information given was useful to you - Good Luck!

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Sujith Gopinath

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• Posted on Feb 05, 2009

SOURCE: Write Protect error and I think all my pics dissapeared!

If you are using an SD card, it could be possible that the Write Protect tab (the yellow tab on the top right) is in the 'lock' position. Slide it back and try again. If this does not work, make sure you are using the card and not the internal memory to store images.

SOURCE: Format problems of Olympus 1Gb card with C-750UZ

The problem is that the largest xD card that your camera can support is an M or H 512mb card. The 1gb card is not compatible. The firmware in the camera cannot support memory storage with that capacity. The camera came out before those cards did and there no plans to upgrade the camera to allow those types of cards to be supported.