Is my SD card fecked?

[Stonker]

I have a 16gb SD card and my camera developed a fault (don't know if that's relevant). If I put the card in a another camera, the camera won't save any pics to it. I checked it with my laptop which told me it fixed a problem (don't know what). 'Properties tell me that about 30% of the card is full but there are no files on it. I can put a file on it on my laptop and can now open the file (before the 'fix' it wouldn't open the file).

I have tried to reformat the card but it fails....

Do I just need to buy a new card?

 

[AberdeenAngus]

Good thread here with plenty of tips.

http://forums.steves-digicams.com/m...60-low-level-formatting-utility-sd-cards.html

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

It'll just need formating.

 

[Stonker]

It'll just need formating.

But I can't reformat it. Ly lappy won't do it so I downloaded the panasonic app. That won't do it either

 

[(RIP) Tunneruk]

But I can't reformat it. Ly lappy won't do it so I downloaded the panasonic app. That won't do it either

Have you checked that it's not locked?

(the little yellow switch on the side?)

 

[hatzyian]

Have you checked that it's not locked?

(the little yellow switch on the side?)

+ 1 on that. I didn't even realise that you could lock SD cards until I couldn't write to it and a friend told me about the sliding switch.

 

[Gipsy]

Does the camera have a format function? If so have you tried it?

 

[Stonker]

The card isn't locked but the panasonic application's telling me that it is

 

[Black Rooster]

what make the make of the card

 

[rodders]

Problem is ,if you get it sort of working and take a once in a life time pic and the card packs in

 

[Fanum]

Does the camera have a format function? If so have you tried it?

Yup, give that a go.......

I had similar with a card in my Lumix.......the PC wouldnt recognise it or format it or do anything with it, but eventually I managed to get the camera to format it itself, and since then it's worked fine in both camera and pc.

There is a thread here about it somewhere....I guess the camera corrupted the data somehow that the PC wouldn't recognise but was able to correct it itself

 

[Stonker]

Yup, give that a go.......

I had similar with a card in my Lumix.......the PC wouldnt recognise it or format it or do anything with it, but eventually I managed to get the camera to format it itself, and since then it's worked fine in both camera and pc.

There is a thread here about it somewhere....I guess the camera corrupted the data somehow that the PC wouldn't recognise but was able to correct it itself

Formatting with the camera doesn't work either. I'll check the make tomorrow. It's blue and red...sandisc rings a bell

 

[Gipsy]

Just bough a 16 gb class 10 sd card at Currys. Cost £22.50. Might be simpler in the long run.