Reformat Media Cards?

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Reformat Media Cards?

Post by rone »

I have some media cards that came with a previous Cassie that is gone. One is a 16 mb and two 32 mb cards. When I try to reformat the cards the computer says it's write protected. Is the a way to reformat the cards or should I just trash them?

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Re: Reformat Media Cards?

Post by IanPearson »

Ron
Some time back there was a lot of discussion on this topic. Like you, many others and myself, reformatting once the MS products have been added, is not possible.

I believe Martyn has in the past managed to reformat cards, but could only manage it using a PC with Windows 98. Unfortunately there are not many of us around using Windows 98 any more.

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Re: Reformat Media Cards?

Post by Volker »

RonE, before you trash them, send them to me. ;)

There are some cameras out there that could perform a low-level format of Smart Media cards.
And there are some card readers out there and when you combine them with a "special" software, you can format them...

Google will be your friend, I guess. Search for "smart media photo format"...
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