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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 899485" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p>One of the more common storage devices with cameras etc. I have a number of cards two of which are 4GB. Soon after purchase of one of them I received a message on the camera saying there was a read write error on the SD card. I was able to extract the photos taken using a German program on my old laptop and proceeded to attempt to reformat the card. The format would not complete and the useless message just said unable to format. Over the last few years I have tried numerous programs and methods to reformat this card, even low level formatting, nothing worked. I have recently had reason to set up my first and very old Win98 SE laptop for security reasons and having updated it to accept USB stuff, plugged in an old USB camera and suddenly thought why not plug in the SD card via an adaptor. It was recognised and initially would not format the card, still showed 0 bytes free 0 bytes available. I ran the scandisc function telling it to repair errors and then the card formatted successfully. 98SE still proving a worthwhile operating system.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Topper, post: 899485, member: 186250"] One of the more common storage devices with cameras etc. I have a number of cards two of which are 4GB. Soon after purchase of one of them I received a message on the camera saying there was a read write error on the SD card. I was able to extract the photos taken using a German program on my old laptop and proceeded to attempt to reformat the card. The format would not complete and the useless message just said unable to format. Over the last few years I have tried numerous programs and methods to reformat this card, even low level formatting, nothing worked. I have recently had reason to set up my first and very old Win98 SE laptop for security reasons and having updated it to accept USB stuff, plugged in an old USB camera and suddenly thought why not plug in the SD card via an adaptor. It was recognised and initially would not format the card, still showed 0 bytes free 0 bytes available. I ran the scandisc function telling it to repair errors and then the card formatted successfully. 98SE still proving a worthwhile operating system. [/QUOTE]

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