card not formated with this camera ???

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just got a couple of shots today ... come to put them on the pc and the card didn't register in the pc card reader.

so, put it back in the camera and it said that the card was not formated for this camera :eek:

nothing important o the card this time .. but anything I can try to fix this ?

8Gb Sandisk extreme 60MB/s UDMA

Canon 5D MKII

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Rich
 
used it lots before now !
 
anyone ???

I was just joking with a friend yesterday about shooting weddings .. 'you dont want to get home and find you cant read your mem card' !!! :eek:

it's really disturbing !
 
i had that before - just format it via the camera.
 
yeah ... that's the easy route ...

but what if I had a full days wedding shoot on it ? any utils to try and get and saved images off of it ?

I was thinking of using the opportunity to rescue what I could, so when it mattered, I knew what to do !
 
Tricky69 said:
yeah ... that's the easy route ...

but what if I had a full days wedding shoot on it ? any utils to try and get and saved images off of it ?

I was thinking of using the opportunity to rescue what I could, so when it mattered, I knew what to do !
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Didn't you get a rescue disk with the card?
 
do you format your card in the camera before every shoot?
 
Nick T said:
Ello mate :)

Was there no voucher in the pack with a link and a key to some recovery software...?
Got one with my Extreme IV 8GB...
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never looked ! ... I'll see if I can find it :-)

Cheers :thumbs:

Rich
 
Nick T said:
Ello mate :)

Was there no voucher in the pack with a link and a key to some recovery software...?
Got one with my Extreme IV 8GB...
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found it :thumbs:

I'll let you know how I get on when it's downloaded
 
worked a treat :thumbs:

in fact .. it found every file I have taken so far - even though I deleted them after every photo session ! 700 files so far LOL :lol:

a very worthwhile exercise :thumbs:

Thanks everyone , glad I just didn't reformat it anyway :D
 
Tricky69 said:
Thanks everyone , glad I just didn't reformat it anyway :D
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You'd probably still have been able to recover the images - all a format does is to mark the space as available for writing to.

If you've already got your images, give it a try - format it and then run the image rescue software again.:thumbs:
 
had the same thing... I rescued the pics then threw the card away... cant afford for that to happen on site or any time when the pics needed... took no chances..
 
new card ... £60 ! :eek:
 
KIPAX said:
had the same thing... I rescued the pics then threw the card away... cant afford for that to happen on site or any time when the pics needed... took no chances..
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Wish you'd thrown it my way...

:lol:
 
re-warrantee ...

yehbut ... unless it does it every time, they will just send it back and say it works fine !
 
I was advised to always reformat cards before using them again. So far, never had a problem.
 
Tricky69 said:
re-warrantee ...

yehbut ... unless it does it every time, they will just send it back and say it works fine !
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That probably depends on where you got it from - if it was a bricks and mortar shop, I would think they are very likely to simply give you a new one if you deal with it in the right way.

barrypriddis said:
I was advised to always reformat cards before using them again. So far, never had a problem.
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Me too.
 
barrypriddis said:
I was advised to always reformat cards before using them again. So far, never had a problem.
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+1, until last week.

Was shooting an event and printing on-site from camera JPGs. Transferred the card with the first half hour's work and all gone :(

Spent two hours recovering the data using RescuePro from lc-tech.com, the SW that's packaged with SanDisk cards - straightforward but slow - and got everything back in the end.

Won't be using the card again (Extreme III CF 4gb), can't afford for that to keep happening.
 
I wonder if it would be safer to transfer by usb rather than take the card in and out ???
 
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