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I've got a Canon 40D and I've swapped my card yesterday, before a trip to Brighton. I used a recently purchased Sandisk Ultra II 4Gb card and I kept getting an error message.

"Err 02 There is a problem with the CF card, replace the card"

I would then get a message "CF card is not formatted"

If I turned the Power on and off I got a slightly different variation of this

"CF card is not formatted
Format card with this camera"

AS I'd only just started shooting things I formatted the card but it kept continuing all day, there was no real pattern to it, although it seemed to happen if I shot 3 or 4 frames in a row quickly. The Red light would come on and stay on the back of the camera.

If I removed the card and replaced it then it would work OK again for a while before it started again, although I would lose the last few images.

I tried to reduce the quality of the images but it made no difference.

It sort of feels like the card couldn't keep up with the camera.

The Sandisk Extreme card I normally use seems to be fine (I'd left this one at work).

Does anyone have any suggestions why this is happening or is it just a bad card?
 
Sounds like a bad card.

I'd pop onto the sandisk website to check if you've bought a genuine card first - there are a fair number of fakes out there.
 
I had this same problem never worked out what was wrong and i just got rid of the card. Mine also kept formatting itself and it would get rid of some of the photos off the card. It was very annoying.
 
RichardtheSane said:
Sounds like a bad card.

I'd pop onto the sandisk website to check if you've bought a genuine card first - there are a fair number of fakes out there.
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My dad had some similar problems in his Kodak 14n with Sandisk cards...I think he bought fakes though, as he bought them off ebay at a rock bottom price. I bought mine at an office supply store, and have had them working for years.
 
Hi, had the same problem myself just the other day, with a 400D & Kingston 8gb card, same error 02, replace the card, what was interesting is there were a lot of images on it, I think it created another folder, then had the problem, lost the images in the new folder (which it deleted), but all the others in the first folder were ok, have since reformated, but not yet managed to give the card a proper try :thinking:
 
Once I've had a card go wrong I will not use it again. It's happened twice to me, once with a cruical card and once with a lexar. Both were (at the time) fairly valuable and expensive to replace but for me it is not worth the risk.
 
Thanks, I bought three cards and the one my daughter is using seemed to be fine, I'll try the other one which is still in the packaging.
 
Looking at the link you sent it looks genuine, I've contacted the seller to see if they will exchange it. I've tested the other one I bought and that seems ok.
 
Only card I've ever had trouble with was a Sandisk, it took the camera out with it, I would never use one again
 
Gremlin said:
Only card I've ever had trouble with was a Sandisk, it took the camera out with it, I would never use one again
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That's surprising.
To be honest Sandisk have a good reputation and I use them pretty much exclusively. Did you contact their customer support? I've normally not got a lot of faith in any "customer support" department (professional putter off'ers) but Sandisk seem ok.

To the OP...
It does sound like a bad card. Will it format on the computer rather than the camera?
 
I had virtually the same thing happen but on a 400D some years ago
Sandisk guarantee their cards for 10 years (maybe longer?) give them a call, they will tell you what to look for
( to make sure its genuine) and walk you through a trouble shoot.
If all else fails they will replace it!
( they even sent me a copy of their rescue programme as I had images on the card
and the "supplied" rescue disk wouldn't recover them, the whole issue was a little protracted
but I can't fault their customer services and have used sandisk ever since with no problems)
 
Bill Roberts said:
To the OP...
It does sound like a bad card. Will it format on the computer rather than the camera?
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It formats fine, it will save half a dozen images before the problem occurs, the images you take while it freezes are lost, but the previous images are still ok, as are any subsequent ones until it freezes again.

As the seller said they would refund me I was just going to send it back and buy another card, probably another Extreme card.
 
bought a Kingston SDHC 4GB class6 at £8.25 from GoMemory eBay supplier

Currys is £19.95 !!....:thinking:

no problems but seeing FAKE Sandisk posts - I have emailed Kingston USA

eBay themselves say...
"".... a very high percentage of all 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB SD listed on eBay are counterfeit items""
 
reply from Kingston USA

""Dear John .. Thanks for your email,

Note that all our product have a revision number called a Bom number looking like this: 9954689-001.A00LF

If your product does not have such a number there is a high probability that you might have purchased a fake Regards ...Gregory Peloux ""


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pleased to verify the SDHC card from GoMemory is genuine

the card does NOT have a BoM number on the front
but the card does have 5 lines of text on reverse

CE FC - with a smaller c inside the big C
N0171-001.A00LF Pb - with the Pb inside a circle
4386618
TAIWAN
JM94204-942.A00LF

""From the number you gave me it appears to be a genuine Kingston product
Regards ...Gregory Peloux "" from Kingston USA
 
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