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XP won't format a 4GB SD card

Trikie

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Posted December 18, 2011 at 10:07PM

I've bought one 2GB and six 4GB Dane-Elec SD cards to use with a digital picture frame - one card for each year's pictures.

No problem copying from the PC to the 2GB card but for the 4GB I get a message to format it. However when I use the popup menu I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format". I'm NTSC and have tried both the exFat and Fat32 settings

Is there any other way to format the card?

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baldydave

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Posted December 18, 2011 at 10:17PM

Hi, Is the switch on the card on lock?

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baldydave

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Posted December 18, 2011 at 10:20PM

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ICF

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 7:07AM

Try this program form Panasonic software

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Secret-Squirrel

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 8:50AM

"I've bought one 2GB and six 4GB Dane-Elec SD cards............No problem copying from the PC to the 2GB card but for the 4GB I get a message to format it."

Because you don't have a problem with the 2GB card from the same manufacturer, it sounds like your PC's SD card reader isn't SDHC compliant. This happens with older PCs.

To test whether that's the case, if possible, put one of the 4GB cards into your digital camera and connect the camera to the PC via USB. If you can copy successfully then that proves it.

If you can't accomplish the above and you find that formatting the card using the tools suggested doesn't help, then you can get yourself an inexpensive USB-connected card reader for your PC.

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Terry Brown

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 9:39AM

Put the card back in the camera, copy all pictures to your PC and then use the software build into the camera to either delete all or format the card.

Terry

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Trikie

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Posted December 19, 2011 at 1:30PM

Thanks everyone - I'll try one of the recommended programmes. The PC is only a year old but the card reader is 6 years old so I'll get a new one as Secret-Squirell suggests.

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