Pocket PC free memorycard formatter ?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

You should select FAT16 to format the MM Card, rather than the default
NTFS format which XP uses. The option can be selected in the format
drive box.

Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:16:43 -0000, "Andy100" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>I need software which will format a multi media card (in a card reader) back
>to factory settings to use in my mp3 player (card had, up until now, been
>used in my digital camera).
>
>In my case, WinXP built-in formatting does NOT make the card capable of
>working on my mp3 player. The card does work in there, but as soon as i used
>it for my Digital Camera stopped working in the mp3 player.
>
>I had memory card formatting software on my Pocket PC (WM2003) and it worked
>fine (but now has passed it's trial period and i didn't fancy paying a small
>fortune just for one memory card to be formatted once ever !!).
>
>
>Cheers
>Andy
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Still doesn't work in XP though, i have tried everything known to man in XP.
Need independant software. Anyone help ??

Cheers
Andy


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:cdk7q0ta9r57g17b1rpf8d73k3erjshc8i@4ax.com...
> You should select FAT16 to format the MM Card, rather than the default
> NTFS format which XP uses. The option can be selected in the format
> drive box.
>
> Cheers - Neil
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:16:43 -0000, "Andy100" <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I need software which will format a multi media card (in a card reader)
back
> >to factory settings to use in my mp3 player (card had, up until now, been
> >used in my digital camera).
> >
> >In my case, WinXP built-in formatting does NOT make the card capable of
> >working on my mp3 player. The card does work in there, but as soon as i
used
> >it for my Digital Camera stopped working in the mp3 player.
> >
> >I had memory card formatting software on my Pocket PC (WM2003) and it
worked
> >fine (but now has passed it's trial period and i didn't fancy paying a
small
> >fortune just for one memory card to be formatted once ever !!).
> >
> >
> >Cheers
> >Andy
> >
>