Will formatting my SD card delete my photos ?. i have many photos on my SD cards for my camera. recently i was at a wedding and when i went to turn on my camera to take a photo it asked me to format my card ... if i do this will i lose all my photos on m card...

that there is no other reason > why you should not format the card in camera. My advice would be, > having checked those manuals!, to always format the card at time of > purchase - if there is a problem you can take it back immediately.. > Thenceforth,...

Never format a card unless it quits working. >You stand a chance, however small, of destroying >the card when formatting it. ? Links, references, reasoning? Given that when you deliberately format the card, by definition there shouldn't be anything...

Thanks very much for any help. >> If it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> Never format a card if it doesn't need formatting. You risk > destroying the card for absolutely nothing. >> dk > Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras () you can...

to format my MultiMedia Card so it will work in my mp3 player ?. The format software which comes with WinXP doesn't do it, when i go to My Computer and right click the drive there to format card it comes up with errors on my mp3 player (no valid card). Yet...

memory card? Yes, they can. Can I assume you found an option in the camera to format the card and it doesn't work? Sometimes the card can just get screwed up and you can format the card in a PC in a card reader. Then putting it back in the camera and...

or always or what "should" be the method? It doesn't matter much on any camera I've used. The Canon 20D tends to litter a card with empty directories, so every once in a while, I format the card to get rid of them. -- Ben Rosengart ...

adapter for transferring the image files from the CF into my Mac; can I format a higher-capacity card with the computer using that? The 32 Meg card worked right off without formatting; do I even need to format a brand-new larger card? thanks, Isaac....

xD Card Formatting Needed?. Archived from groups: rec.photo.digital () As mentioned in another post, I have a new Fuji E550 digital camera, and I noticed on the 256 card I bought for it, that the instructions say to format it to your particular camera. It...

of my SmartMedia cards have been used in/formatted>>by my mp3 player and are no longer visible to my digital cameras. >>Olympus D-510 Zoom and Fuji 2400Z. >>I get a "!Card error" and the camera refuses to format. >>I can format the cards in windows as...