I accidentally opened the CF card door on my 5D3 while formatting the card and now it won't read or reformat. Any tips on fixing this, or did I just nuke my card for good? There is no data as I was formatting it anyway, but it's a 16GB card I'd rather not buy again. Thanks!
Oops, opened CF card door too soon...
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Chris Burch said:
It tells me Windows was unable to format the card. Is there a specific file system I should use. I am just using the defaults that pop up... Capacity = 31.9MB (weird???), File System: FAT (also available is NTFS and exFAT) and Allocation unit size = Default.
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Drizzt321 said:
You don't happen to know any online walk-throughs for doing this, do you? Under disk management the only thing I can seem to find is format drive, which it won't. Thanks in advance!
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Looks like Lexar will replace/repair the card, so I guess no biggie. This would be good to know how to do some time, but for now, go Lexar!
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mccallew said:
Good for Lexar. Always nice to hear a company has some decent customer service/support.
These two links should more or less get you there if you are reasonably intelligent. For the CF card, you may need to delete any existing partitions on the device, and then create a new one.
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/disk-management-windows-7.htm
http://dashboardhelp.datarobotics.com/170/en/win/formatting_drives_using_windows_disk_management_utility_help.htm
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