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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wobble on October 24, 2001, 05:44:00 PM
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ok, my Uncle gave me his Olympus D-360L Digital camera and 2 smartmedia cards one is 8mb the other is 32, they were working just fine untill I accidentley messed thie file system up, now I get 'card error' when I put them it.. I know all I need to do is format them but I dont haven any of the orignal software than came with the camera... Im using a lexar 'digital film reader' (USB) to read the cards and Adobe photoshop to do all the imaging stuff...
I have a drive labled 'removable disk' in MY COMPUTER, but when I select the 'format' option the only options are NTFS, FAT, and FAT32.. I know the smart cards dont use any of those.
Ideally i would like the Camedia software than came with the camera, but i can find it ANYWHERE.. but nw ill just settle for any app, driver, util.. ANYTHING that will let me format these fricking cards..
thanks for any help.
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Yes, the camera does use one of those file formats. You should be fine with FAT or FAT32.
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hmm, interesting... when i try to format it it says it does and then its says it couldent format it..
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oh, well I called Olympus and talled to a tech help guy and he said that since I deleted the pictures IN the computer insted of in the camera that I had fragmented the data on the card, and that I COULDENT format the card with the camera.. He said I could probably do it with the camedia software, when I asked where to get it he said it comes with the camera.. but I couldent DL it from anywhere, and If I wanted to buy it, it costs $25.
but, needless to say i found a site that has the aoftware, som Im DLing it now..
[ 10-24-2001: Message edited by: Wobble ]
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I have a Sony DSC S30, and I can format the disks like any other disks from "My Computer". Great little camera for the money, I might add.
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Weird. I've got a coolpix that uses CF cards. Never had a problem, and I delete stuff off of the card from my computer all the time. Hell, I once used it to transport a file with me when I flew home to Wisconsin and then formatted it with the camera after transferring the file to the folks' computer.
ummm...was there a point I was driving at here? Nah, I guess I'm just babbling, but it was a good story for the price you payed.
SOB
[ 10-25-2001: Message edited by: SOB ]
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Had the same problems with friend's Olympus. The file system on CFs is FAT no matter what any dolp in support says. We used a CF reader and deleted a few pics with the camera subsequently refusing to read the card. All I had to do was to re-format the card using FAT and it was "back" as good as new.
My Casio 3030 uses CF2s so I'm using IBM's 340MB MicroDrive (245 uncompressed images at 2096x1536 res :cool: ). I've formatted it several times, deleted files via File Explorer (camera attached via USB) - basically treated it as a removable harddisk it actually is - no probs.
[ 10-25-2001: Message edited by: -lynx- ]