On 8/29/07, David Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's possible that cards experiencing this problem are not completely > corrupted "beyond repair", but that they've simply had their FAT > tables damaged to the point where most software can't deal with them. FAT32 > devices seem to have a particular problem, in that if certain elements of > the FAT table get corrupted, they appear to be completely unusable. This > kind of damage can be repaired using the Disk Manager on Windows XP or 2000. > If you use this to reformat such a device, it will come back to life quite > successfully (but be prepared for a bit of a wait while the Disk Manager > decides that the device is not properly formatted and that it can't > therefore show its current format). >
I didn't mean to turn this into a discussion of the bug, but from what I've read there are some apparently very technically capable people who have tried to low-level format cards after the failure using Windows and they refuse to be fixed. Anyway it's just a caution, it hasn't happened to me personally.
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