Hi Paul I got a defective Optio 430 with a 256mb compact flash Sandisk card. I can not format the card in 2 different cameras or in a card reader. When I try to format the card under Windows XP, I get a blue screen and a reboot. PC Inspector smart recovery could still recover over 100 JPGs from that card but not do a media check. I tried deleting the partititons and recreate a Fat one, that worked but the formating of the partition is not possible, I get an error at the end of the formating process under XP.
The Optio 430 itself can not format any card, I tried with a 128mb Transcend and a 16mb Lexar which work fine in a Optio 330. This cameras should have some internal memory IMHO, because without a card you can not operate that camera at all. strange. greetings Markus PS: Don't you carry more than 2 cards with you? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:18 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Transcend Card Failure I've had my first card failure in three years of shooting digital. I went out to a gallery tonight that has shown my work a couple of times. They had someone else's show opening, and I wanted to suck up and shoot some pics for them. I left with a full card in my camera that included some walkaround pics from this afternoon and a lot of snaps of Grace. I took that card out and inserted a Transcend 2 gig, 150X that has been in the card holder in the battery grip. It had some previous work on it, so I went to format it. The formatting failed repeatedly. Wouldn't do it. So I had to reinsert the card that was full and format it. I hadn't downloaded the shots that were on it. There were a few good ones that I wanted. But I had to shoot this opening. In any case, it's a failure for a Transcend card. I'm going back to Sandisk. The bargain Transcend cards are far more expensive if they are failure prone. One time is one time too many. Paul -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
