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Asked: 2021-11-24T14:31:08+00:00 In:

How To Repair A Compact Flash Card?

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I have a 64mb Compact Flash card that my HP PhotoSmart camera no longer recognizes. Using a card reader I can connect this card to a PC and it will display the names of the files contained on the card; however, many of these files have become corrupt.
Is there a procedure for ‘reformatting’ this Compact Flash card. I’m not concerned with losing the existing files.
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    1. You have to format it inside the camera, using the camera’s menu system. However, since your camera no longer recognises it, that’s not possible. You will have to throw it away and buy a new one.
      There’s no point in trying to use a corrupted card that you can’t trust anyway, even if your camera did somehow manage to recognise it. There is limit to the number of times it can be written to before it starts to fail, and your 64MB card must be well used by now since they stopped making that capacity a long time ago. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a 64MB one these days.

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