4GB HC SD Card

[mtblujeans]

About a month ago, I got a Kodak 4GB High Capacity SD card for my Kodak Z650 camera. I didn't really look at it until last week. I put it into my camera and the camera can't format the card. I thought that perhaps the card wasn't compatible with my camera but DS told me to put the card into my laptop and the computer doesn't acknowledge it in the drive, either.

Have I gotten a bad card? I am not all that knowledgeable with the digital cameras and memory cards...obviously.

 

[alan]

About a month ago, I got a Kodak 4GB High Capacity SD card for my Kodak Z650 camera. I didn't really look at it until last week. I put it into my camera and the camera can't format the card. I thought that perhaps the card wasn't compatible with my camera but DS told me to put the card into my laptop and the computer doesn't acknowledge it in the drive, either.

Have I gotten a bad card? I am not all that knowledgeable with the digital cameras and memory cards...obviously.

Sorry, I think you may have bought a card that just doesn't work properly with your camera.

SD-HC cards look the same as SD cards, but the way that the camera "talks" to the card differs between the two.

As far as I can tell from the manual for your camera, it only accepts SD cards.

Are you in a position to return the SD-HC card? If so, then you'd be better off doing so, and getting two 2GB SD cards.

It's maybe not a bad thing. If you have your photographs split over two cards, and one fails, you still have half your photos. Have your photos on a single card and it fails, and your photos are just... gone.

regards,
/alan

 

[mtblujeans]

Thank you for your help.

 

[Frantasmic]

As you've probably deduced now, your computer also cannot format that type of card. I had an old computer at Christmas that wouldn't format the HD cards and had to get a new computer. (It had other issues: I didn't get the new computer solely for the SD drive).

XP also can't read my Canon S5, but Vista does.

 

[webshark3]

As you've probably deduced now, your computer also cannot format that type of card. I had an old computer at Christmas that wouldn't format the HD cards and had to get a new computer. (It had other issues: I didn't get the new computer solely for the SD drive).

XP also can't read my Canon S5, but Vista does.

The computer can format the card. You just need a SDHC reader. Likewise, it sounds like you had a driver issue with your XP and S5.

 

[Groucho]

You can get decent USB SDHC card readers for all of $7 shipped. But that won't help you if the camera won't support SDHC... you can check if Kodak has an updated firmware to allow the camera to support SDHC cards, but I suspect that there isn't one.

 

[mtblujeans]

Thanks for the education in HCSD cards!

I thought I just had a 'bad card' but now you guys are teaching me that there is so much more to these cards than I realized.

Thanks again!