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Sandisk 30mb - Dead?

Nigel785 — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:17:15 +0000

Just flew to Vegas, my Zoom recorder is toast and so is one of my Sandisk 30mb cards. Won't mount on iMac, disk utility won't recognize it neither will the GH2. My SD Formatter won't pick it up either.

When I insert the card it's takes the screen to gray. "insert the card again"..until it says "try another card". Could have been fried by the TSA?

Any hope or is this card dead? Hate to toss the (at the time) $40 card.

Thanks

Reading images from an unformatted memory card (gh2)

SuperRoach — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:58:39 +0000

Morning all and Happy new year :)

While I was camping I got some nice footage and pictures with a 64gig (one of the SDXC ones for future) sd card in a Panasonic GH2.

I'll admit I was a bit stupid in just putting the memory card in, and snapping photos.

Currently the camera is reading the videos and images taken fine, so there would be no damage.

However plugging it into a Windows 7 based machine brings up a forced "please format this card" message. Is there an alternative way to mount it, or otherwise read the data before I properly format it?