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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 442735" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>I'll just point out doing an in-camera "reformat" does NOT reformat the cards file structure (FAT32). The only thing an in-camera reformat "reformats" is the FOLDER structure (i.e. DCIM/D3200 etc.) used by the camera to store photos. These are two HUGELY different things. </p><p></p><p>To properly reformat the SD Card (which *WILL* over-write all the data and re-create the File Allocation Table (FAT)), you need to do the following:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Put the card in a computer media reader. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Wait for the card to mount as an available drive. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">RIGHT-click on the card and select "Format". </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><u>Clear</u> the check-box for "Quick Format". </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Click "OK". </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">You'll get a warning about erasing your files. </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Continue with the format.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Go make a cup of tea because this is going to take a while.</p><p></p><p>On my Core i7 computer at home with 16GB of RAM, reformatting a 32GB SD card takes about half an hour. I assure everyone our Nikon DSLR's are not performing this same feat in a fraction of a second when we "reformat" our SD cards in-camera. Lastly and speaking only for myself, any card that fails to re-format properly in my computer, or gives me any kind of error message in-camera, even once, gets exchanged for a new card, or the card gets trashed. They get no second chances, ever.</p><p><span style="color: #FFFFFF">.....</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 442735, member: 13090"] I'll just point out doing an in-camera "reformat" does NOT reformat the cards file structure (FAT32). The only thing an in-camera reformat "reformats" is the FOLDER structure (i.e. DCIM/D3200 etc.) used by the camera to store photos. These are two HUGELY different things. To properly reformat the SD Card (which *WILL* over-write all the data and re-create the File Allocation Table (FAT)), you need to do the following: [INDENT]Put the card in a computer media reader. Wait for the card to mount as an available drive. RIGHT-click on the card and select "Format". [U]Clear[/U] the check-box for "Quick Format". Click "OK". You'll get a warning about erasing your files. Continue with the format. Go make a cup of tea because this is going to take a while.[/INDENT] On my Core i7 computer at home with 16GB of RAM, reformatting a 32GB SD card takes about half an hour. I assure everyone our Nikon DSLR's are not performing this same feat in a fraction of a second when we "reformat" our SD cards in-camera. Lastly and speaking only for myself, any card that fails to re-format properly in my computer, or gives me any kind of error message in-camera, even once, gets exchanged for a new card, or the card gets trashed. They get no second chances, ever. [COLOR="#FFFFFF"].....[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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