Memory card issues with D800

Mooseknux

Senior Member
Good afternoon,

I was getting all my gear ready for a portrait session later this afternoon and was reformatting one of my SD cards, now my camera won't read the card. Is it strange that both my MBP and iMac will read the card but the camera won't?? Camera reads other SD's just fine but not this one. I've had cards fail in the past but not to where the computer will read and camera won't, they just wouldn't read period
 

nickt

Senior Member
Oh, ok. I got the impression that you formatted it in the computer and then it no longer could be seen by the camera after that. Since that is not the case, I would try to format it in the computer, fat32 and of course follow that up with a format in camera if it accepts the card at all. I have had success reviving problem cards with a computer format. I don't know mac's at all, but in windows, you would want a full format, not a 'quick'.
 

Mooseknux

Senior Member
Oh, ok. I got the impression that you formatted it in the computer and then it no longer could be seen by the camera after that. Since that is not the case, I would try to format it in the computer, fat32 and of course follow that up with a format in camera if it accepts the card at all. I have had success reviving problem cards with a computer format. I don't know mac's at all, but in windows, you would want a full format, not a 'quick'.
I tried the reformat method you spoke of on one of my windows machine and this is what i'm getting with the card in the camera. FullSizeRender.jpg
 
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wade7575

Senior Member
You can try ImageRescue 5 or Killdisk,also a free option would is CCleaner it has a built in drive wiper and that's all it may need.Just go look under the Tab called Tools then Drive wiper then just choose to Wipe Entire Drive under and do a 1 Pass.

I had a Portable hard drive I lent to a friend and he just unplugged it and did not eject it and normally that does not do anything as far as damaging a drive but it did to mine the problem I had was I could only transfer a file of about 5 to 20mb and anymore the drive would just disconnect itself and then reconnect itself but after the wipe everything was fine.

If the SD card is not to old I would give it a try.
 

Mooseknux

Senior Member
You can try ImageRescue 5 or Killdisk,also a free option would is CCleaner it has a built in drive wiper and that's all it may need.Just go look under the Tab called Tools then Drive wiper then just choose to Wipe Entire Drive under and do a 1 Pass.

I had a Portable hard drive I lent to a friend and he just unplugged it and did not eject it and normally that does not do anything as far as damaging a drive but it did to mine the problem I had was I could only transfer a file of about 5 to 20mb and anymore the drive would just disconnect itself and then reconnect itself but after the wipe everything was fine.

If the SD card is not to old I would give it a try.

The SD card works fine on all my machines, it just won't work on my camera. I've wiped in Windows 10 and disk utility in Yosemite, it just wont read in camera. I loaded the card with a bunch of mp3's and now just use it in my car, it's no big deal... I bought a new one and it works fine in the camera.
 
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