Thanks.  I  Zeroed out the card with the file below. Data recovery
tells me nothing is there anymore. (Except 59 errors.)

I had tried the second part (a card reader format) previously on
a WinME machine since I had my doubts XP-Pro was ever going
to figure it out... My mistake may have been using WinME...

At least if it doesn't "fix", (now that the data is blanked out), I can
handle it through the factory RMA.  (I hated the thought of sending
it back with really personal stuff on there...)

I always had a suspicion it was more of an "access" thing than an
actual problem...  Years ago I learned about "access" from watching
a friend constantly trash his hard drives and re-install everything,
when later, (in hindsight), I learned all he really lost was "access"...

                                                       Rick Glazier

From: "Paul A. Valentine" <[log in to unmask]>
> I fixed my card by running a free program, "Card Wiper"
>
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/digsoftware_utils.html
>
> Then formatting it on my Win 98SE laptop. Formatting it on my XP machine was
> not acceptable to the camera.

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