FYI, the little program at the URL in here is no longer freeware.

>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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