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Title: formatting software recommendations?
Post by: Justy Gyee on May 09, 2023, 01:42:29 PM

anyone have any formatting software suggestions?
i have a CF card that fails formatting when it gets to the 80-90% completion mark.
tried on a couple machines and a couple different card readers.
card also fails to format on my 722.

Title: Re: formatting software recommendations?
Post by: Gordon on May 10, 2023, 07:37:02 AM

I'd say it's time for a new card!  Why risk it?

Title: Re: formatting software recommendations?
Post by: morst on May 10, 2023, 01:41:30 PM

Quote from: Justy Gyee on May 09, 2023, 01:42:29 PM

anyone have any formatting software suggestions?
i have a CF card that fails formatting when it gets to the 80-90% completion mark.
tried on a couple machines and a couple different card readers.
card also fails to format on my 722.

Does the company that made the card have any kind of useful warranty on their products? Sounds like it's no good anymore.

Title: Re: formatting software recommendations?
Post by: jb63 on May 10, 2023, 06:02:49 PM

I use those cards in my MTii and some of them just die. They are pretty cheap or used to be, and I always format them in the recorder. If they don't format in the recorder they get tossed. I like to format 3 and these them, and keep 2 as backups at the show "just in case" I have to pop out the one in the deck and then I have a backup ready to go.

But in answer to your original question, use the deck to format.

Title: Re: formatting software recommendations?
Post by: Justy Gyee on June 12, 2023, 05:27:27 PM

thanks. the card was pretty new and working flawlessly until the formatting issue.
ordered a replacement.
why are CF cards still so damn expensive?  :yack: