Topic: formatting software recommendations?

[Justy Gyee]

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.

[Gordon]

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

[morst]

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.

[jb63]

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.

[Justy Gyee]

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