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Title: Marantz, getting around the "unformat" error ?
Post by: Nick's Picks on January 15, 2008, 03:07:41 PM

brand new scandisc ultra II card...and my 660 wont read it.
I've tried formatting it in DOS, XP, 10 year old Kodak camera...., nadda.

thats about it for my bag of tricks. 
anyone ?

Title: Re: Marantz, getting around the "unformat" error ?
Post by: Javier Cinakowski on January 15, 2008, 03:26:33 PM

that is wierd.  I have that exact card (4GB) and it works fine.

Title: Re: Marantz, getting around the "unformat" error ?
Post by: Nick's Picks on January 15, 2008, 03:27:07 PM

mine is probably fake.  ebay....

Title: Re: Marantz, getting around the "unformat" error ?
Post by: newplanet7 on January 15, 2008, 06:23:40 PM

Wow.
I was close to getting one of those from ebay not too long ago.

I found a couple of articles describing what to look for:
http://news.deviantart.com/article/22296/

Including this one from ebay with pictures.
http://reviews.ebay.com.au/Beware-of-FAKE-1GB-2GB-4GB-8GB-USB-Flash-Drives-on-eBay_W0QQugidZ10000000000792498

-todd

Title: Re: Marantz, getting around the "unformat" error ?
Post by: Nick's Picks on January 16, 2008, 08:07:32 AM

huh.
thanks for the links.