Digital camera accessories

[TTR]

Well, I've been having trouble with the card. I put it inside a 6-in-1 card reader that came built in with my computer, but it didn't show the usual pop-up that says that it was dectected as a new drive, so I took it out and put it back in, but it said the card needed to be formatted. So, I stuck it in my sister's (Everything is hers and I've been trying to fix it for her.) camara and formatted inside the camara, but it said the card was write protected. So, I've been trying to find out how to take off the write protection. I use WinXP SP2 and the camara was a Olympus D-390. I'm sorry if this has been already been answered.

[ShutterbugGail]

Hi TTR,

Welcome to the Q&A Board! You never have to worry if a question has already been answered here. We are here to help.

This post by cyaw may be useful to you:

I thought my 1GB xD card was goner. I's using the card for a month or so. No problems except I had to get a new card reader as the old one recognised the card but said that it was not formatted. The new card reader worked until yesterday. I fired up ACDSee, saw all the images but when I tried to COPY the images to my harddisk, I got...
 
Windows – Drive Not Ready
The drive is ready for use; its door may be open. Please check drive \Device\Harddisk#\DR 32 and make sure that a disk is inserted and that the drive door is closed Using file explorer, again, I could see the files but I got the message below when I tried to copy them to my harddisk.
 
Windows – write Protection Error
The disk cannot be written to because it is write protected. Please remove the write protection from the volume in drive \Device\Harddisk\DR#
 
Could retrieve the files using a recovery program but can't do this everytime!
 
But thanks to the advice here, viz, wiping the card clean of any formating & then using the camera to format the card, the card seems to be okay.[/b

I believe the person was referencing the Art Plus Memory Card Safe Eraser, a free utility:

http://www.artplus.hr/adapps/eng/dpr.htm

This reply was posted in the following thread about problems with XD cards. It is the longest thread at the Digicamhelp Q&A Board, however it may be worth your time to read through it if the above doesn't work:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=access;action=display;num=1096138468

Let us know how it goes.

[TTR]

Well, I cleaned it up with the program, but after I reformat it again and use it for a while, all of the pictures become protected (I can't delete them), and when I turn off the camara, the card becomes write protected again. Could it be the camara (I hope it's not)?

[ShutterbugGail]

Well, I cleaned it up with the program, but after I reformat it again and use it for a while, all of the pictures become protected (I can't delete them), and when I turn off the camara, the card becomes write protected again. Could it be the camara (I hope it's not)?

You are formatting it with the camera each time, right?

It could be the camera but do a couple things to check. Have you tried using a different card in the camera? If that works, it is most likely a problem with the card. Also, if possible, try the card in another camera to see if it works there.

Some have mentioned that formatting a card in a different camera, then formatting the card in your own camera, can solve such problems. I haven't tried it, so I don't know for sure.

If neither of these work, I'd call the card manufacturer first. Then, if necessary, the camera manufacturer.

[admin]

IMPORTANT NOTE: This thread contains information regarding software called Art Plus Memory Card Safe Eraser. According to developers at Art Plus, Memory Card Safe Eraser (APErase) was not designed to repair memory cards but simply to erase data. However when used to erase data, some have stated that their previously corrupted memory card became usable again.