Hi, Sorry it sounds like a long story but I have a big problem with my xd card for my digital camera (Olympus C-5050). I bought the camera and the xd card about the same time last March in the US and they were both working fine for about one year. I can always upload the pictures saved in the xd card to my PC through an Olympus card reader. But then I took hundreds of pictures this May in my 12-days trip in Europe and both the card and the camera were working fine until the time I finished my trip and tried to read the card at home with my card reader......my PC couldn't detect the card~~!!......Initially I thought it's the problem of my card reader....I even bought a new card reader and realized that both card readers are fine but my xd card.........more surprisingly, when I tried to at least read the pictures by inserting the xd card back to the camera, the camera couldn't read it anymore and suggested me to "format" the card~~!! I couldn't think of any reason why the xd card suddenly becomes unreadable.......The xd card was kept in the camera and was working fine through out the whole trip...... I don't know if it is also a possibility. During my trip in Europe, there is one time I tried to use my friend's PC to detect my card reader (I live in the US, in case it matters) but the card reader couldn't be detected.....at that time my xd card is also in the card reader. Supposedly you do not need a driver if your PC is using Windows xp, so I was surprised the card reader was not detected.......But after that, the xd card was again working fine in the camera......I don't know if somehow this will affect the function of the xd card? Can someone help me out with this?......I have all my precious memory in this xd card~~!!!! Thank you very much in advance~~~~ Joy
If you camera can't read it sounds like bad news, as the card might just be damaged so you will loose all data on the card. In the future I would suggest that you have some kind of backup policy e.g. backup every day if you use the camera? heres a link to their FAQ http://www.olympus.co.uk/consumer/208_faqs.cfm?prodID=P_N1106592#8
Thank you very much for your response. I will definitely use back up from now on. I don't trust these memory cards any more.......But I am trying everything I can to rescue my photos........I am checking Photo Rescue as lots of people here recommend. I know it sounds like a pretty bad news as almost every other post here, they can at least see the pictures in their camera. But like I mentioned, nothing tragically happened to my card. Thank you for the link to Olympus's FAQ. I thought I didn't do anything as it indicated.......I just don't get it~~~!!!
also, if you have a friend with an xd card reader you can just snag it off him and see if your camera's xd card slot is bad. I wouldn't buy an xd card reader if you don't have one just to diagnose this problem though.
