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  • January 23, 2009 at 2:26 am #77606
    tcmnut
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    I accidentally formatted a 2 gb Lexar cf with fat32 instaed of fat16 and now it locks up windows explorer and the unit (except tempo)… is there a master reset (factory ) procedure to quick format the cf ? I don’t have a 5 in 1 media reader of anything else that uses cf. These cards are very expensive and difficult to find. Thanks.

    Tony

    January 23, 2009 at 2:57 am #91464
    julian
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    Did you try another computer?

    January 23, 2009 at 8:55 am #91471
    tcmnut
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    Did you try another computer?

    Yes I did as you suggested although I can’t see the reasoning behind that one and again complete the same result.

    I then went into the computer managemnt area of xp disk management and it saw the ‘drive’ as 1.85 gb and when I tried to format it it hung. So again my question is – is there a low level format hidden or service preocedure for the CF card . . perhaps I should e-mail ehx directly I’m not sure they read these forums or not.

    Thanks for trying to help, in the meantime I’ll try to find someone who has a media reader – I knew I’d have t obuy one of those darned things one day ..hehe

    Tony

    January 23, 2009 at 9:55 am #91475
    tcmnut
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    I downloaded Imgae Rescue 3 s/w from Lexar – it’s free !

    I succesfully formatted the cf card and now it’s testing it ..real slooooooooow.

    I’ll report back if this works.

    January 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm #91493
    julian
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    EHX staff members do read these forums and respond :)
    us volunteers just usually respond first

    January 23, 2009 at 7:19 pm #91497
    tcmnut
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    Quote:
    EHX staff members do read these forums and respond :)
    us volunteers just usually respond first

    ah I see, sorry if it sounded like I was compaining , really I wasn’t heheh…

    btw even the Lexar utility didn’t do the trick -well sorta .. it did format the flash card but in windows it reports it’s not formatted when I try to access it . ..so I tried to format it to FAT (16) by right clicking and it starts but hangs .. seems this thing is toast ! But I ‘m not giving up I’m going to a friends tonight who have a media reader (writer ?) .. last resort is to buy one of my own.

    I don’t know why I decided to format this thing, it was a dumb, very dumb move.
    It’s obvious I have little experience with CF cards, are these things always this fussy or did I just get a dud ?

    pardon my dyslexic typing err I mean tyslexic dyping.

    January 23, 2009 at 9:15 pm #91506
    electro-melx
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    I don’t know why I decided to format this thing, it was a dumb, very dumb move.
    It’s obvious I have little experience with CF cards, are these things always this fussy or did I just get a dud ?

    Hi I have no experience with the 2880 but I have a Tascam 8track (DP02-CF) that records onto Compact Flash and I’ve never had a problem, but on that formatting options are on the actual unit, so you can create partitions and reformat in the unit itself, I bought a bigger 8gb CF card for it and when I put it in the unit a ‘formatting wizard’ type thing came up and guided you through the formatting process…..anyway sorry I know this is no help at all, but I just wanted to say I’ve had no trouble with either the original 1gb card (no brand) I got with it or the 8gb (sandisk ultraII) I bought off ebay.

    February 10, 2009 at 6:35 pm #93036
    donthefox
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    Well, have you tried… the command line? (windows key + r)
    Try this, instructions here: http://www.ss64.com/nt/format.html
    Report back!

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