Problem With Memory Card Xd Card

[ozymandious]

I have a great sturdy little camera an Olympus U1030 SW

Shock proof, crush proof, water proof (10M) Great all round knock around camera and great for taking shots of kids in the pool.

I was shooting some pics of my daughter when the screen flashed Card error please clean connectors.

I thought that was weird and did so, re-inserted the card and the same error.

I took the cam home and put the XD Card (2GB) into my computer and it won't recognize that there's a card there.

I thought to my self F* it and I'll format the card in the camera and then try to use recava or some other data recovery program to pull the pics back out.

I put the XD card back into the camera and try to format it and it can't do it.

I test out the camera with a different XD card ->read/write OK Computer ->read/write OK

<deleted> So now I'm stuck with and XD card that is dead to me. Any ideas on what I can do with it?

If at all possable I would like to get the picuters off of it. if not I would like the card to be usable.

-Ozy

[lopburi3]

I also had problems with such a card. Seems if card gets full it can go ballistic and not want to work anywhere. Believe I was finally able to open manually in computer, copy files, erase and then it worked in camera again. But know computer did not want to initially work either. Sorry I can't remember exact sequence (one was I installed it upside down in my new computer reader).

[ozymandious]

should I try to 'electrocute' the card?? I had a thumb drive go bad on me once. I waited a year for the charge in the device to wear off and it was good again. strange i know, but true.

maybe just hang onto the card till the flash memory dissipates it's charge/data?

[astral]

You may get more help here.

[ozymandious]

Thanks for the topic move Astral.

Any suggestions people?