1GB Lexar went bad

[rebellearner]

I got a new computer last week and got the 13 in 1 card reader in it. I put my 1gig in and downloaded my picture and it worked great but I forgot and left it in and my wife loaded her work on the computer and it went to my card. Now I can't do anything with it, It will not format or anything it just says to badly damaged. Is it gone or is there something I can still do?
Thanks:oops:

[sprinkles]

can the CF card be read by the card reader? if so, you can format it using the computer. you can use the imagerescue software that was provided by lexar to do that.

if it just hangs up in the computer, then you might want to bring it back to exchange for a new one (lifetime warranty).

i've had my first lexar card go bad on me too & it couldnt be rescued at all. hung the whole computer each time i plugged it into the card reader. :confused: so i went back to get it exchanged for a new one.

[imagestablized]

typical for a Lexar card. Buy any sandisk extreme, and it comes with software called RescuePro. You can use it to try and grab your files off it, if you didnt format the card via the camera.

[rebellearner]

Thanks guys,

I'm going to try and take it back because it will not do anything. I tried in camera to format but it comes up error 2 before I can even start the camera. In the card reader it just says damaged can't repair. I even did a search on here and got a rescue program for the disk and it couldn't repair.

Thanks again

[goatee]

typical for a Lexar card. Buy any sandisk extreme, and it comes with software called RescuePro. You can use it to try and grab your files off it, if you didnt format the card via the camera.

How is it typical for a Lexar card? The Extreme is a Sandisk pro card - buy any Lexar pro card, and you get Image Rescue with it - even if you do reformat the card, it can still recover files - so long as you don't fill the card up with other files, overwriting the old files.

[rebellearner]

I e-mailed lexar and they are going to send me a new one.

goatee,

"it can still recover files - so long as you don't fill the card up with other files, overwriting the old files."

What do you mean by filling up the card with other files and overwriting? does this wreck the card? I think that is what happen to mine...

[Jon]

What goatee was saying is that if you reformat the card and then use it again, you'll destroy any chance of recovering the earlier lost files. Not a problem in your case, since it won't let you reformat it. But under normal conditions, just deleting and overwriting,or reformatting, shouldn't render a card unusable like with yours.

[goatee]

Thanks Jon - that's exactly what I meant - sorry, I forget that not everyone here are software engineers ;)

[Raymate]

Never been a big fa of LEXAR had a couple of card die on me, now it's Sandisk

[noiret]

same thing happened with my 512mb 4xCF, went to lexar for replacement though.