More Microdrive problems

[MarkS224]

I have been using a hitachi 1 gb microdrive for about 1 year. Never had a problem. Recently I have had problems moving the files from the microdrive to my hard drive. First photoshop could not read the files so i used the canon zoom browser to move them to my harddive where photoshop worked fine. Now zoom browser is giving me problems too. Today I tried moving 82 pictures that I took yesterday, 40 moved fine . the rest didnt move. When i tried moving them one at a time i seem to get about 1/2 way across the progress screen and then it shuts down back to the browser. The camera reads all the images fine. I have no problems viewing the thumbnails in zoom browser i just cant read with photoshop or move them.

any ideas?

[Mike Panic]

have you formatted the card in windows recently?

[MarkS224]

No, i'm not sure how to do that

[Avalonthas]

well if u havent formatted it in a year that prolly why. Could be alot of useless data and/or corrupted files.

Or your microdrive can be suffering from to much wear and tare. Hard to tell since its been in use for quite sometime.

[MarkS224]

Ok i'll try that . but how do i reformat it?

[Mike Panic]

to format in windows, plug your drive into a card reader and then go to my computer

find the drive, right click and choose format. the only setting you should change is the box to tick for "quick format"

thats it

do NOT get in the habbit of shooting for a while, delete a few, shoot for a while delete a few... get in the habbit of formatting in camera and / or in windows, especially w/ microdrives, which are essentially mini hdd's - not like cf that are solid state media

[AJSJones]

I've been using a variety of (IBM then) Hitachi drives since late 2000 with a 340MB before the GB ones came down in price. I've always formatted in-camera after downloading. I delete obvious duds using the camera's trash can. Never had the problem you describe so I agee with Mike's recommendation... I just got into the habit of formatting as part of inserting the card into the camera

Andy

[MarkS224]

Thanks for your help.Not sure if it works yet but i'll give it a go

[Simon Spiers]

I have an IBM 340 meg drive in my Canon 20d.
It slows down to a crawl when its cold!

[robertwgross]

I've always formatted in-camera after downloading.

That is a Quick Format, not a complete one.

The other way you can see if there is any "file debris" is to check the formatted size of the card against what it ought to be normally. If there is a discrepancy, then that is debris that needs to be cleaned out by a Full Format.

---Bob Gross---