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Thread ID: 53422	2005-01-17 04:47:00	Corrupted data on CF card	FoxyMX (5)	PC World Chat

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314986	2005-01-17 20:56:00	You should be able to see the CF card in My Computer to perform some format.There is no option in Windows to format the card, unfortunately. Can only do it in the camera. Where and what method was you blue caught, must say half a meter is a good fish.Er... in the sea 10km from shore and 110 metres deep, on a hook at the end of a fishing rod. :D Here (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) is a pic of my catch with a closeup of the 535mm Big One here (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz). Reeling those two things up from 110 metres was very hard work and took over five minutes thanks to the bluey fighting like mad and the "orange roughy's" tendency to keep its gob wide open all the way up. My arms are still protesting at the punishment of last weekend. :D A simple fix LMAO :D I knew someone would try fixing it but that takes the cake. Have put it on my desktop. :p	FoxyMX (5)
314987	2005-01-17 21:11:00	What model camera? Does it corrupt the only the 1st pic on a newly formatted card or is it the 1st pic in each in each group that you take?	PaulD (232)
314988	2005-01-17 21:34:00	It is a Canon Digital IXUS V3 and only the first pic on the card gets corrupted, the rest are fine . I have just formatted it again, taken a few pics and along with the "corrupted data" error it has a thumbnail view of the first pic which does not look corrupted . The last batch of pics had the view of the corrupted first photo and no error . It is all rather weird . :confused:	FoxyMX (5)
314989	2005-01-17 22:22:00	This post on DPReview (forums.dpreview.com) suggests Ixus s230/V3 have problems with some brands of CF but reported problems have been random corruption not 1st pic on cards. Is the CF you are using the original Canon/Sandisk?	PaulD (232)
314990	2005-01-17 22:41:00	Er... in the sea 10km from shore and 110 metres deep, on a hook at the end of a fishing rod. :D Here (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) is a pic of my catch with a closeup of the 535mm Big One here (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz). Reeling those two things up from 110 metres was very hard work and took over five minutes thanks to the bluey fighting like mad and the "orange roughy's" tendency to keep its gob wide open all the way up. My arms are still protesting at the punishment of last weekend. :D Looks like you were near Kaikoura, I would call the orange fish a Soldier fish, others buy it in the fish shop as Perch. Over Xmas I started using a gigging trace with 6 hooks with a pink feather attached to each hook in a similar fasion to a fly hook. On my second drop I got two blue cod in one go, but alias that's all it bought up in a week and a half of fishing. And just to keep you happy you got the bigger one.	Rob99 (151)
314991	2005-01-17 23:08:00	This post on DPReview ( . dpreview . com/forums/read . asp?forum=1010&message=4319157" target="_blank">forums . dpreview . com) suggests Ixus s230/V3 have problems with some brands of CF but reported problems have been random corruption not 1st pic on cards . Is the CF you are using the original Canon/Sandisk? There are some interesting posts on that forum . One in particular is beginning to make me wonder about whether the battery may have been low when HWMO was using it as the first corrupted photo was taken on one of his trips away . Godfather has previously warned me about the possibility of it happening and I am becoming more and more suspicious that it is the cause of this problem . From the DPReview forum: Did you try to record anything with low battery power, where the camera may have switched itself off? This happened to me once with my ixus v (last years model) and I read about it in a computer magazine . Since I know about this, I am very careful not to take pictures when battery power is low - and did not see the problem again with my camera (unfortunately others, though) . Btw: my camera just displayed junk (half) images, but did not give a "corrupted" message . The CF card is not an original Canon card but one recommended by the shop, a Lead Data card . The camera has taken well over three thousand photos with that card in two years so it has had quite a bit of use . :D	FoxyMX (5)
314992	2005-01-17 23:24:00	Looks like you were near Kaikoura, I would call the orange fish a Soldier fish, others buy it in the fish shop as Perch . Yes, they are called soldier fish, also sea perch, Maori chief, Jock Stewarts, gumboots or bu-wackers and even sometimes by their scientific name, Helicolenus Papillosus if they are lucky . :D Over Xmas I started using a gigging trace with 6 hooks with a pink feather attached to each hook in a similar fasion to a fly hook . On my second drop I got two blue cod in one go, but alias that's all it bought up in a week and a half of fishing . Blue cod fishing this summer has been very poor for some reason . We struck it lucky on Saturday but we did have to hunt for them . We virtually always bring up a fish on each hook which is why the line had only two hooks for this particular spot - they are too darn heavy for three on a fishing rod at that depth . :p In shallower waters HWMO used to have five hooks on his line and often brought up a perch on each hook . . . not my idea of fun . :rolleyes: Incidentally, tasty bait is better than jigs and flashers but if you don't have any bait they will do . And just to keep you happy you got the bigger one . Well, our all-time record for a bluey is 550mm caught last summer . . . by me, of course . :p :D	FoxyMX (5)
314993	2005-01-18 01:21:00	Ī wonder about the camera . It's more likely than the card to give strange results like that . If the camera appears as a Removable Disk in the My Computer page, right click should give a Format option, just like a floppy drive . You should be able to do a thorough scandisk on it too . But if you can get these (and good ones) off the camera with no problems (except the picture quality), you don't need to format the card .	Graham L (2)
314994	2005-01-18 01:51:00	Formatting the card in windows can give you the wrong FAT type for your camera. Some flash cards (not usually CF) can have extra camera specific info that a win format will delete.	PaulD (232)
314995	2005-01-18 02:14:00	Ī wonder about the camera. It's more likely than the card to give strange results like that.I am fairly confident that it isn't the camera, otherwise the other card would display the same problem, I would think. If the camera appears as a Removable Disk in the My Computer page, right click should give a Format option, just like a floppy drive. You should be able to do a thorough scandisk on it too.Neither right-click nor the File menu gives any options for formatting, as shown by these screenies: Right click (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) File menu (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) and the D drive (www.mscandy.orcon.net.nz) as a comparison. Formatting the card in windows can give you the wrong FAT type for your camera. Some flash cards (not usually CF) can have extra camera specific info that a win format will delete. That could be the reason why it doesn't have the format option in Windows. Unless it could be because I am using the USB cable and not a card reader.	FoxyMX (5)
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