Help, have I got a faulty sd card?

jewlls

Hi, I am not a very techie person so need a little help.
I have a pentax optio s12 digital camera with a sd sandisk 8gb memory card have had it for some time, worked perfectly fine up until yesterday. When i go to take a picture it is says memory card error, when the card is taken out, the camera works perfectly fine. Does this mean my memory card is up the swanny, and there is no way of retriveing my pictures at all.

Any help much appreciated

zee_2

your card has a sliding lock on side ,very easy to move.....result usually is your problem.........zee

jewlls

Have tried moving lock up and down and in the middle still says memory card error

davester

might need reformatting the card, What type of SD card is it, HC or XC

jewlls

The card is SDHC

jewlls

Can anyone help?

stevemcol

Did you buy the card on the high street or ebay?

spakkker

Try and get photos off card with recuva - http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
Once you have them off, if possible, try and format card.

eamon

It is likely that some error has found its way unto the card. I second trying to recover the data via recuva, pandora type software (you will find other free software). Then reformat using the camera.

jewlls

stevemcol wrote: »

Did you buy the card on the high street or ebay?

have bought the card from Amazon, have had it ages, was working fine

jewlls

Can you tell me how do I format? Not very clever with electrical gadgets.