How do I format an sd card? - Kodak EasyShare CX7430 Digital Camera

The SD card is mainly for photos, but you can do video.
The SD card needs to be formatted as fat 16
The video has to be profile 1.1

If you use the larger SDHC cards, they can be formatted fat 32.
It works best if you format it with the player and not your computer.

You could try formatting it in My Computer on PC by right clicking on its icon to bring down the option, then format again in the camera to ensure compatibility

Try formatting your SD card by plugging in Laptop's or using a memory card reader. Don't use the cell, after formatting insert in cell and re-format. it will work.

to format a sd memory card, you can insert the card to computer or camera, and select the format. To unformat a sd memory card, a data recovery software can help you.
Are you in a dilemma as to whether to format your SD card or not? If you don't format the SD memory card, you cannot use your SD card any more, and you cannot transfer files from SD card to other devices. If you format the SD memory card, you will loss all the files like photos and videos on your SD card. Follow the link you can get the answer.

dont worry, pictures lost after reformatted sd card can be recovered with sd card photo recovery software, you can download the picture recovery software from
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

If there are sd card error, you cannot format your sd card. you may get messages like

"No SD memory card inserted" messages appears when using digital cameras,
"A media card hard been inserted that contains errors. Do you wish to repair the Media Card now?"
You can read the files on SD memory card, but you cannot write new files or you cannot edit files on SD memory card,
"Access denied", when SD card is corrupted or broken,

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you can fix sd memory card errors first and them format you sd card.

actually u shold format it by the device in which u are going to use. eg camera. This will enable correct formating for usage of this device.
otherwise their is a standard Sd format and u can use that to format
You can format the card by SD card Utility. SD utility is a format utility which is release from SD Association. It is a standard for all SD type card and will self determine the SD card's file system. Please kindly refer to the link below for SD format utility download webpage.
http://www.sdcard.org/about/downloads/

I had this problem too. Some SD cards won't properly format. My trick was I formatted the card in a different device first (canon Powershot A-630) then put the card in the R-09 and formatted it again. it took about 8 seconds for a 2 gig SD card to format.

Does SD card work in PC? HP R707 will not work with SD card larger than 2GB.

Perform the following procedures when your digital camera does not detect the SD card. 1. Restart the camera Turn the main power OFF, or open the battery cover or SD card/battery cover to remove the battery. Make sure the SD card is fully installed. Then, turn the main power ON, or insert a battery again and close the battery cover or SD card/battery cover until it latches. 2. Initialize the SD card Format the SD card with your camera. Formatting procedures varies depending on the camera model. See the Camera User Guide supplied with your camera for the instruction to format the SD card. When formatting the SD card, slide its tab upward to cancel write protection. It is impossible to format the SD card while it is write protected. 3. Check if your camera detects other SD cards (If you own multiple SD cards.) If your camera does not detect the SD card after performing the procedures 1 and 2, check if the camera detects other SD cards. If it does detect other SD cards, the SD card that wasn't detected may contain some problem.