Initializing picture cards for Fuji FinePix S9000 digital camera

I've bought a SanDisk ExtremeIII 4GB CFI card. Ofcourse, at the beginig nothing worked. Camera format command worked neither (initializing problem,...). I then formated my card through a car reader on fat16 and now everything works. Just make this command: format <volume>: /FS:FAT. After checking and formathing the card, you will be asked to go on by 64K size of cluster. say Yes.

format the card first from the computer then it should work in your camera

just format ur card thru ur camera function or thru laptop card reader and go on this is a table corruption problem

Hi - You can download the manual from the link underlined in blue below:

FinePix F450

See page 62:



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Put the camera into play or review mode then hit the ok/menu button on back and format the card. This will erase all of your photos so make sure you've backed them up or download them.

you just need to format the memory card again, go to the set up menu and format. you will loose any pictures that you may have on but it will work again. you can download a manual for your camera, the fuji finepix s5100 at the following link and following the steps to format the memory card on page 76. here is the link: http://www.rug.nl/rechten/voorzieningen/audiovisueledienst/productendiensten/handleidingen/finepix_s5500_manual.pdf
give it a try,. good luck

The S3000 has a 512MB limit according to Fuji. Ther is also no firmware upgrade to address this issue. However I loaded a 1GB Olympus M type card into th S3000, which was pre-fornatted and worked straight away. After putting the card into the reader in my laptop, and then returning to the camera, the camera identified the card as not initialized. I tried to format the card in the camera but this didn't work.

To fix this I connected the camera to the computer using the USB cable located the camera card via My Computer, left clicked on and did a quick format in FAT (FAT16). After this the camera read the card and indicated 1305 frames available at 3M.

Initializing (or formatting) the card, by definition, removes all data (this includes pictures) from the card. When formatting a memory card, by all practical purposes you are making it blank.
Hope this helps.

What type of memory card are you using?  Is this a new problem since you've started using a new memory card?
The A330 can't use some of the newer types of xD cards.  These have letters before the file size like "H512mb" or "M1gb".
You can only use plain xD cards with no letter in front, like the small 8mb or 16mb card that came with the camera. Or, you can download a firmware upgrade to us type "M" xD cards. Read about that here: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital/download/a330/fupd.html

Or, if a new memory card is likely not the problem, you could try re-initializing the card.  Make sure to copy any pictures from the card onto your computer first.  Re-initializing will erase all data from the card.
In the Menu, use the right button to go over to "Set".  Arrow up to choose "Set-up".  Then arrow down on the "1" screen to "Format".  It will step you through reformatting the card.
Hope this helps, -Kelly.

You will lose all of the pics on your card but you need to reformat the card from your camera I tried reformatting it using the computer and rthe camera was still displaying the card error message but one I reformatted using the camera it went back to normal.