Please verify that you are using a UDMA7 card reader. I would prefer to shoot with the lexar card instead of the backup Transcends I have. Not really sure what else to do here and I have a wedding to shoot in 4 days. In the computer, it says current file system is RAW, and the capacity is 31.9MB (megabytes) even though the card is 16gb.
#Lexar professional cf card recovery software
Windows format (right click in My computer, format)įormat through Lexar's image recovery software I attempted to reformt via computer and it would not either. During a wedding yesterday, the card was unable to be used and would not format in my 5dmkiii nor 5dmkii. ME: I purchased a 16gb 800x Professional CF Card from Amazon on 6/29/13 I have used the card less than 10 times. Here's the conversation between myself and the Lexar rep below. I'm interested to know if anyone else has had an issue like this. I know this may sound like I am venting however I wanted to warn everyone about this issue and inform anyone looking to purchase this card to be careful. I emailed Lexar expressing my frustration but have yet to receive a reply back. If I shot a wedding, filled the card, and my card became corrupted, I don't know what I would do. I find this lack of information to be extremely deceiving and to be truthfully honest, scary. This whole ordeal has cost over $70 to attempt to fix an issue that is not listed anywhere on their product site.
I ended up purchasing the Lexar brand CF card reader in an attempt to save my 16gb card before I send it back to Lexar for a replacement. On top of that, there is no indication on the product website for the card reader OR the CF card itself that states the card must be used in a UDMA7 reader or it may become corrupt. So I looked around, and found that Lexar sells a card reader under their name, however the price is more than double than my current card reader (about $35). Lexar responded by telling me to only use a UDMA7 card reader. The card reader I owned made no indication of UDMA6 or 7, other than it supported UDMA. I'm not too familiar what the difference is, but I went on Amazon and checked. I emailed Lexar with my issue and basically they told me that the card reader I was using may have corrupted the card to do incompatibility issues with the CF card being UDMA7 and the card reader possibly being UDMA6 only. I purchased Lexar's image recovery software (about $40) to try and reformat it with no success. I attempted to format the card in windows using several methods, all unsuccessful (read the email below to see what I tried). I was pretty upset that I was down a card but planned to try to fix it when I was back home. I tried to format it on a 5dmkiii, then tried my 5dmkii, then my computer. I used the card a few times but last week during a wedding I went to use the card and received an error while attempting to format in camera - unable to format card.
I recently purchased a Lexar 16gb 800x Compact Flash card to use since I shoot weddings and heard that the Lexar brand is the most reliable. Nothing would work to fix it, need special card reader that isn't listed anywhere on product descriptions, extremely pissed and down $70 TLDR: Bought 16gb 800x Professional CF card, corrupted during a wedding, would not reformat.
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