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General Help Q&A / Strange CF card behavior –corrupted? (not panicking)
« on: May 05, 2014, 05:10:25 AM »
I have a Sandisk Extreme 16Gb card that when I put into any of my cameras none will turn on. I should say that all of my cameras have Magic Lantern on them, but I did test normal ML behaviors with a blank Lexar that I have – i.e. camera works fine my ML not loaded.
The only reason I’m posting this in the Magic Lantern forum is that the only time I have ever seen this behavior is when I accidentally put my 7D ML card in my 5DII (or some other combination of non-unified release card from one camera to another). So I am wondering if the behavior I'm seeing with a possibly corrupted card might be ML related.
I had been using it on my 5DIII fairly regularly before I had this problem. I re-formatted it on my PC and it seemed to work again, but after using it once more, taking it out to transfer images and putting it back it the camera I had the same issue.
The strange thing is that I never lost any photos because I can read and write to the card through a card reader on my PC. I tried formatting it (low level this time) on my PC, but no change.
I’ve already ordered a replacement, but before I toss this card I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what might be up with it. It just seems such a weird behavior, I mean even if the card door is left open you get the red light blinking, but with this, nothing.
The only reason I’m posting this in the Magic Lantern forum is that the only time I have ever seen this behavior is when I accidentally put my 7D ML card in my 5DII (or some other combination of non-unified release card from one camera to another). So I am wondering if the behavior I'm seeing with a possibly corrupted card might be ML related.
I had been using it on my 5DIII fairly regularly before I had this problem. I re-formatted it on my PC and it seemed to work again, but after using it once more, taking it out to transfer images and putting it back it the camera I had the same issue.
The strange thing is that I never lost any photos because I can read and write to the card through a card reader on my PC. I tried formatting it (low level this time) on my PC, but no change.
I’ve already ordered a replacement, but before I toss this card I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what might be up with it. It just seems such a weird behavior, I mean even if the card door is left open you get the red light blinking, but with this, nothing.