Re: NTLK SOS - Memory Card went bad.

From: Loren Finkelstein (Loren@Finkelstein.Net)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 22:26:39 EST


on 2/18/00 11:00 PM, Kenny Song at kensong@pc.jaring.my wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:46:49 -0500 Loren Finkelstein wrote:
>
> -----------
>> When I put it in older systems (A 110 for example) it asks if I want erase
>> the unformatted card, but if I say yes, it insists it's write protected.
>> Blah!!!
>>
>> Any thoughts? A friend has a WinCE device. Should I try to format it with
>> that?
> -----------
> You can try inserting it with the Pref roll open and it should allow you to
> reformat the Card. If that fails, try a laptop's PC slot. If that fails, your
> Card could be fried.

It didn't make any difference. Why would having Prefs open change anything?

I put it in a Dell Laptop and Win98 recognized it as a Flash Memory Card
(Series 2), but I don't know how to access it to do anything. Do I need
software?

Loren

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