SanDisk 64GB SSD Card FAILED in my NIKON D7000-to-PC. WHY ??

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George D.

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I have two Nikon D7000s, and love them.

I have run into a problem, and I believe it is something to do with the SSD Cards, not the cameras.

I have been using a SanDisk Ultra 50MBs 64GB, mainly for shooting time-lapse because of large capacity which enables me to store shots that last over many day, weeks, or months.

Today, after shooting was over, I put the card into my Windows7 PC, and unlike before, all of a sudden, what I get is a window that pops up and says to reformat the card. What the hell is that? The card is full of images, and they will not show up. I have tried everything, including re-formatting the card in the camera, using another EXACT same card, putting the cards in my "other" D7000, and it STILL comes up the same. I even put a 32GB SanDisk SSD Card in the cameras, and it worked fine and the images were there. So, what's with the 64GB card?

These 64GB cards just won't work in my PC any longer. They used too, but not now. What could this be due to? They are not THAT old, and have not had "millions" of images on them.

I just don't get it.

Buying new 64GB cards would be ridiculous on my part, if the ones I have don't work. 32GB cards are not much of an option, because they just don't hold enough data.

Any help or advise would be appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

George

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The one time a SD card failed on me, it was a hardware failure of its control chip. The fact that your card is asking to be reformatted points to that as a possibility. If so, the bad news is that no software recovery options will work, because the computer simply can't access the card. The good news though is that your files are likely still on the card. In my situation, RecoverFab in Germany http://card-recovery.biz/ was able to read the files off the card (not cheap though).

As to why you have this problem - can't help, sorry.
 
Once you've recovered your images, I would reformat them IN CAMERA and see how reliable they are.

If they are still messed up, then you should be able to get replacements from SanDisk.

As a rule of thumb I ALWAYS reformat every memory card before I use it in ANY camera, as this is a quick check to make sure the camera and the card are working properly.
 
Re-reading your post, I have a question: can you still see the images when the card is in the camera?
 
Good question. Truthfully, I haven't looked.

Wait, and I'll look.

After just shooting some more shots, and trying to download them into the computer, the same thing happened again. And, yes the images DO show up in the camera.

As I said, this is happening with BOTH 64GB SSD Cards, and in BOTH cameras. ???????????????????

BTW - I do have the Lexar Image 4 Rescue Program, and I've used it very successfully before. But, doing it with these cards with that many images, would be time prohibitive.

Thanks anyway,

George

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Ok good - ignore my post about card controller failure; that's not your issue thankfully.
 
Well, if it isn't, I don't know what is.

As far as I'm concerned they're worthless, so I guess I'm out of luck.

BTW - I tried re-formatting them in the camera many times, and it did no good.

Crap!!

Thanks,

George

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I have seen the "reformat" message come and go based on a flaky USB connection. Likely the data is still available on the card. Suggest putting the card in the camera and transferring the files through the camera's usb port.
 
Terry_Martin said:
Suggest putting the card in the camera and transferring the files through the camera's usb port.
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This helped me, I had issues too with
- the card reader
- USB connection (for any reasons never! use the front port, sometimes you get a corrupted file. Happens to me on two seperate computers!)
- the data cable (was broken once :-)

in short, don't desperate, sometimes it's neither the cam nor the card itself...

try if you could read the card elsewhere
 
Thanks for your help and enthusiastic reply, but I've tried the cards in other readers and in two other computers, and it always comes up the same.

The cards are destined for the trash, and you can bet I won't be buying any more SanDisk 64Gbitters.

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sry if this get a bit OT as I could not offer any useful advice, but I know very well the feeling of several months work biting the dust... :-(
 
wuffer said:
sry if this get a bit OT as I could not offer any useful advice, but I know very well the feeling of several months work biting the dust... :-(
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People should be backing up… every night. Drives are cheap, software's free, you don't need a RAID to backup… I backup 2-3TB every night. It's all done before the coffee is made. Peace of mind.
 
Michael Carter said:
People should be backing up… every night. Drives are cheap, software's free, you don't need a RAID to backup… I backup 2-3TB every night. It's all done before the coffee is made. Peace of mind.
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Yeah but ... the OP was doing loooong time lapses - I assume he used big cards because he didn't want to be messing with the camera each day.
 
GrahamH said:
Yeah but ... the OP was doing loooong time lapses - I assume he used big cards because he didn't want to be messing with the camera each day.
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You're ABSOLUTELY correct, Graham! Touching the camera is a definite NO NO !!

:)

Thanks,

George

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