Formatting SD

[siminsue]

Last week I upgraded to a 1G PNY SD card for my Axim X30. I have been successfully running several programs on the card, but recently bought Pocket DVD wizard and have been trying to copy the encoded movies onto the card (using a reader). Every time I copy the movie onto the card, the entire card gets corrupted. After reformatting the card for large files and copying ONLY the movie, it works fine. Also, the movie copies successfully onto my Kingston 266. How should I format the 1G card to use for both applications and large files such as movies? Or should I have a separate card for just my movies?

[Don't Panic!]

FAT32 wotks for me.

[wooch]

I use FAT16 however, I have a 256 MB card. I agree with Bobby, use FAT 32, and don't check the "Backup FAT option if you use Pocket Mechanic or Storage tools to format the card.

[siminsue]

I've tried formatting several different ways, but still no success. Last night I copied two movies over and they do show up on the card, but they won't play. I guess I need to call PNY and see what they have to say. Thanks anyway. I was hoping it was just the formatting, but maybe the card is bad.

[Burkey612]

Im currently having the same problem. I have a Lexar 512.
I recently bought a SanDisk reader (the exact one on this page)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6687/print

I went to copy a movie over and it corrupted all the files.

So I formatted it by click in PROPERTIES, FORMAT in winxp and set to FAT 32

Now i can put a movie on (ie southpark 150MB file), but when I go to put a second one on - it wont allow me to watch either - it says the files are corrupt or something?!

any ideas?!?!

I cant even seem to put MP3s on this card now...

[Astounded EEG]

set it back to FAT (not FAT32) format and try again.