I have a 4GB San disk SD Card. How can I get it to work in my camera?

Question

I put it in one of my cameras and it just comes up with a blank screen. When I put it in another it says that it needs to be formatted but when it is almost done it says no card in slot and after a second pops up with the message that it needs to be formatted again. I have searched the internet and I believe that it is because it needs to be in FAT ort FAT16 format but these can only be on cards under 2gb. Apparently I have to create a partition of 2gb and 2gb and then format each individual one. I have searched and searched for a way to do this and tryed multiple free programs and I have never succeeded. Does anyone have any advice on how I may be able to make it so that I can use all 4gb of my memory card in my camera or if the worst comes to the worst just 2gb?

Answer 1

If your camera is an older model, then it probably will not recognize 4GB of memory. And, even if you did partition the card, I doubt if there is a way for the camera to see two partitions (unless someone can enlighten me on that).

So, the way that I see it...is you can either buy a couple of 2GB cards, which are dirt cheap these days.

Or, if you want to use the 4GB card...buy a new camera.