@James Bond 007.5 wrote:
I seem to recall the 32 GB cards have a higher failure rate on videos. While I will use 32 GB cards in my Nikon DSLR cameras, I never use more than an 8GB card in my PV500 for video. That translates into roughly 9 hours of video, and the extended battery only has a 7 hour life before needing to be recharged.
That may have been the case with the early 32 GB cards. There were some that you could stick into devices that did not know how to format them as 32 gb and they would attempt to format them at a lower capacity and corrupt them.
There is a tool made by HP that does a low level format and can restore a usb stick or memory card that is plugged card to it's full capacity even after it's corrupted. You may need to plug the card into an adapter to usb or into a microsd to sd card adapter and plug it directly into your laptop to have this utility work.
I swear by it and have used it to restore a card I had to force format an image to a lower capacity to re-flash firmware in an older device.
Take all your "broken" usb sticks and memory cards and run this little tool on them to low level format them back to what they really are: [
download.cnet.com]
It is only 96K in size and must be run as administrator.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/2015 07:45AM by scanman1.