formatting error while erasing SD cards

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formatting error while erasing SD cards

I was in the process of formatting a stack of 30 SDcards with disk utility, the same way I do all the time, which is to insert the card in the sd port on the side of a macbookpro, to erase the partition and format to fat32 because I use the cards for shooting with GOPRO and VIO POVHD cams.

Now, about halfway in the process, disk utility starts to give me this error message

And now every card I try to format fails like this. If I try to format the card as opposed to the partition, I end up unformatting the card and it needs to be initialized again. I really didnt change anything, and I cant see all my cards being deffective. I can still play footage straight from the cards, so I suspect something went wrong with the utilitty software.

Any idea how I can fix this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Server

Posted on Jul 15, 2012 5:16 PM

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Answer 1

Shootist007

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Jul 15, 2012 5:20 PM in response to Klondike Joe

First Re-Boot the system. Then try it again. If it fails again then could be the SD card slot has failed. Go out and buy a SD crad Reader. As to replace and or fix the built in SD card slot mean you need to replace the Logic board, very expensive.

Oh and whatever image you were trying to include doesn't show up. Try inserting the image in the post instead of linking it to some other website.

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Klondike Joe Author

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Jul 15, 2012 5:32 PM in response to Shootist007

Thanks Shootist007, all I needed was a reboot and a fresh look to make it happened. Its working again. For the link picture, I can see it fine above your reply and I used the apple upload link to put up a screen grab.

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