I have a problem with my Epson RX500 card reader not seeing the 128mb stick even tho' there are circa 80 images on it. However, the RX500 sees the pics on a 8mb stick that came with my Sony DCR-PC120E and also the 32mb stick that came with a pals Sony DSC-P10. I formatted the 128mb stick and have lost all the images now but have them on my PC anyway. But I still want to know how I can format the 128 so that the RX500 can see it. There is nothing on the Sony link http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/bin/support/support.cgi? whichone=1&installfile=msfmtinst210.txt&downloadfile=MSFMTINST210.EXE and Sony blame Epson and Epson say they cannot help and I believe them. Any ideas?

-- Hugh Allen (hgallen@hotmail.com), November 28, 2003

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I am having the same problem but I am using a 256MB SD card. I can see files on the card on occasion but the files size is 0MB. I have not tried any other cards to see if they work. If you find an answer I would like to know what it is.

-- Jeff Bott (jeffreybott@netscape.net), December 30, 2003.

To:- jeffreybott@netscape.net Glad to hear from you but I have nothing to add - yet!!! The latest is that Sony (UK) have not replied to an e-mail (it might put them on the spot perhaps so that they cannot get away with the glib answers I had on the phone. I told them to go worldwide for a better answer!!!) but Epson (UK) asked me to send the memstick for them to test. Am expecting an answer from them any minute - not that I think they will have anything to offer but at least they show willing to try. Where are you trying to download to? My PC sees any images OK so I do not really have a problem from that point of view. However, my Epson printer/scanner should be seeing the pics but isn't. A minor beef perhaps but that is me. If it don't work when it should I want to know why!!!! Will be in touch if I get something worthwhile. Hugh Allen

-- Hugh Allen (hgallen@hotmail.com), December 30, 2003.

Try the following I posted earlier on this forum ------------------------------------------------ MY SOLUTION: I have Lexar 128 MS, was trying to read it using Dazzle 6 in 1 card reader on Windows 2K but it could not recognized and asked me to format it. No way, I didn't wanted to loose my pictures. I downloaded FREE 'PC Inspector Smart Revovery' (http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm). Simple, Beautiful, Intelligent and perfect software for problems like this. I recovered everything and now Windows Explorer recognize the Memory Stick.

-- Hardeep K. Parwal (hkparwal@yahoo.com), January 18, 2004.

The PC Inspector Smart Recovery worked great! I'm not sure about my card being read in XP yet though. Great tip! Thanks!

-- Scott McAnally (scott@tjbrunner.com), January 18, 2004.

To:-Scott McAnally. You might already know that PC Inspector has a File Recover utility too. I had the same problem with XP too and this time I tried File Recovere. It took approx 1.5hrs to extract files from the Memory Stick.

-- Hardeep K. Parwal (hkparwal@yahoo.com), January 19, 2004.