DarrenS
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Jul 9, 2007, 12:17 PM
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Re: [Brackish] When to format card?
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Yes it is. Many cameras record files exactly like PCs did in the 90's. The FAT16 system was infamous for becoming corrupted, and to add insult to injury it employed a central table of pointers to keep track of where all your files were located on the disk (kinda like the Registry in Windows). Failure at this single point can cause anyone to have a really bad day. Once that File Allocation Table becomes screwed so are you. Kiss your photos goodbye or at least face a big data salvage bill.
Simply deleting your pictures will not re-write this critical File Allocation Table (FAT), however reformating will indeed. Always reformat in the camera. Don't use Windows to reformat as it uses either FAT32 or NTFS which are totally different than FAT16.
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