Computer or camera will no longer recognize memory card

I was wondering if anyone can help me.

I was just taking some photos today with my camera. I purchased an XD card for it off of ebay since theyre no longer in stores. When it arrived the label looks a bit different, so its a knock off. But, i tried it anyway and it worked. To the point i felt confident taking it to a concert.

Just now, i was taking some pics around the house and went to look at them through the card reader on my windows 7 machine. it said it needed to format the disk in order to continue, so i said cancel. removed it and tried again... nothing. i cant even get it to see that hte card is in there. I tried with another card and it worked just fine.

I also thought id try my laptop. also windows 7. there, i can get a ghost of the drive with no actual information. saying its 0kb in size.

after some research i found on youtube about a program called find and mount. tried that. even that cant see the card itself, let alone anything on the card - laptop and desktop is the same scenario.

what else can i try? thank GOD i have the concert uploaded to facebook from when it was working and the pics now werent life threateningly important, but still. why isnt it working? I dont even see the option to format it anymore.

 

xD-Picture Card is an obsolete flash memory card format, used in older digital cameras made by Olympus and Fujifilm. No modern cameras use the format. xD cards are available in capacities of 16 MB up to 2 GIG.

I would invest in a new Camera, older but not that old digital cameras can be had for a song.
Have a chat with Pete.
hawk22

 

The problem is that i purchased the card quite a while ago. any chance to create a dispute is long gone.

It is an older fujifilm camera that it is for.

Do I need to worry about my other legit memory cards? I have a few of the XD ones. I had figured a long time ago rather than paying to get each photo developed, and since I heard that burning them to a CD, that the CD can lose its data over time... do I need to worry about backing up the other cards, and onto what?? I have some of my pics from previous events on facebook and also photobucket, but those are both just websites. if those were to shut down or get compromised tomorrow, im still out my photos.

 

If you have any more of the old xD cards that are usable, I would back up the pictures to the computer and then if you like burn to CD.
If you are worried about the life of a CD, Kodak have specific Gold class CD's with a life span of 100 years and I think that would outlast you .
I am not sure about it, but you could also try, backing the pics up to the comp and then transfering them to a SD Memory card today's format.
That way you would have some empty Xd memory cards for your old fuji camera,until the day that you might upgrade to something newer.
hawk22

 

Made me think, its time to do some updating on my SD cards.
I do keep all my SD cards, I never format (erase my photos on it)
I believe that 10 years is a acceptable life expectancy without sort of recharging them (using).

I already use SD cards in my DSLR and compact cameras and my digital audio recorder, and they are great for everyday use. Of course, we know the charge will decay over a long period, so SD cards are not recommended for archival storage. However, I'm sure they will last five years, and there's a reasonable chance of they will last up to 10 years unattended and unrefreshed. Since I will only need five SD cards to start with, I think I can easily do SD card-to-SD card copies after five years without too much effort. Well, with a lot less effort than duplicating 40 or 50 CD-R discs!

hawk22

 

I should have mentioned, I do also have all my photos backed up on 2 PC's.

At the moment I am right in the middle of creating TV shows of my Photos using Photodex Pro Show Gold. Burning to Blu Ray disk's.

Blu-ray

The recordable media used in red laser disc technology like DVD's and CD's is an organic dye that is very sensitive to light. Blu-ray disks, however, use a combination of silicon and copper which is bonded during the burning process, this alloy is much more resilient than the organic dye. Manufacturers claim a life span from 100 up to 150 years for Blu-ray disks.✝

✝ = However, these media don't exist long enough yet to confirm or reject those claims. So at the moment, it's "about as long as the oldest working DVD/BD is still working ". These claims are made assuming the disks are stored properly. (Not too hot, dark, not too humid, etc.) Furthermore, these life spans will be averages, I've used DVD disks that stopped working or showed data corruption after 2 years.

I just like watching my pictures from travels on wide screen TV

hawk22