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Memory card locked on Canon IXY????

I just bought the 4GB DNA's SD card for my Canon IXY.
I inserted the SD card using my card reader and on my mac it works fine.
I can drag and drop any files into the card.
But when I inserted into my camera, it says "memory card error", and sometimes it also comes up saying "card is locked".

I don't know what to do because I already slide the lock switch on the left up to unlock the card, and in the computer it works fine.
I know the problem isn't about the camera because it works fine with any other SD card.
I would appreciate anyone replying to this problem.

Lynn M
Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:09:12 +0000

First thing to check is whether your camera supports the new SDHC standard. The 4 GB SD Card is physically identical to the smaller 2 GB and under cards. However, their I/O signal are completely different. A non-SDHC compatible camera cannot use the 4 GB SDHC card. Any SD Card that is bigger than 2 GB are SDHC cards, because regular SD standard has an addressing limit of 2 GB.

Chieh Cheng
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:15:19 +0000

thank you so much, this explains it!

Lynn M
Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:08:53 +0000

hi there
I have the same problem however i had taken over 1000 photos on my 4gb memory card, no problem until all of a sudden it came up with the 'memory card locked' error.
My computer is not recognising that a memory card is instered. Can you please advise whether there is another way to see if i can access my photos?
Thanks for your help!

rose
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:13 +0000

I don't think you have the same problem, rose, because the Canon IXY doesn't support 4 GB cards. So I don't know how you were even able to shoot photos onto that card.

Chieh Cheng
Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:48:06 +0000

Had the same issue (Card Error/Card Locked) with a Micro SD card in my Casio Power Shot. Come to find out I was inserting the adapter without the little "micro" memory card inserted with it. Never knew and looked like an idiot after calling Toshiba Customer support. Oh well live and learn!!

Nick
Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:20:52 +0000

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