Can an Sandisk SDHC card be reformatted to SD.?

Question

I have an 8GB SDHC card that my Canon Camera will not work with→ I get a "memory card error"- Camera can only handle FAT or FAT32 \ 64..not sure.. ???? but I read somewhere where in cmd prompt you can -{{ drive: fs\:FAT }}-or SOMETHING like this to reformat. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Technically..it may be possible to reformat it. BUT...it would NOT be reliable at all.



What you are talking about doing is the equivalent to changing the "interleave" on a computer's hard drive and once you do that, there is a 99.9% chance of data corruption



Here's three choice that I see:



1) Just return the SDHC card and get a SD card

2) Sell the SDHC card and buy a SD card

3) Go buy a SD card and hold onto the SDHC for when you buy a new camera

Answer 2

The difference between SD and SDHC is in the hardware. Formatting any card in a PC isnot a good idea. Aleays best to format in the device where you intend to use it.

I am surprised that Canon camera won't read SDHC - what model is it? May be just a faulty card.

Answer 3

You don't understand. The HC part only refers to the card's storage capacity, nothing else. To have

SD you have to buy SD.

Answer 4

attempt reformatting it. (I easily have a mac, yet when I bear in mind wisely, you purely choose the stress and supreme click to choose format) This thoroughly erases the cardboard and actually resets the hardware.