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memory card formatting

I onw a cannon powershot s2is. My two small 16MB memory cards work but I am constantly having problems with my 256MB memory card. It's constantly deleting my pictures and then coming up as memory card error. I got it to work again by formatting it. I was wondering if someone could explain what exaclty formatting does? I was under the immpression I only had to format it once. Am I doing something wrong as I am quite new to didgital cameras? Thank you....

Last edited by sillyputty on Jun 5th, 2006 at 04:22 PM

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I dont own any of those you listed,
I have used Lexar and Sandisk with great results

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