Ask MeCha - frustrating memory card glitch →[More:]
i purchased a new 1gb xD flash memory card for my Stylus recently. formatted the thing prior to using, did all the requisite stuff.

shot about, oh 250 photos on the colorado trail trip. only about half of them were retrievable, the rest apparently disappeared into some memory blackhole. i swore a bit, downloaded what i could, then (re) formatted the card to use it again.

then, last week i shot a bunch of photos on the denver cruise, with my dad, whom i've not seen in person since i was a teenager.

went to download them yesterday and the card read as 'blank' - i know there were photos on there before i tried to download, because the camera's gallery function showed them all (about two dozen). after i re-loaded the card back into the camera, it also showed the card as reading 'blank'. goddammit, i KNOW there were photos on there. it's a four-step sequence (with 2 validations) to format in-camera, so i know this isn't what happened.

so my question to youall - do i just say fuckity-fuck and reformat the card again? return it to radio shack? who else has encountered this sort of thing? if so, what did you do?

so. very. frustrating. thoughts? tips? i don't want to format the card again just yet in the faint hope there's something there worth rescuing.