HI John

<"A camera card should NEVER be formatted by the PC, since a "camera card" needs to have imprinted information that's specific to the particular camera and the settings you've applied for your picture taking.">

I didn't know this and over the past few years I have used several different makes of cameras and camcorders eg Sony,Panasonic,Sanyo and JVC.

I have used my PC's to to delete records from the cards after downloading but I am not sure whether I have used to PCs to re-format. But now that I have read this I will make sure not to.

Many thanks.

Cheers

MikeL2