I have a Cybershot DSC-P7. I get the C:13:01 Error, I was just wondering if you could help me fix it. My camera also says disk error. If you could please let me knowI tried formatting through the camera and PC, no luck. Even tried using the program memory stick formatter from the sony site. No luck there either. What worked was squeezing the stick and wiping it down. Thanks King

Hello everybody! I've got a DSC-P9 camera, and I've just bought a 256MB MagicGate Memroy Stick Pro... Well, it doesn't work! The camera says: "C:13:01 - MEMORY STICK ERROR". I tried to format it by the "Set Up", but it doesn't work. Since nobody here has my same camera and I cannot find a list of compatibility among the camera and the Memory Stick, please help me! Even the PC doesn't recognize the Stick... I don't know what to do! Please lend me a hand... Thanks, Giazzopazzo

thanks a lot for the formatting idea. it works great now!

We had taken picutres for my dughters birthday party and when trying to save them to Pc we are getting this error, we know for sure we have those pictures in the memory stic. Any help to get those picutes back would be really greate help for us, as those picutes are very important for us.

Hey I have a Sony CyberSHOT and for some reason I get the SONY C:13:01 ERROR Is there any way I could solve this issue? Any kind of help would be appriaciated

Impossible ouvrir mes photos sur memory stick sony 128 mb carte nickel mais affichage " format error " c:13:01 et cela clignote ! que faire ce sont des documents importants ! ps : cybershot DSCP 71 SONY 3.2 M

Hi all! my Mavica MVC-CD1000 same error that everyone else had. It came on somewhat suddenly (after a ski trip) where the CD could no longer be accessed, and was kind of weird becuase if I were to boot while holding it at different angles when starting up, sometimes it worked for a little while, and sometimes it didn't. Eventually it stopped working all together. I hit on the idea that I'd just take it apart and put it back together. (maybe I'd find a snowman with his hat blown off, or something else obviously wrong.) I'd seen many references to CDR alignment problems causing it not to read the disk, so I disassembled from the middle of the camera all the way to the back, thinking maybe something was loose or bent. when I got to the CDR module, I was kind of dismayed because everything looked in order and not damaged. Before putting it back together without doing anything, I hit the message boards and the critical message caught my eye (thanks piclucia!) Stating that a Canadian shop had told him his gears were chewed up. I went back to the CDR module itself and started to disassemble the housing where the gears existed. Low and behold once I got it open, I found there was a sort of mini worm gear. which was linked to the laser housing by a tiny plastic 2-spur gear on a flexible metal arm. This spur was almost not touching the worm gear anylonger!! So, I bent it a little, here's how: recommended Steps to repeat my repair: (WARNING this is involved, it took me 2.5 hours and there were lots of screws and connectors) 1) get a piece of paper and draw a simple view of your camera, then note all the places where the screws exist. (draw a line out from your picture and then a circle or something) 2) now remove all the screws you can find on the outer housing minus the ones on the front of the lens and the eyepiece (There should be 13), and carefully lay them on the little circles you drew on the paper, so you'll know where they go later. 3) Gently pull the viewfinder module straight up, and detach the 2 ribbon connectors and molex from the main camera body. (I'd recommend making another drawing where each ribbon goes in relation to the body of the camera because there are lots of them you'll eventually have to remove.) Place the viewfinder module aside 4) Gently remove the ribbon cables and molex that are connecting the lens assembly to the main body (One of them will be attached with a little foam pad with adhesive, it's ok to pull this off for now) 3) Pull the main body backward and set the lens assembly aside. 4) Now, looking at the inside of hte main body, remove the two brass screws holding the top two circuit boards to the bottom one, as well as any ribbon cables and connectors that attach the top boards to anything below (I think there's 4 ribbon cables and one molex), and slide the top two circuit boards down away fro the notch/tongue at the top. Set the top two circuitboards aside. 5) Remove the 3 black screws on the top (two are for the hinge in the door), one black screw on the top left of the metal bracket (kind of recessed), and one black screw near the bottom right. If you did everything correctly, the whole metal bracket with attached CDR should come away from the back door assembly. Set the back door assembly aside. 6) now flip the bracket over and you'll see the CDR and laser assembly (a black plastic thing) which is attached by 3 plastic connectors and rubber grommets) Before continuing, flip it back over and remove the largest ribbon cable located under the sticker about replacing the fuse. (I didn't detach the smaller one) 7) on the CDR side, Gently pull the tabs on each plastic foot away from the center and it should lift off the metal bracket. (I left the 3rd one with the ground tab on it, but I did remove the screw that secured the ground tab.) Then flip the CDR over. 8) Near the bottom you should see an area where a small white gear is exposed, this is attached by 3 screws, remove them and the gear housing lid. 9) Once the gear train is exposed it should be a simple matter to see the worm gear (metal and long) and the little spur gear on the metal tab. 10) Gently bend the metal arm a little so the spur gear makes better contact with the worm gear. 11) Carefully reassemble everything 12) You're Done! I hope that fixed your problem! If anyone finds this helpful, just send me a note, so I know I saved someone $200+ in repair fees =) Escher

i got the same problem, i put the stick in my T1 camera, and press menu, format the card, i lost my picture inside,but camera and momery stick works fine now

It is the Memory Stick NOT the camera!!! I have 2 Sony cameras (high res still and a video), and over 5 memory sticks, most made by SanDisk. I just purchased an additional 1GB Memory Stick PRO made by SanDisk. It worked for the first 100 photo until images started to become corrupted. Then I got the dreaded Disk Error C:13:0:1. I can not be reformatted the Stick in any of my cameras or in the commuters. When I put it in the Media port on my laptop it crashes the computer. Also when I put the Stick in the Camera then plug that into the computer it tells me that the Stick is not working properly. All my cameras, computers and memory Sticks are work as normal except for the new Stick. SO, by elimination, if you have the same error, more than likely it is the Stick not your camera. Good luck.

I receive the C:13:01 error message as well. I've tried to format the disk every which way (two different computers, on the camera, full format) but no luck. I'm still getting the error message. Any ideas?