Deb, Thanks for the info, I will diffently look at my CD1000 a little closer and try the format. This problem has been driving me crazy because I'm the type to try and fix it. Larry

I use an FD71 and 83 regularly and started getting this problem a couple of months ago, thought it was the camera but eventually tracked it down to a batch of disks, 7/10 in the box didn't work or appeared to work and then failed to have any images when viewed on the PC. changing to a different make of FD cured the problem, after that even the original (faulty) disks worked if formatted in the camera. It seems that if a disk with a duff format is used the camera somehow remembers this and gets a bit confused !!

i tried what was listed above, and now my camera won't power up! please help!

My Sony MVC-FD85 digital camera had the same problem yesterday. I format my floppy on my computer according to Deb's suggestion. Now it works fine. Thank you - Deb, and Happy New Year to you! Lianz

THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH......I FORMATED MY DISK AND THEN PRESTO, THEY ALL WORKED.... I WAS WORRIED I WOULD HAVE TO BUY MY BROTHER ANOTHER DIGITAL CAMERA....THANK YOU!

i'M GETTING A ERROR MESSAGE

hope someone can help me do you know if anyone can retreive information off a CD that has an error..its from a digital camera Sony cd-200 was formatting and it stopped in the middle of it now i can get any of the pics to play...very important pictures....??? who can help me... will pay for it

Guess what. After I submitted the cry for help, I move the camera around some more and heard something moving inside. I held open the disk opening and shook the camera. Some small piece of foreign material came out and now it is working fine. Don't know when messing with it if I had knocked it loose.

I have been able to retrieve all of my cds picture with scan disk utility in Roxio CD easy creater 6.0,all of the images were retrieved once the software fixed the format problems in less than 2 mins. I know the pain of losing picturess, so if you do not have software, send me an email and I am may be able to fix the cds and burn them on newer cds for $5 to cover my time and mailing charges.

Thanks Deb! I had the identical problem and used your suggestion and reformatted in the computer. Everything seems fine now! Thanks for taking the time to post the "fix"!