Portable storage for digital photos: problem with older XS-Drive 2XL

[Warthog]

I have a Xs Drive 2 XLVP2260, 40GB portable drive, bought in 2006.

Here is a link showing how it looks for ID purposes:
X'S-Drive 2 XL VP2260 Digital Storage Device

The drive appeared to have a problem. It registered 12gb of used space (as expected) but I was not able to find any files in its folders, nor where the data was stored: all folders did not show any memory use.

I formatted the drive: it can now receive files from the PC, but will not copy my SD card, nor even recognise it. In fact the blue LCD screen only shows 01 and image of a disc drive with an "X" on it, and HDD icon. I fear I have cocked up the OS.

Please can anyone advise how I can reconfigure my drive to function as designed?

[photographicsafaris]

Hi Warthog,

have you ever run out of power to either device whilst writing images to the disc, in either camera or the memory bank?
This generally leads to a corruption of the root directory, or indexing of the memory.

It sounds like you have lost the indexing of the SD memory card and you should be formatting that.

bear in mind that erasing the images is a more thorough cleaning of the memory card than formating.

Hope it helps

Cheers G