Memory stick diagnostics

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:55 pm

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any free software that will run a diagnostic of a memory card. My camera frequently tells me that there was an error formatting the memory stick. I wanted to perform an indepth diagnostic but couldn't find any software for this task. All I see are file recovery tools. Sometimes files would corrupt after shooting an image. chkdsk didn't really help. Any input would be helpful.

Cirkus · Post by **Cirkus** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:14 am

Doesn't it work with normal drive diagnostics tool? Western Digital has a tool (Data Lifeguard Diagnostics) that runs from within Windows and it works with USB drives so I think there is a good chance it will work with memory cards too.

Edit: I have tried it out myself now and WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostics for Windows detected my memory card and I could run a diagnostic test on it. Note that you need to run the program as administrator. I tried to run it as a normal user first and it would detect all my drives except for the memory card.