[Snixe]

Have been using a 16MB SmartMedia card in my Olympus D-370 camera. Want to give it to my nephew for Christmas, so I obtained a SanDisk 32MB SmartMedia card from a friend selling one. He said it worked fine in his camera.
When I insert the "new" SM card in my Olympus, I get "Card Error." I cannot call up the Setup screen to format the card, and when I try to use my computer's card reader to format, I get the message that the card is "write-protected," but there's no write-protect seal on the card.
My laptop running ME connected to a Dazzle SM card reader just freezes the system when I try to format.

SanDisk and Olympus both tell me the card is corrupted. My friend said he'd refund my money, but he has no reason to tell me the card works if it doesn't.

Is there anything else I can try?

Sally

[kiwiguy]

The last thing to try is rubbing over the gold contacts with a soft (clean) pencil eraser.

I have had success where the error was due to a microscopic film on the card, that stops it getting a good connection.

I have about 4 of the cards, and one has now permanently died, nothing will resurrect it.

I would be wary about formatting it in the PC though, you need the special card software to do that usually as Windows does not understand the format needed.