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FORMAT DISK Click this button to format the PCMCIA card in the camera back. This action is similar to formatting a floppy diskette or hard disk on your computer system. Existing images on the card are permanently erased and cannot be recovered.
If you are having unexplainable problems with the PCMCIA card (perhaps you are losing images, or you have been seeing an “E” followed by a single digit, for example “E2,” on the camera back LCD), use this feature to reformat the PCMCIA card — all images will be lost — and try the card again.
RECOVER DISK Click this button to recover images that have been deleted from a PCMCIA card in the camera back. The images you recover may have been previously deleted with:
The DELETE button in the software driver image window.
The ERASE DISK button on the CONTROL PANEL of the software driver.
You cannot use this option to recover the images that were deleted when you formatted the card with the FORMAT DISK choice on the Control Panel.
When you click the RECOVER DISK button, every image loca- tion on the card is examined. The most recent image that was in each location is recovered.
The following examples explain the action of this button.
Example 1. Suppose that you have taken ten pictures and then deleted one. If you recover the PCMCIA card, you will have all ten images — the original nine images will still be there, and you will have recovered the tenth image.