My video camcorder is canon fs2oo 7 i have a sd card 8gb inside now & i have recorded about 2.5gb already. now as soon as i turn the camera on i get message display saying the card is set for erasure prevention & i cannot record or take pictures. how do i correct this please

Probably external hd wont work. Try another sd card

There is no problem. The camera can only create video clips up to 4GB in size. You can record two long clips, but no single clip can exceed 4GB.

Make sure that the video camcorder was not turned off immediately after recording before the images are saved in memory. Also be sure that your memory card is properly inserted in your camera.

mabrickman:

From the Canon brochure for this camera, the SD Card is only able to be used for saving still images.

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Hi, look here's what to do, get yourself, or access to, A Computer, and a USB SD card reader, now, insert your 8GB SD card into the reader/writer, It will show up as a HDD in My Computer, and then, Format it FAT32. Now return it to the Camcorder, when turned on again, the Camera NOW should "See" the SD card. You may even be asked if you wish to Format,again,say YES, and do so, if NOT asked that;s OK too. as, you should now be able to, in either case, be able to have access to the SD card, and can change your phone settings accordingly, the extra storage will simply be "Picked Up" by the Camcorders software.
If this doesn't happen, then there maybe a problem with THAT SD card or the Camcorder? try another SD card before thinking the camcorder has a problem though.

If it is 8GB, it is an SDHC (high capacity) card. The protocol for SDHC is different than that for an SD card. SD card protocol handles a maximum of 2GB. This camcorder came out in 2003, well before the SDHC protocol was developed, and the camera is not compatible with it.

There is a 10 second limit to the SD card recording. pretty useless, but that is how it somes from the factory

Here is what you do. You take out the tiny Memory card and blow on and it, and blow i the inside. Then insert memory card. Take out batteries and put the batteries back in. Push Power and Start Recording., Chaow

Try formatting the card while its in the camcorder, this might sort the problem for you, also look in the camera's menu to see if its restricted to a certain amount of used memory at once, basically return the camera to factory settings.
I find a lot of camera's don't like certain SD cards anyway even if the camera says it supports them, Sandisc are making just about the best SD cards at the moment

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Hi!
I'm happy to say that your camcorder is capable of recording to SD cards with capacities greater than 2GB, as it is SDHC compliant.
However, I must ask why the SD card capacity would be of interest in a camcorder like this, as it records its video to MiniDV tape, and its photo function is limited to low-res stills.
Hope this helps!