I have a fujifilm finepix s602z digital camera and got a new 4gb compactflash, platinum 2 80x card but when you turn camera on it says card not initialized. how do i initialize the card so i can use the camera?

You may have improver card fitted. Please remove and re fit the card. If problem persist , please try another good / new card. If you have no problem with new card, your existing/previous card is broken.

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PRESS RELEASE
Release Date: 12 January 2004


Fujifilm today announced that a number of early FinePix S7000 Zoom digital cameras may experience battery power depletion when used with some CompactFlash™ memory cards.

This fault does not occur when the S7000 is used with either an xD-Picture Card™ or a Microdrive™, nor does it occur in any other Fujifilm products that offer a CompactFlash™ storage facility, such as the FinePix S2 Pro, S602, S602 Pro or M603.

Cameras with serial numbers above 34L60001 (inclusive) were produced after 15 December 2003 and therefore will definitely not experience this battery drain problem.

In the short term, the problem can be avoided by unloading then re-loading the batteries just after the camera is switched off. The camera's power supply will then perform normally.

Go to the support section of the Fujifilm web site.

Go to this link and follow the instructions to update your camera's firmware to be compatible with High Capacity memory cards.
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital/download/a820_a825/fupd.html

I've bought a SanDisk ExtremeIII 4GB CFI card. Ofcourse, at the beginig nothing worked. Camera format command worked neither (initializing problem,...). I then formated my card through a car reader on fat16 and now everything works. Just make this command: format <volume>: /FS:FAT. After checking and formathing the card, you will be asked to go on by 64K size of cluster. say Yes.

The S7000 cannot handle cards larger than 2GB.
If you need 4GB you can also fit a 2GB type 2 compact flash card which is the american standard.
For europe you will get a type 1 card this will also fit it is just slightly thinner.

First check manual and make sure camera will take a 4gb.

Hope this helps

http://www.fujifilm.co.uk/media/dContent/mediaCentre/Manuals/fx_s9500.pdf

The CompactFlash card may have caused the batteries to drain. Some solid state CompactFlash cards consume power while inserted in the FinePix S7000 even if the camera is turned OFF. Fujifilm recommends removing the CompactFlash card when the camera is not in use. Microdrives and xD-Picture Cards do not exhibit this problem.