Just to add to the pool of weird solutions. I dropped my p-150 today(1 foot) and my Sandisk 512MB, which was in the camera, started to give me the c:13:01 error. All my other cards worked. I finally sort of squeezed the card and reinserted it and it now works. I suspect that internally, these cards might be fragile.

At first I couldn't believe that people were actually dropping their cameras on purpose, but when all else failed I decided to give it a try and....the camera died. Just joking, it worked like a charm. The E:61:00 message went away and the camera's auto focus works again. Thanks for the idea.

i have got a sony DSC F717 and yesterday i bought a new Sandisk memory stick pro 512MB. I receive the same error from the camera. I tried that trik with two diferent kind of erasers, introducing the stick a lot of times in the camera, formated the stick several time with the funtion of the camera (also in the laptop, in FAT format). Always the same... i have a normal stick from sony (32MB) and it works properly. Format works in the camera and in the sony laptop. I can load Photos through the laptop and format them, but not see them... I didn´t get to make any photograf using this memory stick. FORMAT ERROR C:13:01 I don´t know if the memory stick is faulty or if i´m doing anything wrong... Please help... i´ve tried everything but open the camera... (it´s because it works perfect with the other one)

I had the same error on my P72 with a Lexar MS was unable to format the stick in my camera so I went out and bought a cheap card reader, but it was unable to read or format the card either (refused to acknowledge that the card was even inserted) i was about to give up when I tried wiggling the card in the slot slightly - when i pushed the card upwards (forcing it onto the contacts in the reader) it instantly popped up on my screen and i was able to copy all the photos onto my PC. it seems to me that the C:13:01 error is a generic error the camera gives when it can't read the card - there are various reasons why it can occur, corrupt formatting or dodgy contacts seem to be the most common. anyway, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this thread.

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memory stick works in Sony DSC V1 but says Card Access Error when inserted in HP 1315 photosmart printer card slot

i just put the memory stick and switch to format function of the camera den format thats all... the memory stick is now ready to use~

Use the program BodCopy to recover your photos from your Memory stick.

Hi, sorry to bother you guy but if anyone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have access to the disk new or used. I can see the pictures in them. When I try to see it in my computer, I get the message that the disk is not formated, if I put it back in the camera, I can see all the pictures and I can even take more pictures. Does anyone know anything about this error??? Thanks,

I get the C:13:01 error message even when i install the new memory card in camara. Please help me