This is the error of memory stick. If u have got this error message firs of all take backup of your memory stick and format it. If u get this message after formating the disk, then once more re-format it. This problem will be solved . be happy

Hey if you are recieving an C:13:01 Error, try to format the Memory Card. Do this by connecting the camera to the computer, then when the computer asks "what do you want windows to do?" choose choosing "Open Folder to view files using Windows Explorer". Then right click one of the file and click "properties". Under general change the "attributes" to place a check mark on read only and nothing else. (I don't remember if it is for both files) Then switch the camera into "Set Up" mode and place the Memory Card in. *Notice the C:10:Error sign has not yet appered*, qucikly go under "memory stick tool" and click on the "format" button to format. Hope this works, as it did for me!

hi, I have a memory stick that was working quite well since i bought it. However i could see that it comes with an error message that Memory Stick Error with C:13:01. I'm going through hell at the moment, i dont know how to recover the data and also how to make the stick working. Kindly guide me.

hi, I have a memory stick that was working quite well since i bought it. However i could see that it comes with an error message that Memory Stick Error with C:13:01. I'm going through hell at the moment, i dont know how to recover the data and also how to make the stick working. Kindly guide me.

My company has a Sony DSC-F707 that suddenly stopped working. We tried three different SanDisk memory sticks and none of them were accessible. I read many posts here that mention someone dropping a camera, and then it starts working again. Well, I didn't want to drop this camera, so I gave it a gentle spanking. And it WORKED. Must be something loose in the circuitry, or maybe some dirt inside the thing. Whatever it was, it's working fine again.

Hello i have the sony DSC F707 and i purchased a new 512 memory stick with the adaptor but when i turn the camera on i got the error message c 13 01 so i tried to format the stick but i could not format either i just kept getting the error msg ? thanks mike

i have got the same problem. i'm upset because all the pictures from my gramda's funeral is on that damn memory stick and i can't upload them. somebody please help me out. i've got a Mac. i tried to upload some of the pics but the BAM!! i got an error that same formatting error C:13 or some crap. i don't know what to do. i can't format it on the camera itself or else all my pix will be erased. someone plz help!!! send me an email...

I JUST got this error after using my 5 year old Sony F717 for an evening. I took quite a few photos, most in rapid succession. I had been using the nightshot feature, and had tunred off the shutter sound effect as this seems to actually speed up the cameras recycle time. Suddenly it stopped working. I had 3 memory cards with me, and none of them would work with my camera. However, the cards still worked in my PSP. The data was visible when the PSP was connected to my computer. After reading this forum (thanks to everyone who posted), and after trying several solutions with no success, I tried: Pressing the card FIRMLY INTO THE SLOT, and TURNING THE CAMERA on while STILL HOLDING THE CARD IN AS FAR AS IT WOULD GO. I also gave a FIRM, WELL PLACED TAP WITH THE PALM OF MY HAND to the body of the camera. I am not sure if it was the tap (or perhaps smack might be a better term) or the pressured insertion of the card. Regardless, the CAMERA WORKED immediately after. I hope this helps to anyone else who has been able to confirm it is the camera, and not the cards. Thanks to all contributors.

on purchasing sony W80 cyber shot ,i found after taking some photo ,an error c:13.01 flashing with instruction of reinserting the memory card ,but even reincertion of memory card does not make it operational,however camera works without memory card . please help me how to sort the problem as i am out of station .thanks i can't even format it now

Just about to order a new Sony Cybershot, when just for a laugh I typed in "sony camera access problem" (as my current DSC-W30 had stopped working and kept coming up with access error, zooming in and out erratically, asking me to power off and on etc etc). Thought I'd have to bin it. Took me to this forum so I banged various parts of the camera across my knee and a table. After 3 or 4 tries, hey presto back to normal. Brilliant! - wish I'd tried this with other Sony kit I've had that's gone bonkers for no reason.