I have a sony mvc-fd73 and tried everything, dropping, formatting, bending the tabs. and then went back to formatting and did the quick format and it worked.[was on the verge of trowing it against the wall] The camera was only used 2 times, was a gift to someone I know. I did the longer formatting and it did not work. But doing the quick one did. Hope this helps someone.

Hi Deb... Still got the camera and using...still working? I've have one I got for little or nothing. Seems to be in great shape w/manual and all accessories. Works great for my needs... But now disk error seems to be almost constant. Floppy's work on PC...yes, I even bought an external for my machine just for this camera. Worked for a week or two, light use, and now don't seem to be able to get past disk error... I tried to bend the tabs a bit, but so far nothing. Could it just be dirty? Any further advice would be appreciated. Hello from MN... Floppy disks haven't changed, have they? These seem like standard 3M 1.44's to me. Thanks in advance!

I have a different problem that I cannot find a solution too. I sell on Ebay and was making my pictures for my listings. I used new floppy disc's and took photos on three of the floppy disc last night. The first disc I put in my Sony Mavica I used the first four for personal pictures of my Grandchildren then proceeded to photograph my items for Ebay on the same disc. I decided to email the photos that I had taken of my grandchildren to my Daughter, they were perfect. Today I got ready to use this disc to list my ebay items and when I put it on , I got the message "disc is not formatted". I knew it was formatted because I had already taken some pictures and emailed them . I then put the disc in my camera, and it said Disc. error 13.01. I have no idea why I am gettting that message nor why I am getting the disc has not been formatted. No one has touched this disc. and I am at a loss as to what happened to it to cause the error message and the format message. The other two discs I used are fine and I did not get any kind of error message except on this one disc. Does anyone know why this would happen and can I find a way to restore the pictures I made for Ebay listing. I had taken 38 pictures and now I suppose I have lost them all. Thanks.

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Thanks for the tips, we have one of these camera's and apparently someone put a post-it note on a disk and it came off inside it and we found this out and removed the post-it and the camera works great. Thanks!

I WAS NOT ABLE TO USE MY MAVICA BECAUSE OF ERROR C:13:01 IT WOULD NOT PLAY FLOPPYS BECAUSE OF A FORMAT PROBLEM, SO EVERY TIME I USE A NEW FLOPPY DISK I HAVE TO DO A FULL FORMAT ON THE DISK BEFORE I USE IT. SO IF YOU GET THIS ERROR DO A FULL FORMAT ON YOUR DISK AND IT WILL WORK. I HOPE

Thanks Deb I found ur error message for the Mavica fd71 and I reformatted it in my pc and it works again.. Thanks I was trying to win 1 off ebay and glad i got my working again. Paul

Same problem no luck at all!! it was working fine yesterday... now it keeps givin me the error... :( damm what a mess this is .. sony doesnt even know what the C:13:10 stands for !! format error... bought new floppydisks.. and still no luck.. if anyone wants a mavica fd 100.. you can get it for $50 you pay shipping..

I have a Mavica MCV-FD73 and mine is doing the same error message. Your saying to format the disk before using it in the camera. My computer asked me to reformat after i have taken pictures but it said i might lose some pictures. I need help!

Hi,I got given an FD71 cos it didnt work. I tried everything everyone said and no success HOWEVER when i took the camera apart including the disk drive i found that one of the read/write heads had become dislodgedf and had been forced down behind the pivot for the moving read/write head arm. I carefully dragged the little head back up and re-glued it in place making sure the ribbon cable was pulled tight and was sat in its little trough which travels up the moving arm. The head is mounted on a little metal plate which the cable runs off the back. When levering the arm open be careful not to let it slip cos it spring loaded when it closes it could crack the head as they are very delicate so be careful! I put the camera back together and i still got the error but the i could actually see the shooting image on the screen as apposed to before where it was just black. I took it apart except the drive with both the batteries out and left it on my desk for a week cos i was annoyed i couldnt get it to work. I just put it together and it works! woo hoo. It still gets the odd error when viewing the images on the camera but hell at least it works! be careful when removing the long black plastic drive door because somewhere there is a tiny spring which holds it shut and if you loose this then the door will not put the required pressure on the diskette and the drive will not believe it is there. The door pushes the disk down onto little sensors which tell the camera the disk is present and wether it is write protected. I had to wrap a rubber band around the back of the door and the end of the drive to pull the door shut! hope this helps. I also tried all the formatting stuff.