I'm using a canon powershot s3 is. i bought a patriot 8 gig sdhc card and the camera came with a 16 meg card. the problem is when i try to retrieve files from the 8 gig card. i can copy maybe a few when i first connect to the pc but after that,anything copied will basically stop in the copying process and leave a 0kb file. the files are pretty big but even the small files do the same after some time.i also got a couple "access denied" error prompts and also got "The I/O Operation has been aborted because of either a Thread Exit or an Application Request" before i did a low level format on the card. this happens with the usb cable provided by canon as well. the files can be viewed and watched on the camera fine. and the 16 meg card transfers data fine but its only 16 megs so I'm not sure if size has anything o do with this. bad card maybe? Asus A8V Deluxe Rev.2 AMD Athlon 64 3800+/Newcastle 1 Gig Corsair PC3200 ATI Radeon X850-XTPE/ATI Silencer catalyst 6.1 Sound blaster audigy gamer Antec430 Via 4.56 Drivers

See if the following links help ... SD/MMC Card Compatibility Info for Canon PowerShot S3 IS Are you sure the Patriot 8GB carries the correct SDHC logo? i_Xp/VistaUser

hey xpuser,long time no see buddy (: anyways thanks for the link. i was gonna try the cannon site as a last resort but unfortunately there was no info on what can cause this issue. They state that my camera can support 32gig sdhc card so i guess maybe the card is bad..also, i cant copy files from my pc to the card. Is that normal? thanks again for the response Asus A8V Deluxe Rev.2 AMD Athlon 64 3800+/Newcastle 1 Gig Corsair PC3200 ATI Radeon X850-XTPE/ATI Silencer catalyst 6.1 Sound blaster audigy gamer Antec430 Via 4.56 Drivers