143 EnglishINITIALIZING THE CARD MEMORY AND INTERNAL MEMORY5 Select “YES”.6 Press the SET button.h Formatting begins.h During formatting, “Formatting” and “do not power off” are shown onthe monitor.h The three BGM audio files that were stored in your camera’s internalmemory at the time of purchase can be recovered by formatting theinternal memory.CAUTIONCaution during reformattingi Please do not turn off the camera or insert/remove the card while the cardis being formatted.Reformatting erases the datai When the card or internal memory is initialized, all the recorded data iserased. Protected data is also erased, so before reformatting a card, anydata you want to keep should be copied to your personal computer’s harddisk or other storage medium.Caution regarding disposing/transferring the card (recovering data froma reformatted card)i If a card is reformatted or the data is erased from the card using thecamera or a computer, the card’s control data may be merely modified andthe data itself may not be completely erased from the card.i In some cases it may be possible to recover the data from a reformattedcard using special software for that purpose. However, if the camera isused to execute a full format, it will be impossible to recover the data evenby the use of data recovery software.i If you are disposing of a card, it is recommended that you physicallydestroy it. If you are transferring the card to someone else to use, it isrecommended that you use the camera’s full format function to reformatthe card, or use commercially available software for erasing card data.Managing data is the responsibility of the user.HINTTo cancel reformattingi In step 5, select “NO”, and press the SET button.
