[bookport] Re: Copying Files to New Card
- From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:45:53 -0600
This brings up an interesting question. I know formatting the card on the
unit uses the fat file system, is there any difference between formatting
the card on the unit, and formatting it using a card reader, and choosing
the fat file system?
----- Original Message -----
From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Copying Files to New Card
> No actually, you do want to format on the device. Was the original card
> formatted on the BP as well?
>
>
> >>> sduck@xxxxxxxxx Monday, March 28, 2005 10:26:51 AM >>>
> Larry,
> I formatted the card on the BP by using 1+3+D+F. Should I not have
> formatted it?
> Thanks,
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:13 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Copying Files to New Card
>
>
> > Did you format the new card on the BP itself. That difference could
> be
> > accounted for in the size of the allocation units on the card.
> >
> >
> > >>> sduck@xxxxxxxxx Monday, March 28, 2005 10:07:19 AM >>>
> > Good morning everyone,
> > On Friday, I purchased a 512MB Sandisk Compact Flash Card. I then
> > proceeded to copy the contents of the old card to the new card, as
> > follows. With the old card inserted, I connected the BP. I went into
> > Windows Explorer and selected drive F, which is my BP drive. In
> folder
> > options, I turned on show hidden files. I selected the entire
> contents
> > of the root directory of the BP and copied it to the clipboard. I
> then
> > went to a new directory on my hard drive, which had been created for
> > this, and pasted the files that I had just selected into that
> directory.
> > I disconnected the BP, inserted the new card, formatted the card,
> and
> > reconnected the BP. I selected all of the files that I had just
> copied
> > to my hard drive and copied them to the clipboard. I went back to the
> F
> > drive and pasted the files. Now, here is the problem. With the old
> card
> > inserted, the BP transfer software shows 122MB total, 3MB free. If
> you
> > do the math, that means that 119MB are used. With the new card
> inserted,
> > the
> > transfer software shows 488MB total, 385MB free, which means that
> > 103MB are used. All of my files appear to be on the new card and I
> > haven't had any trouble reading any of them yet but I haven't tried
> to
> > read all of them. Everything seams to be working fine but it appears
> > that about 16MB got lost along the way. I am puzzled. Please help!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >
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