[bookport] Re: Copying Files to New Card
- From: "Scott Duck" <sduck@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:26:51 -0600
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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