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 > > > >