Re: Using CiderPress to copy a volume image to a card formatted for Windows...

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Feb 14, 11:35 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

> As I pointed out, I have no I/O on this Apple //e except the CFFA,
> so, since hot swapping is not supported, I can't boot into ProDOS
> and a formatting utility, then insert the adapter.
>
> In fact, I don't have anyway of destroying the formatting except
> (I thought) by overwriting the volume and its partition map with
> CiderPress.

Assuming you selected 'physical disks' in Ciderpress it should be
writing to the raw volume, but it's at least possible that you
overwrote the pre-existing partition on the SD card instead.

Windows 7 makes working with raw devices a bit of a pain (IMO) as
there's no old-school fdisk anymore. The only way off the top of my
head to check for sure is with cygwin. You can 'dd' block zero off the
disk and check that it's a valid ProDOS boot block ...

Matt