On 02/14/2011 08:34 PM, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
fadden wrote:On Feb 13, 5:35 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:You mean that Ciderpress doesn't do raw I/Os to the card, obliterating the PC partition map? That would be strange...CiderPress operates at the lowest level allowed by the OS. On Win2K and later, it can view (and overwrite) the partition map. (On Win98 you could only write to "logical" volumes unless you built some 16-bit thunk code.)I suspect that "allowed by the OS" is the operaqtive phrase. I'm doing this on a Vista laptop, and it doesn't want to allow CiderPress to overwrite block 128. I'll try using Diskpart to clobber it and see if that works.
Well I have to ask... Are you running the program as the administrator? You know when you have to set the option before executing the program? This might help.
You might also want to try one of the free dd utilities for Windows as an option for zeroing the card.
and finally, perhaps using a 'live' Linux cd environment. These come with some great utilities in either text or GUI modes.
Cheers, Mike T