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

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> 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.

It seems you are right.

When I selected the SD card as a physical disk and tried to write
the (4 ProDOS partition) volume image to it, it failed unable to
write to block 128 (permission failure).

So now I'll try to use a PC program to "unformat" the volume so that
I can successfully overwrite it...

-michael

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