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



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.

-michael

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