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Re: Microdrive - Starting Over?
- Subject: Re: Microdrive - Starting Over?
- From: John <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>
- Date: 8 May 2007 03:24:05 -0700
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On May 7, 9:18 pm, Andy McFadden <fad...@fadden.com> wrote:
> Steve ][ <s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe I'm being thick, or it's really late... I have a MicroDrive CF
> > card,currently connected to my Windows PC. Using CiderPress, or
> > anything else, how can I reformat/repartition the card, use the made
> > MD 32meg .po file as my "bootable volume" and basically start over?
>
> Your best bet is to use the MicroDrive utilities to partition and format
> the card.
>
> CiderPress allows you to create simple filesystem images, but doesn't provide
> a way to create partitioned images. It also doesn't allow you to copy
> larger images onto smaller volumes, so if the CF card is smaller than
> 65535 blocks, you have to set the size based on the actual formatted
> capacity.
>
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Andy,
Should Ciderpress be able to read/write emulated hard disk images
which work in Applewin?
I can read/write Jon's *.hdv image in Applewin, but when I open it in
Ciderpress it is read only.
When I tried to create a emulator *.hdv image in Ciderpress it
wouldn't mount in Applewin either.
John