Re: 1 gig CF card seen by FDisk as 512k
From: Juergen Seyffer (juergen_at_kraftcom.net)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:13:49 +0100
Hello Ryan,
I had similar problems with a Simpletech 1GB compact flash card.
The Bios is reporting a 528MB disk, but capacity is 1GB and detected right
with fdisk.
Problem is that Ghost is not working with that card, and you hardly will get
a valid MBR to that card.
The reason is, that there different controllers included in CF-cards.
As far as I know, Hitachi is working best.
Some vendors offer CF-cards with different controllers, so you may check
exact partnumber.
I did not had any problems with SanDisk cards in the past, hopefully they do
not change controller vendor.
What does your BIOS report ?
Best regards
Juergen
"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Ryan,
>
> Partition Magic has a DOS version also. But I prefer Paragon Partition
Manager (also has a DOS version).
> You have to run bootprep from DOS.
>
> Actually, Fdisk should work for you unless some problems with your BIOS.
Can you partition the card on another machine? This will
> not solve your bootprep problems as you need to do the fdisk'ing on the
target machine anyway but, at least, will show you if the
> card is ok.
>
> --
> Regards,
> KM, BSquare Corp.
>
>
> > KM,
> >
> > I am prompted by Fdisk to use a large disk support and I select yes
> > which should allow for FAT32 files system. Then Fdisk only sees the CF
> > card as 512mb. I then go through the typical procedures to partition
> > and format using the maximum available 512mb size. When I view the CF
> > card in Windows 2000 disk manager it sees the file system type as
> > FAT16. I have looked at the bios and enable the 32 bit I/O and LBA is
> > on. What third party software do you suggest? Partition Magic? And
> > with partition magic how do I use bootprep? Do I go back to DOS?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan
>
>
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