[Coco] I'm Lost, Part deux

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 14:47:15 EDT 2013


use can use Active Disk Image to copy one CF to another. Use the raw mode.


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the assistance on my original post. I had totally forgotten the
> POKE to switch to slot4 (the FDC).
> I modified the autoexec.bas file to add that additional capability, and
> all works perfectly.
> Now, another question.
> I have used Aaron's SIDEWalk utility to copy and save the CF image. But
> what I want to do is to copy that saved image to another FD card.
> The 256mg CF cards I bought from Amazon already have a FAT filesystem on
> them, and SIDEWalk doesn't seem to recognize it.
> What I specifically mean is:
> On an Windows XP system, inserting the new CF card, mounts the drive as
> drive E:
> Looking at the properties of drive E:, it show as a FAT filesystem with
> ~240mg available
> Launching SIDEWalk I can 'load' the previously saved image file.
> When I then try to select the new CF card, I can see it in the dialog box,
> select it and even try to open it, but after trying to read the HBDDOS
> drives, the open screen exits with the CF options of SIDEWalk greyed out
> When I open the CF image file and do not also try to open the new CF card,
> the CF device options in SIDEWalk are greyed out
>
> So how do I get a FAT formatted CF card to be able to be used in SIDEWalk,
> so as to write to it a previously save image?
>
> Thanks
>
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