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16 December 2008, 16:48
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Are folks still able to mod their CF memory drives?
My miggy 1200 will not work without a Sandisk or otherwise that doesn't show a fixed disk on boot.
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16 December 2008, 17:40
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Are we talking about PCMCIA or IDE?
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16 December 2008, 17:56
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There is only one known tool to mod CF cards from REMOVABLE to FIXED
Only works with genuine SanDisk cards. It's called atcfwchg.com |
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17 December 2008, 23:28
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Have a look at this page for some general information on the subject: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Compact_Flash_boot_drive |
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24 January 2009, 01:50
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Can I use this tool on a USB card reader? It says to boot into DOS, but all the winboxes I have access to all run xp, and you can't boot into dos like good old win311/win95/win98.
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24 January 2009, 01:56
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There are many cards hat work and are not sandisk, check the corresponding thread!
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24 January 2009, 01:59
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You need a DOS boot disk. If you don't have one, look for a FreeDOS boot disk from here: http://www.freedos.org  Specifically: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-...1.0/fdboot.img prowler |
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24 January 2009, 02:25
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Or simply start tapping <F8> after the POST on the PC, and before it starts to load Win.
Works for me, at least. |
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24 January 2009, 23:44
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cool i'll give it a go on my usb card reader and boot into dos on the old computer which still has a floppy.
damn dos was the only good thing about modern pcs. at least it made computers hard to use
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