Some of us out there are new to using uIEC and other similar devices.
one of the problems I ran into was partitioning a compact flash
card or a SD card. I had never partitioned a hard drive let alone
a memory card.
Someone partitioned a Compact Flash card for me, but under My
Computer, XP would only show the first partition on the cards.
After doing research in the Windows XP help files I was able to
find out you can partition a hard drive in the Windows Disk
Management tool. As the administrator, click START/Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management. In the left window
under Storage, click on the Disk Management. This opens two panes
on the right side of the of the Computer Management window. The
upper pane is a list of all your drives and the bottom window
shows your physical drives.
You will see both your hard drives and your removable drives. But
you will only be able to partition the hard drives. (you need to
remove the old Partition first)
But I could see that there is partitions on my cards, that someone
else made for me. How do I partition CF/SD cards????
When I searched the Internet I came across a small handful of
articles. This is the one I liked and used, it is called
*" Multiple partitions on removable drives/memory cards under
Windows XP "* at
_http://ppera.07x.net/atari/multpremxp.html_ .
The driver, you altered from the article, will cause the computer
to see the removable drive, as a hard drive. If you are using a
multiple card reader then only one slot will be seen as a hard
drive. I did this on my XP computer which I have a 4 card slot
card reader attached in the USB port. I have changed the Compact
Flash slot and the SD slot to be seen as hard drives. They work
great and I can see all partition und er My Computer, as well as
creating partition under the Disk Management tool.
Two final notes:
1) the Disk Manager only see the card reader when there is a
card(s) in it.
2)after you do this, when you swap a card you must UNPLUG the card
reader, swap the card, then plug the card reader in to have the
computer acknowledge the change. You will not damage any card
doing a hot swap, but swapped card signal does not function for
that slot now!
Tom Luff
New to the uIEC
