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First I like to make a comment about what I did and some of you are probably doing but I didn't find on the forums. I was having problems with a harddrive from one of or DK's so I copyed the info off of the harddrive and bought a compact flash to 44 pin adapter. I fomatted a cf in 98 with romdos and copied the info over. Now I have a much more reliable DK that runs off of compact flash like the IVP8. Anyways I have a old flash that has a corrupted memory card and have copied the info from a one of our other flashes. But when I format it in 98 with romdos and copy the info accross the flash only reconizes the files in the main directory and files in any other directory show up as random garbage. Is there something I have forgotten. Or a different program required for formatting a stratagy flash's card. This is driving me crazy.

Thanks

I remember there were 2 hidden files on the Flash but dont remember what they were it's just been to long. I was changing the CF card size to 256 to give the customers 44 hours of storage instead of 4.

yea you cant copy the files from a dk card to a flash because the flash uses dialogic drivers, you need to get the files from another flash and you should be good...

what brand of cf are you using?

thanks for the response, but I'm not trying to copy a dk to a flash (sorry for the confusion) I have another booting flash compact flash card that I am copying the files from to the new compact flash card. I am making sure to unhide the two hidden files io.sys and msdos.sys and copy those as well. The weird thing is that it tries to boot but the files structure is all messed up and the files show as wierd strings of numbers and symbols. We already sold the customer an updated vm but I have feeling defeated by something as simple as romdos.

Compact Flash cards formatted in Win98 and WinXP for some reason are hard to read by romdos (which is close to msdos 6.22). Try formatting the CF in a digital camera -- I use a Canon Eos Rebel XT. Once formatted you can write files to it in windows and romdos reads them fine. If you don't have access to a suitable camera, your friendly neighborhood Ritz Camera shop will usually help you as it only takes a few seconds (tell them you bought an older digital picture frame and you're having trouble formatting the memory card on your computer) --