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Formatting a 8GB CF the right way?
« on: August 22, 2013, 07:08:18 PM »
Hello Amigans,

Figured I wanted to give a try at properly formatting a Compact Flash card.  The current 4GB in my Amiga 1200 is formatted with Fast File Systems and all the partitions were kept around 500MB.  I am not sure if there will be future problems with this or what are the risks, so if anyone can clarify them please let me know. :)

I connected this 2nd 8GB CF card to my PC and attached it to WinUAE. I formatted it with each partitions being about 1.4GB in size. Everything went but after installing OS 3.9 on DH0, the rest of the drive became corrupted and you could no longer open partitions that said they were there.

Now, my question is, how do I go about properly setting up a 8GB CF card so I wont have to worry about risks of losing data.  What should I install prior to setting up the CF Card?

Thanks for reading. Any input is greatly appreciated. :)
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Re: Formatting a 8GB CF the right way?
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2013, 08:05:58 PM »
Thanks for the input. Gives me the right direction to what I should do first.
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