Problems reading Amiga CF cards on PC

[paul1981]

I know with WinUAE, in the drive section there is a tick box labelled 'Mount removeable drives' or something (ie. memory sticks etc) and when using a USB card reader I believe the system see's them as such, and doesn't see them as IDE like devices like a hard disk. So for this reason you wouldn't be able to mount the CF as a real Amiga hard disk partition. Not sure if this helps you any, but it's perhaps best if we try and tackle one problem at a time as there's an awful lot of information in your post.

[paul1981]

A bigger problem is that when clicking on the button to add hard drives after already adding the CF card, I got an error message that no RDB formatted or empty hard drives could be found, so I'll have to find out what to do next, otherwise I don't see how to copy anything onto my CF card. I may have to just Add Partition, but I thought I'd tried that as well.

Are you talking about HardDriveToolBox here or WinUAE?

WinUAE will not let you add hard drives (or CF hard drives) on a device level that are already partitioned with non-amiga partitions. This is to protect the user from accidentally formatting or re-partitioning existing good drives through the emulation (ie HDToolBox on the Amiga).

[paul1981]

Ashampoo sounds like some rubbish software.  Just my .02 cents.  :lol:

Surprisingly there software is quite good, although it's not free.

[paul1981]

It must be a UK thing.  Over here in the US I've never heard of it.  We use CCleaner on this side of the pond.  

Yes, but is it anti-dandruff?