Format Compact Flash with winuae

[Snoozy]

Hmmm amiten,
 
If you keep the site in german then the download link works (with the program in german argh!) If you change the site to English the download no longer works! :angry:
 
Can someboady explain to me why my CF has suddenely gone to a capacity of 0k!! How do i get it back to 2gb? (Windows won't let me format it now:confused: )

[Amiten]

Just press the link I give and then click on blue arrow nothing else.
 
 
P.D. if you want I can make it,  by  connect to your computer via TeamViewer and make complete installation of AmigaOS for your CF by Remote Control.
 
Regards Amiten

[Snoozy]

hi, if i do that the language comes out in german and the program becomes unusable to me.
 
How do you change to english on the program?

[Amiten]

Extras menu languaje english or whatever
 
Regards
Amiten

[Snoozy]

Nothing will work on formatting my 2gb sandisk now, ever since i used the disk clean recommmended by thomas my sandisk 2gb seems corrupted. Cannot be formatted in windows or with your program amiten.
 
What has happened to my 2gb sandisk :angry:

[Thomas]

You don't need this wipedisk thing. It's just silly to wipe a flash memory card because every unnecessary write access reduces its life time.

All you need to do on the Windows side is the diskpart clean as described above. After that the CF card is considered empty by Windows and everything else is done inside WinUAE. If HDToolbox does not see the CF card, then it is a configuration error. Either WinUAE or HDToolbox is not configured correctly.

Make sure that there is an equal sign in SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=uaehf.device and that there are no brackets around this line and no additional space characters at the end of the line or around the equal sign.

Also make sure that controller is set to UAE when adding the harddrive.

[Snoozy]

Windows no longer recognises my CF. Neither does the program disk clean.
 
I think i need to format the CF in dos to try and reover it. How do i do this?
 
If i look under disk management in windows i can see my 1.86gb as disk 7 but it has a black bar next to it saying unallocated, argh!! How do i get my CF back on line?
 
I also cannot format it under diskclean, but i can still clean it!!

[desiv]

If i look under disk management in windows i can see my 1.86gb as disk 7 but it has a black bar next to it saying unallocated, argh!! How do i get my CF back on line?

That's not a bad place to be...
You don't want Windows to see any partitions.
You want the Amiga in WinUAE to see an empty drive and then you can put AmigaDOS partitions on it...

So, you just need to work on, why is WinUAE not seeing it..

Double check the UAE and uaehf.device settings..
If that doesn't work, try changing UAE to IDE0 (or IDE1) and use scsi.device in HDToolbox.

Also, what OS are you running?  In XP, I just use an older WinUAE and the disablesafety (I can't remember exactly what it is) flag when I start it.

If you're using a newew OS, you probably REALLY need to make sure you're running it as Administrator.  (Thomas mentioned using the runas on the menu)

desiv

[Snoozy]

Hi desiv,
 
I have the CF recognised in winuae but when i come to format it it just says I/O error 28, or I/O error 5.
 
The 2gb CF card is now unformattable in windows 7 and i think i am going to take the card to my local CF dealer for him to reformat it. Surely it can't be right for windows to see the card as 0 bytes when you double click on it but as 1.9gb in disk management. :confused:
 
Would it be fair to say that i only ever needed the CF card in Windows 7 format of Fat 32 and then i could have proceeded to format in winuae now that i have the correct settings.
 
I feel like disk clean etc has not done any good for my Sandisk whatsoever. :confused:

[Thomas]

I have the CF recognised in winuae but when i come to format it it just says I/O error 28, or I/O error 5.

Make sure you have r/w checked in add harddrive window.

The 2gb CF card is now unformattable in windows 7 and i think i am going to take the card to my local CF dealer for him to reformat it. Surely it can't be right for windows to see the card as 0 bytes when you double click on it but as 1.9gb in disk management. :confused:

A hard disk can have either Amiga partitions or Windows partitions, not both. Certainly Windows cannot format a non-existent partition. If you want to format the disk for Windows you first need to create a partition. But then the CF is unusable for Amiga.

To create a Windows partition either right-click on the unallocated space in Windows disk management and select create new simple volume, or run diskpart again an use

select disk n
create partition primary
assign

Both will do the same.

I feel like disk clean etc has not done any good for my Sandisk whatsoever. :confused:

The clean command cleans the disk from all data. It's like virgin afterwards. Seems like you never saw a virgin disk before.

[Snoozy]

Thomas,
 
I have followed your instructions to the letter, i have cleaned the cf card again, opened winuae 2.3.3 via administator added system hdf as a hardfile to load wb, and added my cf 2gb card below this as a hardrive with read/write checked. The drive is recognised and read ok and i can partition it to either 2 980mb or 1 large 1.9gb BUT when i click on low level format i just get error code -5 :madashell:
 
SCSCI=uaehf.device
 
So what is wrong?
 
Maybe i should take up amiten offer and allow him to remotely do this for me ?

[Thomas]

Low level format is an invalid command for a CF card. That's ok. You cannot low level format hardrives anyway. Just keep away from this button. Save your partitions, reboot and use format disk from the Workbench menu. In the format program, keep away from the format button but click on quick.

[Snoozy]

ahh, i see. Progress..
 
Done all that, i now have "Empty" on my Wb. So then should i change the name "Empty" to DH0: and then copy Wb files over via dopus. (I think my system hdf file is mounted as DHO: hmmmm)
 
Edit: Ah ha, done it now and it boots fine in the A1200. Thanks Thomas for your advice

[desiv]

Congrats!

desiv

[Amiten]

You don't need this wipedisk thing. It's just silly to wipe a flash memory card because every unnecessary write access reduces its life time.
 
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Hi, Do want you want to do thomas but dont say what is silly or not its only your opinion , for me wipedisk work fine all the time its another way to do, there is many ways to prepare a CF for install Amiga systems your method is one more of the rest , just better say "For me wipedisk way its not good " disqualify the other is not good education what silly?? , Every one have his method to do the things.
 
Respect the others opinions.
 
Regards
Amiten

[Thomas]

Done all that, i now have "Empty" on my Wb. So then should i change the name "Empty" to DH0: and then copy Wb files over via dopus. (I think my system hdf file is mounted as DHO: hmmmm)

You shouldn't use device names as volume names and you should avoid duplicate names. This just confuses AmigaDOS. Call it Workbench or System or CFDisk or something like that.