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I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card

New MessageI can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) boomer34
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After having Compaq send me a free new unit for a defective UBID one, I finally got a working IA-1 that can connect to the internet. I'm glad I tested my unit before taking the thing apart to flash the bios. The old unit would reboot after getting a carrier.

So I took the day off early and started gutting. Great work guys... reseting the bios was easy with prior posts.

I had to reinstall Windows 98SE in a dual boot mode onto my Windows 2000 machine in order to get RANISH, FDISK, and FORMAT to work.

I put the CF card into the reader and ran FORMAT F: /S (where F is my cf drive). System files were transfered to the CF.

The problem now is that like a previous thread, I can't get RANISH (2.40 or 2.41) or FDISK to recognise my USB Compact flash card reader (SDDR31 & Viking 128M CF). The DOS windows can access the contents of drive but partition utilities can't. I have tied:
1) Rebooting with the compact flash in the reader
2) installing newest drivers for the CF reader
3) running part.exe in a dos window then pressing F5 (both versions of RANISH)
4) running part.exe -d 3 in a dos window (both versions of RANISH)

Like the other user said, am I missing something?
Options???
1) install win95 or win98 (1st edition)
2) I have a Thinkpad and PC card CF reader (with NT4.0 on it) - maybe get dos to recognize the card
3) Try another CF reader or card
4) look for other utilities to make CF FAT 16

Thanks in advance... you can email me at LLIN@11111.net if you'd like.

11-14-2001 23:04:19

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) ranman
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If you have a digital camera, put the card in there and format it.

I had a problem one time where my IAone was not seeing the card. This was before I knew about the various FAT types. Putting it in my dc240 dig cam and formatting it gave me a clean card with which I was able to get recognized by my iaone.

Hope this helps, otherwise I am at a loss.

Maybe instead of doing soft boot, turn computer off and completely reboot. Maybe try plugging usb reader into a powered usb hub???


ranman

11-14-2001 23:24:40

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) keith721
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i used 'part -d 3' in a Win98SE DOS window, because i have two other hard disk drives in my system. because of this, my Zio! USB/ATA/CF device shows up as the third drive in the active partition table. it's not necessary in Win98SE to boot with the CF card in the adapter, though. the hot-plug USB code updates the partition table in memory when you insert the CF card. the strange thing was, i was plugging and unplugging last weekend, and Win98SE finally put the CF card in the FOURTH entry of the partition table, leaving the previously used THIRD entry looking like the FIRST hard disk drive. at this point, i had to use the command 'part -d 4' to locate the CF drive.

so, like all things Microsloth, it works . . . sorta. if you only have a single hard disk drive, with a single partition, try using 'part -d 2' to find your CF.

11-15-2001 07:00:35

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH
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I'm having the exact same problems as boomer34. I have a Viking 64MB card and a Kodak 16MB card with the Sandisk SDDR-31 USB reader in Windows 98. I can format them and copy files to them. The OS sees the cards as a "Removeable Drive". I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not. Fdisk won't recognize the CF drive nor will Ranish 2.40. I've tried part -d 1, part -d 2, part -d 3, part -d 4, part -d 5, etc without any luck.
All of this from a Windows 98 DOS box. All of these machines just have 1 hard drive and a CDROM. I've tried the sandisk drivers on the CD it came with and the ones from the web page with the same results.
I think that's about all of the relavent information I can give.
I'll keep trying during my lunch break and I'll try formatting a card in my DC4800 when I get home.
11-15-2001 07:48:41

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) ranman
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Grish,
What you are boomer34 and describing sound just like what happens if you don't have the card in at bootup. Boomer34 noted this is not the case for win98se. And I don't know if it is truly the case for win98, but I could not get my sandisk sddr-05 reader to be able to use ranish/fdisk unless I had the card in at bootup.

Maybe something to do with different version of the reader?

Hopefully formatting the cards with the camera will help.

Since you have just one hard drive, you should just have to use part - d 2
or use F5 to cycle through them.


ranman

11-15-2001 15:40:43

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) GRISHNAKH
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I guess it could be different versions of the reader then. I've tried everything to get this to work. I've had the reader and CF plugged in and rebooted several times on different machines and have started from a cold boot. All ranish will give me is "Error getting hard disk information." Pressing F5 doesn't work because it only sees Hard Disk 1. fdisk won't see it either but I can still format it and sys it.
I guess I'll have to try a different reader.
Any luck boomer34?
11-16-2001 07:12:56

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) ipaqshakur
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Here is high wierdness: I'm having the very same problems you're mentioning here. Compaq Armada 7780MT running Windows 98 SE, Sandisk PCMCIA card reader, and 128 meg CF card. It didn't work, and I was trying everything. Then.....it worked. Once. I was able to see the CF card with Ranish and fdisk. I set it up, but I did something wrong so the card would not work to boot in the IA-1. So I put the card back in the Armada....and suddenly Ranish and fdisk can't see the card again. I have been trying all the things mentioned (cold boot with the CF card in, etc). Let me know if anyone figures this one out. Very frustrating! I'm getting the very same error messages mentioned, and fdisk won't even run with the CF card in.
11-17-2001 20:20:34

New MessageRE:I can't get RANISH 2.40 or FDISK to recognize my USB CF card (modified 0 times) boomer34
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I finally have given up trying to get my CF to be recognized by Ranish using the SDDR-31 on my PC. I tried installing win98 (and already had 2000), but it still didn't work. After 2 days of work, I decided to try the PCMCIA card adapter on a laptop and got it bootable using Win 95 & Win 98. The secret there was making it INT 13 unit and removable in: control panel-> system-> disk drives. I can now boot. By the way, when I got my new Kingston 256MB CF card and formatted it on my PC, the system default was FAT16 and bootable on the first partition. I didn't even need Ranish to get it to boot. By the way, I discovered that if you disable the primary IDE device, the IA-1 will not boot also. Formatting using a camera sometimes works when the CF card is not recognized by Ranish after botched windows installs (like ranman mentioned).
11-20-2001 23:17:50

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