Compact Flash Question

OK Everyone... I just purchased a 256mb CF card and I transfered everything from my 32MB CF card but when I turn on the MPC it doesn't read the card. I did a quick format on it so I don't know if that makes a difference. The MPC is not recognizing the card at all. Any suggestions?

STR wrote:OK Everyone... I just purchased a 256mb CF card and I transfered everything from my 32MB CF card but when I turn on the MPC it doesn't read the card. I did a quick format on it so I don't know if that makes a difference. The MPC is not recognizing the card at all. Any suggestions?

Do you mean you formatted it on the MPC *PRIOR* to loading the samples to it, or that you formatted it on your mac or pc and then loaded the samples? Makes all the difference in the world, believe me....

I did a quick format first and then I loaded all the files from my standard 32MB CF card to the 256. It doesn't recognize the card at all.

You've either got a bad card (unlikely since you were able to transfer all your samples to it) or one of the many that seems to be completely incompatible with the 1000. What brand are you using? I have a Memorex 256 MB card that I just copied everything over to also, and it works like a charm. Maybe it's just a card the MPC doesn't like? It seems to be rather picky about it's storage medium....

this is the officially tested & supported line of cf cards by the mpc 1000:

- Hagiwara Sys-Com
Compact Flash V Series
HPC-CF128V
128Mb

-Lexarmedia
CF2GB 40x Speed WA
CF2GB-40-380
2Gb

-Transcend
Compact Flash Card
TS2GCF45
2Gb

-IBM
Micro Drive
DSCM-11000
1Gb

-GreenHouse
Compact Flash Card
GH-CF256MB
256Mb

-GreenHouse
Compact Flash Card
GH-CF32MB
32Mb

this is what i use and works too:

lexar 128 mb 16x

OK you all, I got it to work. It was weird because I formated the card through the computer the first time and it didn't work. The next time I tried formating in the MPC and it worked perfect. I'm not sure what the difference is but I'm up and running now. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP. See ya at the next post.

Ah, could be a FAT16 vs FAT32 thing. If in doubt, format in the MPC (camera, iPaq) etc, the PC can read all those formats but not vice versa.