Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs
By smellypants Sat Sep 01, 2012 4:44 pm
Yo guys, I got vailixi and multiple partitions on my cf card, is there any way to see all partitions on my windows pc the same way you can on a mac?

Thankyou
By moral97 Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:53 pm
I have also Vallixi 3.50 and win xp. I can only see the first partition A on a hybrid formatted CF card when I put it into my PC. Not sure what Rohan means when he talks about the difference between a removable or a fixed disk. Can CF cards be removable or fixed? How can you tell the difference?
I hear that on Mac os you can access all partitions. Has anyone been able to access all partitions on a PC with winxp? I'd love to hear about it! ...That would really help me in backing up my files!

Carlos
By smellypants Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:09 pm
I'm in the same position as you mate, haven't figured a way to see all partitions. I'm not sure about the fixed drive either :hmmm:
By MPCHunter Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:22 pm
moral97 wrote: Can CF cards be removable or fixed? How can you tell the difference?


The manufacturer of the Compact Flash card sets a bit in the header to make the card either fixed or removable.

I wrote up some notes on my blog awhile back:

http://www.mpchunter.com/compact-flash- ... eshooting/

and the topic in the MPC 2000XL forum linked below has more info

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=140216


moral97 wrote:
I hear that on Mac os you can access all partitions. Has anyone been able to access all partitions on a PC with winxp?


Yes. You need a card that is fixed and you need to follow Rohan's instructions in his FAQ on accessing the folders.

If you have a Linux box, it does not matter if the card is fixed or removable.
By moral97 Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:14 am
Thanks MPChunter for the info and links...
Now I understand better the difference between fixed and removable CF cards. Will try to get at least one of my cards as a fixed one with all partitions visible in winxp. My working method is to have all the files of a track (seqs, pgm, snds, alls) in one partition. I want to be able to back up all partitions/songs easily in the computer.