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Megatouch XL CD-ROM to Hard Drive
orizzle:
It's because Windows is crap. No really.
Windows won't recognize multiple partitions on a removable drive. Use your cf ide adapter in the external hard drive and they should show up.
DaddyLongLegs:
I am so glad this forum is back!
--- Quote from: orizzle on August 03, 2016, 03:08:47 pm ---It's because Windows is crap. No really.
Windows won't recognize multiple partitions on a removable drive. Use your cf ide adapter in the external hard drive and they should show up.
--- End quote ---
I received a CF to IDE adapter and sadly what you said is not working. In an external USB enclosure it still will only show one hard drive. My Megatouch will not boot with it plugged in :(
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
DaddyLongLegs:
I don't know if this can be causing it but...
my 1GB CF card will show up in USB Image Tool if I check "Show non-removable devices" as your instructions state. However, I cannot use this card because it's too small for your image.
If I put in my 2GB CF card, the device shows up EVEN IF I DON'T check "Show non-removable devices"
Why would this be? And could this be why I am having this problem?
obcd:
It all depends upon how the cf card was partitionned. Every partition get's a number that identifies what type of partition it is. Removable partitions have a different number compared to fixed ones. If you use the image tool, it will overwrite the master boot record and partition table. Due to that, the CF partitions should behave identical to those the image came from. In fact, a 2Gig CF card can suddenly claim it's only 1Gig if the image came from a 1Gig.
Have you experimented with different harddisk settings on the megatouch bios. You have normal, LBA and large. If that's set incorrectly, the mobo won't boot with your cf card.
Is your cf card recognised as harddisk in the bios startup screen?
I had a CF that refused to boot as well. I never really examined why it was the case, but it looked like my dos was calculating the wrong LBA sector number. It was a 512MB card so I never really examined it any further.
If your CF 2 ide adapter is having a master slave jumper setting, make sure you set it to master.
I have 1 Gig card that should work. I might be able to image it and upload it somewhere for you if orizzle his image keeps refusing to work. (But prefer not 2 as it's a lot of work)
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: obcd on August 25, 2016, 03:45:21 am ---It all depends upon how the cf card was partitionned. Every partition get's a number that identifies what type of partition it is. Removable partitions have a different number compared to fixed ones. If you use the image tool, it will overwrite the master boot record and partition table. Due to that, the CF partitions should behave identical to those the image came from. In fact, a 2Gig CF card can suddenly claim it's only 1Gig if the image came from a 1Gig.
Have you experimented with different harddisk settings on the megatouch bios. You have normal, LBA and large. If that's set incorrectly, the mobo won't boot with your cf card.
Is your cf card recognised as harddisk in the bios startup screen?
I had a CF that refused to boot as well. I never really examined why it was the case, but it looked like my dos was calculating the wrong LBA sector number. It was a 512MB card so I never really examined it any further.
If your CF 2 ide adapter is having a master slave jumper setting, make sure you set it to master.
I have 1 Gig card that should work. I might be able to image it and upload it somewhere for you if orizzle his image keeps refusing to work. (But prefer not 2 as it's a lot of work)
--- End quote ---
Well I would greatly appreciate it if you could upload the 1gb image. The reason being that my 2gb cf card shows up whether or not I click the checkbox "Show non-removable devices" as per the instructions, but the 1gb does not (it only shows up when clicking "Show non-removable devices" which is what the instructions say should happen. Unfortunately I can't try it on my 1gb CF card because the image that was given to me is 1.5gb for some reason.
Yep it shows up as a hard drive on the Megatouch just fine. It won't boot it though. it goes through the motions but freezes right before it should say "Datalight Pages Memory Disk Installed as Drive C:". The BIOS will in fact show the hard drive name just fine.
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