What to Do to the Compact Flash Card?

[KarThiK_]

Hello Aximers,

I had purchased a Transcend 8GB Compact Flash card...

will it be compatible with the axim x51v?

and can i immediately use it on the axim or will the CF disk work only after formatting using a card reader in windows?

if it must be formatted...what filesystem should i use? Fat32 or 16


Thanx for ur reply,
KarThiK

[aximbigfan]

it sould be. format it to fat32 if possible... you will be able to use it in a card reader also (or any other cf compatible device).

chris

[KarThiK_]

thanx for the quick reply chris...

i will format with windows format utility as soon as i get the card and then put in the axim...


By the way...

This the model of the card that i had bought:-

Transcend 8GB Ultra-Speed 120x CompactFlash Card - Green (TS8GCF120)

[aximbigfan]

thanx for the quick reply chris...

i will format with windows format utility as soon as i get the card and then put in the axim...


By the way...

This the model of the card that i had bought:-

Transcend 8GB Ultra-Speed 120x CompactFlash Card - Green (TS8GCF120)

yeah, format it AS SOON as you get it. dont attemp to put data on it before formatting becouse 1. it wont work 2. if it did come factory formated (you still want to format it) then the data will be ereased when you format it. also, if possible (i dont know what ver. of windows you are using) try formating it to NTFS, it is safer.


chris

[KarThiK_]

oh ok. i use winXP... is axim NTFS compatible?

[aximbigfan]

yeah. my sd card was formated to NTFS worked fine. as a general rule: you want to use the most recent file system avalible. as far as i know the axim x51 (which i assume you are using) is compatible with NTFS.


chris

[KarThiK_]

Thanx chris...

yes i am gonna use x51v

[aximbigfan]

okay, your very welcome. have fun with you new toy...erm...i mean....pda...


chris

[KarThiK_]

he he...thanx chris...

and advanced congrats on u nearing ur 6000th Post

[KarThiK_]

hi axbigfan....

There was no option to format it into NTFS format. in windows XP format utility i had an option to format it into fat32 only! :-(

[aximbigfan]

ok. then just go for the most recent, which is FAT32.

chris
EDIT: what is interesting is that my SD card is NTFS.

[KarThiK_]

may be SD alone can be formatted to NTFS? anyway...i'm happy with fat32. my progs run well

[aximbigfan]

good thery but the only differnce between the CF cards and the SD cards is that one is larger and they have diffent chip archicultures.

chris

[KarThiK_]

yeah...i think only SD cards can be NTFS formatted.... since they are the storage devices that came after CF...

and also i had another RIGDATA 1GB CF card. which also could be formatted to FAT file system only.....