I installed 2.2 GB CF-MICRO DRIVE today in my X50V. Battery dropped fast from 75% to 29% in fewer time than usual with only SD card.

I have some questions.

(1) Does CF-MICRO DRIVE affacts battery life? If yes, to what extent?
(2) Is it possible to copy existing SD card contents to CF Micro Drive as-it-is and editing registry by replacing 'SD Card' to 'CF Card' so I don't have to reinstall all programs? Can I copy and registry as a text file on my desktop pc and than replace the existing registry on my X50V with 'CF Card' in place of 'SD Card'?
(3) A very dumb question. If it is all about persistent storage, can we install Windows Mobile 5.0 to SD / CF Card / CF Micro Drive instead of ROM? If so, how to do that?

CF microdrive REALLY eats at battery life... one of the main reasons I never switched from solid state.
I dont know how much it eats, but im pretty sure its compropable to having Wifi on.

Im not sure about the install directory part...it might all be in the windows directory with all the program data so it would be more of a challenge to move it there.

You can not install WM5 to a SD or CF. It would make it too easy for people to damage or crash their OS to make it unbootable. You CAN however install most if not all your apps to your CF or SD card.

  

To be brief,

1) Yes, quite significantly. You're going from solid state to moving parts and as such the power drain will be a lot higher.
2) Yes, I do it all the time with moving basic programs around and I have no issues
and 3) Not that I know of.

Current Phone: Bell Blackberry 7250
Current PDA: Dell Axim X50v w/256MB MMC & 512MB CF

Past Phones: Nokia 5125, Audiovox 8500, Nokia 3595, Nokia 3590, Ericsson t39m, Nokia 8390, Nokia 3620, RIM Blackberry 7100r, Motorola v551, Nokia 6820b, Ericsson t39m, Audiovox SMT5600
Past PDAs: Palm IIIe, Psion Revo Plus, Dell Axim x3i, Sony Clie SJ20, NEC MobilePro 790

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I was able to exchange my 2.2 GB Magicstore Microdrive with 2.0 GB ScanDisc CF drive.

Not only my X50V blazing now, power saving is soo good improved!

I won't recommende CF Micro Drives to anyone anymore!

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Thanks for the info, as this is helping me with my decision to buy a larger CF storage type media soon.

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i coorect it. please read 'i exchanged 2.2 GB Magicsore CF Micro Drive and got 2.0 GB ScanDisk CF Memory Card. My Ax rocks with CF Memory Card now'

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