Questions tagged [compact-flash]
CompactFlash (CF) is a flash storage format initially created by SanDisk, and widely adopted in a variety of consumer devices (especially cameras).
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A Windows 7 tool to create an image from my bootable USB stick
I am looking for an efficient and preferrably free tool
to take a full copy of my USB stick and make a disk image from it
with possibility to write back to it.
Actually I have a CF-Disk and I am ...
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How to rescue Compact Flash card that has been corrupted by a bad formatting
I used my CompactFlash card as a boot drive to install Snow Leopard for my laptop a while ago. To do that I had to repartition it to HFS+ with a GUID partition table.
When partitioning it back to ...
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How to find out do I have NAND Flash or NOR flash (Compact Flash)
How to find out do I have NAND Flash or NOR flash (Compact Flash)
I have Transcend UDMA 300x 2Gb. No mention is it NAND or NOR flash
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How can I make Windows 7 ReadyBoost persistent?
Is there a way to make Windows 7 to keep the ReadyBoost cache across a reboot (and not encrypt it or keep the encryption key across the reboot) - so that ReadyBoost could actually boost the boot up ...
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Embedded webserver (mysql) on a compact flash : how to reduce read/write operations?
I've developed a tiny webserver for home automation out of an ALIX 1D, and based on a debian lenny.
It runs very smoothly and is now able to operate quite a lot of different equipment from a webapp.
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Windows 7 can't recognize CompactFlash cards on USB3.0
I have four CompactFlash readers (USB 3.0) connected by a 4-way hub to a USB 3.0 card in a PC running Windows 7 64-bit.
When I insert all four CF cards, sometimes some of them are not recognized (I ...
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What are the fastest CF (Compact Flash) readers?
I'm looking for a good CF reader, but it's not easy to find readers specs on online stores, so I don't know what I can buy.
Are there any benchmarks online?
Now I have an external Skintek CF reader ...
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Using different SSDs types (not only SATA based) as system drive
Currently I have a Thinkpad X61s and want to make it both a bit faster and a bit more power efficient.
For that reason I thought that adding SSD drive would make most sense. Unfortunately, because of ...
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Memory card reader won't read 2GB Compact Flash memory card
I have a 2GB Compact Flash memory card that won't read in my memory card reader. The reader will read my 512MB and 32MB cards and my digital camera will read and write my 2GB card.
I bought the card ...
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How can I verify the read/write integrity of a compact flash device?
I've got a bunch of compact flash cards that I've used heavily in a professional photo and video capacity.
I'm concerned that one of them is going bad, since I am seeing files (most often video, but ...
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How do you clone the data off of a flash memory (via digital camera) device for recovery?
I have a digital camera that uses compact flash cards. Currently, I connect the camera to the computer through a USB cable.
The compact flash card appears to have some bad sectors or something, ...
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How does a memory card die?
Our old SanDisk CompactFlash 256MB card died recently, during a photo session. My wife was taking photos with it - sometimes in humid environment -, then as she was browsing through the results on her ...
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Can someone recommend a Compact Flash card to be used as a boot disk/fixed disk
I have an early Acer Aspire One netbook, and the flash drive is really slow at writing. I've taken it apart to add more RAM, but I've pretty much stopped using it. I've read about people replacing the ...
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How Can I get a bit-perfect copy of a CF card?
Is there any way I can get a bit level copy of a Fat32 compact flash card? Like make an ISO of it or something?
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Reliability of a Compact Flash as a hard drive
I would now if someone can help me and say if I need a industrial grade or not to insure reliability in a PC embedded device. I use linux and make the most filesystem in RAM to avoid read/write of the ...
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