I have a system that uses "Intel Flash Series 2 - 10 MByte Memory Cards, Exchangeable Card Architecture" for storage. I need to access the files stored on these cards. When I removed them from the system and plugged them into my laptop, Windows XP recognized the addition of but didn't recognize the hard ware and asked for a driver.
I was hoping somebody remembered or knows how I read these using a PC.
One of the things I need to do is to reset the system administrator's password.
Thanks, Derek
snipped-for-privacy@FrontierNet.net wrote in news:1115135443.311556.139960 @f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
Does the system that uses the cards use a windows compatible file system for the flash cards?
We use 20MB versions of the same cards and have no trouble with using them under various windows versions from 95 to XP.
If no file system, or no compatible file system is used on the cards, then a product such as Elan Memory Card Explorer will still allow you to do a binary copy of data to and from the card. It also comes with support to embed the access of the cards into your own programs, allowing you to write custom programs to read and write cards without using a file system. There are likely other similar products out there, that just happens to be the one I am familiar with.
I was told that they used a FAT file system. I don't think the file system type is a problem. Even if they had a foreign file system, and Windows was able to mount the device, when I insert the cards windows would tell me that they were corrupt or that they were unformatted and put up the dialog box asking me if I wanted to format them.
When I serrt the cards the New Found Hardware dialog comes up. Do you know if you might have installed something that might, unknowingly installed the device drivers for these type of devices?
Thanks, Derek
snipped-for-privacy@FrontierNet.net wrote in news:1115214820.788879.17780 @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
The only two possibilities for that would be drivers that came with the PCMCIA drive that was installed in the desktop system, or the Memory Card Explorer program. I don't honestly know.
Contact M-Systems and see if they have a version of FTL (flash translation layer) that's Windows XP-compliant. Or use Windows 95, which (if my shaky memory is correct) includes an optional install of FTL on the CD:
Brian Dipert Technical Editor: Mass Storage, Multimedia (audio, displays, 2-D and 3-D graphics, and still and video imaging), PC Core Logic and Peripherals EDN Magazine:
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