Hi guys

Ive just bought a 256mb compactflash card for my digital cam and the pda, but it only showed me 239mb in the pda. I formatted it when connected up thru a card reader to my pc (running XP pro) and now it shows me 238mb!! Just lost another mb.. doh.

Ive spoke to the place i got it from and they are prepared to replace it. They also mentioned that i should format it in a 4k cluster - but i cannot find this option within XP.. any ideas? I only get the option to use the default format.. which i dont want.

Are there any other progs out there that let me choose the cluster size for this?

Thanks in advance peeps.

Baz ;)

I know Partition Magic allows you to resize clusters but I have no idea if it will work with a CF card.

Cool

Ill try that tonight Chris.. thanks.

Baz ;)

Use the camera itself to format the card.

All compact flash devices expect all compact flash cards to be formatted in a certain way per industry standard. You can't change the default allocation size of a compact card. In fact, if you could most camera's won't be able to access them at all.

Do as Hothi said and format it in the camera.

Done that already aswell and it still showed 239mb. I think im going to send it back and get it swapped instead of pi55in about with it!!

Thanks guys

Baz