On 28/01/02 10:52, "Mike Hamende" <mhamende_at_tsl.state.tx.us> wrote:
> Will this work to erase the Getting Started cards and use them as storage?
>
> Has anyone figured out how to do this or is it impossible?
>
> I have a bunch of these cards and thought they would make good storage,
> if one could get them to read and write.
>
> I have read the FAQ and not found any reference to this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike
>
> Victor Rehorst wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>
>>> on 27/01/02 02:25, Gumyee_at_aol.com at Gumyee_at_aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> First, I want to thank everyone for answering my questions, people are very
>>>> helpful. I loaded up my 2100, but the guy that said "murphy's law" was
>>>> right.
>>>> I backup (2000)and then restored (to 2100) and then did it again...finally
>>>> I
>>>> just loaded the few extra things I kept finding missing onto a card and
>>>> stuck
>>>> it into the 2100 to restore...yeah! Still can't figure out why those few
>>>> things were gone, but oh well...
>>>>
>>> Some packages may have a protection bit set, so that they can't be copied,
>>> duplicated or otherwise moved...
>>>
>>
>> ...unless you have EEUnprotect installed, which is a little extention that
>> causes the OS to ignore this bit:
>>
>> http://www.unna.org/unna/utilites/system_enhancements/EEUnProtect/
>>
This EEUnprotect thing won't help you erase your "Getting Started" cards.
I'm not sure that those can be erased. What you can do would be to open the
prefs, then insert your "Getting Started" card. Usually, with an erasable
flash RAM card, you should be presented with a dialog asking you if you
really want to completely erase the card. If that confirmation dialog
doesn't pop up when you insert your "Getting Started" card, then I would
guess that the card is not writable.
-Laurent.
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