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USB Flash Drives??

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Willard

Flightless Bird
I have 2 SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire disks, each 1gb FAT format to use with
DOS programs..
Gdisk shows #1 with 124cyls, 255hds, (A)status..
Gdisk shows #2 with 994cyls, 32hds, (no)status

How can I make #1 & #2 duplicates??

I have wiped, reformatted, and have tried Ghost Clone to no avail....
 
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Willard

Flightless Bird
Willard wrote:
> I have 2 SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire disks, each 1gb FAT format to use with
> DOS programs..
> Gdisk shows #1 with 124cyls, 255hds, (A)status..
> Gdisk shows #2 with 994cyls, 32hds, (no)status
>
> How can I make #1 & #2 duplicates??
>
> I have wiped, reformatted, and have tried Ghost Clone to no avail....
>

Perhaps I forgot to mention the most important thing that Gdisk shows::

Gdisk shows #1 as 972.7mb and #2 as 978.3mb....
 
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Bert Hyman

Flightless Bird
In news:-Oz4qzYIHLHA.552@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl Willard <guess@msn.invalid>
wrote:

> Willard wrote:
>> I have 2 SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire disks, each 1gb FAT format to use
>> with DOS programs..
>> Gdisk shows #1 with 124cyls, 255hds, (A)status..
>> Gdisk shows #2 with 994cyls, 32hds, (no)status
>>
>> How can I make #1 & #2 duplicates??
>>
>> I have wiped, reformatted, and have tried Ghost Clone to no avail....
>>

> Perhaps I forgot to mention the most important thing that Gdisk
> shows::
>
> Gdisk shows #1 as 972.7mb and #2 as 978.3mb....


Perhaps they're not really identical. Just because they have the same
external label, there's no reason to think that their internal structure
must be the same.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com
 
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smlunatick

Flightless Bird
On Jul 5, 10:08 pm, Willard <gu...@msn.invalid> wrote:
> Willard wrote:
> > I have 2 SanDisk Cruzer Crossfire disks, each 1gb FAT format to use with
> > DOS programs..
> > Gdisk shows #1 with 124cyls, 255hds, (A)status..
> > Gdisk shows #2 with 994cyls, 32hds, (no)status

>
> > How can I make #1 & #2 duplicates??

>
> > I have wiped, reformatted, and have tried Ghost Clone to no avail....

>
> Perhaps I forgot to mention the most important thing that Gdisk shows::
>
> Gdisk shows #1 as 972.7mb and #2 as 978.3mb....


You must note that the 1GB label is a "marketing" gimmick. In
general, the manufacturers rounds up on the total amount. Also, the
formatting of the drive will not always use the complete capacity.
 
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