Help please

[Harrison]

Just format the CF card on the PC and the Amiga should be able to read it fine.

[Kingpadboy]

Im just gonna post up what i sent to amigakit, i am so desperately frustrated right now, NO i didnt buy the optional card, i bloody wish i had now :'( i use the ASDA card in my printer slot, i cannot access it at all, write protected piece of shit.. and no theres NO SWITCH!! sorry for the caps letters but, fuk it lol

Hello, as you can see from my order history ive purchased some items which enabled me to get my amiga 1200 running with a harddrive, i bought the complete package as someone said it was easy to install and easy to play games with etc, that was after i had already purchased the ADF Adapter kit minus a compack flash card, i went to ASDA and purchased a 4gb Sandisk Ultra 30MB/s, now..ive heard this card works with your adapters etc but and heres a very big but...my shizzle doesnt work, i followed you guide to installing the 4gb harddrive with whdload installed, now assuming i did that correctly (anyways to check that) thats working i think, because my amiga is picking up the drive with all the icons on it etc, why cant i access any games on it? are the games preinstalled or do i get them from somewhere else? if so how do i get them to the harddrive to play? i also thought as i couldnt get that working i would transfer an ADF file from my PC to my ADF Adapter card from ASDA's, but and another big but, low and behold it says its write protected and i cannot drag any ADF files to it, comes up as H drive through my printer slot, as i dont have a card reader directly in my PC..i looked for 2 hours to find a solution to this, all i found was use the switch on the side of the compact flash card, there is NO switch at all on either side, bottom or top of the sandisk card..ARGHHHHHHhhhh,, as u can tell i am very frustrated about this.. noone on amiga forums is replying to me, implying that this is such a common thing they cannot be bothered to help yet another Noob as myself,, maybe i shouldve stuck to spending money on original disk boxed games with the purple screen, im off now to cry and scream a little more, please help, for the love of God and all that is holy, im begging you...

[Harrison]

The usual issues is that a card might be incompatible with the Amiga. It's quite common. The only cards that you can pretty much guarantee will work are Sandisk.

However, you mention you can't format the card in the PC and copy files to it. I would therefore try wiping the card completely and trying again. Try using Windows Disk Management for this. Either right click on "Computer", select manage, then go down to Disk Management. Or press Windows+R and type "diskmgmt.msc" (without the quotes). Now in the disk manager find the CF card and right click on it and choose delete volume. Now right click and select "new simple volume" and once complete it might then need formatting (again right click and select format).

If you try that the CF card should be prepared again and hopefully you can now write to it.

One the Amiga, in Workbench you also need to have the FAT32 filesystem installed. It comes on the EasyADF install disk, so it should be installed already if you correctly installed EasyADF from the disk. If not you can also download it from Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95

[Kingpadboy]

EastADF is all installed properly as far as i can tell.. the compact flash card is a working flash card for the amiga, it is a 4gb Sandisk 30MB/s Ultra..i know for a fact these work as my amiga has one running as a harddrive also bought from amigakit..the disk management doesnt work on this card, i can only go into properties and explore, no volumes about, i know how to do that as i had to do it with my OCZ Agility 3 drive..