SDHC recognised as HDD

Someone posted a guide to getting XP to recognise the expansion slot as a HDD. Iirc it involved installing a Toshiba driver and a bit of registry editing but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Anyone have the link?

 

No registry editing involved, just manually replace the current driver with the Hitachi Microdrive filter in device manager:

http://xpefiles.com/cs/files/folders/ha ... ry616.aspx

Search for Hitachi Microdrive if you need more info.

 

Thankyou, i'll give that a bash tonight.

 

What's the advantage to having it recognized as a drive?

 

It allows you to do everything you can with a regular HD (setting uo RAID etc). Also some software doesn't like being installed to a removable disk.

 

how would would windows xp run booting off a sdhc card and not the ssd

 

Still can't be done afaik, the changes to have the SD card as a HD are all driver based inside XP so the AA0 needs to boot first (the BIOS still doesn't recognise the card as a HDD, only windows does).

The reason you can't run XP from a SD card is simply because the AAO BIOS doesn't offer any option to boot from it, installing the OS onto the card is fairly easy but with no option for the One to boot from it it's pretty pointless.

 

can you please tell me how to do it exactly? I cant seem to do it right... :?:

 

http://forums.ebuyer.com/showthread.php?t=22851

 

thanks!

will try this this week!

 

I can confirm that it works:

(I chose to keep the second SD card as a removable device because I sometimes swap it for the SD card in my digi cam)

You need to edit the .inf, though. Simply trying to force the driver to install anyway will not work.

The instructions are not totally accurate when applied to the AAO, but I was able to figure it out. Where it sais "remove everything after the heading [cfadisk_device]" I think you're actually meant to keep the "[Strings]
HGST = "Hitachi Global Storage Technologies"
Microdrive_devdesc = "Hitachi Microdrive" bit at the very end of the file.

Instead of navigating to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USBSTOR", you should navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\SD", because we are going to turn the SD card and not a USB flash drive into a fixed drive. On my machine, the bit to put after the comma was "SD\VID_41&OID_3432&PID_SD8GB&REV_2.0".

Save the inf and then just install the driver for one or both of the SD card readers using the "Have Disk" method, ignoring any warning messages.

It's probably a good idea to back up everything before doing this, in case the driver causes your drive or SD cards to get corrupted.

After having converted the SD card into a fixed drive, you can use this program to easily move your personal files th the SD card without the messy registry editing:
http://www.eazsolution.com/en/download_foldermover.php

 

Worked perfect for me with NO registry editing whatsoever.
Downloaded the hitachi driver, unzipped it.
Went to the device manager and clicked on the card slot I wanted to install the driver for ( I wanted to keep the right hand slot as is).
Click update driver, when it asks if you want to search pick the no, I have the disk option and select the .inf file you downloaded then select Hitachi microdrive,
reboot
done

easy as pie

Thanks!

 

You can get a card reader and put your sdhc card in the card reader. Then install a customized version of XP onto the SDHC.

 

Hi. This is my first post. I was wondering if this method would be worthwhile to set up an SDHC card to use as your pagefile on a Windows XP machine. I mean would it not be a little quicker then using your HDrive? Sort of like an ebooster type thing.

 

Nice!! I have been searching for a solution like this, Can you please add a link to this driver you have been using??

 

setting pagefile on SD cards, even the fastest sd cards will be slower than hdd. Page file is optimized for HDD.
You can set a eboostr cache on your SD card however. Eboostr works in a different way than page file and is optimized for flash storage.
Also, for you to set page file on an SD card, you must use an external card reader. Internal card reader are PCI-express based, not USB based. It needs drivers in order to read flash cards, but page file is needed before windows loads the driver.
This is also the reason why most people cannot boot from internal card readers.

 

THe link was listed in the second post of this thread but it appears to be down now.
If you go here http://www.eeefiles.com/index.php?act=view&id=7
and scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a red button that says download, that should be the correct driver.

 

I have tried loading this driver (noted in the immediately preceding post) a few times and each time, the SDHC card remains identified as a removable device. What am I doing wrong?. Is there another driver or does anyone have a link to one? I really would like to be able to move a few folders on my AAO. Thanks.

Update 3/17/09: Finally got it working. Only took 1 and 1/2 days to figure out the stupid mistake I was making!!