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[orb_nsc]

Hi I've been lurking here for a while, but now I'm experiencing my own issue that I haven't seen mentioned here.

I have the CF Supercard, and I bought a 1GB PNY card for it.  It's been working great.  I have 480 MB of games and mp3s and stuff on it, and now it's not allowing me to add anything else.  Windows gives me some weird error, so I tried copying the files via my Linux box and it said that the target drive was out of disk space.  Back in Windows I moved all the files back onto my hard drive, reformated the card using the Howto on this site, moved them back, and still can't add any files.  Any ideas?  Shouldn't I be able to add more to this card...it's only half full at this point.  Windows even shows that it has 518 MB of free space.

[bitblt]

I've experienced a similar problem with my 2G SD.  The problem went away after I reformatted the flash with Win XP.  Format it as FAT.  If it still doesn't work in windows, there is a slight possibility that you have a bad CF. Many CFs and SDs have a lifetime warranty.

[m2pt5]

Use subdirectories (subfolders.) FAT has a limitation on the number of files in the root directory, and long filenames reduce that further. Subfolders will let you use your full capacity.

[orb_nsc]

Looks like building subdirectories tool care of the problem.  Thanks!