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  1. January 10th, 2006, 04:46 PM #1
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    MS to IDE

    has anyone ever heard of a way to manufacture an adapter that would allow me to connect a 3.5" hard drive to a memory stick pro duo?

    before you start flaming about power issues, the hard drive is being run off a 12V, 12AH sealed lead acid battery... i just need a way to transfer the data between the device and hard drive... perhaps an ide controller?

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  2. January 10th, 2006, 05:15 PM #2
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    Well yes, it's called a PC, put a 3.5 drive in it and a card reader, and it allows you to transfer all the data you want

    Joking aside, why would you need to be able to transfer the data directly like that?
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  3. January 10th, 2006, 05:24 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperSparks
    Joking aside, why would you need to be able to transfer the data directly like that?
    1.) ipod died
    2.) a working PSP
    3.) 13 GB of music
    4.) spare 60gb hard drive
    5.) there is no 5

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  4. January 10th, 2006, 09:44 PM #4
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    It's going to take more than an IDE controller. In order to transfer files, something in the chain has to have a microprocessor and understand file systems. While it is possible to copy camera memory cards to a portable harddrive device, that device usually is a mini-computer (some hardrive based MP3 players do this) by acting as a USB host -- the memory card is the USB slave.
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  6. January 10th, 2006, 11:16 PM #5
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    doh!

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  7. January 10th, 2006, 11:51 PM #6
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    My Creative MP3 players has a 1.5GB Micro drive and I connect the MP3 via USB and it shows as a mass storage device although if the processor part wasn't working who knows what would happen.

    Strangely when I was having issues after spilling diet coke on it l used GDISK32 to wipe the hard drive and it gave me the following messages:

    Disk has overlapping drives
    Disk has partitions that extend past the end of the disk

    After finishing GDISK32 I rebooted into the players recovery console and selected the format option followed by clean up.

    Reconnected to PC and ran GDISK32 /status to see what was on the MuVo2 hard disk.

    It reckons it has 4 partitions with one being active but the usage % were totally out of wack eg 49748% for one drive.

    Presumably Creative uses some form of proprietry disk managament ?
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