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Windows puts an 8 MB format on my 6 MB card. What can I do?

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Windows puts an 8 MB format on my 6 MB card. What can I do?

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If your PC Card Reader is formatting a 6 megabyte card as 8 megabytes, you may be able to get updated drivers that will correct the problem. Check with your PC Card Reader manufacturer for better drivers. If you want to try the protected mode drivers, review the license agreement at the web site, download the file and read all the instructions. Then basically you need to do the following. Remove the real mode drivers from your system. You can do this by commenting them out by placing REM at the beginning of the CSMAPPER.SYS and CARDDRV.EXE lines in your CONFIG.SYS file. Then reboot your system. Use Device Manager to make sure that the PCMCIA socket device driver is installed. Remove any PC Cards from all of your PC Card Reader slots. Run the downloaded executable, TFFS95.EXE. Finally, reboot your system. After installing these protected mode drivers, your system may behave a little differently. With the real mode drivers, you may have had a permanent drive letter assigned to your PC Ca

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