Flash Card Preservation Tips

[birddog114]

http://www.nyip.com/tips/flashcards0604.php

[Glen]

Good article Birddog, even brought up some thing I don't do but never thought of, don't remove the card from the reader if there is an open file (from that card) on the pc.

[birddog114]

Glen,
Agreed, there're many simple things in this world that we don't know, that why we have this forum for sharing all the learning curves that we found in difference ways.

[Onyx]

There's an addition safeguard you could do (on Win2k/XP machines) if you have kids or an absent mind when it comes to safely removing CF cards from readers. Disable write-behind cacheing for portable/removeable devices. That way, when you're not actively reading/writing to the card, it won't hurt it as much if it's inadvertantly disconnected/removed.