Small size and enhanced 4GB capacity permits you to carry an entire continent of maps or 1,000 songs in your pocket. Reliable storage for data, photos, music, and videos from digital cameras, PDAs, handheld PCs, MP3 digital audio players, laptops and other portable handheld devices Hitachi's new 4GB Microdrive is designed to the Compact Flash Type II industry standard and is compatible with a wide variety of devices that accept CF+ Type II media. The 4GB Microdrive is formatted at the factory using the FAT32 file system to remedy the 2GB limitation of the FAT16 file system.Customer Review: Bargain for big storage.
Works flawlessly in my Nikon D-70. I still use my 60x write speed CFII card for action photo's but this is a great backup card for non-action photography.
Customer Review: microdrives.
most cameras need a Fat 16 formated drive. All 4 GB drives come (IBM or Hitachi or labels) come formated FAT32 so given that fact , most cameras will fail. If yours works , skip this review, ok? However you can reformat it. What's worse, there at 2 types of drives. Hitachi says white label is REAL-IDE interface only ( computer , Ipod, MP3 unit, etc) and that blue label is: CF+ Camera Microdrive so if you have a white lable , chances are, It will never work with a camera. To be sure, check the model number on your drive againt the Hitachi online specifications to be sure. To fix FAT32 , get a USB to FC/MD Memory reader device. find Windows XP pro, Home stinks , find the real thing. Go to control panel + admin..tools +computer.managment + disk management. recommend looking before and after pluging in your microdrive so you will recognize it when plugged in. find it and right click , delete partition. ( be dang careful here) now, right click it again, and creat a new partition of 2gb. when that is done format it to FAT16. ( some times called FAT) you lost 2gb, but that ok, as many cams have a limit of 2gb, but not all. set the partition to whatever you camera manaual allows. the above assume you are not in some recovery mode. For that you need special software and $40
