I just bought 2 new cards -- 2 GB SD and 4 GB CF -- for my Axim X51v.

Is there an easy way to transfer all my stuff from the old cards to the new
ones and have the programs run just as before?

I ask this because I copied the contents of the old cards to the new ones,
put the new ones in the Axim, and except for the programs in Main Memory,
none of the programs on the new cards can be found. It says that either the
software is not signed with a trusted certificate or one of the components
cannot be found and I might need to reinstall or restore this file.

I do not want to reinstall my software.

What am I missing? Do I need to tweak the registry and tell it the serial
numbers of the new cards or something like that?

Regards,
Wayne Moses
Houston, Texas

Look in the file-explorer, if You have access to Your new cards. If not,
maybe the Axim X51v can not work with cards of this size or the format
of the filesystem on this cards is wrong, so Windows CE can not access it.
e.g. my Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox can not work with SD-cards, that are
bigger than 1GB. Cards with bigger size work only in an adapter in the
CompactFlash-slot on my device. :(
Kind regards, Helge

Are you sure you copied the original root directory to the target root? That
is, is the directory structure the same with the two (original and new)
cards?

Also, don't forget that you can't interchange SD and CF cards. That is,
don't copy the contents of the SD card to the CF one and vica versa.

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"Wayne Moses" <wayne.moses@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:fd67242869d398ca3010d6448240@newsgroups.comca st.net...
>I just bought 2 new cards -- 2 GB SD and 4 GB CF -- for my Axim X51v.
>
> Is there an easy way to transfer all my stuff from the old cards to the
> new ones and have the programs run just as before?
>
> I ask this because I copied the contents of the old cards to the new ones,
> put the new ones in the Axim, and except for the programs in Main Memory,
> none of the programs on the new cards can be found. It says that either
> the software is not signed with a trusted certificate or one of the
> components cannot be found and I might need to reinstall or restore this
> file.
>
> I do not want to reinstall my software.
>
> What am I missing? Do I need to tweak the registry and tell it the serial
> numbers of the new cards or something like that?
>
> Regards,
> Wayne Moses
> Houston, Texas
>
>

You may have missed hidden and system files...

suggest copying using a card reader on your pc...

set file explorer folder options to show hidden and system files

fileexplorer/tools/folderoptions/view

then copy the entire card to a folder on your pc

swap cards

copy the entire folder contents (not the folder itself) to the root of
the new card.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Hello Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" BevNoSpamBevHoward.com,

B> You may have missed hidden and system files...
B>
B> suggest copying using a card reader on your pc...
B>
B> set file explorer folder options to show hidden and system files
B>
B> fileexplorer/tools/folderoptions/view
B>
B> then copy the entire card to a folder on your pc
B>
B> swap cards
B>
B> copy the entire folder contents (not the folder itself) to the root
B> of the new card.

I suspected that this is what happened .... I must have not copied hidden
or system files. So tonight I went old school -- fired up a DOS window and
used XCOPY to make sure I got system and hidden files as well as the directory
structure.

Both cards are now working fine.

Thanks to Werner and Helge for their replies also.

Regards,
Wayne Moses
Houston, Texas

>> fired up a DOS window and used XCOPY <<

....careful, you are showing your age ;-)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Forgot the real reason for the post... take a moment and assure that
long filenames were copied correctly when you used XCopy... should be
ok, but remember some cases when long filenames were lost doing so...
back when it was XCOPY and XCOPY32

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Helge Tefs wrote:
> ... e.g. my Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox can not work with
> SD-cards, that are bigger than 1GB. Cards with bigger size work only
> in an adapter in the CompactFlash-slot on my device. :(
> Kind regards, Helge

That cannot be the same sort of Loox as mine since I have only an SD slot
and understood that a CF card could not be used (even with an adaptor). But
on the other hand I am consistently using a 2Gb SD card, although less than
half full so far...

Mike.
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Hello Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" BevNoSpamBevHoward.com,

>>> fired up a DOS window and used XCOPY <<
>>>
B> ...careful, you are showing your age ;-)

Figured I was .... what really gets me is when I speak about DOS to one of
the younger folk and they have no idea what it is ...

Regards,
Wayne Moses
Houston, Texas

>> I speak about DOS to one of the younger folk and they have no idea
what it is <<

....or, they assume you are running "denial of service" attacks ;-)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]