hey everybody chris here again welcomeback to the channel we're glad you'rehereso today it's gonna be another retrotutorial and what we're gonna look at issetting up a cf card and i'm gonna showyou how to do that using a modern pc sothat you can then in turn use this on anolder machineso basically first i'm going to take youthrough that process and then i'm goingto show you one gotcha if you're usingmicrosoft windows to do this setupprocess and we'll take it to that pointso a tutorial short and sweet eightminutes or less let's gofor the cf card setup we're going torely heavily on the streamcast.nututorial which is absolutely great andthere will be a link in the descriptionand basically we're going to follow itwith a couple of modifications the firstthing we're going to do actually is notuse ms-dos but use windows 95 b so thatwe can set a fat32 partition so i'll bedownloading a windows 95b boot disk forthat purpose but you could use dos andyou could use a disk manager if neededetc etcnext up it says to install virtualbox ona modern windows pc and to connect a cfcard to that modern windows pc and ihave connected it to drive h and ialready have virtualbox installed so wewon't be going through that proceduretodaythe next thing you want to do is removeall partitions from the cf card inwindows disk management so i'll go aheadand launch that i just type disk managerand it brings up create and format harddisk partitions as you can see thereand we can scroll down to drive hand see what we have and as we scrolldown we'll see it's actually unallocatedso there's nothing to remove i can rightclick on it and there's no deletesetting so i'll show you on anotherpartition what that looks like i'llchoose i don't know my c driveor my g drive and go to delete volumebut i'm actually not going to do itbecause i like my data but you get theidea anyway you'll certainly want to dothat and from there we can launch acommand prompt as administrator that'sgoing to be an important step for thisnext step here the next thing we'regoing to do is actually list the list ofdrives that are attached to the systemand we can see that physical drive 2 isour sd card or our cf card ratherand the next thing we need to do iscreate a virtual disk a vmdk file basedupon this so i'm going to go ahead andchange into the virtual box directorybecause i like to run commands from thecurrent directory most of the time andwe're going to do that nowfrom there we can type vbox manageinternal commandscreate raw vmdkdash file name and this can be whateveryou want i'm just going to call itmycfcard.vmdkand then rawdisk and specify the diskthat you see above which is going to bethis slash dot slash physical drive 2and from there it will create a diskperfectso moving on to the next step we want tostart virtualbox with administratorrightsnext up we can create a new virtualmachine or modify an existing onei'm just going to go ahead and modify anexisting one for purposes of thisexercise so i'll go to my existingmachine and go to settings and go tostorage and i'll add that new drive as adrive so we can choose an existing disknavigate to drive d in my case and findmycf card.vmdkand we are all setfrom here we can go ahead and power onand we can start our process ofpartitioning this particular disk or cfcardokay so as we power on here we're goingto get a boot failure because there's nooperating system loaded or partitionedso let's go ahead and put that windows95b disk into the drive and i'll goahead and select that happens to be inmy downloads folder there it isand i can go ahead and reboot thevirtual machine and we'll make thisbigger so you can see it and it saysstarting windows 95 greatso from here it's really just anexercise in f disk and we'll say largepartition support yes create a dospartition primaryand let it createand we'll choose the maximum size andmake it activeperfectone more restart here and then we canformat the diskso here we are restarting and now we cango ahead and format drive c s and thiswill make this a bootable disk orbootable cf cardgreatso from here let's go ahead and ejectthe disk from the floppy drive and we'llreboot one more time just to prove thatwe're all set hereand we'll be all set and ready to gothere we are booted up on drive c and wecan do a directory listingso i wanted to show one more thing andthat is dealing with a logging issuewe'll go ahead and create a file heresince we haven't left the session thatyou saw me in just a minute ago and i'vecreated a new file called file.txt withthis is a test as the text okaynow i am going to close virtualboxand this is going to release the lock onthat new drive that we created windowsis going to see it and say hey let'smount this nice removable disk okaylet's launch virtualbox again great andthen we can hit start and we can goahead and boot up and let's just goahead and do a directory listing andmake a copy of that file there iactually added a new one in the interimand you can see we have a generalfailure writing drive cuh oh why did this happen well it'sbecause windows locked the drivehow do we get around it well let me showyou one way and this involves using aprogram called exclusive so we're goingto go to this website you see on theleft and there will be a link in thedescription and it downloads a programcalled dskacland within there is a program calledexclusive and this will allow us toovercome this problemso if we scroll down here in the page weshould see a download to a cab filein the case we're going to want a 64-bitversion so i'll download thatand go ahead and extract that and ifound that you want to keep the filesyou extract here in the same directoryotherwise the exclusive program can havesome problems so we'll just extract thatto downloads and you can see it there idid try dragging it around and thatdidn't work so well so word to the wiseand now we can go ahead and launch it soi'm going to just basically run it fromthat directory happens to be indownloads exclusive run it once it'llgive you the command line options sowhat we want to do now is pass in thevolume and we know it's drive h so aslash dot and i'll get this wrong oncebut i'll fix it e will change to h so aslash slash dot slash h colon and thenvirtualbox.exeso we launch again here and then we cango ahead and see what happens once itlaunches up here i'll do a directorycommand and i'm going to copy file.txtto file3.txt once i get it right hereand lo and behold it works so indeed thedrive is locked hoorayso just to prove that we are locked froma windows perspective if i go to drive hnotice that access is denied so againthis locking is doing a great job atensuring that only the program we launchis able to access that drivenow that we've exited virtualbox i canactually go and copy files on that driveso as soon as we exit we are no longerlocked in windows very very coolso at this point we can launchvirtualbox again and go ahead and hitstart and we are locked exclusivelyagain though it doesn't really matter ifwe do a dir there's our file4.txt allsetalright well that's what i had for youtoday hope you enjoyed it hope you foundthis procedure usefuli've actually needed to use thisprocedure you're going to see in anupcoming video as to whyif you're not subscribed to the channelgo ahead and subscribe and ring thatnotification bell and you'll see thatvideo when it gets releasedin all cases if you enjoyed the videoplease give me a thumbs up if not pleaseconsider sending me a strong message bypressing that thumbs down button twiceas always it's been great having youalong for the retro journey and i lookforward to seeing you next time butuntil thenbye for nowyou