Card Tricks - a small utility to help manage SD cards [currently v. 1.44]

fe50

Hello & welcome, alistair !

alistair
are the downloads still active on the link?

Mirrors:
* http://www.assembla.com/spaces/chdkde/documents/b6C8HmgVir34UVeJe5afGb/download?filename=cardtricks144sfx.exe
* http://downloads.chdk-treff.de/tools/CardTricks-144-SFX.exe

whim

@alistair
@fe50

Just checked the links above the original post and they are OK
Removed the link within the (quoted) original post, as
links in quotes don't seem to work ATM

cheers,

wim

edit: also checked Wiki links, works for me ...
(All links checked using Firefox 3.6.13, right click on link -> open in new tab)

alistair

thanks guys
appreciate it

alistair

Hi again guys sorry bout this

Power shot A470... a470-102c-0.9.9-1005-full

ran CT and got FAT on card
Make bootable not highlighted
followed all nooby instructions to the letter
went back retried
checked the forum saw some posts on this.
tried it on a 32m card already formatted to FAT???
cant load CHDK
Vista home.. 4GB card

stuck
hope you can help

whim

@alistair

ran CT and got FAT on card
Make bootable not highlighted

I suppose 'not highlighted' means greyed out / not clickable ?
CardTricks will 'grey out' the 'Make bootable' button for 2 reasons:

1) the card is already bootable, in that case 'CHDK Autorun' should say: ON ('BOOTDISK' at 0x40)

2) the card is formatted as FAT32 (check what it says after 'File System') - if it is, use 'Format as FAT'
and the button should become available

hope that helps,

wim

alistair

Hi
the card is not bootable
and was rewritten to FAT

however I took the card placed it in a notpad and the upload was seemless.
Its Great!!

Im using Vista and the pad was 7.

Thanks for a great piece of software.

mastodon

Not really Card Trick specific: I have a Transcend 8 Gb SDHC card. I had 2 partitions on it, to automatically boot CHDK. It worked fine, but now the camera says "Memory card error", winXP see two partitions but neither can read or write. If I try to format (even low level) with an SX 200 it goes, but the error persist. I can not finish the formatting in windows with any program, it says the card is locked.
Anybody has any idea how to repair it?

jzigchdk

Version 1.44 is flagged as a VIRUS by Avast free anitvirus software. It flags and quarantines the "CardTricks-144-SFX.exe" as well as the expanded "bintext.exe" file as containing "win32:Malware-gen".

whim

@jzigchdk

False positive by Avast/GData engines (just rechecked via virustotal.com)
Check bintext.exe page at McAfee - the current owner - site here

hth,

wim

jzigchdk

I figured it was a false positive.

I just checked the site that you referenced. It has bintext version 3.0.3.0 and it is not flagged by Avast, but version 3.0.0.1 that is included in Cardtricks 1.44 does get flagged, so McAfee must have changed something so it doesn't look like a virus anymore.

Thanks for the quick response.
Ziggy

Reuben

Hi Everyone... I've used CHDK for a while now... on Canon SD1200IS, Canon S2 IS and Canon S5 IS... The S2 and S5 are broken... I just bought a Canon SX20IS... with a 16GB card ... I use Windows 7 but I have a PC with windows XP as well...

I've tried all the things here: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Bootable_SD_card ...
here: http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Bootdisk - Bootdisk doesn't run - says some dll is missing...
Plus have been here http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_and_SD_cards_greater_than_4GB_%288GB,_16GB,_32GB,_64GB%29 but I don't have linux

Can anyone please walk me through the correct steps with win 7 or XP to install CHDK on SX20 IS? Given that I don't have access to linux machines...

Thanks 😀 (There's a great cloudy sky outside and I'm missing that 🙁 )
--> My Vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/ReubenMRU?feature=mhum#p/u

waterwingz

Reuben
Hi Everyone... I've used CHDK for a while now... on Canon SD1200IS, Canon S2 IS and Canon S5 IS... The S2 and S5 are broken... I just bought a Canon SX20IS... with a 16GB card ... I use Windows 7 but I have a PC with windows XP as well...

I've tried all the things here: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Bootable_SD_card ...
here: http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Bootdisk - Bootdisk doesn't run - says some dll is missing...
Plus have been here http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_and_SD_cards_greater_than_4GB_%288GB,_16GB,_32GB,_64GB%29 but I don't have linux

Can anyone please walk me through the correct steps with win 7 or XP to install CHDK on SX20 IS? Given that I don't have access to linux machines...

Thanks 😀 (There's a great cloudy sky outside and I'm missing that 🙁 )
--> My Vids: http://www.youtube.com/user/ReubenMRU?feature=mhum#p/u

For cards bigger than 4G, you really should be using sdminste.exe. Link here: http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/quick.htm

Works fine on XP or 7.

SkyWalker9

Reuben... I just bought a Canon SX20IS... with a 16GB card ... I use Windows 7 but I have a PC with windows XP as well...Can anyone please walk me through the correct steps with win 7 or XP to install CHDK on SX20 IS? Given that I don't have access to linux machines...

Here is a posting that should help: https://chdk.setepontos.com/d/6173/5

The tutorial link is still active. Have fun with your SX20!

Reuben

Oh you replied quickly... thanks... I have been waiting for some kind of notification from the forum :-S ... good thing I checked 😀 ... I'll try that link you sent 😀 thanks! will let you know!

Reuben

Thanks SkyWalker9 and waterwingz: I tried the PDF and it works (I checked the 'quick' link too -- seems to say the same thing) 😀 I'm even surprised to see that the canon Software downloads the photos without fuss despite the dual partition... I had imagined that i would have needed to do the swap thing for every photo import ... EXCEEDS expectations...

Many Thanks...

On a side note... why is it so difficult to fall on the right info? the other links were all buggy to me :-S ...

Cheers,

Reuben

waterwingz

Reuben
On a side note... why is it so difficult to fall on the right info? the other links were all buggy to me :-S ...

Link rot. This is an all volunteer operation and things change fast and get out of date even faster. Feel free to clean up what you can.

waterwingz

Reuben
Oh you replied quickly... thanks... I have been waiting for some kind of notification from the forum :-S ... good thing I checked 😀

You have to go into the profile section on the forum and enable notifications.

hiker_jon

Hi,
Just wondering if Cardtricks is being actively maintained? I am confused since there is a version 145 out yet this thread seems older. I have 145, but can't get it to make fat32 cards bootable.

Jon

waterwingz

hiker_jon
Just wondering if Cardtricks is being actively maintained?

I don't think so - it never supported dual partition booting and that's been around for years

I am confused since there is a version 145 out yet this thread seems older. I have 145, but can't get it to make fat32 cards bootable.

So far, the only ways to do that are via Linux or Apple utilities. Or using the CHDK in the camera to do that.

I've tried to keep this up-to-date :

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Bootable_SD_card

fe50

hiker_jon
I am confused since there is a version 145 out yet this thread seems older. I have 145, but can't get it to make fat32 cards bootable.

CardTricks 1.44 is the latest "standard" version, v1.45 is a special version for DSLR CF card handling.
* http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Cardtricks#Internals

CardTricks is a GUI, it just calls the good old bootable.exe...
To "update" this to the new FAT32 boot mechanism, the bootable.exe app could be adapted... sources are included in every CardTricks package (\CardTricks\SRC\helper_sources.zip\bootable\ ) 😉

waterwingz
So far, the only ways to do that are via Linux or Apple utilities. Or using the CHDK in the camera to do that.

Or using a hex editor (e.g. HxD from http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/ - free, usable without installation) to write the BOOTDISK tag to the card...

[unknown]

[unknown]
Where should the BOOTDISK label be for my 16GB card?

FAT32 formatted card (cameras with DryOS version >= R47 from year >=2011: offset 0x1E0
FAT12 / FAT16 formatted card (all cameras): at offset 0x40

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