AviationBanter - View Single Post - Motion LS800 table HD failure at 14,000 feet

**Jim Macklin** · October 17th 06, 10:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr,rec.aviation.misc

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"Peter" wrote in message
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|
| wrote
|
| Microsoft knows but they ain't tellin'. I think it's
possible to
| split things up like this, but it will take a lot of
trial and error
| to make sure you've got everything you need on the SD
card. Even then,
| if you accidentally click on the wrong icon or something,
Windows may
| still try to spin up the hard drive. If you have a real
Windows
| installation CD (not a "restore" CD provided by the
computer
| manufacturer), it might be interesting to remove the hard
drive from
| the PC, install the SD card, boot up the Windows install
CD, and see
| if you can convince it to install onto the SD card
instead. If that
| doesn't work, then buying a flash drive that has an IDE
interface,
| installing it along with your current hard drive, and
doing a disk copy
| from your current drive to the flash drive (assuming you
can fit
| everything onto the flash drive) will probably work. If
there aren't
| enough hard drive connections on your portable PC, you
may have to
| temporarily install both drives on a desktop PC to do the
drive copy,
| then put the flash drive back in the portable.
|
| Yes, this is what I would do too.
|
| One could use Truimage to take a snapshot and then restore
that onto
| the flash drive.
|
| I need at least 8GB and in 1.8" format, and it doesn't
seem to be
| available.
|
| The other thing is that the BIOS doesn't support the SD
slot as a
| bootable block device, so one couldn't (AFAIK) install
windoze on the
| SD card directly.
|
| I am just curious what "altitude" solutions the GA vendors
are
| offering... they can't all pack up at 14k, or can they????
I am sure
| plenty of American non-pressurised pilots fly high up,
with oxygen,
| just like I do.