Voici ce que j'ai trouvé en fouillant un peu sur la toile :
http://www.pcconsultant.com/microdrive.htm
Muvo2 4gb Hard Drive Extraction
25-Jun-2004
So you want to buy a Creative Labs Muvo2 player in order to extract the Microdrive hidden within?* I'm sorry to report that trick no longer works.* Creative in late May 2004 began shipping Muvo2 players with modified Hitachi Microdrives that DO NOT support compact flash mode.* This means the drive will not work in your camera!
So how can you tell if the Muvo2 you just bought has the old or new drive in it?* I've received reports of at least two ways to tell.
1.* Muvo2s containing the new drive has the following words (or words similar) on the box:
The hard drive in your player will not work in compact flash devices
2.* There is no Muvo2 pouch or wallet in the box.
Why did Creative do this?* My opinion:* I have no evidence that Creative Labs is responsible for this.* In fact, I'm more likely to believe that Hitachi is responsible.* Why?
Hitachi offers a retail packaged 4gb Microdrive for use in Digital Cameras and other devices that accept a type II CF device.* The retail price is somewhere around $500.* That's quite a bloody markup considering a Muvo2 music player retails for $200 that contains the same identical drive.* And that $200 includes a music player and profit for Creative Labs, to boot.* So you KNOW that the drive can't cost the OEM (Creative) much money.* So what does Hitachi do to prevent their retail Microdrive sales from plummeting?* They disable the CF mode of the OEM Microdrive that they bulk-sell to companies like Creative and Apple (for the iPod Mini).* The music players don't need CF mode, so there's no harm to them.* But it DOES prevent YOU from making use of the MD in a digital camera.
Some have speculated that Creative doesn't want their Muvo's hacked because Creative wants more public eyeballs on the Muvos.* In other words, they want the public to see the Muvo used by their customers so as to attract new customers.* Bullshit.* I don't believe Creative gives a rats-ass what people do with the Muvo.* Besides, the Muvo is an aesthetic and functional piece of crap.* The rocker button is pathetic and hard to operate and the menu system is awful.* The ipod Mini is so far superior to the Muvo in every way that I can't imagine anyone buying a Muvo except to extract the MD.* Lacking a MD usable outside the player, I believe Muvo sales will plummet and be discontinued.
CLICK HERE if you believe you have the older Muvo2 and want instructions on removing the Microdrive.
WARNING:* If you open your Muvo2 you will VOID the warranty.
Formatting the microdrive
Put the microdrive into your CF reader and start up your disk management software on your computer.
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP, here's what to do:
Right Click on "My Computer".
Select "Manage".
You should see the "Computer Management" window.
Click on "Disk Management".* You might need to click "Storage" to make it appear.
Look for a removable device with approximately 3.81 GB space.* This is your microdrive.
Right Click in the shared area showing the drive space.
Select "Format".
Type in a volume label if you want.* I used "Hitachi 4gb".
Select "FAT-32" as the file system.
Select "default" for the allocation unit size.
I unchecked the quick format box.* Maybe a quick format will work, but for the first format, I wanted to make sure.* A long format takes about 20 minutes or so.* Do not enable file and folder compression.* Your camera won't understand Microsoft compression.
Click OK.
I tried formatting mine using FAT with 64K allocation units.* It would not format.* A FAT-16 volume cannot utilize 64K clusters.* You'll want to select FAT-32.* There's been some mention on dpreview.com that FAT-32 will result in poorer performance.* Depending on your camera, your mileage may vary.
I'm using the Canon 300D / Digital Rebel.* I've noticed no performance penalty using the Hitachi microdrive formatted using FAT-32 vs. a Sandisk card.* Granted, they both finished at the bottom on Rob Golbraith's review.
If you are shooting in a situation where really fast write times are required, like a sporting event, then you'll want to review Rob Golbraith's memory card reviews to find the right card for your camera.
Ron Golbraith's CompactFlash Performance Database
Voici ce que dit Ron Golbraith à propos de la microdrive :
Hitachi Microdrive 4GB, formatted FAT32 with 32K cluster size (9)
(9) This camera's built-in formatter will reformat cards over 2GB as FAT32 with a 4K cluster size. This cluster size means less efficient camera-to-card transfers than FAT32 formatting with a 32K cluster size, so we've tested FAT32-formatted cards both ways in this camera. The only way with this camera to format a card FAT32 with a 32K cluster size is on the computer: we used the Format function in Disk Management in Windows XP. Note that technical staff at two CF card manufacturers warned that if a camera isn't designed for FAT32 with cluster sizes larger than 4K that compatibility problems could arise (though we experienced none in extensive testing with the 10D).
J'ai demandé à un copain qui a un PC de me formater la carte en suivant ces indications. ON verra bien. Sauf si Apple a fait comme Muvo, modifié le firmware pour empêcher qu'on l'utilise comme compact flash....
