HP200LX CF cards

[striegel]

My main home system runs Windows 11 Pro and with a good working USB adapter, it can work fine with several of my HP 200LX Compact Flash cards. In fact, the main one I use daily is a 256 MB CF card and I do not need the Acecard driver.

The label on the face of the CF card probably matters less than the actual make and model of the card. On the outside edge of mine, it is labeled (faintly, in tiny text):

THNCF 256MBA (T00CK) 998018 TAIWAN 0410

If you can find one close enough to this, it ought to work well.

The most important aspect is that the card first needs to be initialized and formatted in the 200LX before it's ever presented to the Windows 11 system.

Plugging in on the Windows 11 desktop, it may put up a notice of this type:

Quote:USB Drive (F: )
There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it.

If so, ignore this warning.