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Loading maps to hard drive

plongson1954
over 8 years ago
I'm a long time user of Garmin products going back to Mapsource EARLY release and an old GPS 12...but still rocking a 76CS!!

I made the transition to BaseCamp a while back and have all my TOPO CD's along with City Select 2009 CD loaded on my hard drive. It makes the system SO much smoother and FAST...

I just purchased City Nav NA 2017 on a SD card and would LOVE to dump it on the hard drive but BaseCamp defies all attempts to read or even acknowledge the files unless directly from the SD.

QUESTION: How do I get BaseCamp to recognize City Nav NA 2017 and run from my HD and not from the SD??

THANKS in advance!!!

Paul
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Short answer is you can't simply copy them to your c drive.

    Longer answer is you'll need to create a virtual drive and copy the files to that. See here for details

    http://www.javawa.nl/virtualdevice.html
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    SUSSAMB...
    What do you think of this method in WIN 10? The earlier suggestion didn't really work out for me and I found this digging around. If you select a drive and hit ACTION, it has the option to create a VD.

  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Does it? Just looks like the normal windows partitioning to me?

    Let us know if it works though ;)
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Dunno if it works, I was running it past you! LOL!! When I tried the previously recommended procedure I ended up with some headaches, namely a frigg'n jacked up SD card with my $80 Garmin map set on it...and a file explorer that locked up. Fortunately I made a restore point and copied the SD to another PC before I started.

    I OBVIOUSLY did something wrong because you provided a great recommendation for my problem...It was my bad...

    Ya, I think you are right though, my idea would just make a partition and not a virtual DEVICE...

    Back to the drawing board...

    THANKS! Shoot me any new ideas....

    Paul
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Just an update...Played with the device tool and batch files and got it to run...flawlessly I might add. Now have the latest City Nav NA running on my PC HD.
    THANKS MUCH SUSSAMB, you're my hero...LOL
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Does it? Just looks like the normal windows partitioning to me?

    Let us know if it works though ;)

    @SUSSAMB
    On that Disk Management screen in the attached picture, if you click the "More Actions" entry in the right hand pane you get the options to "Create VHD" and to "Attach VHD".

    @plongson1954
    VHD stands for "Virtual Hard Drive". That's not the same thing as the virtual drives being discussed in this thread.

    Windows 10 has the ability -- using a feature called Hyper-V -- to create and run virtual machines that are like pretend computers with any operating system you want running inside them. So I could use Hyper-V to create a virtual machine and install, say, Linux or an older version of Windows in it. The resulting virtual machine would act just like a real computer with that operating system on it.

    Of course you need a hard drive to install the operating system onto and to load and run programs on. This hard drive is a virtual hard drive rather than a real one, although it uses the space on one of the real ones on your system. That's the kind of virtual hard drive, or VHD, that is being refered to in the Disk Management menu.

    The VHD that Disk Management creates is not usable for the purposes needed here. It simply shows up in File Explorer as a ".VHD" file on the hard drive you created it on. And it's only usable by Hyper-V for its virtual machines.

    I hope that's more helpful than confusing.

    ...ken...
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    @plongson1954

    Glad you got it working :)