CF cards last time (for today anyway)

[Jokeyman123]

Following through on Cf card escapades. I have 2 rear-loading CF cards that fit a micro SD or "TF" card in the back slot, the concept being of avoiding inserting and removing CF cards from the Fusion-which can easily bend pins. If you bend even one pin, you are s***ed, and have to open the Fusion, and remove the metal shielding that covers the mainboard-and even then, I had to use very thin X-Acto knife blade tools inserted in the back Fusion CF card slot to straighten the pins. Not for the faint of heart or shaky hands. HOWEVER...ran into a problem. The Fusion "sees" the card, shows its capacity-but no matter how I try to format it-it will not format. Throws a "PBR" error which stands for partition boot record. I tried formatting it first with the Fusion-tested with another Cf card and the slot works, and formatted another Cf card without my new adapter card...this is a new mainboard so..... then I tried formatting in the computer and then in the Fusion, still no good. I'm stumped as to why this would not work. I was under the impression that the file structure on an SD (or in this case a TF card) and on a CF card were the same-but I guess not. As usual, another computer foobar that makes no sense, at least not to me. I tried manually creating the folders, files through the computer, but still nothing. So another grand idea bites the big one.