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PDA2K camera as WebCam

Hello,
can i use my pda2k cam as webcam ??
Thanks in advance for your replies...

No. I have read threads on this before (like on other forums I think) 'cos I got sick of carryin so many devices. It would be wicked if it could but I think the problem lies in the fact that the USB connection isn't quick enough.
I'm sure my SE P800 worked as a webcam :\ Perhaps I'm imaining things.

There is a way to make your Blue Angel work similar to a web cam. The program uploads a new image every x seconds to an FTP server using the integrated camera software.
You can create your own solution such as an HTML page that refreshes periodically to update the image. I think the software supplying a sample file. However, you cannot obtain a true live webcam experience.
If you need the software, PM me or I'll try attaching it here.

mike freegan said:
I'm sure my SE P800 worked as a webcam :\ Perhaps I'm imaining things.
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I got a USB camera for my girlfriend. You can get enough throughput from USB to support 640x480, but USB really does have to be at full throttle then. Anything more (like DV) and you're way out of the region USB can handle. You might well have managed it on your phone.
I can't see any reason why the Qtek 9090 *couldn't* support that, but I'm thinking it's a problem with how Pocket PCs are made accessible by Windows. I very much doubt the default ActiveSync drivers have an interface for it, and I don't really see the market for writing your own PPC driver for what is a niche request, especially when you can get very good web cams like the Logitech Quickcam 4000 for 60 quid.
Chris

I got several requests to send the software I used for webcam on PPC.
There are 2 programs I saw. One I tried and the other I didn't.
The program I tried is called Webcam for Pocket PC (PpcWebcam.zip) and its free. The other one is (MobileHomeCamPPC.exe).
I recommend you try the first one first, and it works great.
I attached the 2 files in one zip file.
The download page for PpcWebcam is http://www.zone1.de/latest.html and I guess there's a newer version but I provided a 100%-working one.

i get an error saying its not a valid win32 application, how do i get round this?? :?:

run
you must run the program in ppc NOT IN PC

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indra9110 said:
you must run the program in ppc NOT IN PC
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Sure, unless it's a setup file that installs thru ActiveSync.

try this one.... :wink:
RAGO :lol:

RAGOv
i have a PPC-6600 i know its not BA but i cant seems to get that one to run? any clue?

connect an harddisk to the Universal??

hi all
im new to this forum. and im thinking of buying an mda pro (aka htc universal) however i would like to have an external HD attached to it
so my question is:
could i use my creative zen touch 20gb mp3 player (like ipod) to connect with the mda pro if i were to have the cable for it?
the zen touch is an MTP (media tranfer protocol) device and WMP10Mobile also supports MTP..
i tried the search but found nothing relevant
any help is appreciated

In a word, No.
Sorry you can't do what you want to. The Universal would need a USB Host controller, which it does not have. You would need to rewire the motherboard and add some software to get this. So you can forget that until you can find a SD USB Host controller, of which there are zero.
Closest you can come is adding a Wi-Fi hard drive, as of now.
Sorry

where I can find wifi hard drive?

http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/usbmassstoragedriver.shtml
Try it and let us know if it works...

if you read exactly... its ONLY for old Toshiba PPCs and they have an official USB Host port 8)

hanantor said:
where I can find wifi hard drive?
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Well if you can wait then look at http://www.edslab.com/products.htm
if you need it now then look at http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=12&l2=44&l3=0&model=460&modelmenu=1

if you read exactly... its ONLY for old Toshiba PPCs and they have an official USB Host port
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are you kidding me dude? there is no such mention...
Requirements:
• Pocket PC 2002
Description:
The long awaited USB mass Storage driver for PocketPC 2002.
This is a driver which enables you to use USB mass storage devices (HD, multimedia Reader, digital camera) with your USB host enabled PocketPC.
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try not to post misinformation... and btw there is no such thing as a USB HOST PORT... it's all in the software...

ady said:
if you read exactly... its ONLY for old Toshiba PPCs and they have an official USB Host port
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are you kidding me dude? there is no such mention...
Requirements:
• Pocket PC 2002
Description:
The long awaited USB mass Storage driver for PocketPC 2002.
This is a driver which enables you to use USB mass storage devices (HD, multimedia Reader, digital camera) with your USB host enabled PocketPC.
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try not to post misinformation... and btw there is no such thing as a USB HOST PORT... it's all in the software...
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universal in "not" usb host enabled so...

ady said:
try not to post misinformation... and btw there is no such thing as a USB HOST PORT... it's all in the software...
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Lol, thats one of the stupidest things I have read on a forum.
There is definately more to USB host that software. Why else would most PPCs not have USB host as a feature, and why would USB host be a big mention when a device with it is released

well.. actually..
I'm an owner of both the qtek 9000 and the Pocket LOOX 720 (Fujitsu-siemens branded)
The loox hardware and the qtek are almost identical with the difference that the qtek has phone abbilities, and the loox dosen't. However, the loox does have officiall USB-host-features. (both have VGA, cam, 520 mhz, ear-speaker and both are made by HTC)
When you look at the registry and the USB drivers used, they are almost the same, but with the usbmsc.dll added on the loox.
And.. since the usb-host feature is in the
PXA27X processor and not an external chip, the only reason why the universal not should have usb-host features is if they changed something in the wireing from the processor core...
I would love to tryout and see if I get this to work, but I can't seem to be able to copy that dll from the loox. And since I'm on vacation in thailand, my tools is abit limited.
Does anybody know if there is an easy way of copying a dll-file which is in ROM and in use?
best regards
// LOMF
(pardon my typos, It's 40 degrees celsius in here... and for a swede like me, that's very hot)

try to use the internal file manager to copy the file. You will get better results than with resco. You also need the correct registry settings for this to (eventualy) work.

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if you read exactly... its ONLY for old Toshiba PPCs and they have an official USB Host port
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are you kidding me dude? there is no such mention...
Requirements:
• Pocket PC 2002
Description:
The long awaited USB mass Storage driver for PocketPC 2002.
This is a driver which enables you to use USB mass storage devices (HD, multimedia Reader, digital camera) with your USB host enabled PocketPC.
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try not to post misinformation... and btw there is no such thing as a USB HOST PORT... it's all in the software...
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I don't thinks calvin42 is posting misinformation. He just know thinks better than you. This driver have been developped by deje a few years ago. They were most of the time in a beta stage, and working only on the toshiba, until deje work was bought by a hard disk maker, selling the driver with the hard disk. This kind of stopped the project. The drivers you can still find are only the beta version, and the final version ahs to be bought either with a HD, or for a few dollars.
Back to our subject, you should understand WM5 has a fairly different way of mapping the hardware than WM2003, so they are very remote chances for a WM2003 driver to work on WM5, furthermore for a WM2002 driver.
Oh! and BTW, Usb host is a feature of the processor. It can be disabled by the manufacturer. So yes, there is a USB host port.

You mean qtek9000 and others DO HAVE usb host but disabled??
It looks weird.. why disabling such important feature?

the intel bulverde has usb host. Hardware manufactured decide to support it or not. They heve their how reason, and this is probably not for pissing us up. I guess this feature is not driving the market.

What about using the SD interface as a connector for a drive? It's SD/IO isn't it? A friend has just got a 4gb PSP drive that connects through the memory stick slot on his PSP, something similar should work with the universal? (and other HTC devices that have SD and no USB
Richard

fluffcat1 said:
What about using the SD interface as a connector for a drive? It's SD/IO isn't it? A friend has just got a 4gb PSP drive that connects through the memory stick slot on his PSP, something similar should work with the universal? (and other HTC devices that have SD and no USB
Richard
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Yeah but thats converting one ATA memory card to another (similar to SD to CF adaptors). Its a passive adaptor. Converting to USB is a whole different thing.

mitchello said:
fluffcat1 said:
What about using the SD interface as a connector for a drive? It's SD/IO isn't it? A friend has just got a 4gb PSP drive that connects through the memory stick slot on his PSP, something similar should work with the universal? (and other HTC devices that have SD and no USB
Richard
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Yeah but thats converting one ATA memory card to another (similar to SD to CF adaptors). Its a passive adaptor. Converting to USB is a whole different thing.
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But you could still get an SD HDD - so it's a possibilty, I didn't mean convert memory stick into SD!
Richard

Well, i'm confused... if bluverde has USB-Host, this means it's just disabled in JJ/9000. So we have just to enable it somehow..
Right?

playerkiller said:
Well, i'm confused... if bluverde has USB-Host, this means it's just disabled in JJ/9000. So we have just to enable it somehow..
Right?
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wrong if it's hardware disabled.

Uhm, how's something HW disabled in ppc?
In normal PCs usually a jumper makes the difference. What in PPC platform? (i'm not an electronical engineer)..

ignorant TP2/WM user would like guidance!

since getting my TP2 I haven't really changed any settings - mainly because I'm totally clueless about installing new applications and stuff.
I was just wondering what suggestions people would have for a new TP2 user who wishes to get the most out of his new toy?!
I would like to watch films on it, play games on it and listen to music on it. I have heard that coreplayer is good for watching movies but dunno how to go about installing it?! (thats how useless I am!).
Is there a central resource that i should be going to to find applications that are compatible with the TP2, and does anyone have any suggestions for decent applications that I should install, that are recommended and people feel improve the phone?
Also, from what I can tell, I cant just download and install a theme and pick it from a list on the phone? is this correct?
I'd eventually like to get a decent navigation program and some games installed.
I know this sounds like a pretty random post, but i've been reading some posts on here and am confused by how things are installed, and what a CAB is?!
(I also notice that I cannot get this site to load properly on my phone - it just displays a load of random characters? I am using opera, would IE solve this?)
I have an ipod touch and installing stuff on it via itunes is obviously a breeze, so is it as easy on this phone?
thanks for your time
Q99

It's all on the wiki or other posts around here ...
CAB: Install from the phone. Either mail it to yourself and download it from your mobile mail, use your USB-cable or bluetooth it or whatever.
EXE: Install it from the PC with the phone attached in ActiveSync mode.
For all the programs. Sorry, just read. I don't think anyone is going to make a list for you, Then again, everyone has different opinions ...
I can read the xda-site perfectly on my TP2. Same on my TP btw.

CAB is just an extension. Like a word document is: paper.doc
A program for you mobile can be: game.cab
A cab file is always an installation file. running this file, installs something on your pocket pc. So you have to run the file on your pocketpc.
As explained above, .exe extensions are programs ran in windows.
If you have a USB cradle the easiest way is to connect it with your pc and make a connection between those 2. Opening devicecentre (or something similar in some other language) en the connecting your TP2 to you pc will result in a popup asking if you want to set the synchornisation settings. Doing so is creating a link between your phone and your pc that will be remembered. So next time you connect, your pc recognises you mobile phone. When you have done this you have several options in the device center.
To move CAB files to your pocket pc you click on the explorer icon (bar) and it opens up your TP2's storage. After copying the file you execute it from your phone.
For installing .exe files, you also start windows mobile devicecentre and make sure they are connected. Then you run the installer from your pc. at some point the installation on the pc says it's done. Look at your phone and it asks permission to install this particular piece of software.

quasar99 said:
since getting my TP2 I haven't really changed any settings - mainly because I'm totally clueless about installing new applications and stuff.
I was just wondering what suggestions people would have for a new TP2 user who wishes to get the most out of his new toy?!
I would like to watch films on it, play games on it and listen to music on it. I have heard that coreplayer is good for watching movies but dunno how to go about installing it?! (thats how useless I am!).
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Google coreplayer, download the cab file, copy it to your phone using activesync, run the cab file from your phone using windows explorer, installing it to your storage card
quasar99 said:
Is there a central resource that i should be going to to find applications that are compatible with the TP2, and does anyone have any suggestions for decent applications that I should install, that are recommended and people feel improve the phone?
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No there isn't a App store like the Ipod , which means we don't have to suffer itunes \o/
Look around on here in the Rhodium Themes & apps section, also look in the Blackstone, Topaz and Sony Ericsson X1 sections. Most programs that run on those devices will work on the TP2
quasar99 said:
Also, from what I can tell, I cant just download and install a theme and pick it from a list on the phone? is this correct?
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It depends which version of the phone you have. The branded versions may take a bit of work but the unbranded ones should be able to use any themes designed for this device/screen resolution
quasar99 said:
I'd eventually like to get a decent navigation program and some games installed
I know this sounds like a pretty random post, but i've been reading some posts on here and am confused by how things are installed, and what a CAB is?! .
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A CAB file is an executable file that installs a program/theme/registry hack onto your phone. It has to be run on your phone
quasar99 said:
(I also notice that I cannot get this site to load properly on my phone - it just displays a load of random characters? I am using opera, would IE solve this?)
I have an ipod touch and installing stuff on it via itunes is obviously a breeze, so is it as easy on this phone?
thanks for your time
Q99
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Are the characters random when you zoom in?
A windows phone is not as easy as an iphone to install stuff, but it is not too difficult, if I can figure it out anyone can! But your TP2 will do more than an iphone and is a better device so its worth persevering with

Virtual or Emulated PC engine on Winmo?

we all know we can Run virtual winmo on a PC based machine.
but can we run an emulated PC on a winmo?
not really the whole OS. but something like STYLETAP where you can run some PPC apps on symbian and UIQ devices.
i know some of us wants to run Apps desiged for PC that doesnt have a mobile version yet.

and while we're at it, I'd like to drive my car with my phone, too
oh and make dinner with it as well

Miracles happen at Christmas ...

What about this: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
I personally do not use it, but some guys got an original Win95 up and running with this on PocketPC.

Dennis78 said:
What about this: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
I personally do not use it, but some guys got an original Win95 up and running with this on PocketPC.
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It's a cool experiment to run Windows 95 on your PPC, but even on a 528 MHz device like the TP2, it'll still be at best unusable for anything. Bochs is even slower than DosBox when running a full version of Windows, and it just doesn't work well.
@OP: Really, the only thing to do is wait for a full port of whatever PC apps you want to run. Alternatively, you could look into setting up a remote desktop connection, which shows your PC's screen on your phone over a network connection.

Alternatively, you could look into setting up a remote desktop connection, which shows your PC's screen on your phone over a network connection.
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As long as we're making christmas wishes, I'd love to see a new approach to remote desktop connections, for much the reason the OP has in mind. Rather than kicking the screen output straight to your mobile, your PC should reorder the contents and GUI of any particular program to the template of your choice, and then transmit THAT to your mobile. A little scripting, and you've got a perfectly mobile-friendly interface to control the desktop program of your choice. Then when you interact with the reworked interface, the desktop translates your action and carrier it out on the real program.

rorytmeadows said:
and while we're at it, I'd like to drive my car with my phone, too
oh and make dinner with it as well
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my phone makes dinner, its call dominoes.

Help with interna/external sdcard partition format on osx

I been frustrated for two days now trying to format fat32 on osx.Disk Utility only formats FAT and exFAT,these to filesystems are not recognized by android.
Even worst,once you format external or internal sdcard in osx with FAT or exFAT,those volumes wont even mount in clockwork!So there is no way to format them in cwm!
I only have one windows laptop with broken screen,to make it short i gotta go and hock it up to my tv every time i wanna format my sdcard.
I tried iPartition with no sucess and cant use gParted because my imac has broken dvd drive.
Any suggestions on how to format sd in osx to a filesystem that android will recognize?
And how do i format external sd from cwm?Because it formats internal and not external.
Thanx in advance.
I dont remember having those problems with regular Epic.

You could get your hands on the latest vmware fusion, install xp or linux on it, then go that way. You could make a usb flash drive bootable and put gfarted on it. You could heimdal (sp) the phone with a back to stock. How about adb into the phone and format the internal card (I don't know if it's possible and I don't know how to do it). How about put the external card into another phone that takes micro sd cards and format it there.

oscarthegrouch said:
You could get your hands on the latest vmware fusion, install xp or linux on it, then go that way. You could make a usb flash drive bootable and put gfarted on it. You could heimdal (sp) the phone with a back to stock. How about adb into the phone and format the internal card (I don't know if it's possible and I don't know how to do it). How about put the external card into another phone that takes micro sd cards and format it there.
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gParted on usb wont work because macs dont boot off usb,i cant even boot windows 7 dvd from external dvd drive,thats the reason i dont have windows 7 installed.As far as using wmvare,etc-i wont do it because it slows down system with few services that take ups cpu and ram.
I just wanted to know maybe someone knows some partitioning app that runs directly on osx,or maybe a terminal command or something like that.
Its hard to believe that there isnt even one partitioning app for osx(besides iParted-which only resizes partitions and doesn't format them,and it crashes on my snow leopard).
I know there are some mac users on here that have same issue.

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers...drive-in-fat32-(to-use-in-windows-or-mac-osx)Get a real computer .....ie with Linux ..sorry could not resist ....sounds like u need a new Computer though ...never had a problem doing anything on Linux
link should be good to help just change to sd or whatever should work
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Epix4G said:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers...drive-in-fat32-(to-use-in-windows-or-mac-osx)Get a real computer .....ie with Linux ..sorry could not resist ....sounds like u need a new Computer though ...never had a problem doing anything on Linux
link should be good to help just change to sd or whatever should work
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Never tried setting mbr in Disk Utility.And i do have windows7 laptop with broken screen that i almost never use and i had linux,out of all 3 i like osx snow leopard the most.
Now if you got time and knowledge to tweak sht than linux and windows are better.Im still getting used to macs but i wouldn't go back to windows(maybe win 8)

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Never tried setting mbr in Disk Utility.And i do have windows7 laptop with broken screen that i almost never use and i had linux,out of all 3 i like osx snow leopard the most.
Now if you got time and knowledge to tweak sht than linux and windows are better.Im still getting used to macs but i wouldn't go back to windows(maybe win 8)
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I had developer edition of 8 & wow it blows ..... Instant remove for me...I know it may get better and more refined but just hate the way the GUI is set up.... I like a cleaner more hidden setup....not alot of icons .. To me 8 is just windows 7 with windows phone GUI crammed on top ... Another fall in my opinion it will be another millennium
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I had developer edition of 8 & wow it blows ..... Instant remove for me...I know it may get better and more refined but just hate the way the GUI is set up.... I like a cleaner more hidden setup....not alot of icons .. To me 8 is just windows 7 with windows phone GUI crammed on top ... Another fall in my opinion it will be another millennium
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Exactly what i thought,i tried it on vmware.
They just slimmed windows 7 and overplayed it with metro ui.
Maybe overtime more and more of windows 7 components will get removed and windows 8 will grow to be a completely new os-time will tell.
Im not a big fan of tiles either,maybe if they made those tiles more 3d or interactive/video tiles.To me they look like .bmp images made with paintbrush,lol-it is different i give them that.
Osx lion also headed in wrong direction-i stick with snow leopard for now.

I beg to differ a little. If you make a proper (following online instructions) bootable USB drive, it should boot. I've ran Ubuntu and leopard off of a flash drive on my MacBook. Did you know about the boot loader thing? When you first turn on the Mac, get the sound and white screen, you hold down the option key and it should appear. With vmware, you can configure how much or how little of available resources you give to the guest os. You say you don't like the performance hit when you run virtual machines. You don't run them all the time, just long enough to get the job done in the other OS. You then shut down the guest OS, then vmware, then you have all the resources back for osx. I did have windows problems recently until I remembered I had a vmware XP image sitting on a backup drive. Another alternative is getting a NetBook. Its good enough for flashing and other things that are less of a hassle on windows than Mac.
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I've watched the video on how to replace the optical drive on my MacBook. I think I could do it. A replacement (not official apple hardware) optical drive is around 150 for my mb. I've read that going through apple out of warranty to replace a superdrive is around 400 or so.
If you could get the optical drive replaced, you could maybe use boot camp to make the machine dual boot with a windows partition.

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I beg to differ a little. If you make a proper (following online instructions) bootable USB ld boot. I've ran Ubuntu and leopard off of a flash drive on my MacBook. Did you know about the boot loader thing? When you first turn on the Mac, get the sound and white screen, you hold down the option key and it should appear. With vmware, you can configure how much or how little of available resources you give to the guest os. You say you don't like the performance hit when you run virtual machines. You don't run them all the time, just long enough to get the job done in the other OS. You then shut down the guest OS, then vmware, then you have all the resources back for osx. I did have windows problems recently until I remembered I had a vmware XP image sitting on a backup drive. Another alternative is getting a NetBook. Its good enough for flashing and other things that are less of a hassle on windows than Mac.
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I've watched the video on how to replace the optical drive on my MacBook. I think I could do it. A replacement (not official apple hardware) optical drive is around 150 for my mb. I've read that going through apple out of warranty to replace a superdrive is around 400 or so.
If you could get the optical drive replaced, you could maybe use boot camp to make the machine dual boot with a windows partition.
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Yes you can boot osx and linux off usb but not windows on mac.You cant even boot windows dvd off external dvd drive.Yes when i installed snow leopard it booted fine off external dvd drive but not windows.Just google it.
Maybe u can install linux of external drive because it uses same boot method as osx but windows uses mbr.
And im not about to spend 100-150 dollars for imac internal dvd drive replacement-thats crazy talk,just for little more i can buy a blu ray burner.Replacing drive is easy part,i took my whole imac apart before.And you gotta take almost whole imac apart just to replace dvd drive or hard drive,lol.
Only thing thats good about macs is osx,lol.
I love macs and i bought my imac 2008 used for 400 bucks.But i would never buy one new because they are overpriced and video card cant be upgraded.
I googled for 2 days trying to install windows 7 of external dvd drive/usb stick and no it cant be done.And vmware have services running even when its off.
I like my system clean with minimal software installed,anything you install leaves a mark even after you delete it,plus installing vmware just to format sdcard doesnt sound right,lol.

Like I said, do you have an old phone laying around that could format the card for you? If not you could go to a phone store, find a display phone that is working and is easy to get at the sd card slot, pop in the card and format it. Done.