I apologise, i missed that part of your previous post. Roger100's excellent suggestion to use a 'Virtual SD' will be recognised by BC/MI patched or unpatched and can also serve as a device 'stunt double' to fool WebUpdater, MapUpdater and GarminExpress to dl updates for fw, software & maps without risk to an actual unit. Done simply by putting a GarminDevice.xml in a Garmin folder on your Virtual SD, exactly as it works on a physically attached usb stick or sd.
Another way to do this is to create a logical disk on your PC to use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] but note the warning at the base of the initial post there, so don't patch current V4.0.4 of MapInstall, use the patched exe for V4.0.3 instead. To create a logical disk in Disk Management, right click the drive from which you wish to create the logical disk, choose 'shrink volume' and follow the prompts. 4GiB is usually big enough. Format the new disk in FAT32, name it GARMIN and then you can send your maps there. The clear advantage of a logical disk over a Virtual SD is that the latter has to be recreated on reboot. I use this trick as my OS drives are protected and even though the Logical Disk is created from space on a protected drive it's still fully accessible itself.
And finally, this neat trick from Kanopus eliminates the need to use the patcher: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Although it only mentions MapSource, it also works fine for MapInstall:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]



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