I bought a new 8gb sd card, formatted in two partitions, worked perfectly until I fiddled with paragon partition to revert my card to normal. Now it can't format. Size unknown. Please insert sd card. Some of the errors. Paragon manager says unallocated space. Can't format from there. Any suggestions. Though now I have a 32 gb but I don't want to waste money so anybody can help.
Stick the memory card into a camera and format it.
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sd* (* being your sd card)
delete the partitions. I've saved a many flash devices using the Linux fdisk command.
Anything i can do with vista 64 bit
anything i can do on vista 64 bit.
Try using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. I use it to get my card back to normal after playing with paragon, hope it works for you.
Go to sourceforge and download the live cd for gParted. That'll get the little bugger spark'n again.
Fixed
I fixed it using vista inbuilt partition manager. really simple easy and effective. no bugs. everthing went smoooth.
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Hello all. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to delete a partition off of my SD card. I used Paragon Partition Manager 9 to setup a 150mb partition (which turned out to be too small) and now Im switching to a larger SD card and giving mine to someone. I loaded the card in Paragon but it doesnt give an option to delete, just resize the partition. Does someone know a way to remove it so the card will have 4gb available again? I searched but couldnt find an answer.
Try using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Its what I've been using and so far it works well.
Oh I see, I googled that and it appears to be similar to the regular windows formatting. So this will delete the partition I set and restore my SD card to full space available?
yeah, if you just reformat the card as a whole it will do it, or get an ubuntu disk and use the partition manager to create a new data table and then reformat
ok here is my situation i am running a rooted g1 with amon ra 1.5 recovery and cyanogen 4.2.12.2, i used the partitioning function from the recovery options to format my sd card , now that i have the fat32 , ext3, and swap partition i was able to move my cache and apps to the sd and everything is working great, the problem i am now having is i cannot access the fat32 partition , the mount/unmount option is faded i can see how much space is on it but i cannot put any of my files back on the card it also doesnt give me the option to mount the sd card anymore when i plug it into my computers i have tried it on my mac, windows xp laptop and my asus eee linux laptop
any help would be great thanks
You have probably corrupted the partition table somehow.
If you don't have anything precious on the card, try to wipe it and start over.
But since i know life i'm almost sure you have files there that you wish not to lose.
Tell me, did you format all the partition after creating them?
Did you unmount/re-mount the partitions after creating/formating and BEFORE you copied any files to them?
If the answer to any of the above question is "no", you've probably screwed up.
Regards,
Bushman
No I partitioned the card using amon ra recovery 1.5 it has the option to do the ext2, Swap and the fat 32 partitions all at once I did 96m swap 512ext2 and then upgraded it up to ext4 and left the remaining for fat32 , when I save files it does put them in the fat32 patitition I believe since my ext4 partition does not loose any space and I already ftp'd most of my files back to the card that would easily exceed the 512m partition I just can't get the mount option to come up now when I plug it into my computer other then that everything works perfectly
open console and type "dmesg", then insert the card and type it again, compare the few last lines, if there's anything diferent saying about MMC/SD, post it here (only the card related stuff)
Good luck,
Bushman
Got a new MicroSD card today, chucked it in and tried to partition it using Amon 2.0, it did ext2 fine then crashed on remaining space as fat32. had to reboot phone and now SD card isnt working correctly. if i put it in sd reader in pc it shows up as a 16mb partition FAT and if i try to partition it in AMON it just says its done after 1 second. If i try to repair using AMON it says use FS REPAIR in ADB. Im a noob but i ran ADB from cmd line, it detects my desire when i run adb devices but if i run FS REPAIR as recommended it says no ext partition found???? Tried booting a GParted livecd and running Gparted yet this doesnt show my device/sd card either?? How can i repair this card?????
Try putting it in a camera and formatting it there.
That fixed my SD card issues.
I had the same problems but didn't have any card readers or cameras to try out. Instead I found this: androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/ worked fine. (sorry about the link)
It can be a little difficult and tedious but was the only method which worked for me.
i must be handicapped!
for some reason i can not partition my SD card correctly. i am using clockwork mod recovery 5.0.2.0. i go in partition the SD card for 512mb 0 swap. format the /sd-ext. everything is all good from this point.
my problem is the rest of the SD card is not formatted.
so like a retard i stick the SD card into my windows 7 laptop and format it so i can put the rom on to flash. when i do this i loose the 512mb ext partition it made on the SD card.
what am i doing wrong?
is there a better way to format the remaining space of the SD card without loosing the 512mb ext partition? so i can put the rom on the SD to flash the rom.
Format SD card to fat32 then partition your card in cwm. That's all you have to do
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the how to do i get the rom to the SD card? because if i stick the sd card back into windows laptop it wants to format the card again and wrecks the SD partition.
is there another way to push a rom from laptop to the phone by USB?
After you format the SD Card in Recovery, choose mounts and storage. Then choose USB Mount. After that load the backup of the SD Card back onto the card. If you don't have the Rom in your backup, load it then.
oh okay sorry i didn't understand you clearly but i'd do what prboy said
easy
much easier. i have been doing it the hard way all this time.
thanks both of you for the help.
So then you got it sorted out?
I don't think Windows can recognize/format an ext partition as it's a Linux file system. I had to set up my ext partition yesterday and Windows 7 only read the left over space when I mounted it through the phone and a card reader(14gb card read as 13gb). Should be good to format it when you plug it in.
Sent from the bushes outside your house....you gonna put some pants on anytime soon?
brandontowey said:
I don't think Windows can recognize/format an ext partition as it's a Linux file system. I had to set up my ext partition yesterday and Windows 7 only read the left over space when I mounted it through the phone and a card reader(14gb card read as 13gb). Should be good to format it when you plug it in.
Sent from the bushes outside your house....you gonna put some pants on anytime soon?
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I run Windows 7. I use SD Card Formatter, it Formats the entire card.
yes i managed to get it all sorted out. it is far easier to do it this way. the way i was doing took me for ever to get something done.
thanks guys for the help.
Glad it's all sorted
I bought a Sandisk 64gb MicroSD, which came formatted in exFat. I could see this partition in both Windows 8 and Linux on my laptop, using an SD card adapter (plugged into the SD card slot).
I wanted to reformat it to FAT so that I could use it in my Cowon mp3 player and/or old phones, so I booted into Linux Mint and ran Gparted. I formatted to FAT leaving 32mb front and back (which I read was necessary to make sure Windows sees it), and in Linux all was well. I copied some files over, put it in the Cowon and it worked.
But... it no longer shows up in Windows. Neither while it's in the device (over USB), or when I put it directly in the laptop in the SD card slot.
I have tried using Gparted to re-partition the drive and reformat using a number of different options - including having no partition, a small FAT or NTFS partition etc, and nothing works. In Windows, not only does it not show up as a partition, but it can't even see it as a drive - Disk Manager doesn't show it, and neither does EaseUS.
I have also had the same problem with another MicroSD card, using the same steps - works in Linux and on the the device - Windows no longer thinks it exists.
Help much appreciated!
Bornhuetter said:
I bought a Sandisk 64gb MicroSD, which came formatted in exFat. I could see this partition in both Windows 8 and Linux on my laptop, using an SD card adapter (plugged into the SD card slot).
I wanted to reformat it to FAT so that I could use it in my Cowon mp3 player and/or old phones, so I booted into Linux Mint and ran Gparted. I formatted to FAT leaving 32mb front and back (which I read was necessary to make sure Windows sees it), and in Linux all was well. I copied some files over, put it in the Cowon and it worked.
But... it no longer shows up in Windows. Neither while it's in the device (over USB), or when I put it directly in the laptop in the SD card slot.
I have tried using Gparted to re-partition the drive and reformat using a number of different options - including having no partition, a small FAT or NTFS partition etc, and nothing works. In Windows, not only does it not show up as a partition, but it can't even see it as a drive - Disk Manager doesn't show it, and neither does EaseUS.
I have also had the same problem with another MicroSD card, using the same steps - works in Linux and on the the device - Windows no longer thinks it exists.
Help much appreciated!
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I assume you mean FAT32? I'm not sure what gparted calls them but FAT16 certainly won't work. Also, you should be able to use the entire 64gb. It sounds odd to me that you'd need 32mb before and after. Try using the entire card first and see if that helps.
If not... I'm not 100% sure but even if there was no partition info on the card then Windows should still display it in disk manager. Try using the same card reader that works with Linux on the Windows machine. I'm thinking the reader might be faulty.