Hi,
I have just bought a 32GB SD Card from Amazon. Komputerbay Class 10.
I have been running Sandvold's ICS ROM for the last month and all was fine, but I wanted a faster SD card.
I used Easeus Partition Manager using Windows XP and I created a 1GB ext2 partition after a FAT32 Partition.
However, I made it logical and wasn't able to change it to Primary, so I created another ext2 partition, this time Primary.
So, FAT32 partition of 28GB ish Primary, ext2 of 1GB Primary then ext3 of 1GB logical.
However, although my PC can see the FAT32 partition, my Desire cannot.
It can however see it in recovery which allowed me to flash the ROM etc.
Any ideas please?
Cheers
Perhaps you can format the card from the recovery, using 'Partition SD' option.
Josse125 said:
Perhaps you can format the card from the recovery, using 'Partition SD' option.
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I read that it was not a safe thing to do to partition that way, but there shouldn't be a problem formatting that way?
But unfortunately not.
Still undetected.
I can put the old one in and it is found, so pretty sure it's not the phone.
As an update, I've just tried formatting to NTFS then back to FAT32 without joy.
Also, the ext2 does work as I had 988 MB of internal memory at one stage yesterday.
GPart Live worked a treat. All sorted.
The drivers on the laptop I used rendered the screen almost unreadable whilst using it, but at home it was fine.
I had a very similar problem: i create an ext3 partition and a fat32 one, but when i plugged the phone o the pc i cannot see any memory... After several tryouts, i made both the partition primary, BUT i place the fat32 at the beginning. And everything works fine xD
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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
Hi,
I have a 16GB Micro SD card that I want to create a 1GB exts partition on.
I have the free versions of Paragon and Acronis, but it would seem I need the full version to create a partition on an SD card?
I therefore got minitools partition manager and I was able to create a partition, but it is unallocated and it's status is NONE.
The FAT32 partition is Primary and the unallocated one is logical.
If I click on this partition almost everything is grayed out so I cannot format to ext2.
Please help.
I am running this on a cheap card reader from ebay on Windows XP.
PoshCat1 said:
Hi,
I have a 16GB Micro SD card that I want to create a 1GB exts partition on.
I have the free versions of Paragon and Acronis, but it would seem I need the full version to create a partition on an SD card?
I therefore got minitools partition manager and I was able to create a partition, but it is unallocated and it's status is NONE.
The FAT32 partition is Primary and the unallocated one is logical.
If I click on this partition almost everything is grayed out so I cannot format to ext2.
Please help.
I am running this on a cheap card reader from ebay on Windows XP.
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Ext2 obviously
If it helps the card has a 4 on it, so does that mean it's class 4?
I think I'm a bit dumb !!!
I'd resized the partition only, so it was simply unallocated.
Are there any free partition software downloads that allow me to create a partition please?
It is MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition from partitionwizard.com
sanelh said:
It is MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition from partitionwizard.com
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Cheers, I managed that and now I have another problem.
Thread to follow.
Hi, I`ve got the same problem. Have you found out how to do it?
flash608 said:
Hi, I`ve got the same problem. Have you found out how to do it?
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I did, I think I used ROM Manager in the end.
It didn't work to begin with, I played with the Partition software above, then I went back to ROM Manager and it worked.
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I got class 4 4gb memory card and has used minitool partition wizard to create 3.5gb fat32 partition and 500mb ext2 partition. but when i connected to my SE x10mini and it says 'damaged memory card'. but then i format the memory card via my phone and the ext2 partition has been erase. may i know any suggestion to create 2 partition and make the phone able to recognise the memory card??
one more question, may i know what is the next step to make ext2 partition to be apart of system's space??
I`ve managed to make two partitions using Gparted (win).
Hi,
I was finally able to partition my 16GB Micro SD HC Class 4 SD Card using minitools.
FAT32 at the front, Primary, and EXT2 afterwards, logical.
I can drop files onto the FAT32 partition and flash the ROM in recovery, but when I reboot it can't find the card.
If I then change the card to my old 4GB Samsung SD it is fine.
When I partitioned the 4GB card using ROM Manager, which I couldn't do with the 16GB one, it created an EXT3 partition.
Is there anything I can do, or is it simply the card?
Cheers
As an update, I put the card in my wife's Blackberry this morning to see if that could see it and it said it wasn't formatted and did I want to? Yes I said.
I could now see it on my Desire and was able to partition it using ROM Manager.
Looking at it now, the second partition is ext3 and is primary, not logical.
I've no idea why this happened but I'm hoping it will all be fine when I flash a new ROM.
I have an HTC Hero rooted with stock 2.1 firmware
I installed Link2SD and read through the development post on this forum but encountered and issue I cannot figure out how to resolve.
I reformatted my SD card with 2 primary partitions using MiniTool. I re-sized my standard partition to allow for an additional 400MB partition then formatted the unallocated memory to ext3 format.
So now I have 2 partitions that look like this in MiniTool (4GB SD card):
Partition FileSystem Size Status Type
-SDCard FAT32 3.30GB Active Primary
-AppsPartition ext3 400.06MB None Primary
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I thought that was all I needed to do but when I put the SD Card into my Hero it just tells me I have a damaged SD Card. What do I do to fix this?
I just wanted to say I figured this out on my own. I don't know what the problem was but I reformatted the SD card from the Hero and it only formatted the SDCard partition and then I had to reformat the AppsPartition to FAT32 file system in order to be usable by link2sd and it worked.
No idea what caused the problem to begin with but got it resolved, that's all that matters right?
I had problems too until I formatted partition 1 as FAT (aka FAT16 - NOT FAT32), and the second as FAT32 or Ext2/3.
The key for me was the first partition being FAT.
Hi @all.
I wanna use Link2SD to increase the device storage.
I tried thousands of tutorials to partition the SD-card with all possibilities (as recommended 1st primary FAT32 and 2nd primary ext2/3/4)
Finally Link2SD works with the 2nd partition and is able to link the apps to this partition, BUT my phone does not find the first partition FAT32 anymore and is not able to mount it. Even in link2sd it only shows partition 2 available, and the first one not.
I have a 32GB card and tried FAT32 - 20GB & EXT2/3/4 - 10GB but also FAT32 - 28GB & EXT2/3/4 - 1GB - nothing worked.
only when there is just one partition with FAT32 and whole 32 GB at all than the phone mounts the sd-card
I tried also with a smaller 8 GB card, still the same.
It is nice that link2sd works now after rooting and also using the rootfix and Init.d Toggler (to not have the bootloop anymore), but the only problem is that I cannot use the bigger part of the sd-card for normal files.
Anyone got solving ideas for this problem? big thanks in advance
Solution
Some SD cards after creating two partitions, the first partition cannot be mounted.
The second partition, used in Link2SD, works fine.
So you'll need to format the first partition -and ONLY the first- to NTFS filesystem.
Also you will need "Paragon UFSD Root Mounter":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter&hl=en
After you install the app, run it. it should mount the new NTFS partition and it will be totally usable in the system.
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Thanks to user DJPRMF for this method