New external drives usually come unformatted and un-partitioned. You'll be able to fix this matter by exploring the Windows Disk Management.
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But I don't have Windows Disk management??
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I know I am A bit thick but i am trying to format my storage card and am having no luck.
please help :x
The easiest and best way imho is to format the card in a card-reader in your PC (either a built-in or small USB external one)
This way, your PC it treats it as removable disk drive, which is handy if you have filled it with apps and data as it can then be defragmented in Windows Disk Defragmenter to optimise performance.
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Pocket Mechanic
With Pocket Mechanic you can do it probably without any hassle in your device too. At least I can with my magician.
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I would appreciate help with creating multiple partitions on my micro sd card. over the past few days I sat for hours reading all about it but still have some trouble. OK, so I know that windows won't allow you to create multiple partitions on removable media. Therefore I created 2 fat32 partitions using Gparted. So far all was well, and my phone recognized it as 2 storage cards. The problem is Windows Vista (or XP and 7) still won't recognize more than 1 partition.
Now if you search around on the internet you will find people referring to the Hitachi MicroDrive Driver which can be hacked to make an SD card (or USB flash drive) appear to windows as a local disc, making it possible to create multiple partitions on your card. That's when Vista x64 gets in the way since the driver isn't x64 compatible. So far I still have not found a solution, and would appreciate it if anyone knows how to do this on a x64 system (including assigning drive letters to each partition). Just to make it clear, using WM5 Storage and USB to PC didn't help either.
Thanks
BIG problem.
i know this is an old post, but did you ever find a solution for it? im having the same problem. my scenario...
using an HTC HD2, i've installed wp7 to the phones memory. wp7 by default re-formats any micro sd card so that it can only be used fully by wp7. there was a work around here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945565&highlight=micro
and i was able to dual boot wp7 and then an android build from the micro sd card. here's the BIG PROBLEM... both wp7 AND my sd android build WILL NOT see anything else on the micro sd storage card.
furthermore, any attempt to format that card in windows is met with the message of windows will only recognize one partition on a removable data (something like that).
now here's the real kicker... in linux, all partitions are recognized. i have do have 3 partitions on my micro sd card now, 1 for wp7, 1 for my sd android, and 1 that im hoping to find a way for at least one of these builds to read. the idea is to have that final open partition for storage of music, pictures, and video files to share between the 2 systems. i'll be happy if just one of these systems can read it though
im not sure where to post, or really what to do. however, i saw your post and it was the closest thing i've found to anyone else having a similar problem. if anyone can point me in the right direction i'd appreciate it.
best program is EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition.
I am running the Team EOS ICS ROM. Is there anyway to mount my Xoom's internal memory or SD card as a logical drive to my Windows 7 PC?
sure,
download the motorola usb drivers from motorola and plug your xoom into your pc via USB. Both the internal and SD card will show in Windows Explorer.
Its showing in Windows Explorer, but unlike other Android devices it is not being assigned a logical drive letter when Windows knows about it.
I think your problem is because of the way they have the rom setup. If you look in the settings for storage than select the "action" menu" (top right). There are only two options which is media device and camera device. On other roms, an option is presented to connect as "mass storage" which is what you are looking for.
So, the short answer is that in the current iteration of the rom, what you are looking for does not exist.
Mounting as mass storage is a depricated technology never to return. In fact, Android devices with external storage are being depricated. It has to do with the problems associated with having unmounted storage while android attempts to use that storage.
bigrushdog said:
Mounting as mass storage is a depricated technology never to return. In fact, Android devices with external storage are being depricated. It has to do with the problems associated with having unmounted storage while android attempts to use that storage.
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I'd like to run a file syncing app to copy the files from both the internal storage and SD card thats automated when I leave the xoom in its dock overnight. Is there a way of getting windows to see it as a drive with a letter?
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I'd like to run a file syncing app to copy the files from both the internal storage and SD card thats automated when I leave the xoom in its dock overnight. Is there a way of getting windows to see it as a drive with a letter?
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depends on what ROM you are using and if they have added the mass storage feature, which as noted right above your post has been deprecated by Android/Google...so unless you are running maybe an ICS rom or there is some app in the Play Store that will give you that functionality, then i would say no
Have a surface rt. Have already done some tricks such as making sd card default storage for media & apps. The only problem is that apps already installed on the internal memory will no longer update via windows store unless I uninstall them and then reinstall on the sd card.
Is there a way to make the sd card appear as though it were part of the logical c:\ drive, similar to how you can merge 2 hard drives together in other versions of windows?
Figured you guys are all tech-savvy maybe you can hep me with this peculiar issue. (BTW Mods move to proper area if not correct)
My computer is an older build from late 2009 (Core i5, MSI P55-GD65 Mobo, 4GB RAM)
I just took my Hitachi Touro 3TB external enclosure apart to place the drive inside the computer (win 7 x64). When I plug it into the computer it is an "unreadable disk". When I go under administrative tools and look at the drives available on the computer the 3TB drive shows 10% of the drive's capacity as "Healthy" and in RAW format requesting I format the disk. It then shows two other partitions that are unallocated (all 3 partitions totally the 3TB). This is incorrect.
To rectify...
1.) I tried a different SATA port
2.) I updated my mobo to the newest firmware
3.) I tried a different SATA cable
Now, funny part is when I wire it back up to the external enclosure and plug it back into the computer via USB...VOILA it works.
So, my problem is getting the drive working internally what's the problem? I did this with other drives no problem but the >2TB drive now seems to be a problem. I have a 4TB Touro coming in the mail and worst case (don't want to do this) I'll just dump everything off the 3TB onto the new 4TB and then format the 3TB internally.
I might be wrong but here I think is the issue.
I once had a chance to open the outer casing of the external drive. Internally it is exactly like any other HDD u see in the market but with an additional chip that enables you a Plug n Play feature + others which windows will look for.
So when you connect it like any usual HDD, bios goes looking for certain sectors / addresses which normal HDD contains. like partition tables, MFT and all and provides details to windows till the extent it understands. So you are either going wrong at the chip or the sector stuff. Later can be resolved by re formatting.
I don't know more than this.
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Sorta solved
Somehow when the disc was in the external enclosure it wasn't a GPT format drive because when I finally formatted the damn drive internally I couldn't make a partition larger than 2TB. Once I converted the drive to GPT I got a full 3TB readable partition.
At least it's much quicker transferring data back to it being installed internally