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I have a sd card. i partitioned it using paragon partition manager mounting sd card thru phone. THen moved apps2sd and then decide to delete partition. So i being unable to delete the partition used windows own partition management to delete all the partitions. Then i decided to again partitions the card. Now i can't. Paragon partition manager can't do it. Used the sd split(ques- do we need an empty card for that). My phone storage went to 0 mb. Can anybody help me to again partition it. I really need it with haykuro's 5.02 H as it has only 43 mb free space. Please!!! Help.
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charnsingh_online said:
I have a sd card. i partitioned it using paragon partition manager mounting sd card thru phone. THen moved apps2sd and then decide to delete partition. So i being unable to delete the partition used windows own partition management to delete all the partitions. Then i decided to again partitions the card. Now i can't. Paragon partition manager can't do it. Used the sd split(ques- do we need an empty card for that). My phone storage went to 0 mb. Can anybody help me to again partition it. I really need it with haykuro's 5.02 H as it has only 43 mb free space. Please!!! Help.
Thanks for reading and now please do something
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I haven't used paragon before but I would suggest using gparted through an ubuntu(or some other linux distro) live cd. Basically you download the cd image, burn it onto a cd, restart your computer with the cd in and it'll bring up a little menu that gives you the option to start up in ubuntu off the cd. Then go to System->(can't remember, but it's the second option)->Partition Editor. It has a nice gui and you just choose the last device listed which should be your sd card(check the size to make sure!) and you can create new partitions. Making an ext2 partition correctly in windows is a tad... difficult.
EDIT: actually, you can just use this:http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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Can u please help me use it. I have portable ubuntu and now this. Can u provide step by step instructions or atleast give a hint to use it

Broken SD Card?

For the last 5 hours I have had hell with my sd card I redid my phone with JF new build and wiped out my 8gb class 6 a-data sd card but all of a sudeen it been acting weird
one thing is in paragon it shows the partitions still there (ext2) which takes up the whole card and should not, while windows shows its fat32, and i can access it in windows but it wont show up in in partition program nor delete
while when i mount it into the g1 (where it ask to mount or dont mount when plug it into pc) it instantly unmounts and i click mount again but just makes a noise and unmounts also saying its blank
now my 2gb chip seems to work fine (sometimes well if i unstall the drivers and let them re install then it works for a great amount of time), but this 8 gb,...well
what do you guys think? is it fixable? I can record video of it all (errors and stuff included) if u want
idk if its my chip, my phone or my pc can anyone help?

i think this has something to do with the way windows handles sd cards with no partition table. i assume you formatted the whole card to fat32 using a third party utility? that will totally confuse the system, because it cached a version of the partition table and now there's nowhere to find the new one. a quick solution is to use the build-in format tool to format your sdcard (right click on sdcard's icon and select format...). this should force the system to recalculate the size of the partition. then you have to unplug the card reader and plug it back in. now paragon should work.

billc.cn said:
i think this has something to do with the way windows handles sd cards with no partition table. i assume you formatted the whole card to fat32 using a third party utility? that will totally confuse the system, because it cached a version of the partition table and now there's nowhere to find the new one. a quick solution is to use the build-in format tool to format your sdcard (right click on sdcard's icon and select format...). this should force the system to recalculate the size of the partition. then you have to unplug the card reader and plug it back in. now paragon should work.
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after a long while, finally got windows to format the whole thing to fat32, but yet still acting weird

what kind of card reader are you using? certain card readers has their own controller and do not allow you to partition properly.
but i am sure mountd in android will allow you full access to the sdcard when it's mounted.
also how much total space do you have in that fat partition after format? a full 8gb sd should have approx. 7.45GB actually space. if your partition table is correct, windows should only format the fat partition and give you a size smaller than 7.45G.
I strongly suggest you try again under Linux using the phone as reader. any livecd with a partition manager will perform much better than windows.

Well i try it both on my phone and a mem card reader, but once I put it on my phone it does not detect a sd card (my 8gb im trying to fix) while detects my fat32 2 gb chip
on my laptop and pc cant format nor delete that ext2 8gb sd card
BUT that 8gb ext2 card im trying to fix loads perfeclty and can access it on ubuntu so im guessing its not physically broken

tanner2007 said:
but once I put it on my phone it does not detect a sd card
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What do you mean by "it", the GUI. How about doing an ls on /dev/block from the terminal on the phone to see what linux sees?
tanner2007 said:
on my laptop and pc cant format nor delete that ext2 8gb sd card
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Hmm, what do you mean by delete the card? You can delete a partition, but not a card: I'm not sure makes sense.
tanner2007 said:
BUT that 8gb ext2 card im trying to fix loads perfeclty and can access it on ubuntu so im guessing its not physically broken
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You say ext2, but yet above you claim to have reformatted as FAT. What does your ubuntu machine think it is? One way to tell is to mount it and try to set permissions on a file, if you can, it is not FAT.
What is your objective, do you want a FAT partition, an EXT2 partition, both?

Well I got it working guys, I dont know what was happening as I said before different programs where detecting different file systems, but soon as I found out how to do it ubuntu I saw it was working and erased the whole card (all partitions and everything)
and now it works again thanks guys ur tips helped

Flash card partitioning problem

Hi. I tried to create a few partitions on my microSD card (PC -> phone connection) using Windows 7 Disk Management tool. A few first operations went ok, but then options to delete, resize partition, create new one on unallocated space became unavailable. Formatting is still working. Does anybody know what could happen and how to fix this?
Thanks.

[Q] How to reverse an EXT partition off my sd card?

Okay so guys i've recently got a new sd card (32gb) for my nexus and ive made a 1gb ext3 partition on it and everthing a-okay but now I want to give my mom my previous sd card so she can use it. Its only a 4gb but its better than nothing but....Its got 2 ext partitions on it (ext2 & ext3) so thats using 2gb.....How can I reverse the partitions so i can have my 4gb of space back? And no i cant go out and buy a new one because we tight on cash at the moment
Thanks
Stu \m/

Well, Im hoping its as easy as just doing a reformat? if Im wrong, please pipe up, someone. But I think that should remove any and all partitions.

Boot into recovery and wipe ext partition. Simple.

You can also remove repartitions in Gparted (its possible to download gparted live cd)

Pop it back in your phone and format it from settings..sdcard..unmount..format.
If that don't get rid of it you can use windows. Go to disk management and remove both partitions on sdcard and create a new one to fill the card. I think anything less than windows 7 wont let you change partitions on an SD, in which case use gparted live CD or a Ubuntu live CD.

sd card (in android phone) suddenly became RAW format - how to fix it ?

Hi,
The 32GB Samsung EVO in my AMOI N828 became suddenly RAW format (instead of fat32).
I have tried to get the most data out of it with EaseUS data recovery wizard ( and with a bunch of other programs too) but the SD card lost most of its data.
But even when i want to format it again, it says RAW format, so i tried to repartition it with MINITOOL Partition wizard but without any luck.
I cannot create a new partition like fat32, primary with default clustersize. When i click APPLY the program tries to create a partition but after a minute the programs seems to have created it but in fact the SD stays "unallocated". Therefore i cannot format it either.
I have tried in win7 via CMD, diskpart, list disk, select disk, clean (gave error) , create partition primary(gave error)....but nothing happens and there is always an error-log.
Also tried in diskmanagement to format but without succes ( because it is still in RAW format ofcourse)
So, i have tried almost anything but nothing works.
Has anyone another fix perhaps ? Or is my SD a total loss ?