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[Q] Can't mount SD Card on Clockwork Recovery for Flashing (Rooted with unrevoked 3)

I have a HTC Desire,
Rooted my phone with Unrevoked 3.31, everything went fine.
As soon as I got into recovery menu, Clockwork, I cannot mount my SD Card.
When I go to - Install zip from SD Card, and I'm trying to read my sd card to load the ROM zip, it says that Its unable to mount it.
I've seen a couple of posts with information and tried to follow suggestions, but no luck.
Thank you.

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Same here. +1....

+1 I'm having this same issue. Been looking for a resolution for 4 HOURS now...

+1 for me...

Same issue here, was there a resolution?

Had this issue with my friends card as well. we ended up pulling the card out and throwing it into a computer. then we reformated it as fat32 put it back in the phone. and it worked. we also went from Clockworkmod 3.0.0.5 back to 2.5.x.x Alot of ppl ive talked to are having issues with 3.0.0.5 and some roms/mod/kernals cant be flashed with it.
Also make sure the sd card is not locked i know that sounds like a stupid statement but it needs to be checked lol

i also ran into this problem,, all i did was format my sdcard.. and if u have another card laying around try using it... if formatting through computer does not work, try formatting it through your android phone

Any Luck on the SD card issue

I have the same issue.
no ROM installed so can't boot.
Can't mount SD in recovery (got clockwork mod 2.5.0.7)
tried formatting SD, no luck.
Any ideas??

Hey guys also couldnt mount sd card at all either. Took out my sim card and it works fine...... Telstra sim card. WTF?

westleydan said:
I have the same issue.
no ROM installed so can't boot.
Can't mount SD in recovery (got clockwork mod 2.5.0.7)
tried formatting SD, no luck.
Any ideas??
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Anyone figure this out?? I had trouble flashing Kings Alliance ROM and I had to do a battery pull and then I wanted to get some dust out around my SD card so I unplugged it and not when I'm in recovery it can't mount. PLEASE HELP?!

+1 here. i formated in windows for fat32. after it i wanted to flash a new rom, but in recovery my phone tells me, that he can´t mount my sdcard.

[Q] I think I bricked my Incredible?

I flashed my droid with Unr3voked and proceeded to install Sapphire. With it, I had to get ROM Manager and Clockwork Recovery. I noticed somehow my 2 gigs of SD card memory was gone, and I tried to format the SD card. When I rebooted, it is stuck on the white Incredible boot screen. I can get it to recovery mode, but I got a bit... delete happy. My SD card got partitioned, and it also says my SD card can't be mounted with error E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcb1k1p1 (or /dev/block/mmcb1k1). I want to 1) unpartition my SD card, (I know, there's a million forum posts about this, but I'm on a Mac and can't seem to figure it out) and 2) fix all this and get my phone working again. I don't really care what ROM it uses as long as it works again. Any help would be thoroughly appreciated.

no you did not brick your phone bcuz you can get to the recovery.

[Q] "Can't mount sdcard" error in CWM

I've seen this error elsewhere, but no solution. I'm running PRIME 1.4, want to upgrade to 1.6.
- I used the nvflash method. I re-did this, obviously that didn't work.
- I tried formatting the SD card via Windows and via CWM (which didn't work, because it couldn't mount it...duh). Used the default FAT32 settings to format. For others, this seemed to be the fix.
- I CAN read the SD card on the tablet once booted up regularly. I can also mount the storage on my PC.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

So I tried a different sdcard (8GB, if it matters). No issues. No idea why this worked, so I guess the mystery is unsolved.

chicagoepicuser said:
So I tried a different sdcard (8GB, if it matters). No issues. No idea why this worked, so I guess the mystery is unsolved.
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Probably partition of your sdcard. Try reformatting it to another format like NTFS or something?

chicagoepicuser said:
I've seen this error elsewhere, but no solution. I'm running PRIME 1.4, want to upgrade to 1.6.
- I used the nvflash method. I re-did this, obviously that didn't work.
- I tried formatting the SD card via Windows and via CWM (which didn't work, because it couldn't mount it...duh). Used the default FAT32 settings to format. For others, this seemed to be the fix.
- I CAN read the SD card on the tablet once booted up regularly. I can also mount the storage on my PC.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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In fact, CWM can't real actual SDcard (dock slot), it read the MicroSD only (the tablet slot)
Try putting the zip at the root of the MicroSD, and launch CWM

For me it´s doing the same - can´t mount SD card. I have microSD card that I have formated into FAT/FAT32/NTFS - nothing worked. I try to put it into SD card adapter and nothing too...
Can someone tell us please, where is the problem??? I have root, flashed cwm 3.0.2.8, standart ROM...

monkasko said:
For me it´s doing the same - can´t mount SD card. I have microSD card that I have formated into FAT/FAT32/NTFS - nothing worked. I try to put it into SD card adapter and nothing too...
Can someone tell us please, where is the problem??? I have root, flashed cwm 3.0.2.8, standart ROM...
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MicroSD needs to be formated into FAT32 and only this format
If you read the post above yours, you would have also seen that the SDcard slot on the dock DOES NOT WORK in CWM

bud77 said:
In fact, CWM can't real actual SDcard (dock slot), it read the MicroSD only (the tablet slot)
Try putting the zip at the root of the MicroSD, and launch CWM
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Yes, did this. I wasn't messing around with the dock, just the microSD in the tablet itself. And yes, the .zip was in the root directory--though it's not like I was able to get this far. I was not even able to see the root directory, at all.

chicagoepicuser said:
Yes, did this. I wasn't messing around with the dock, just the microSD in the tablet itself. And yes, the .zip was in the root directory--though it's not like I was able to get this far. I was not even able to see the root directory, at all.
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Plug it in while android is running, and check if the MicroSD is seen in /removable/MicroSD
If, yes, that's pretty weird. If not, try another MicroSD

I had the mounting issue as well. But I formatted my micro SD card with SD Formatter (I am not allowed to post URL as a new user ), then it can be mounted.

myode is right, use SD Formatter 3.0 will fix your problem.
It use low-level format, where windows format don't.

I came across (i can't remember where exactly) some people swear that by formatting the microsd card in a android phone, the card no longer exhibit abnormal behaviour in the tf101.

[Q] Issues mounting USB storage within CWM

Hello Knowledgeable XDA members,
I have been playing around with a few roms flashing here and there, and went to flash one today and during the process of wiping I formatted my SD card which had the rom on it. I attempted to mount from mount/storage then mount USB storage. It didn't recognize it at first cause I didn't have the drivers(work computer), I installed KIES cause I remember this resolved the issue before. Now the 2 removable disks shows up in my computer, but always says: Please insert a disk into Drive X:. Currently on CWM 2.5.1.3 and I don't have a micro SD usb adapter otherwise I would have just gone that route. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Managed to get this resolved while researching, used ADB to push the rom file and installed it via clockwork

Need help with mounting SD card of Nandroid update!

Hi there,
I rooted my phone today and installed CWM.
I then wanted to perform a nandroid back up, factory reset, then install a custom ROM.
However i've been having a problem that's been driving me crazy for the last couple of hours
When i try to backup with CWM to my external SD card it says
>Can't mount backup path.
So i go to mounts and storage, try to mount external_sd and it says
>Error mounting /external_sd!
And even when i try to format it it says the same thing!
What can i do? i completely formatted my SD card and it still won't work.
Also another question. It will back up to my internal SD, but then if i do a factory reset, will it not erase EVERYTHING on the internal storage, thus erasing my back up??? NEED HELP BEFORE I GO MAD!
If anyone has had this or seen this before i'd really appreciate some help! I'm running on a galaxy S3 which is such a common phone i'm surprised i've got any problems. The sd card is a sandisk 64gb.
hopefully someone can give me a hand!
thanks!

GRRjayyy said:
Hi there,
I rooted my phone today and installed CWM.
I then wanted to perform a nandroid back up, factory reset, then install a custom ROM.
However i've been having a problem that's been driving me crazy for the last couple of hours
When i try to backup with CWM to my external SD card it says
>Can't mount backup path.
So i go to mounts and storage, try to mount external_sd and it says
>Error mounting /external_sd!
And even when i try to format it it says the same thing!
What can i do? i completely formatted my SD card and it still won't work.
Also another question. It will back up to my internal SD, but then if i do a factory reset, will it not erase EVERYTHING on the internal storage, thus erasing my back up??? NEED HELP BEFORE I GO MAD!
If anyone has had this or seen this before i'd really appreciate some help! I'm running on a galaxy S3 which is such a common phone i'm surprised i've got any problems. The sd card is a sandisk 64gb.
hopefully someone can give me a hand!
thanks!
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Just updating this. now my computer wont recognize my sd when i plug it in. However my phone will. and my computer will find it through my phone. ??