Hello everyone.I made the sd card partition but now I do not have any songs or anything inside SD .They have all deleted or what?Please,tell me what to do so i can restore them.Thank you
When sd partition is made, the sd card is formatted during patitioning. & there is no way to recover files afterwards.
Yes, you can restore them provided that you haven't used the sdcard much.
Use Recuva for windows or TestDisk for linux.
koubos said:
Hello everyone.I made the sd card partition but now I do not have any songs or anything inside SD .They have all deleted or what?Please,tell me what to do so i can restore them.Thank you
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if windows ain't detecting anything, that means you've created the first partition as ext 2/3/4 (which is wrong partitioning), the first partition should be FAT32 and primary, and the second small partition should be ext 2/3/4 and primary (and i guess you're using it for swap or link2sd etc), and after partitioning, if your windows is detecting properly your first FAT32 partition then you can restore deleted file using Recuva or tune up utilities (and loads of other softwares), recovery is possible after formatting, with a bit of luck...:good: (ie those deleted files shoundt be over-written with some other files you copied to your card)
First don't reuse SD card to save files and try with Remo Recover.
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I am taking my SD card from my old phone and formatting it and putting it in my new phone. I still want my sd card to have a partition and don't know how to find out if it still is partitioned.
Do I partition it again? Does formatting the card NOT remove a partition? Or do I need to partition the sd card after I finish formatting it?
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I am taking my SD card from my old phone and formatting it and putting it in my new phone. I still want my sd card to have a partition and don't know how to find out if it still is partitioned.
Do I partition it again? Does formatting the card NOT remove a partition? Or do I need to partition the sd card after I finish formatting it?
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To the best of my knowledge, formatting will only wipe clean your current partitions, not actually delete them completely. Are you talking about an EXT type partition, or do you just have two separate partitions you wish to keep?
What juzz86 said is correct in most cases. If you are using Windows, for example, and tell it to format your SDcard, it will only format the FAT32 partition that Windows can see. This is also the case for most formatting tools.
In order to remove the partition, you would need to do a bit more work with a partitioning tool (gparted, partedmagic, maybe possible in Windows as well).
Formatting your SDcard using a recovery, or from within Android itself... well.. I'm not sure about that one, but I would assume it's the same.
Best bet: backup your goods before you start.
thanks ..
Hello,
I have secondary partition on my SD card with ext4 filesystem on it.
With help of Link2SD i can use this partition for installed apps.
So the question is, when i create a backup with 4EXT (currently installed) or CWM does it include links and actual files from the SD card?
Got also a ext and ext1 seems to be a strange mounting problem..
It works but s2e cannot find the ext patition..
orld said:
Hello,
I have secondary partition on my SD card with ext4 filesystem on it.
With help of Link2SD i can use this partition for installed apps.
So the question is, when i create a backup with 4EXT (currently installed) or CWM does it include links and actual files from the SD card?
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Hi,
4EXT nandroid backup takes a complete snapshot of your phone system,settings,data,and apps.
It does NOT make a backup of your sd card.
So, I would think that if you restored the backup,and you had not moved the apps in your ext4 partition,then they would match up again.
Why are you using an ext4 partition,anyway?
Isn't 1 GB of space on the phone enough for you?
software logic
well,
in linux filesystem, and in windows nowdays too, any storage can be mounted anywere, so if backup software differentiate external storage vs internal storage, it probably should follow symlinks and backup application from extended filesystem as well.
it could be a feature request
I have Xperia Active with JellyVanilla 2 rev0 [Unlocked BL] installed
Yesterday I partitioned a second partition on my sd card so as I can link apps to sd, created 1027 MB ex2 primary partitoin!
Then, It was mounted, I linked the apps and everything was just GREAT!!!
Then, I slept for about 12 hours and when i'm awake i found the apps I linked yesterday are not shown.
Link2sd couldn't mount the partion, although it could see it!!
It gives me this message:
"Mount script cannot be created.
mount: mounting /dev/block/vold/179:2 on /data/sdext2 failed: Invalid Argument
ext2 may not be supported on your device. Try FAT32 on the second partition"
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Minitool partition wizard can not see the partition "although I used it yesterday to create it!!"
And now, the windows doesn't read the sd card at all!!
Please, any ideas???
Thanks
If Windows can not read the SD card, then the card is probably hosed. Reboot your computer, try a different card reader / USB port. If you still can't read it, you'll have to reformat the card. Use this program to reformat the SD card (obviously, all data will be lost).
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I have Xperia Active with FXP CM 10 installed
Yesterday I partitioned a second partition on my sd card so as I can link apps to sd, created 1027 MB ex2 primary partitoin!
Then, It was mounted, I linked the apps and everything was just GREAT!!!
Then, I slept for about 12 hours and when i'm awake i found the apps I linked yesterday are not shown.
Link2sd couldn't mount the partion, although it could see it!!
It gives me this message:
Minitool partition wizard can not see the partition "although I used it yesterday to create it!!"
And now, the windows doesn't read the sd card at all!!
Please, any ideas???
Thanks
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The message you have means that your device doesn't support 2nd partition in ext2 so you have to create a 2nd partition in FAT32, or eventually in ext3 or ext4. But what do you mean by "the windows doesn't read the sd card at all"?
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If Windows can not read the SD card, then the card is probably hosed. Reboot your computer, try a different card reader / USB port. If you still can't read it, you'll have to reformat the card. Use this program to reformat the SD card (obviously, all data will be lost).
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Thanks for your reply
But, when I used the usb connection between the device and my laptop, it read the sd card BUT not the ext2 partition
I think the problem not making windows reading the sd card is about the adapter
p337 said:
The message you have means that your device doesn't support 2nd partition in ext2 so you have to create a 2nd partition in FAT32, or eventually in ext3 or ext4. But what do you mean by "the windows doesn't read the sd card at all"?
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It supported it yesterday
I linked some games to sd card ext2 and I played them for a long time
When I was awake I didn't find the shortcuts nor the apps i linked and used after linking
There's something weired!
Citizen T-FA said:
Thanks for your reply
But, when I used the usb connection between the device and my laptop, it read the sd card BUT not the ext2 partition
I think the problem not making windows reading the sd card is about the adapter
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Ah, that's different! Windows does not have built-in support for ext-formatted partitions! You will not be able to see anything on the ext partition from your computer, either directly or through the phone (when SD card is mounted). You will only be able to see what's on the card from within your phone, or by putting the SD card in a linux or mac computer.
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Ah, that's different! Windows does not have built-in support for ext-formatted partitions! You will not be able to see anything on the ext partition from your computer, either directly or through the phone (when SD card is mounted). You will only be able to see what's on the card from within your phone, or by putting the SD card in a linux or mac computer.
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so?
Last step I did is that I formatted the sd card by the software you gave me a link to.
BUT, it only formated 13.7 GB!!!! My SD is 16GB, so the real capacity is 14.8!
The difference is the 1GB ext2 partition I created yesterday!
How could I recover it?
Thanks so much by the way for your help
Ok, you need to delete the ext2 partition. Best just delete all partitions, and create a new, primary partition formatted as FAT32.
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Ok, you need to delete the ext2 partition. Best just delete all partitions, and create a new, primary partition formatted as FAT32.
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man, how could i do that? I told you, i can't find this partition at all :S
Minitool can't delete all partitions?
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Minitool can't delete all partitions?
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No it can't see excep 13.7GB from the 14.8GB sd card
see attachement below
Try using EaseUs.
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Try using EaseUs.
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didn't see the partition too :S
Dunno what to do!
nothing reads the ext partition
and in my country it's easier to find a coin in the ocean than to find a linux machine
Citizen T-FA said:
in my country it's easier to find a coin in the ocean than to find a linux machine
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That's not so hard, it's just big. Wubi let's you kind of dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, but you can uninstall it any time through Control Panel.
In any case, the ext partition is still there, and your phone should still be able to see it, if it's mounted properly.
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That's not so hard, it's just big. Wubi let's you kind of dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, but you can uninstall it any time through Control Panel.
In any case, the ext partition is still there, and your phone should still be able to see it, if it's mounted properly.
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i'll try this
how could i start over?
now i formatted my phone
how can i find the ext partition and use it?
What do you mean you formatted your phone? You reflashed the ROM?
When you partition the SD card, those partitions will stay there until you remove/change them. In order to access an ext partition on your SD card, it just has to be mounted. All of those *2sd scripts will do that. Link2SD has a menu option which says recreate mount scripts.
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What do you mean you formatted your phone? You reflashed the ROM?
When you partition the SD card, those partitions will stay there until you remove/change them. In order to access an ext partition on your SD card, it just has to be mounted. All of those *2sd scripts will do that. Link2SD has a menu option which says recreate mount scripts.
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Oh sorry, I meant that I formatted my card
the menu option in Link2SD doesn't read any ext2 partitions
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Oh sorry, I meant that I formatted my card
the menu option in Link2SD doesn't read any ext2 partitions
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It gives me this message
Second partition not found
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2: device not found
Make sure you have two partitions on your SD card and both are primary.
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Is it too complicated?
That means that your phone cannot read the 2nd partition on the SD card (but you already knew that). Either the partition needs to be reformatted, the partition needs to be removed & recreated, the whole SD card is going bad, or you're using a ROM which does not support ext-formatted partitions (i.e., stock ROMs).
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That means that your phone cannot read the 2nd partition on the SD card (but you already knew that). Either the partition needs to be reformatted, the partition needs to be removed & recreated, the whole SD card is going bad, or you're using a ROM which does not support ext-formatted partitions (i.e., stock ROMs).
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the rom supports it, it's not a stock rom, coz as i said before i'm using JellyVanilla JB 4.1.1
no stock JB for xperia phones yet!
also, it already supported the partition and used it yesterday!
So I think i'll try to open the sd using WUBI when it finishes downloading and installing then i'll tell you the results
Thanks anyways
You'll have some fun learning how to use stuff in linux. When you get it up and running, you'll want to use gparted to examine the SD card.
Hello, I'm having a little issue with partitions, I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Ace with Mardon's modded CM11 (nightly build 20140326), and with a 4GB SD card. Since I instaled CWM 6, I can't do any partitions through CWM, so I installed MiniTool Partition Wizard to make them, I formatted the phone an the SD card completely, and I created an ext2 partition (3GB for SD card, and the rest of the space for the partition), but now I get a lot of issues on my phone, for example, Link2SD is showing 3 different partitions, SD Card, External SD Card, Ext Partition, when previously I just had SD Card and the partition.
Also, Total Commander shows 3 folders on the main screen, 2 of them are "SD-card" and "Sd-Card(3)", they have the same free space, and the same files inside of them. The first SD Card directory is /storage/sdcard0, and the third one is /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0.
So, how do I get it to work like it was before? I want just one SD-card folder
(And this still happens if I set the ext partition size to 512 or less, so I don't think that matters)
Thanks for the help, and I apologize if what I wrote doesn't make sense, English is not my main language.
(Also, here's some pics of Total Commander, Link2SD and the MiniTool)
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Hello, I'm having a little issue with partitions, I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Ace with Mardon's modded CM11 (nightly build 20140326), and with a 4GB SD card. Since I instaled CWM 6, I can't do any partitions through CWM, so I installed MiniTool Partition Wizard to make them, I formatted the phone an the SD card completely, and I created an ext2 partition (3GB for SD card, and the rest of the space for the partition), but now I get a lot of issues on my phone, for example, Link2SD is showing 3 different partitions, SD Card, External SD Card, Ext Partition, when previously I just had SD Card and the partition.
Also, Total Commander shows 3 folders on the main screen, 2 of them are "SD-card" and "Sd-Card(3)", they have the same free space, and the same files inside of them. The first SD Card directory is /storage/sdcard0, and the third one is /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0.
So, how do I get it to work like it was before? I want just one SD-card folder
(And this still happens if I set the ext partition size to 512 or less, so I don't think that matters)
Thanks for the help, and I apologize if what I wrote doesn't make sense, English is not my main language.
(Also, here's some pics of Total Commander, Link2SD and the MiniTool)
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I actually don't quite understand your issue here, but I think MiniTool partition wizard does help.
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I actually don't quite understand your issue here, but I think MiniTool partition wizard does help.
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Basically, my phone shows a "SD card" folder, an "Ext SD Card" folder and the partition folder, but the "SD Card" and "Ext SD Card" have the same content, and the same free space, I just want to delete the "Ext SD Card" folder from my phone, so it only shows the "SD Card" folder, however, in MiniTool Partition Wizard, I only have the SD Card and the ext partition, so I don't know how to erase the "Ext SD Card" folder from the phone.
You can see it on the screenshots, total commander shows 3 main folders, two of them are the same folder, but with different names (1 and 3), and Link2SD shows them as "SD Card" and "Ext SD Card", with the same free space.
I just want the phone to show the SD Card folder and the partition folder, not an "Ext SD Card" folder, like it was before.
Also, if I don't know if this helps but, the SD cards directory are /storage/sdcard0 for SD Card and /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0 for Ext SD Card
Hey Guys,
My Phone is a Nexus S with CM-11-20141008-SNAPSHOT-M11-crespo. + CWM Recovery.
Today i have tried to partition my internal sd card, (the nexus s have only the internal sd Card), because i wanted to install the Link2SD app which need a ext4 partition to link the programfiles.
What i Did:
1. Connet the Phone via USB to Computer
2. Mount sd Card
3. Run Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows
4. Delete the Partition on the SD Card
5. Create a Partition, 13GB, Primary, FAT32 for media files
6. Create a Partition 1 GB, Primary ext4, for the programfiles.
7. Restarted the Phone
The Phone is still working, but i dont see the SD Card anymore on my Andorid device. I have also tried to Mount the sd card in the CWM. I tried to do a factory reset and checked the box "format sd card)
Did not work
Can you please help me? How could i restore the lost party of my internal sd card?
Thanks,
Magor
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Hey Guys,
My Phone is a Nexus S with CM-11-20141008-SNAPSHOT-M11-crespo. + CWM Recovery.
Today i have tried to partition my internal sd card, (the nexus s have only the internal sd Card), because i wanted to install the Link2SD app which need a ext4 partition to link the programfiles.
What i Did:
1. Connet the Phone via USB to Computer
2. Mount sd Card
3. Run Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows
4. Delete the Partition on the SD Card
5. Create a Partition, 13GB, Primary, FAT32 for media files
6. Create a Partition 1 GB, Primary ext4, for the programfiles.
7. Restarted the Phone
The Phone is still working, but i dont see the SD Card anymore on my Andorid device. I have also tried to Mount the sd card in the CWM. I tried to do a factory reset and checked the box "format sd card)
Did not work
Can you please help me? How could i restore the lost party of my internal sd card?
Thanks,
Magor
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You have put your self in a major mess. You should have partitioned the SD card using CWM. Now you can try to partition SD card using CWM just forget the 1Gb partion that you lost.