Has anyone tried setting up their sdcard to be a bootable USB Drive that oyu can boot a PC from?
Idea being:
1) Install bootable systemrescuecd or memtest on your sdcard
2) Plug your phone into the pc via usb, mount your sdcard as usb mass storage
3) Turn the computer on and have it boot systemrescuecd or memtest from the phone's sdcard.
I've tried it, but my desktop, eeepc or laptop do not see the Captivate's USB mass storage as a boot device. It has been done on a G1 (since I can't post links, google "g1 pc boot" and click the first link) and I'm trying to do the same on Captivate.
Any ideas?
I dont know, but it seems to me that you would have to make the internal sd card in it bootable. I'd try using the HP USB formatting tool. I use it all the time to make usb thumbdrives bootable. After doing that I'd think you might be able to boot from it.
I did. I didn't use the HP one, but I used multibootisos, which worked fine on my physical thumbdrive. The same process didn't work on the captivate.
Possibly a partition of the drive might work. Then you could format iit to work for your needs.
Nice idea btw
Sent from my captivate
I'm thinking there is an issue (atleast with my phone) showing up as 2 drives. I dunno, I'm fussing with it and getting nowhere.
You get two drives because you have the internal memory and external memory mounted.
When you boot you computer, you need to be able to select the specific usb device to boot off of in bios. Usually you can hit F12 during boot to select it.
Right.. as I said, it worked fine with the physical thumbdrive.
I get why the captivate shows up as 2 devices.
I know how to select the boot device and all that. I'm saying neither of the captivate drives show up as a bootable device despite being setup exactly like the physical thumbdrive that does work as a boot device.
Hi All
Before opening this topic I have searched to find answers on my questions but no results.
I got Xoom WIFI MZ604
It is not rooted and was automatically updated to 4.0.4 version.
Now I have just received USB Hosting Cable and want to transfer files directly from my camera to Xoom device. Or from Flash Card or use Card Reader on Xoom.
But unfortunately I have only managed to use USB keyboard and mouse with this device and cable.
So my question is Do I need to Root my Xoom in order to use USB flash drive, Connect Camera and Transfer files, use card-reader?
As I have seen on Youtube people can see images in gallery once they connect camera or USB flash drive.
When I connect USB flash drive and Card Reader to Xoom, Tablet gives power to them and seems it recognizes but cannot access files.
I have tried File Explorer to see Flash from mnt but it doesn't work.
Any suggestions? I really do not want to go back to previous version of Android (I even don't know how to do it and if it is safe)
Hi
I have an otg 64 gb Sandisk flash drive with a built-in micro usb for android phones.
My phone is rooted, running stock 6.0.1 and I have Stickmount installed. But ES explorer only sees 8 Gb of space. What do I need to do to make the nexus 5 see the entire flash drive?
(I also have a 32Gb flash drive which ed file explorer's sees correctly).
Thanks.
SOLVED (in case it helps someone else)
I routinely use StickMount when I insert a usb flash drive in my nexus 5 and as mentioned above that did not show the full drive size.
Trying various things, I decided to make StickMount unmount the flash drive and instead accessed it without StickMount. Lo and behold, the nexus 5 now sees and writes to the entire 64 gb!
Don't know why but maybe marshmallow does not need StickMount. In any case this works fine.
In case any one needs to know, this is the drive I purchased. Great for keeping backups in your pocket when traveling.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01M...ve+android&dpPl=1&dpID=51Wny4hPqpL&ref=plSrch
As the title says: Is there a way to connect an MTP device to a Poco X3 via USB OTG? As in the X3 should be the host, the opposite of what happens when you connect in file transfer mode to PC
Mass storage devices (eg. a flash drive, external SSD) work just fine, but MTP devices (eg. another Android phone in file transfer mode, a Nintendo Switch in copy to computer mode) simply don't elicit any response from the X3
My question is, is there a way to get the phone to recognize these, perhaps by means of an app?
(I can root the phone if necessary, but I would rather keep this stock if possible mainly because it's a real pain to set everything up after unlocking the bootloader)
Can we ditch the HDD/SSD of PC and use smartphone storage instead?
Is it possible to create an NTFS partition in the smartphone storage that will be used as a bootable external HDD/SSD drive that can boot a PC?
Try this:
How to Recover Your PC Using an Android Device
PC won't boot? No other computer available to make a recovery USB? Here's how to create a bootable USB in Android without a PC.
www.makeuseof.com
I'm talking about using the phone's storage as the main storage also of a PC for daily use, not just for a one-time boot.
You would first have to find an old phone that has the ability to run mass storage. Then you can experiment.
You can install a Windows Emulator on your Phone.​Look inside here:
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Why not on Windows PC install the Windows Subsystem for Android ( WSA ) and run Android OS natively directly on PC?
The point is to combine the phone storage and the PC storage to one storage, to be able to manage your data in one place.
Dividing the storage to (at least) 3 partitions:
1. Android OS
2. Data (Documents, Music, Video...)
3. Windows OS
You don't need to manage your Data twice.
All your Data and changes is available to you at home and on the road.
You don't need Cloud or Sync solutions.
Offline.
What you want to get achieved simply is impossible IMO: in any case a server as MITM-machine is needed.
Only to have mentioned it: both the Windows OS and the Android OS store files in incompatible filesystems.
Didn't know Windows can installed on portable drives... I feel this is mainly a Windows question. I remember there was such funny thing BartPE.
Stamimail said:
Can we ditch the HDD/SSD of PC and use smartphone storage instead?
Is it possible to create an NTFS partition in the smartphone storage that will be used as a bootable external HDD/SSD drive that can boot a PC?
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If I understand your question, try the Drivedroid app, it can be used to make an Android device function as a bootable drive to boot PC from the Android device.
Also, there are some methods to dual boot on Android.
I'm talking about a situation where everything happens simultaneously:
1. First partition serves the phone to run Android OS. (The phone works normally. You can have a call on the phone)
2. The second partition serves both the phone and the computer, for User Data.
3. The third partition serves the computer to run Windows OS.
@Stamimail please answer yourself first
3. have you ever installed any Windows on external usb hard disk/ssd drive? Is that even possible? Idk
Yes, a long time ago.
Also a short internet search shows that it is possible.
I see there such thing Windows to go.
https://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/index.html
probably easiest workaround is rooted android device with MicroSD card provided as UMS.
[APP][ROOT] USB MASS STORAGE Enabler v1.6
This app is to enable Mass Storage Mode for mounting your Memory Card as a USB Drive in Computer from your rooted device [Android 4.0+].. It does not mount internal storage, and it will not work if your device doesn't have External Memory Card...
forum.xda-developers.com
or try Drivedroid.
[APP][2.2+] DriveDroid - host ISO/IMG files to boot your PC from
DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go... without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives. The paid version of...
forum.xda-developers.com
In further reading, I get the impression that the big problem is that internal storage always has better performance than external storage.
I don't know why external storage can't be made to be as good as internal.
So the question now is:
If people decide it's a good idea, is it technically possible to implement this idea (that phone storage will replace computer storage)?
you can repartition userdata partition with gdisk and create another partition. this partition can be provided as UMS.
However, windows is known for dancing rumba on disk, you probably won't have much fun till emmc is weared-out.