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help with formatting sd card

I think I messed up my sd card for my G1.
I have a 8gb memcard and it was with 2 partitions ext2 and fat32. I just wanted to enlarge the fat32 side because the ext2 was 4gb big. Useless I thought So i deceided to make it only 500mb as ext2 and 7gb as fat32.
Now the computer can't access the card, it says that the cardslot is empty.
I use Paragon Partition Manager and there I can't modifie my sdcard. Nothing helps. I can see my sdcard in Paragon, but can access it and modify it!
Is my card messed up and do I have to buy a new one? Anybody knows how to restore it as it was when I bought it (only fat32 8gb)

Try this: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

mikedmeyer said:
Try this: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/
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YES you are so great!
It works now! Just like new. 8gb no partitions.
Thx!

No problem.

Now I have an another problem!
It always says write delay failed constantly!
Cannot access it, cannot format it, even not with sd formatter.
Is it now realy broken?

nobody :'(
Otherwise I have to order a new 8gb memory card which costs me a lot

use partition magic, create 2 partitions, make the primary partition your biggest and format it fat32, the second partition format in ext2. Then you will be okay

atlmatt said:
use partition magic, create 2 partitions, make the primary partition your biggest and format it fat32, the second partition format in ext2. Then you will be okay
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The problem is that I cant access my mem.card.
Always a fault: write delay failed. It makes even my computer freeze.

well if you have to get a new one get one of these:
http://www.androidaccess.com/sdcard/store.html
read about it here:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/...allow-you-to-run-apps-from-the-sd-card-15502/

M3 SMGII said:
I think I messed up my sd card for my G1.
I have a 8gb memcard and it was with 2 partitions ext2 and fat32. I just wanted to enlarge the fat32 side because the ext2 was 4gb big. Useless I thought So i deceided to make it only 500mb as ext2 and 7gb as fat32.
Now the computer can't access the card, it says that the cardslot is empty.
I use Paragon Partition Manager and there I can't modifie my sdcard. Nothing helps. I can see my sdcard in Paragon, but can access it and modify it!
Is my card messed up and do I have to buy a new one? Anybody knows how to restore it as it was when I bought it (only fat32 8gb)
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Had the same problem after i used Paragon, would not read micro sd anymore. I did a system restore to before i installed Paragon. Problem solved. I am able to read my cards again. I noticed that in that "finish formatting after reboot" Paragon had an error. Figured thats what caused the problem.

antempire4 said:
well if you have to get a new one get one of these:
http://www.androidaccess.com/sdcard/store.html
read about it here:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/...allow-you-to-run-apps-from-the-sd-card-15502/
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hmm that's nice!
I will buy a new one then.

Did You try sdsplit ??
It worked good for me, when there was no PC / laptop available.
(ps. Happy with the white version?? )

karloe said:
Did You try sdsplit ??
It worked good for me, when there was no PC / laptop available.
(ps. Happy with the white version?? )
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Hi Karloe
Yes very happy with my white G1.
How is it with the black one running ADP 1.5?
I will try SDSPLIT, but i think it will not help

If it doesn't work, try a linux live CD (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Knoppix (I like Knoppix because of the extensive toolset for testing))
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The black one is doing fine, engineering bootloader, ADP1.5 with appstosd
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wow thanks!!!! i tried and it worked awesome!!!

pr0cl1v1ty said:
wow thanks!!!! i tried and it worked awesome!!!
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It would be nice to tell us what You tried, so other users can learn from your reply

[Q] SD card dead

I wanted to use swap over the sd-card partition.And i used MiniTool partition program.I followed something wrongly.I deleted the partition.Now the sdcard wont be recognised either on the PC or the phone.I would really apreciate help because it is a 16 gb sd class 10 card.i payed a lot for it,so i dont want to have 25$ in trash.:crying:

Boot into recovery and use the options there to partition & format your SD card from your phone.
And if you paid $50 for 16GB card, you got ripped off.

post-mortem said:
Boot into recovery and use the options there to partition & format your SD card from your phone.
And if you paid $50 for 16GB card, you got ripped off.
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Yes, this is the way :good:

Just learned I could partition my SD and restore it through CWM. Thanks to the OP and first reply.

It said that can't mount sdcard.can't read sdcard

Put the SD card in your computer, and use this to format it.

post-mortem said:
Put the SD card in your computer, and use this to format it.
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Thank you.I will get home on Sunday
:/
Then I will try...
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i have a selloution of this miss
shadik555 said:
Thank you.I will get home on Sunday
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Then I will try...
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i have 2 ways to fix this miss
1-you can get a cell phone like Nokia and put the sd in it then format then put it back it will work
2- you can reinstall your rom if it was stock or custom and iam sure it will be recognized
press thanks if i helped

Hello,
Maybe your PC can repair your SDcard at me worked this.
Look at google Repair SDcard
regards

omarilzz said:
i have 2 ways to fix this miss
1-you can get a cell phone like Nokia and put the sd in it then format then put it back it will work
2- you can reinstall your rom if it was stock or custom and iam sure it will be recognized
press thanks if i helped
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God,I am so lucky that my dad has a nokia and that i ran in to you.
Pressed thanks.

LiquidSmooth Rom rc7 cant access SD?

ive installed liquidsmooth rom rc7 for verizon galaxy s3..everything is working except that when i try to play music it doesnt access my external sd card..when i look into gallery my pictures doesnt load..and there isnt a way for me to look my external sd files w.o use 3rd party app.

Make sure your card is formatted with FAT32. Most custom roms do not support exFat.
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jhoutz said:
Make sure your card is formatted with FAT32. Most custom roms do not support exFat.
Sent from my SCH-I535
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my card is formmated with FAT32. still doesnt access and on the liquid smooth rom there isnt a way to format directly plug into the phone

MPanda said:
my card is formmated with FAT32. still doesnt access and on the liquid smooth rom there isnt a way to format directly plug into the phone
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Phone shows that its there but I can't access it or play songs..but I can access through script manager no solutions for this...I just might have to switch to a different rom

Your positive its formatted to fat32?

droidstyle said:
Your positive its formatted to fat32?
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Yes I'm very positive I have two micro SD cards...its weird cause it shows my videos in gallery but it doesn't show anything else there both formatted to fat32 it

MPanda said:
Yes I'm very positive I have two micro SD cards...its weird cause it shows my videos in gallery but it doesn't show anything else there both formatted to fat32 it
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i really like this rom..but it seems that im only the one facing this problem..im just going to flash to another rom..its been a 2weeks..i havent had a clue whats going to these situations..and i really appreciate everyone who posted in response to this..

NTFS ExFAT on Nexus 5

Just want to let everyone knows after installing stickmount on my rooted N5, and copying the following to /sdcard/ my N5 can now read ExFAT and NTFS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...2&sa=D&usg=AFQjCNG2utOyTHiqIf5XsSeY1I2TxayLcw
http://forum.xda-developers.com/att...2&sa=D&usg=AFQjCNFVbUK0fY7RZRsPYqCiWiJZrBa5dw
These hints are from Stickmount Play page. But just to make sure everyone knows....

wildpig1234 said:
Just want to let everyone knows after installing stickmount on my rooted N5, and copying the following to /sdcard/ my N5 can now read ExFAT and NTFS
These hints are from Stickmount Play page. But just to make sure everyone knows....
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What capacity card do you have with exFat partition? I just put in a 64GB micro sd with exFat and I not seeing the file. Stick mount was able to mount the partition but no app could read the card contents. Then I tried Paragon exFat, NTFS app and it said that exFat support is reserved for OEM/s ... so no-go there as well.

enaybee said:
What capacity card do you have with exFat partition? I just put in a 64GB micro sd with exFat and I not seeing the file. Stick mount was able to mount the partition but no app could read the card contents. Then I tried Paragon exFat, NTFS app and it said that exFat support is reserved for OEM/s ... so no-go there as well.
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Did you copy those system files into/sdcard on yr nexus5 first?

wildpig1234 said:
Did you copy those system files into/sdcard on yr nexus5 first?
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It worked after I copied the files over to N5 and N7 both. I typed in my post first and read your links second. All is good here. Thanks.

enaybee said:
It worked after I copied the files over to N5 and N7 both. I typed in my post first and read your links second. All is good here. Thanks.
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Great to hear! Hope this would be helpful to many.

wildpig1234 said:
Great to hear! Hope this would be helpful to many.
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Hi I tried clicking on the links but all I get is a blank screen - please can you help?

I use StickMount for read NTFS USB pendrive, but it's possible to add write support (with stock or franco.Kernel)?

sd card detected by pc but not by any phone ????

first good morning/evening and thank you in Advance for your help
*excuse my english isn't my native language
well everything is said in the title but maybe i should explain more :
this sd card 8gb is not mine it was to my friend brother(it won't be detected by his phone) and he just gave it to me and here i am trying to repair it (so i know nothing about this sd card )
all i know is that it's detected by my computer and it work fine but isn't detected at ll if mounted in any android phone (tried on lg k10 2017 and samsung s5) i don't think it's dead since it work fine on pc
here's what i tried to repair it :
windows fat32 format
hdd low format tool
chkdsk (show no error)
EaseUS Partition Master (format and check partition)
thanks again

diabolo96 said:
first good morning/evening and thank you in Advance for your help
*excuse my english isn't my native language
well everything is said in the title but maybe i should explain more :
this sd card 8gb is not mine it was to my friend brother(it won't be detected by his phone) and he just gave it to me and here i am trying to repair it (so i know nothing about this sd card )
all i know is that it's detected by my computer and it work fine but isn't detected at ll if mounted in any android phone (tried on lg k10 2017 and samsung s5) i don't think it's dead since it work fine on pc
here's what i tried to repair it :
windows fat32 format
hdd low format tool
chkdsk (show no error)
EaseUS Partition Master (format and check partition)
thanks again
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Try FAT (not FAT32).

Just reformat it
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Nonta72 said:
Try FAT (not FAT32).
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thank you for you quick reply
i can't format to FAT because i can't find the option in the windows format utility n'or in EaseUS Partition Master
edit :
or do you mean exFAT

pr1jker said:
Just reformat it
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that's what i did multiple times

diabolo96 said:
that's what i did multiple times
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In your post, you mentioned FAT32 which is clearly not "FAT" (FAT16 if you want).

Nonta72 said:
In your post, you mentioned FAT32 which is clearly not "FAT" (FAT16 if you want).
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it's an 8gb sd card and from what i've read on internet it's impossible to format it to FAT16
and i don't have the option to format it to FAT in windows format utility i can only format it to NTFS-FAT32-exFAT

diabolo96 said:
it's an 8gb sd card and from what i've read on internet it's impossible to format it to FAT16
and i don't have the option to format it to FAT in windows format utility i can only format it to NTFS-FAT32-exFAT
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Right, my bad!
Well, maybe it's an hardware issue with the SD Card. If it doesn't get detected by any phone but in PC, I don't have an explanation to that.
Let's wait and see if someone else has another idea.

Nonta72 said:
Right, my bad!
Well, maybe it's an hardware issue with the SD Card. If it doesn't get detected by any phone but in PC, I don't have an explanation to that.
Let's wait and see if someone else has another idea.
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while searching on the web for a solution i found someone with the same problem and someone answered that maybe a partition on the sd card is damaged and that the pc still can detecte it but don't read the damaged parte while the phones just can't detecte it
the probleme is that it Chkdsk and EaseUS Partition Master sector check show no problem

diabolo96 said:
while searching on the web for a solution i found someone with the same problem and someone answered that maybe a partition on the sd card is damaged and that the pc still can detecte it but don't read the damaged parte while the phones just can't detecte it
the probleme is that it Chkdsk and EaseUS Partition Master sector check show no problem
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In case of multiple partitions, EaseUS software would have shown you all of them.

Nonta72 said:
In case of multiple partitions, EaseUS software would have shown you all of them.
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their's only one partition shown in easeus

diabolo96 said:
that's what i did multiple times
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My bad, sorry
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I had this problem a few years ago with my Samsung tab 3 and the solution that worked for me was formatting your micro SD card inside your phone, this automatically formats it to FAT 32. See if that works.
Also did you try another android device besides your current one

Will tech said:
I had this problem a few years ago with my Samsung tab 3 and the solution that worked for me was formatting your micro SD card inside your phone, this automatically formats it to FAT 32. See if that works.
Also did you try another android device besides your current one
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He mentioned that it doesn't get detected.

sorry for late replay i was very besy
i don't think theirs any solution anyways thank you all