I have a 32 gb surface rt.
When i start it "surface" is shown on the screen for 5 seconds and the tablet shuts down.
I downloaded recovery files from microsoft, copied to fat 32 usb.
if i press volume down and power, it boot up and goes into recovery.
When i tried to recover the tablet says "missing partition" or "drive is locked"
if i start command prompt i can see my usb as c: And the tablet´s memory is shown as x:
If i run diskpart and type "list volume" the only drive shown is my usb drive.
Somehow the build in drive is not readable and not shown.
And i think that is the issue windows can´t boot because the drive is missing.
I tried to copy files from usb to built in drive and that is possible.
is drive letter x: the right letter for the built in drive?
it might has to be c: as on a pc.
If any one has a suggestion what to do.
I has been searching for a tool that could repartition the built in drive and after that i wanted to do a clean install from the usb recovery. but i haven´t found anything.
torben5247 said:
I have a 32 gb surface rt.
When i start it "surface" is shown on the screen for 5 seconds and the tablet shuts down.
I downloaded recovery files from microsoft, copied to fat 32 usb.
if i press volume down and power, it boot up and goes into recovery.
When i tried to recover the tablet says "missing partition" or "drive is locked"
if i start command prompt i can see my usb as c: And the tablet´s memory is shown as x:
If i run diskpart and type "list volume" the only drive shown is my usb drive.
Somehow the build in drive is not readable and not shown.
And i think that is the issue windows can´t boot because the drive is missing.
I tried to copy files from usb to built in drive and that is possible.
is drive letter x: the right letter for the built in drive?
it might has to be c: as on a pc.
If any one has a suggestion what to do.
I has been searching for a tool that could repartition the built in drive and after that i wanted to do a clean install from the usb recovery. but i haven´t found anything.
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AFAIK the volumes are mounted incorrectly or C:/ drive MBR/GPT sector corrupt .(must have done smth with regedit or volume encryption, bitlocker, corrupt TPM). The external usb is being detected as the primary windows system( C: drive ) and built in drive(C:/) is being read as virtual drive X:/
I think that you have to make a bootable OS on your usb device and boot from it. Either create bootable ubuntu 14.01 or surface rt stock image if available. Then It should boot by reading usb as primary drive ,i.e, C : /
AND ADD PHOTOS/VIDEO OF THE ISSUE in your post for better understanding.
EDIT- For creating bootable USB OS, use Rufus. And for creating Linux based bootable OS format drive as exFAT( I am not sure on this one but Linux use exFAT for file permission support).
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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!
I can't seem the usb drive to work with vegan beta4. Is this suppost to work or is it something i must install for it to recognize my usb thumb ?
DaMan said:
Hi!
I can't seem the usb drive to work with vegan beta4. Is this suppost to work or is it something i must install for it to recognize my usb thumb ?
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Not 100 percent sure but i beleive someone said that you need to boot the device with the usb plugged in for it to recognize some drives?
dragonfly1113 said:
Not 100 percent sure but i beleive someone said that you need to boot the device with the usb plugged in for it to recognize some drives?
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I tried that but no result.
thx
It should be listed as usbdrive using your favorite file manager. Usually under
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sdcard
sdcard2
usbdrive
Its not like windows. It doesn't pop up with a window when you plug it in. Flash drive must be formatted fat32. Android doesn't like ntfs
thebadfrog said:
It should be listed as usbdrive using your favorite file manager. Usually under
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sdcard
sdcard2
usbdrive
Its not like windows. It doesn't pop up with a window when you plug it in. Flash drive must be formatted fat32. Android doesn't like ntfs
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I do see the USB drive bit it's always empty. USB drive is fat32 formatted.
Using a USB mouse works great. I don't get a popup which notifies me about a connected usb drive like my archos 101 did.
Did a little discovery:
When connecting the tab to pc with a usb cable only then a "mount usb" message pops up.
Then a usb drive will work.
Now how do i get the gtab to mount the usb drive ?
I don't think any of these roms are gonna give you a popup when you load a usb drive. I just plugged one in on tnt 3.1 and it reads it thru file manager. I was on vegan beta4 and did the same thing yesterday
Edit: usb disk not usb drive
When you connect a cable from your pc to the tablet the pop up is to allow the tab to unmount the internal sdcard so your pc can read it.
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I don't think any of these roms are gonna give you a popup when you load a usb drive. I just plugged one in on tnt 3.1 and it reads it thru file manager. I was on vegan beta4 and did the same thing yesterday
Edit: usb disk not usb drive
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I do not understand...what is location of the usb files then ?
Open iFileManager and hit the icon that looks like a house. Scroll down and you will find a folder named usbdisk. That is your usb drive. Open the folder. I'm assuming the usb drive is plugged in
thebadfrog said:
Open iFileManager and hit the icon that looks like an icon. Scroll down and you will find a folder named usbdisk. That is your usb drive. Open the folder. I'm assuming the usb drive is plugged in
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/usbdrive is empty.
It becomes populates when i insert a mini usb cable and connect it to the pc.
This give me the mount option and only then i see files under /usbdrive.
idk then, I never had a problem reading the usb drive on vegan beta4. Sorry I can't help
OK, found it.
I have to unmount the sdcard first. Then the usb drive shows with files.
Thanks.
Cool....You may wanna drop a note in the vegan thread on what you did. Maybe others have had the same issue.
DaMan said:
OK, found it.
I have to unmount the sdcard first. Then the usb drive shows with files.
Thanks.
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Hey. I just got a USB Flash Drive and tried connecting it to my GTab but no dice. I am running Vegan 5.1 and using ES File Explore. I navigate to the root directory and see sdcard, sdcard2, and usbdisk. Sdcard and sdcard2 has my internal storage and my micro usb storage files respectively. But nothing pops us in usbdisk. I tried removing the microsd, rebooting with the USB inserted, and unmounting the microSD but no dice.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Scott
Update: So I tried going to settings and unmounting the sdcard and now I can see the USBdisk. Odd. If I want to transfer data from one drive to another, I cant accomplish that because the SDcard is unmounted. Also all my appdata and stuff are not present. Any way to have both of these drives mounted at the same time?
Thanks
I used the link below to flash the internal memory card of Nook Color.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938200
I also noticed that when I insert the Micro SD Card into the socket of the "Nook",
some files get automatically created on the card. ".Android_secure", "LOST.DIR", "tmp". In the tmp dir, there is "astro" dir with astro.db file.
Now when the I hook up the "Nook Color" to the PC the drive letters show up as "E:" and "F", but I cannot get into the drive to look at the files in them. When I click on the drive it asks to insert disk
Can someone help?
Thanks
Did you format the card upon insertion? If not try doing it from Recovery. Do you have essential files on it? FAT 32 Format is the preferred option/way.
edit: Disk Management in Windows
Some of these commands below can cause harmful an undesirable functions, leading to the formatting of your hard disk and data loss, while others will not run under Windows XP. As for Windows Vista the Run Tab is not visible in the start up menu. Windows Vista specific command prompts are not included. Start>Run>[type desired command here]
Disk management
* DISKMGMT.MSC: opens disk management utility
* CLEANMGR: opens disk drive clean up utility
* DFRG.MSC: opens disk defragmenter
* CHKDSK: complete analysis of disk partition
* DISKPART: disk partitioning tool
Microsd Card (Nook Color) not recognized by Windows XP after froyo flash
Before I flash everything was "working" fine.
Everything on the "Nook" after the "flash" is working great. I can do a lot thru froyo, but the problem below---->
I "just" cannot access the drives. Internal or external thru my PC
I tried the utilities you mentioned -->DISKMGMT.MSC. I can see the drive "E" and "F" assuming internal and additonal drive in the utility. That wont help since even though everything works perfectly on "Nook", windows XP now is unable to recognize the drives and is asking for "drivers" when I initally hook up the "Nook" thru USB.
Please help
Ok, this might be what you need:
[SCRIPT] Nook Color USB Drivers and ADB Setup (WinXP&7)
First off, I would like to thank you for your efforts in trying to help me.
I installed the ADB drivers quite a few times.
It shows up in device manager as "Android Phone" --> Android Compsite ADB Interface.
But in the "Explorer" when I click on "E" drive that corresponds to the internal memory of Nook Color, it says "Insert Disk into drive E" and now its real slow to respond of the cancel of that message
Please help
I have xoom mz 601 everest. i have rooted it, with latest rom 153.
there is no problem in my usb otg, I am using it to view files from my normal usb drive.
but there is this one thing. I can't make my external hard disk to work.
After i connect it to the usb otg, it looks fine and i can see that the power is not an issue, because it runs just like plugging it in a laptop.
but then, the xoom, notifies me saying, "SD card is damage. Try reformatting it",
the external hard disk works well in my laptop, i know there is no real damage in it.
How can I make it work in my xoom?
makwell24 said:
I have xoom mz 601 everest. i have rooted it, with latest rom 153.
there is no problem in my usb otg, I am using it to view files from my normal usb drive.
but there is this one thing. I can't make my external hard disk to work.
After i connect it to the usb otg, it looks fine and i can see that the power is not an issue, because it runs just like plugging it in a laptop.
but then, the xoom, notifies me saying, "SD card is damage. Try reformatting it",
the external hard disk works well in my laptop, i know there is no real damage in it.
How can I make it work in my xoom?
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This has happened to me as well - as a precaution, copy your needed files from your sdcard to your pc for safe keeping. Take the sdcard out of the xoom, place it in a card reader on your pc, bring up the command prompt for that drive.
You can run Check Disk from the command prompt. At a command prompt, you can test the integrity of the "E" drive (whatever your sdcard drive is)" we will use "E" in this example. Typing the following command:
Code:
chkdsk E
To find and repair errors that are found in the "E drive" (your sdcard drive), use the following command:
Code:
chkdsk /f E
That should fix it.
thanks... What i did is just use an app that will mount it, and it mounted as is there is no damage it was said...
Hello ... !!
I installed the Linux system on my Lg g4 phone without a routine and then with the new userland program. Then I loaded the required files for windows 10 arm and installed qemu and installed the xfce4 interface and gave the commands to run windows 10 ARM in the terminal through the qemu program. Freeze on the prompt to press any button to take off from the CD or DVD and does not complete and then I did the same steps on my laptop system work but show me the blue death screen immediately after the takeoff
Note: The system needs to GPT and I own the MBR on the laptop Is that why the system Take off by UEFI which requires a GPT Do anyone help me
I been here before? (almost like when ur ramstick is faulty )
MBR Is your master boot record,and it needs Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFi which is specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.
If u can boot then first
Just open Run and type the command MSINFO32.
When you do this, System Information will open up.
Here, under System Summary, you will be able to find out whether it is BIOS or UEFI. “Legacy” indicates that the system is BIOS and UEFI indicates that the system is, of course, UEFI.
Non-boot GPT disks are supported on BIOS-only systems. It is not necessary to boot from UEFI in order to utilize disks partitioned with the GPT partition scheme. Therefore you can take advantage of all of the features offered by GPT disks even though your motherboard only supports BIOS mode.5.
Set up GPT
Go to BIOS settings and enable UEFI mode. ...
Press Shift+F10 to bring out a command prompt.
Type Diskpart.
Type List disk.
Type Select disk [disk number]
Type Clean Convert MBR.
Wait for the process to complete.
Go back to Windows installation screen, and install Windows 10 on your SD /hd / vibrator / etc .
Again the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.All versions of Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista can read GPT drives and use them for data—they just can't boot from them without UEFI. Other modern operating systems can also use GPT. Linux has built-in support for GPT.
So lastly once u booted
Make SD/SDHC card Bootable for Windows(u can even use Rufus tool easier but below works)
The steps to make a bootable SD/SDHC card on Windows comprise of some similar steps. This involves the complete formatting of the SD card and then uploading the OS files and making the bootable SDHC card.
To make a bootable SDHC/SD memory card for windows, follow the steps;
Connect the SD/SDHC card to your computer – make sure the card is empty and you do not have any valuable data in the card.
Go to Command prompt – In order to do that, go to start menu and type cmd and enter.
Go to diskpart – type diskpart and enter.
In the new window, type; list disk – the window should be system32/diskpart.
From the list of the disks that your computer has, look for your SD/SDHC card. you can refer to the memory space of the disks to identify your SD card.
Type; select diskX – the name of the disk you want to use i.e. the SD card.
Type; Clean
Type; Create Partition Primary
Type; Active
Type; Format Fs= NTFS Quick
Type; Assign
Type; Exit
Now, mount your ISO file of windows – Right-click on the image and select mount.
Run the following commands:
G: CD BOOT – G is the iso file drive letter.
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT 60 F – F is the SD card or the drive letter for SD/SDHC card.
Copy all the files from the ISO image to the memory card.
Your SD/SDHC card is now in bootable mode, you can restart your computer and test the bootable SDHC card.
NOTE: While performing any of these steps double-check what you are selecting and what command you are executing. This is because any small mistake can corrupt your SD / SDHC card file system. Sometimes, you could fix corrupt SD card in easy ways, but not always. There are chances that your card would become useless permanently. Hence, handle your card carefully.
Important if u got stuck again..
5. Set up GPT
Go to BIOS settings and enable UEFI mode. ...
Press Shift+F10 to bring out a command prompt.
Type Diskpart.
Type List disk.
Type Select disk [disk number]
Type Clean Convert MBR.
Wait for the process to complete.
Go back to Windows installation screen, and install Windows 10 on your SSD.
Lastly stick to 32 bit core iso (if u can workbench iso)
Hope this helps
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