Hello, I had to backup my laptop and send it back and the only backup media I found was my phones sdcard which had fat 32 and because I needed to transfer large files I formated it on the laptop to ntfs.
Now I only have my phone left and when I want to copy what I have on the sdcard it says the sd is corrupted. Is there any way that the file system on my s8 plus can be made to read the ntfs sd cards ?
Thank you sooooo much !!!
asbogdan said:
Hello, I had to backup my laptop and send it back and the only backup media I found was my phones sdcard which had fat 32 and because I needed to transfer large files I formated it on the laptop to ntfs.
Now I only have my phone left and when I want to copy what I have on the sdcard it says the sd is corrupted. Is there any way that the file system on my s8 plus can be made to read the ntfs sd cards ?
Thank you sooooo much !!!
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If you have already tripped KNOX, you could modify the fstab in bootimg. Samsung, for some reason, decided to restrict SD cards to fat format. The support for NTFS, ext4 and many other FS is already built-in, enabling it is as easy as changing the FS from 'fat' to 'auto' in fstab.
Sadly know is not tripped nor am I willing to do so. Is there any other way?
You should use exFAT. This gets over 4GB file size restrictions and can be seen by both Windows and Android.
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Hello all. I was wondering if someone could tell me how to delete a partition off of my SD card. I used Paragon Partition Manager 9 to setup a 150mb partition (which turned out to be too small) and now Im switching to a larger SD card and giving mine to someone. I loaded the card in Paragon but it doesnt give an option to delete, just resize the partition. Does someone know a way to remove it so the card will have 4gb available again? I searched but couldnt find an answer.
Try using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Its what I've been using and so far it works well.
Oh I see, I googled that and it appears to be similar to the regular windows formatting. So this will delete the partition I set and restore my SD card to full space available?
yeah, if you just reformat the card as a whole it will do it, or get an ubuntu disk and use the partition manager to create a new data table and then reformat
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Just got my new Lexar 32gb micro-sdhc class 10 card. This comes formatted as fat32. This is unpractical because when movies and such surpass the 4gb limit.
How do i go about formatting this to something else? ext4?
There's no options for this in honeycomb.
Looked trough clockwork recovery and i only find /sdcard witch i suppose is the internal storage.
Anoyne have a clue?
if your movies and such surpass the 4Gig limit, then you're not going to be fitting very much on that 32gig card.
I'd also question if they are encoded in a format that will actually work/play back well on the Xoom?
That's not the point. I want to be able to transport large files if i have to.
MiRaCL said:
That's not the point. I want to be able to transport large files if i have to.
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Well, I use my 750GB Passpost HDD for really big files. Works fine with the OTG cable.
The point is. The card formatted as FAT/FAT32 doesn't support files over 4GB.
On my Nexus one i just formatted the card as ext4 trough CW. Can't find an option i CW for formatting the SDHC card / external1.
MiRaCL said:
The point is. The card formatted as FAT/FAT32 doesn't support files over 4GB.
On my Nexus one i just formatted the card as ext4 trough CW. Can't find an option i CW for formatting the SDHC card / external1.
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Sorry to give you answers you didn't ask for. I'm assuming you no longer have your phone to use for formating. There is an application from a third party (I want to say Panasonic?) that you can use on your pc to format the microsd. Don't use Rom Manager to format the sdcard or you will be in a world of hurt, as you so astutely realized...it will format your internal storage.
Still have my phone I'll use that. Thanks for the idea
Now since my nexus s doesn't expose the FAT32 sd card filesystem anymore, due to file sharing over MTP, I thought that changing the sd card filesystem might be an idea worth investigating.
FAT32 is probably not the most efficient choice for an sd card file system, what options do I actually have? Could switching to ext4 result in performance gains? Would my device actually recognize the new filesystem?
Is there another filesystem that handles sd cards even better and is it supported by kernel/ics?
Hi all,
I have been reading about an issue that I have: 'android.process.media' keeps stopping.
One of the suggestions is that there maybe a corrupted file on your external sd card.
The fix is to either delete the file; good luck trying to find which file. or to reformat the sd card.
Since I have the keyboard dock and several 32gb microSD cards. I plan on copying all my files to the other card and then formatting the card in question.
However, it seems on the Asus tablet, I am not given the format option. I had it on my Samsung phone before the upgrade to ICS.
But one thing I wanted to do after some other reading is to format the card the same file system that is used on the internal memory.
If I have my facts correct, the internal memory is formatted as 'ext' and external SD cards get formatted as 'fat' (or is that fat32).
I think it's formatted as fat, is for compatibility with your PC.
However, the article, said that 'ext' is much more secure and less prone to corruption.
So is there anyway to format the external SD card in this 'ext' file system and how would one do that process?
Thanks!
Rob
You would need to do it in linux or find a windows program that could do it, as ext is not supported in windows. Im not sure the microsd will work right in the tablet formated as ext and your windows desktop wont be able to access .
Ok, I read in another thread, they suggested to put the microsd card in the phone and format from there.
I did do that.
And I have another question, my phone is rooted and it contains CWM.
I noticed in CWM, that you can fomat from there.
There are options to format areas, like /system /cache and the one I am interested in is /sdcard.
My question is this, is this /sdcard the external micro SD card or is it simply the partition /sdcard which is Samsung's internal memory. I don't want to take a change and format the internal SD card.
I think once formatted the external SD card, but I was on a different version of CWM, I have a different one after the ICS upgrade that was recommended by someone helping me do the ICS upgrade.
Anyway, thanks in advance!
Rob
Whoops almost forgot, there is thread on xda about formatting memory in ext4. I would like to try that and see if the Asus tablet can read that if I get to format the external card in ext4 Still looking for a Windows program that will format in that mode.
/sdcard is internal. /Removable is external.
I would be surprised if you can find a Windows program that reads, let alone writes, any type of ext filesystem (and forget about anything less mainstream like JFS or ReiserFS). Microsoft only made Windows compatible with their own filesystems, FAT32 and NTFS.
I have a KINGMAX 16gb class 6 FAT32 micro sd card.
i tried to copy Backtrack5 (5gb) from PC to my sd card but despite the fact that i have 10gb space free, it tells me that i have insufficient space and it won't write.
any solutions? and why it does this?
ceoleaders said:
I have a KINGMAX 16gb class 6 FAT32 micro sd card.
i tried to copy Backtrack5 (5gb) from PC to my sd card but despite the fact that i have 10gb space free, it tells me that i have insufficient space and it won't write.
any solutions? and why it does this?
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You can't copy more than 4 GB on FAT32 formatted sd card.
tadeas482 said:
You can't copy more than 4 GB on FAT32 formatted sd card.
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Indeed, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table for more information, you will need to reformat your sdcard to another file system format that supports larger files (but note if your using windows your options are limited!)
then what format do i use?
obviously not FAT16, an i heard that NTFS is read-only for android system
ceoleaders said:
then what format do i use?
obviously not FAT16, an i heard that NTFS is read-only for android system
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the last FAT32 16gb i had wouldnt let me move files back/forth larger than about 1gb...swapped for a brand new one and it worked fine after that...
tadeas482 said:
You can't copy more than 4 GB on FAT32 formatted sd card.
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ceoleaders said:
then what format do i use?
obviously not FAT16, an i heard that NTFS is read-only for android system
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Well thats the thing if your using windows there isnt really a file format you can use thats natively supported with windows, but I believe you could use ext3 and use thrid party software to access it in windows