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[Q] Format SD back??

I flashed wp7 but now I want to go back to android but my SD card only has 199mb free instead of my original 16gb. I'm guessing due to the wp7 partition. How can I reverse that and get it back to the original 16gb. I've tried formatting it and everything.
Help please

You need to delete the individual partitions of your sd card and make it one big card again
maybe some software will help:
EASEUS Partition Master (Home Edition)
MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition
Paragon Partition Manager Free Edition

There was a similar thread somewhere...anyway, the only way you can format your sd card back is to put it in a symbian device. It recognises it as broken an formats it. I personally confirm this with Nokia E71. Nokia n97 mini is also confirmed by other people. Since Symbian hasn't changed much in the past year i guess almost all devices from 2008 till now can format your sd card. Now you just need to find one.

You can do it using diskpart in vitsa / 7 just as effectively

Where do I find that disc part at on windows 7?

Google Panasonic sd formatter
Install and in options 'format volume size adjustment 'to on.

You dont need to do all that.
Just falsh an Android ROM onto your phone.
Once you have android up and running, go to Settings>Storage>Erase SD card.
This will un-mount your sd card and format it. Once its complete, it will see all the storage.
Keep in mind it will wipe whatever you have in your SD card.

changochulo said:
You dont need to do all that.
Just falsh an Android ROM onto your phone.
Once you have android up and running, go to Settings>Storage>Erase SD card.
This will un-mount your sd card and format it. Once its complete, it will see all the storage.
Keep in mind it will wipe whatever you have in your SD card.
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I just did that and it didn't work for me. I had a 2GB card and it only formatted to 200MB. The card needs to be repartioned in order to regain the space that WP7 takes.
What I did was just stick the card in a USB card reader and used HPUSBDisk.exe on it. Worked out great, but I also unchecked the quick format option (not sure if that matters).

I have the same problem also.. If i understand correctly, we didn't put the SD card once we first boot the window 7. do these partitions method work? Thanks ahead

changochulo said:
You dont need to do all that.
Just falsh an Android ROM onto your phone.
Once you have android up and running, go to Settings>Storage>Erase SD card.
This will un-mount your sd card and format it. Once its complete, it will see all the storage.
Keep in mind it will wipe whatever you have in your SD card.
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Great...work fine...

GParted should also work

Put ur sd card in ur computer
right click on it and click on format to fat32
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formated with winmo 6.5 ..

[Q] Busted Micro SD?

Hi Chaps
Got probs with my 16gb class 4 micro sd card.
Bought an htc hd2 off ebay last week which came with the above card and winmo 6.5.
I wanted to test out WM7 which I did, didn't enjoy it so tried to get Android working.
Now I came across the 199mb problem which I fixed no probs but now the sd card will just not play ball in CWM. It says it makes the partitions but this is instant and should take a few minutes being a 16GB sd card. When I come to mount the thing it just error's and says cannot mount sd card.
I've tried doing a full erase using the samsung sd tool and that took over 3 hours to complete which is strange. I've also used the tool to create partitions which it does without any problems.
If I put the SD card in my fiancee's HTC Desire and mount and format it it works fine but when I come to mount it on my hd2 it still can't mount it.
I also have a 4GB micro sd card which is class 2 and this works perfectly with CWM both with partitioning and mounting.
I'm on the verge of snapping this card in half and buying a new one so before I do I thought I'd ask on here for any advice.
Many Thanks

Use Panasonic SD Formatter and format using that. Should work then. No even need for a full erase, but if you want you can, but not needed. It should recover the rest of the SD card.

Skellyyy said:
Use Panasonic SD Formatter and format using that. Should work then. No even need for a full erase, but if you want you can, but not needed. It should recover the rest of the SD card.
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Cheers for that, done a quick format and it finished but now windows won't read it. Just comes up with the message disk is not formatted do you want to format it now.
Is this normal?

No problem. Erm well I've formatted my 8GB class 8 using that and I've never encountered that problem. When your formatted did it come up that it was restored to 14/15GB? You might aswell go ahead and format it.

Skellyyy said:
No problem. Erm well I've formatted my 8GB class 8 using that and I've never encountered that problem. When your formatted did it come up that it was restored to 14/15GB? You might aswell go ahead and format it.
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Duh me, I had to remove it from the laptop and back in for windows to pick it up.
Just tried mounting the sd as USB storage and I get the following error
"E:Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)"
Trying to mount the sd card I get this error:
"E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory) Error mounting /sdcard!"
As soon as I put my 4bg sd card in and try to mount it it works straight away

That's very odd. I don't know very much about SD cards/memory so I wouldn't know what's wrong with that.
I think you're best off getting a new card as I think that ones maybe worn out.

I recommend you don't use ebay for sd cards, they can easily be poor copies, just buy them from a recognised store, Amazon or Play

Cheers for the help guys. Think I'll just stick it in the digital camera as that seems to work fine and buy a new one from amazon or play.

yeah.. dont ever buy memory cards from ebay...
i tried buying one 32gb microsd before..
my comp doesnt even detect it..

SD cards not recognized on my new HD2

Hi everyone
Bought my HD2 a couople of weeks ago. Since I recieved I have not been able to mount my sd cards. I have 2 8gb adata ones both class 6 and one 8gb bought from **** smith electronics (a class 4).
I have tried formatting with SDformatter from the sd association and with EASEUS partition master. Both don't seem to have any effect on my hd2 mounting the cards.
The funny thing is though when I use magdlr and use the usb mass storage function with the sd card in, on my pc it recognizes the mass storage and I can copy files to the sd card and then put the sd card in a card reader and the files are there.
I have tried mounting the sd card in a couple of nand android builds and the official windows 6.5 rom for LEO but to no avail. Phone still does not recognize sd card.
Any help or ideas on what I can do? Really want to have wp7 with 720p video recording

I'm sure you know this but on the cm7 builds I use when you connect USB you have to jump to pull down notification screen, tap USB connected and then tap "turn on USB storage " before it shows up to your PC.

have you installed automount from the market?

Yes I did try automount but that didn't work. I am just hoping that it is not a hardware fault. But the usb mass storage feature in magdlr worked for copying files to the sd card

thekakaman said:
Yes I did try automount but that didn't work. I am just hoping that it is not a hardware fault. But the usb mass storage feature in magdlr worked for copying files to the sd card
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be alittle carefull with the magldr mount, it doesnt handle larger files well apparently. cwm has a mount option that works well.

I am having this kind of problem too and bought a card from austrailia. problem is my HD 2 reads my 2 gb card but when i pop a 16 gb , it freezes. On my pc however it reads the card and i can store data
Formatted the thing and no effect. would love some advice as well. It is a class 2

SD card corruption

My SD card is not functioning. It just happened one day and it is not recognized by HD2 anymore. The MAGLDR will not properly open it and it is unusable for my WP7 also. This happened while running Android of the SD card.
The card is the original Sandisk 16G. When I connect it to a PC through the phone or SD adapater it shows an unformatted partition of 30MB. EASUS will not recognize anything else either. That 30MB partition I cannot format. Not even through Pananosic SD formatter.
Is there anything I can do to recover my SD card. I don't care about the data.
Thank you.

original SANDISK?!? My phone and many other HD2's I've seen have came shipped with a SAMSUNG 16gb.
Craigslisted phone?

kypeth said:
original SANDISK?!? My phone and many other HD2's I've seen have came shipped with a SAMSUNG 16gb.
Craigslisted phone?
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Yes I bought it of e-bay. Slightly used. I though the Sandisk was original.

You probably can not format it because of one ofcthe two following reasons.
One WP7 formatscyour SD card using RAID (Google it if you want to know more) so it can use your SD card as internal memory. You have to useva formatting software that can remove RAID. Or stick your micro SD card in a micro to mini SD card adaptor and then stick the adaptor with you SD card in it in a digital camera and format it. Then you can use standard formatting software to reformat using Fat 32.
Two WP7 has fried your SD card and it is time for a new one.

Conect it to the pc via a card reader download and run AESEUS partition managere free version and full format the sd card as fat 32 primary partition, if the card is recoverable that will work - or buy a new one from amazon or play - never- nerver buy from ebay as it could always be a fake or cheap copy

Today I received a 16GB Kingston micro sd to replace my fried scandisk.
I was not able to recover anything from the old SD card. I hope kingston will be proven better.

Window 7/Vista Fix.
Command Prompt
(dont type the quotes in)
Type "DISKPART" press [enter]
Type "List disks" and [enter]
find your usb or sd card in this list but be careful, you dont want to wipe out the wrong partition. Generally it is the last disk.
Type "Select disc #" [enter] (Replace the # with the device value in list ie: 1,2,3... ect)
Type "Clean" then [enter]
then to recreate the original partition type
"create partition primary" then [enter]
This will wipe all the partitions including wp7 off the sd card and then allow you to reformat the sdcard with its original capacity.

it's happened to many with sandisk users, even me.
I sent it back to the company that sold me the phone and the card and they said it was busted, I replaced it with a card from another brand and that solved it.

attractor said:
My SD card is not functioning. It just happened one day and it is not recognized by HD2 anymore. The MAGLDR will not properly open it and it is unusable for my WP7 also. This happened while running Android of the SD card.
The card is the original Sandisk 16G. When I connect it to a PC through the phone or SD adapater it shows an unformatted partition of 30MB. EASUS will not recognize anything else either. That 30MB partition I cannot format. Not even through Pananosic SD formatter.
Is there anything I can do to recover my SD card. I don't care about the data.
Thank you.
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Original Sandisk? The POS Sandisk that they shipped with these things? Well now you know why. They had some sort of return thing a while ago. Don't know if it's still in effect.

rr5678 said:
Original Sandisk? The POS Sandisk that they shipped with these things? Well now you know why. They had some sort of return thing a while ago. Don't know if it's still in effect.
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I don't think it has anything to do with the fact it is the one that came from with te HD2, although it was reported by many they had problems with the original SD cards. I think it has more to do with the fact that the OP was running WP7 on thier HD2. WP7 is known to kill SD cards.

T-Macgnolia said:
I don't think it has anything to do with the fact it is the one that came from with te HD2, although it was reported by many they had problems with the original SD cards. I think it has more to do with the fact that the OP was running WP7 on thier HD2. WP7 is known to kill SD cards.
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That my be true too, but the original Sandisk SD cards offed themselves even when using Windows Mobile 6.5.

[Q] T-Mobile HD2 having trouble reading it's own MicroSD card

We have a T-Mobile HTC HD2, it came with a 16GB MicroSD card.
Lately, the phone is having trouble reading this SD card, and ONLY this SD card.
Any other MicroSD card I plug into it, from other phones or other devices, it reads them fine, and if I plug it's card into other phones or devices, they read the card perfectly fine as well! I tried it in other phones, in usb microsd readers, and even using a sd adapter in my laptop's built in sd reader, digital cameras, Wii, and PS3. The PS3 was the only other device that could not read the card,
But when I plug the card it came with into it, now it mounts it and works fine for about 30 seconds, then unmounts it and acts as if there is no card inserted.
We have had this phone for a year now with no problems of it reading it's own card before, any idea why this suddenly started happening? The owner said he recently dropped it, but that doesn't explain such strange behavior as refusing to read it's own card while reading every other card just fine, and the card reads on any device I plug it into so it doesn't appear to be damaged either.

Have you thougbt about tryinv to reformat your SD card, maybe it has become currupt? You can use the default windoes format software or the Panosonic software, most prefer the Panosonic software. Just do a google search for it to find it. To use the defualt Windows format software just go to Start>My Computer> and find your SD card listed as a removable drive and rigbt click on it then select format. Make sure to make a back up of your data that is on it if you can before you format it, and do a full wipe not a fast format and use Fat 32.

I tried SD Card Formatter 3.0 but it didn't help, it also refused to do a full format, claiming my card didn't support it.

Cyber Akuma said:
I tried SD Card Formatter 3.0 but it didn't help, it also refused to do a full format, claiming my card didn't support it.
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Hmmmmm that program should have worked, curiouse?
Here is a link to the download for the Panosonic SD card formating software. Give it a try and if it does not work hour SD card may have just played out on you. What for others here to post with more advice tough befor you just toss your card and get a new one as someone eles may know something I Don't. Also go to this post, I know you have not flashed WP7 to your HD2 but this may still help as it will wipe any acidental portition that was made somehow on your SD card. Plus itcjist helps hou cover all your bases.

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Hmmmmm that program should have worked, curiouse?
Here is a link to the download for the Panosonic SD card formating software.
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Thats what I used.
Also, I know about partitioning a drive, the sdcard does not have multiple partitions on it.

Cyber Akuma said:
Thats what I used.
Also, I know about partitioning a drive, the sdcard does not have multiple partitions on it.
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Sorry about that I just googled " SD Card Formatter 3.0" and it carried me to another site.
As I said in my last post I just linked the post to make sure you were covering your bases.
If you tried the Panisomic software with no joy then it is very possible your SD card is ready for a funeral.
Bit don't just take my word for it let some more members post with their ideas. Sorry I could not be of any more help.