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How to xfer files when upgrading ext SD card?

I am going to swap my 2gb sd for a 16gb and want to know how to transfer the files correctly. It seems that the files I can see on my PC when mounted via usb, are only a fraction of the files I see via Root Explorer on the phone.
Whats the correct way prepare the new card, and transfer the files?
Thanks

mount the phone. Open the appropriate drive (2 should show). One us the internal for the os. The other is the 2 gig with avatar (sdcard/sd).
Copy to your desktop.
Get the new card with adapter mounted to pc now. Right click and format fat.
power off the phone after properly unmounting.
Swap cards in phone. Mount it again to pc. Move the avatar folder to new sd.
unmount. I would reboot. Make sure avatar works. if it didn't, you did not listen.

Thanks for the info

The way I did it is:
-put the new card in the phone
-format it using the phone (settings, SD Card and phone storage, format SD card)
-put the old sd card with adapter into PC
-mount the phone
-transfer files from old to new

So the only files that need to be transferred are the ones that show up when mounted/viewed on the PC? Are the files that I see on the card via Root Explorer when it is in the phone not needed? Are they just links or something?

Avatar is on the sd card (sdcard/sd)
Sdcard is the internal memory. Do NOT mess with that!

ah, so the sd card is actually the sd directory inside of sdcard...got it, thanks

[Q] Backing up or Imaging SD card partitions

Has anybody succeeded in doing a backup/restore of the WP7 partition from a 2 partition (1 WP7 and 1 android) microSD card? What tools have you tried?
Would DD work? Trueimage? Ghost? Mac Disk Utility?
I want to setup my fresh WP7 partition the way I like it and then image it so I can restore to it if the current microSD starts having problems.
Greatly appreciate any help!

I did this in windows.
- Free up some space in your comp hard drive
- Go to Disk Management and shrink drive. (Free space should be equal to or greater than the SD card size)
- Install easeus partition manager
- Mount the SD card
- Right click on the partition on the SD card and choose copy.
- Choose the free space in the Comp's HDD.
- Repeat for all partitions that has to be copied.
Do the reverse when you want to copy back.

Does the reverse way also work with resizing the partition? On a larger SD card?

Thanks for the response! So the only way to copy would be to another partition? Is there a way to copy to an image file instead? And, have you successfully imaged it back onto the SD card?

I was able to successfully do this using DiskImage - a free download that I found here. I was able to save the entire SDCARD (not a single partition but the entire card) to an image file and then write to back onto another sdcard of the same size. It worked! I haven't tested this thoroughly so don't blame me if it doesn't work for you. If it does - please post here so others can benefit from your experience.

Yes its working...i have doen this 3-4 times...
I did that and i transfered my wp7 partition from a 8gb sd to another 16gb sd card...
Copy the partition to usb hd and then copy back to the new sd...
It works fine....And i have a backup of the partition in my USB sd.
My recomendation is not to mess with your computers hard drive...
Do this with an external usb hd..
Another free tool to use is the MiniTool Partition wizard from here
http://www.minitool-partitionrecovery.com/
colossus

[Q] New SD card help

I just ordered a larger SD card for my G2 (16GB, currently 8GB) and was wondering how I would back up everything on the current card and then transfer to the new card. Would I just connect the phone to my computer and attach as USB storage and copy the contents of the SD card to a folder? Then put the new SD card in the phone and connect to computer as USB storage and copy the backed up content to the new card? Should I consider formatting the new SD card as EXT through CWM before copying back over the data?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have just done this today, I put my old sdcard in a sdcard adapter and new sdcard in a usb micro adapter the copied and pasted all my files from the old card to the new card. you could of course keep the old card in the phone plug in to PC and just put the new card in adapter and transfer that way.
With regards to EXT partition, I don't Really think it is necessary because our phones have a decent internal memory so unless you have hundreds and hundreds of apps stored on your phone I would leave it as it is. Unless there are any benefits to EXT partition that I'm unaware of.

I am guessing if I use the EXT partition type, then it wouldn't be readable on my windows 7 box (is there a device driver for windows 7 that reads ext)? Personally I like being able to take the SD card out and slip it into my laptop with an adapter.

bradley_e_smith said:
I am guessing if I use the EXT partition type, then it wouldn't be readable on my windows 7 box (is there a device driver for windows 7 that reads ext)? Personally I like being able to take the SD card out and slip it into my laptop with an adapter.
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If you partition your sdcard you will still be able to put it in to you pc and read the contents.
I think I'm correct in saying (please correct me if I'm not) when you partition your sdcard only part of it becomes and EXT partition and the rest remains FAT32. for example if you had a 4gb card and you make 1gb EXT partition when you plug the sdcard in to your PC the remaining 3gb would be accessible.

Thanks everyone. I was a little unclear about the EXT partition stuff (and quite frankly, still am) but it sounds like its really not necessary.

Copying Apps2SD from one SD card to another

Hi all,
I currently have apps2sd on my X8 and I wanted to upgrade my SD card. How do i replace the card and copy over the current contents?
Ideally i dont want to have to re-install everything.
Thanks,
-c

I don't know if copying would work so here's logic. first copy everything on your SD card to your new one through your computer. Then delete the copied things from the old SD card. Plug in the new SD card, do a transfer of all apps from phone to SD, then unmount, plug in old, transfer as much apps as possible back to phone. Repeat until all apps have been transfered over.

Could I not somehow copy the ex2 partition and the normal parition and just boot with the new card?

There are basically two ways - get ubuntu, or get software that reads ext2 on windows

or find app on window that can clone ur sd..

[Q] vegacomb upgrading sd card

Hey,
I'm sure there is a way to do this but I'm not sure!
I have just upgraded to vegacomb and are still learning! I have the stock 4gb SD card at the moment and want to upgrade. Do I have to start from scrafch again or can I copy every thing from one to the other..... the from and all apps etc?
Thanks

First thing is to make sure you make a backup of your data in your 4GB card if it has enough space ( From the recovery bootloader ).
Then you copy all the folders on mem card into a folder on your computer. Make sure you select any hidden or file system files on the mem card and copy them too.
Depending on how you want to use your new card, you can either format it for FAT32 or mixture of fat32 and ext3 . If you are planing to move you apps to SD using link2SD, i recommend have dual format which allows copying "most" of the apps to the mem card without effecting how they work. Best way to do it is to create FAT32 first and as the first-to-read partition then create ext3. make sure both partitions are primary.
I use Easeus Partion Master ( on windows ) to format the card with dual file systems.
After you did it, you can copy back the files which you saved on your computer at first stage back to the new mem card.
Hope it helps

Hi, yeah ttah does help thank you mate. So the actual ROM (vegacomb) is stored on the tablet and not the card then... thats what I wanted to doubler check.
Thanks mate.