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[Q] 32gb sd card is now a 8mb sd card :(

hey peeps
just bought a 32gb sd card for my hero and began transferring files.
the idiot that i am i accidently disconnected thinking it had finished transferring and the sd card became unreadable
i reformatted it in windows 7 disk management and it only shows as a 8mb partition.
i tried deleting the partition but it wont let me. i have also tried windows xp disk management and also partition manager pro but it freezes and crashes
i loaded the windows xp setup disk and managed to delete the partition but still shows as a 8mb disk
im ripping my hair out as it was such a stupid mistake
any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly apreciated
thanks
sy

Will it let you resize the 8mb partition?

Sadly not. In the windows xp setup it shows as a 8mb device even though I managed to delete the partition
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Oh ive also tried formatting it using the clockworkmod recovery. Its unable to mount the card
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Greetings Symondo10
Why not use adb ?
See the following link for more help :
http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-to-manually-partition-your-sd-card-for-android-apps2sd/
Use the following code in recovery mode to inform you on any parts that mite all ready be on the card,
Code:
adb shell
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
Regards
Steven

Hey thanks alot. Il check out n let you know what happens
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Symondo10 said:
Hey thanks alot. Il check out n let you know what happens
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DL a program called GParted, boot into it and do some low-level formatting. That should do the trick.

Andyt95 said:
DL a program called GParted, boot into it and do some low-level formatting. That should do the trick.
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Yeah this would be better as more user friendly with a nice gui to use,

I have this same problem. How did you fix it?

jermaine151 said:
I have this same problem. How did you fix it?
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I'd say gparted or any other low level formatting tool would work nicely.

Nope. Gparted wouldn't even see it. I ended up getting a refund from eBay. Oh well.

sounds like a problem i had when i formatted my pen drive with my mac. It would show on windows as a 16 mb partition. I dont know if this will help but try this and see if its the same issue. http://pitumbo.com/how-delete-gpt-partition-or-efi-mac-hard-disks-vista-or-xp

probleem resolve
for me was the same problem i just downloaded this program ( SD Formatter v2 0 0 3 ) and resolved the problem.
Soryy for mi poor English.

Does Amon RA recovery partition work with it?

easiest way is that you should go in the recovery mod and partition ur sd card gives swap and EXt values 0 and start partition your actual size of Sd card will come back again cheeerssssss

[Q] fat32 + ext2 = damaged, killed SD card :/

Another thread, i think i'm a totally noOb
Today, i downloaded Wildpuzzle Rom .. and flashed it ... everything went fine
I used this tutorial...
http://baert.ulyssis.be/2010/10/13/wildpuzzle-rom-for-htc-wildfire/
this was okay...but in the 4. point ... "Creating an EXT partition on the SDCard"
there was a problem ... after i selected the fat32 and ext2 size, and the phone rebooted .... i had an error message .... "E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip" ...
i've tried a lots of time...always rom manager failed to made the right partitions...
so i moved on, and i tried to made the partitions with manually in windows xp
i've downloaded Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 to do the partitioning....
After i had the 2 partition, 1500MB Fat32 and 300MB ext2, the pc rebooted to make the changes .... and then i had an error message (i can't remember, cause it dissapeared quickly).....
when xp started again i saw my sd card is not working .... windows said, "You must format the SD card" .... and it was only 512 kbyte the full size
i tried a lots of applications, which recovery, or fix sd cards, but nothing helped :/
any solution?!
i wouldn't like to throw away my sdcard if its not necesarry
thx.
lazlo

Try gparted, linux boot cd, make fat32 partition first then make ext3 partition no need for swap on phone
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i have tried gparted, in ubuntu live cd, but when i insert the sd card to the reader nothnig happen ... and gparted stop working :S .. its freeze or something like that

Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...

I guess gparted was loading, it take a little while to read the entire HDD.
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LogicXLz' said:
Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...
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No thx, Paragon partition manager killed my SD card ... so i won't use that app again, never...
But meanwhile, i could fix the SD card with Ubuntus's gParted ... i've tried a lots of time ... reinserted the card to the reader .... and finaly it recognised it ... and can made a valid partition ... so the problem solved
anyway, thx the idea

A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)

phunctionist said:
A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)
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thx a lot dude ... this is a simple and a good idea
never would thought this

Good one!!! It is a very simple solution. However if it works with "camera formating", then the issue with SD card is not too bad. I mean, it's not corrupted in a way to be unusable or "bricked" in some way.
And thus, I think you needn't even bother using some other gadget, just a sufficient knowledge on partitioning tools and you can make it work on your computer. I still believe it could be repaired with Paragon Partition... 've been using that program ever since and never had any problems...
Anyway, the more options avaliable, the more possibilities for a success! ;-)))

[23 JAN][VIDEO TUT]How To Format Your SD Card After Use With WP7

In this video i show you how to format your sd card after use with windows phone 7
SD FORMATTER 3.0 http://www.mediafire.com/?kl563ku3pnn3o25
Enjoy!

I just formatted the SD card in android and it worked fine, able to store everything on there and android recognizes it fine. maybe i got lucky

hi 96edwy
i've asked you on your youtube link but also on here if you don't mind
i have a working 8GB PNY micro sd card that has been reformated from 199mb capacity
i want my hd2 wm7 to recognise it so i can use it to store more conversations, applications and put music on
do you have any idea how i can achieve this?

If wp7 doesn't recognise it, maybe its not supported, there is a thread on here with the sd cards that are supported, have you checked if your sd card is supported?
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Thanks for youtube video. I have 16gig that come with htc hd2 some people say it works flawless, but mine keep boot up to DFT and reboot cycle. Rarely I open it up and it will go to windows. So when you install windows phone 7 it will automatic copy file to SD card right?

caubecari said:
Thanks for youtube video. I have 16gig that come with htc hd2 some people say it works flawless, but mine keep boot up to DFT and reboot cycle. Rarely I open it up and it will go to windows. So when you install windows phone 7 it will automatic copy file to SD card right?
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May be WP7 doesnt support your SD Card. Check the supported SD Card list.

guys i did upgrade to win7 , i was fall and rush and didn't read the notices well so is my SD card formatted ? which means all the data lost ???? i had Pim Backup for my contacts and it was there at my SD card , is it lost ?
and how can i back to windows mobile 6.5 again ?? , i tried Energy Custom Roms but it's not working
PLEASE HELP

tantan911 said:
guys i did upgrade to win7 , i was fall and rush and didn't read the notices well so is my SD card formatted ? which means all the data lost ???? i had Pim Backup for my contacts and it was there at my SD card , is it lost ?
and how can i back to windows mobile 6.5 again ?? , i tried Energy Custom Roms but it's not working
PLEASE HELP
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yes sorry to say your sd card is gone, all data is lost.
you can go back to wm6.6 by flashing a stock or custom rom, just boot into the tricolour screen and flash as you would any normal rom

Thanks God anyway
but when i try to flash custom Rom it gaves me connection error on the installation progress
why is that ?

I just mount SD card in MAGLDR then diskpart clean it then format it normally...

allow usb connection from your active sync
tantan911 said:
Thanks God anyway
but when i try to flash custom Rom it gaves me connection error on the installation progress
why is that ?
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you need to allow usb connection from your active sync which is disabled in order to flash wp7

Thanks again
Hey Dude thanks for getting my card back very much appreciated, excellent tutorial

Manual with Command promt
1. Run command prompt with admin privileges
2. Type in diskpart
3. Type in "list disk" to find diskpart's designation for your flash drive
4. Assuming your flash drive is disk 1 type:
a. select disk 1
b. clean
c. create partition primary
d. select partition 1
e. active
f. format fs=fat32 quick
g. assign
h. exit

after runnng wm7, i still can format sdcard by using another android phone/nokia phone. And the sdcard is recognized when my phone is running android/wm7/wm6.5). But there are 2 weird problems that i can't solve:
1. cannot use SD formatter v.30 software to format my sdcard again. always get error message when the format process reaches 30-40%. Even if i pre format my sdcard by using another software(hard disck low level format, partition wizard) /phone( android phone, nokia, window 6.5 phone), SD formatter still can't format my sdcard.
2. cannot install any android SD builds. When the android boots, the screen show me " ... cannot find any logical sector..."

thanks!
96edwy said:
In this video i show you how to format your sd card after use with windows phone 7
Enjoy!
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Thanks mate. It really works. Btw, just a suggestion. Why don't you write a how to bcoz it is not really convenient to watch the video at Office
thanks anyway

I just ran the formatting tool on a WP7 formatted card directly from a usb slot in my PC and it worked??

ohdaesu said:
I just ran the formatting tool on a WP7 formatted card directly from a usb slot in my PC and it worked??
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lol what about it?

96edwy said:
lol what about it?
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why go to all the trouble with the phone when you can just format on ur pc in one click??

ohdaesu said:
why go to all the trouble with the phone when you can just format on ur pc in one click??
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i thought that was obvious tbh, it works exactly the same both ways, just easier to not take the sd card out your phone, plug it into an adapter then into a card reader, u eva thought people might not have a card reader??

Format WP7 SD with photo camera
I had a very unconventional method to restore my SD card.
I put it in my Canon photo camera and did a low level format.
After this I could access it fully again through windows / android.

[Q] Big SD Problem.....HELP

Hy every body, does some one heard about SD damaged after a FAT32/EXT4 Format?
Let me explain myself:
I've SD-FROMATTED my sd, then using GPARTED LIVE SD in my HD2 in MAGLDR
i've created two partitions:
1/ FAT32
2/ EXT4
I do have click on "apply".
Now, my SD is unreadable and unrecognized by my phone.
The oly way i have to use it now is FAT32 only.
It is the third time i do the partitioning on this SD and it's the first time it does'nt work
HEEELP!!!
I've heard about file corruption using MAGLDR USB MassStg...Is-it true
Thanks for your anwers

No answer? Nobody?

download panasonic SD Formatter 3.0 and that will sort it no probs.
matt

Try Panasonic SD Formatter as mentioned above. With the stock SD card I've had problems formatting using a card reader, however. I had to flash back to a windows mobile rom, connect to PC as a hard drive (not active sync) and re-format the card via that method. It's a pain, but try this if you're really stuck.

Thanks i'll try those methodes

i use minitool partition manager
but first go to control panes, then computer management, devices, find your sd card and right click on it. select create new disk label and that should solve your problem.
now after that run minitool partition manager and you 'll be able to see your sd car as new disk (or something) just create a new partition as (fat32, primary) format maybe that could solve your problem.
(the same thing happen to mee and i was about to cry because of it)
(sorrry for bad english, i'm still learning)

Thanks kof102. I'm on it

ttersu said:
Hy every body, does some one heard about SD damaged after a FAT32/EXT4 Format?
Let me explain myself:
I've SD-FROMATTED my sd, then using GPARTED LIVE SD in my HD2 in MAGLDR
i've created two partitions:
1/ FAT32
2/ EXT4
I do have click on "apply".
Now, my SD is unreadable and unrecognized by my phone.
The oly way i have to use it now is FAT32 only.
It is the third time i do the partitioning on this SD and it's the first time it does'nt work
HEEELP!!!
I've heard about file corruption using MAGLDR USB MassStg...Is-it true
Thanks for your anwers
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Also, as a long time Android recovery user (I went through several Android phones before coming around to the HD2), I would highly recommend formatting your card using Clockwork Recovery.

HyoImowano said:
Also, as a long time Android recovery user (I went through several Android phones before coming around to the HD2), I would highly recommend formatting your card using Clockwork Recovery.
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One problem can be that when try create a Ext partition using CWR it only creates an Ext2 which isn't really the best.

I've seen on differnt French forums that i'm not alone. Is there a Risk formatting and partitioning an SD Card, that is not done for, to damage allocation Table?
My SD is dead now. Not even my PC, my Phone or else are abble to find my SD. Have you heard about that?

No answer? No body?

try using EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition with this u will be able to see what is going on.. hope it helps.

Thanks, Have you allready heard about that befor?

I had a problem with my SD it didn't come up on my pc too,when I was playing with the dual booting partition making for wp7 and android. some how it messed up and SD didn't come up so I found this program Easeus and some how managed it to work again it was a simple problem that all I had to do is to recreate the partition and only after that u can format it. if it doesn't exist u format nothing actualy lol.
hope u have the same problem.

I've tried EASUS but it was unable to read my SD...
I think it's dead now...
I've bought an other one and part it with CWM. It's EXT2 but it work perfectly!
Maybe it could be nice to check if nobody else had the same than me...and tell it to Master COTULLA!

No body else?

[Q] Help! How do I remove a WP7 partition

Hi, I stuck WP7 on my HD2 to check it out. I have now removed in and gone back to Android. WP7 has partitioned my sd card and I can't remove the partition. I have used windows disk management tool with no result. any ideas?

You can use the sd tool or put it in an android phone and reformat it in recovery only things I can think of at the moment

HTCNZ said:
Hi, I stuck WP7 on my HD2 to check it out. I have now removed in and gone back to Android. WP7 has partitioned my sd card and I can't remove the partition. I have used windows disk management tool with no result. any ideas?
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Use the free Panasonic SD Formatter Tool
Set options to FULL ERASE and size adjustment ON

If you're using windows, diskpart works great.

easiest way... SHOVE IT IN A CAMERA AND FORMAT IT.

sal2708 said:
easiest way... SHOVE IT IN A CAMERA AND FORMAT IT.
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They may nit work because he is trying to format the partition too.
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your way works the best
Thanks

my camera has always gotten rid of the partions and several other cameras too. i find that being the fast & most simple way of getting rid of the partions.

Thanks it worked
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