I partitioned my sd card into two FAT32, primary files. I managed to connect to the PC the first time on my computer and put links2sd on my xperia x8. But now everytime I try to open my sd card on my computer CD Drive:F drive is there and no Removable disk.
I don't know what I've done wrong can anyone help.
click start and type in device manager, then click it.. when in device manager scroll down to portable devices, click it.. look for field F (or whatever the drive is for your card) then click uninstall or delete drivers (they will automaticly reinstall when restarting computer... once computer is restarted, slip card into slot an all should be well
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Probably a dumb question but... hey..
My Hero still has the original 2GB card and I've now acquired a 16Gb replacement.
Can I simply swap them over?
Or do I need to do stuff first? I've backed up the phone's contents onto my PC. Anything else I should do?
Make a backup of the entire content of the memory card to the PC (the card acts like am external harddrive) and then dismount if from the setting menu and then format it (if you want) and then just replace it with the new card (format it if you want from the settings) and then just drag the backup onto the new card... what's the problem?
Usually, if you don't care about your files you can just swap the cards without even dismounting them.. this is *NOT* reccommended though...
But, when you dismount your card through the settings application you can remove your old card and just insert the new one..
If you want your files from the old card on your new card follow the instructions in the post before this one
Hi, thanks for the replies.
There is no problem, it's just something I hadn't thought about until late last night and having never done this on the Hero I wasn't sure whether any special formatting had to be done.
Now I know
Simples
Thanks.
worcester4x4 said:
Hi, thanks for the replies.
There is no problem, it's just something I hadn't thought about until late last night and having never done this on the Hero I wasn't sure whether any special formatting had to be done.
Now I know
Simples
Thanks.
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I tested it a while back on the original memory card myself so I know it works.
1. Connect the phone to your computer via the USB cable.
2. Mount the memory card as an external device, a notification will popup on the phone.
3. Now open the external device from the computer and copy everything to your computer.
4. Dismount the external device.
5. Settings > SD card and phone storage > Unmount SD card.
6. In that same menu choose Format SD card (if you want).
7. Power down the phone.
8. Remove the backcover and pull out the memory card.
9. Take the new memory card and put it in the device.
10. Power on the phone again. The phone will automatically mount the new card.
11. Again connect the USB cable and mount the memory card as an external device to your computer.
12. Now just copy back the backed up stuff you made in point 3.
13. Dismount the external device from the computer.
14. Mission accomplished.
Hey,
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I just got an HD2 today and am trying to transfer some cab files from my computer to the phone.
I hook up them up and when I open browse the memory card from my computer all the files don't show up.
Then when I put the cab files under my documents on the SD card and unplug the phone from computer..the files don't show up under the file manager..
What do I do?
Edit:
I also formatted the SD card...to no avail
When you connect your phone it should ask you active sync or disk drive. Click it to disk drive and that should let you get files on to your storage. Why did you have to format your sd card to begin with?!
Hey. I have owned my Wildfire for a week now so I am still a noob. I wanted to know if it's possible to install a custom ROM on the wildfire without an SD card so basically do it through USB. I have seen some phones can do it with Amon RA recovery but I don't think it is possible for the Wildfire.
Thanks.
Dont think it is although why would you want to do it without? The wf comes with a sd card
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Because when i put my SD card in the adapter and put it into my laptop it cant open the card and asks "do you want to format" and when i choose yes it says "unable to complete format" so im screwed with that SD card
Use paragon partition n look on YouTube 4 a video that will sort it out n will fix that error
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Still dont work its not even showing up on my computer now ive probably ****ed it somehow but on my phone it says 1.83gb free space. weird.
Dose paragon partitioning show ur sd at all if not erm check to make sure ur SD card reader is ok bu using a different SD card
if paragon partitioning is showing ur sd card.
is ur SD card signed as active and does it have a volume letter as these thing will stop I from formating the SD card
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It showed my SD card then when I tried to format it would only show my hard drive and plus the free version does not let you do anything to the card.
Try Panasonic SD Formatter:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
E: Probably unrelated, but, make sure your card reader supports SDHC cards.
1.What happens when you connect the phone via USB and choose mount as disk drive?
2.When you use the SD card adapter, and right click on the SD card's drive letter if there's an option to "open as portable device" try that also try updating your laptops card reader drivers.
3.Use bluetooth to transfer the ROMS?
4. If you're already rooted, try formatting SD card via ROM MAnager.
As far as I know you cannot install custom firmware (a "ROM") without an SD card.
You don't have to use your SD card directly from the computer to install custom firmware. You can use file storage mode on your phone's USB connection or adb to access your SD card through your phone on your computer.
To install CyanogenMod with the help of adb, follow the steps in hxxp://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Wildfire:_Full_Update_Guide and put the update.zip into the root of your SD card with this command:
Code:
adb push update-cm-6.1.0-buzz-signed.zip /sdcard/
You need to have your phone connected to your computer, have the appropriate drivers installed to do this and have USB debugging enabled on your phone. Documentation on adb is available at hxxp://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
An alternative way to the above adb method is to enable USB phone storage mode when you connect your phone to your computer and transfer the update.zip file to your SD card.
Hi guys thanks for all your help I have fixed my problem. All I did was use a windows 7 laptop and it worked.
Hi, I have a nook color and an 8gb SD card. I've followed the posts to get winimage to write the generic-sdcard-v1.3.img written to my card and installed on my nook. However, when I shutdown the nook and put the SD back in my PC, there is no \Boot partition, and windows(xp) says the card is not formatted. What on earth am I doing wrong??
Thanks.
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Put it back in the Nook after you have booted into CM7 and format it with the Nook. If you have a camera that takes micro SDHC cards you can probably format it with that as well but will probably want to delete any folders the camera creates later.
Well of course! How stupid am I?? Jeesh! THanks.
OK maybe I'm just missing something big.
After I install the SD card in the Nook with the CM7 upadate on it, the SDCard is modified such that when I remove it, the PC no longer recognizes the format. I get the card in my list of drives, but when selected it says "not formatted" If I choose format, it wipes the card and I can't boot to CM7 from it any more. I can't find a format option on the Bare CM7 image - just erase SD card -which still leaves it in a format that the PC can'd read to put the gapps on.
help??
Logical thinking, dr. wambo.
you have drive C which you install Windows OS on it, and then you format it, what do you expect?
In your case, "boot" MUST be there in order to work, if you format the card, it's gone for good. Question is why you format it after creating it?
votinh said:
Logical thinking, dr. wambo.
you have drive C which you install Windows OS on it, and then you format it, what do you expect?
In your case, "boot" MUST be there in order to work, if you format the card, it's gone for good. Question is why you format it after creating it?
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Understood. My issue is that after I put the SD card into the Nook and boot the nook, it apparently reformats the SD card such that when I put it back in the PC, I can SEE that the card exists, but no files on it. If I check properties, it shows no free space on the disk (and none used for that matter.) So, I am unable to copy the gapps-gb-20110613-signed.zip file to the SD and restart the nook.
See?
A simple question, do you see the "boot" when your plug the card into your PC (running Windows)?
votinh said:
A simple question, do you see the "boot" when your plug the card into your PC (running Windows)?
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I do not. Windows explorer shows an SD card in the list, but when selected, it says the card is not formatted.
Card seems to boot fine in the Nook. I must be doing something really dumb. I was able to install honyecomb successfully using this card, but wanted the functionality of CM7. Darn, this just shouldn't be that hard.
Wait, if the card still "seems to boot fine in the Nook" then it means the "boot" is still there, it just Windows not seeing it.
On PC side, try to insertion and removal a few times and see what happens.
If completely nothing, switch to other Windows PC OR if you have the USB-SD adapter, use it.
votinh said:
Wait, if the card still "seems to boot fine in the Nook" then it means the "boot" is still there, it just Windows not seeing it.
On PC side, try to insertion and removal a few times and see what happens.
If completely nothing, switch to other Windows PC OR if you have the USB-SD adapter, use it.
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I should mention that the nook boots fine off the card provided I don't Format it in the Windows box.
Have removed and reinserted the card multiple times into the Win (xp) box. No Joy. Tried a different machine and got exactly the same results.
This just can't be that hard!!
Are you using Windows PC or Linux?
Worst case, reinstall
Windows PC running. XP sp2. ADDITIONAL NOTE. After I winimage the SD card with the generic image, I do indeed have a \root partition. Once I insert it in the Nook and let it boot, shutdown, and I reboot, CM7 is installed and running from the card, but when I put it in the PC, the \root partition is no longer there.
Additional info. I've now tried this on 2 different SD cards and they both do the same thing.
Not sure if you're still having problems, but it's normal for Windows not to be able read the entire SD card after it's been imaged for CM7. There are I believe 4 partitions and it will generally only see the 1st (/boot). Additionally, it will sometimes only read correctly when using a USB card reader, rather than putting the uSD card into a built-in card reader in your PC (not sure why). Hope this helps.
Interesting...perhaps that's the problem. I'm using the internal SD reader on my laptop. I'll run out and get a USB reader and see if that helps.
THanks.
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hi guys, i need your help
i install in my HD2 the windows phone 7 with mango 7720 version, but now i want go again to android...
so i do the task29 install the radio and finaly the the magldr v1.13.
Afetr that i made a mistake, i enter in services in magldr and do a Erease MBR of my sdcard... now i cant see my sdcard in any device, pc, phone, in photo camera, what else..!!
i try with another card in my pc and works but the original i use in phone i cant recongnize!
i need your help to solve this please
SD Formatter V3.1
Set to:
FORMAT TYPE as "FULL" (Erase or OverWrite -- I used "Erase"), set FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to "On."
worked on 2 cards I recovered for friends, so worth a try ...
PDF user manual: HERE
Mac version & other language user manuals can be downloaded: HERE
i will try thanks...
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Nothing do... because the windows 7 dosent install the driver this card so i cant select de drive in sdformater.
but with another sdcard the drivers install correctly...
[zozi] said:
i will try thanks...
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Nothing do... because the windows 7 dosent install the driver this card so i cant select de drive in sdformater.
but with another sdcard the drivers install correctly...
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Perhaps try putting into a USB card reader or SD card adapter, then try seeing if the computer recognizes it.
scariola said:
Perhaps try putting into a USB card reader or SD card adapter, then try seeing if the computer recognizes it.
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Yeah get yourself a SD card adaptor to put your SD card in and then put it in the SD card slot on your computer, or if you do not have one get a USB SD card reader to put the adaptor in. They will run you something like 8 to 10th dollars USD for both to get them.
Also your card is like this bot because you erased the MBR on your SD card. It is because on the first boot of WP7 it formats your memory card with a RAID format so it can use your SD card as internal memory. You have to do a low level format of the card to remove it. Once the low level format is done you will have to do a full format of it again with Fat32
This is for others that well read this, if you flash a WP7 ROM and it boots up but you so not like it or it does not work right. Do not, I repeat do not try flashing the ROM again or try flashing another WP7 ROM before doin the low level format and then a Fat32 format on your SD card. If you do you will probably end up with a trashed SD card.
Thanks i will try that..
No, i cant do nothing... i try with a external sdcard reader over usb and the sdformater just stops working when i start or do a refresh. i try with others sd cards and the new sdcard reader works good...
Any more ideas?