So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
Bambam01 said:
So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
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I recommend just writing an image file with winimage. Then writing it to a 8gb card, then using Easeus Partition manager to expand the last partition to full 8 gb.'
Do you boot from the SD card or eMMC?
If it's the latter, just copy the contents of the old card to the new one.
If it's the former, I recommend a fresh install; use a backup program (MyBackup, Titanium Backup) to back up your Apps and Data and then restore when you're done with the fresh install.
I'd like to do this as well.. in response to previous reply.. there are 4 partitions (boot, 2 other and last one with your data) do I have to create 4 different images with winimage or just for the first boot partition or does the winimage creates the image of the whole msd card?
The winimage will create a 4 gb image of your card on the 8 gb cards including existing partitions. What you'll need to do is get the largest partition to expand to the whole card. Assuming that the 4gb install on SD is the same as an 8 gb install if you did it fresh.
If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.
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If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.
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That's a good point, the Size-agnostic SD installer uses different partition sizes for everything except the boot partition depending on the size of the card.
I tried winimage first to see if it even worked. Which it didn't. I didn't try to expand the existing partition. It just booted as a normal nook. You would think this would be a easy process but.... Lol, always new challenges. Guess that's why I enjoy doing this.
Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!
Bambam01 said:
Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!
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I have done this several times, and I recommend downloading easus todo backup free. Then place both sdcards in a card reader, run todo backup and just copy the 4g to the 8g and expand the fourth partition right there in todo.
This applies especially if you want to copy to same size sd's, as you will not run into the usual image sizing issues.
Hope this helps
I don't know what you're doing wrong. before expanding the partition, make sure the sd boots, if it doesn't, then there's a problem with image being read or written as opposed to the partition.
I also had a problem with a new SD card not booting that I fixed by using the nook (that is the core nook OS) to reformat the card, then put the image onto the SDcard (shouldn't have changed anything as far as I know, but it did anyway).
Ok I tried this and it worked flawlessly. Used win32diskimager to "read" my 4gb sd with cm7 image. and then used "write" to 8gb sd card. It cloned 4 gb original image with 4 partitions and one unused partition of 4 gb. After that used easeus partition manager(latest version) to format unused pattition to fat32 and then merged with last partition of 2gb (move/resize) ..so now I have 6 gb of data partition which i can use to transfer files or move apps from nook's internal drive. The new 8gb card with cm7 image booted without any issues keeping my original settings of 4gb. One thing to mention that somehow it did not work on one pc with windows xp (kept getting write error on win32diskimager program)but worked on my laptop with windows 7.
That is exactly how I have done it in the past as I described in my first post. I don't know why a person would have trouble with it unless there was a format issue (i.e. ntsf, etc).
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Quick question, I have an 2GB (Non-class 6 SD card) and it was working okay with my G1 phone. I partitioned it with no problem, have apps, themes, roms, basically the whole nine yards on it. I recently just purchased a new 8 gb 6 class SD card and was wondering if Paragon Manager or any other program can transfer the data over flawlessly? I know I have to create a new ext3 part (probably using paragon manager) and then transfer all the data over...but was wondering if anybody else did this before without running into any issues and what was the overall process you took? I appreciate any help. Thank you.
no issues here, done it a couple times. didnt use paragon though. used ext support on my mac to copy all files from both partitions, then format the card using GParted on my Slax USB. then put my files back, inserted into g1 and booted the phone. cyanogens MOD works great with it.
malaeus said:
no issues here, done it a couple times. didnt use paragon though. used ext support on my mac to copy all files from both partitions, then format the card using GParted on my Slax USB. then put my files back, inserted into g1 and booted the phone. cyanogens MOD works great with it.
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Quick question for you, did your apps still show as installed in the market when you swapped cards? I have been meaning to get my 8GB cards (I have a few with tv episodes on them) set up so I can swap between them and my 16GB at any time, but this question is one that is keeping me from trying yet (that and a lack of time).
Thanks.
insert original card and do not mount it (or unmount it if auto),
dd if=/dev/sdcardfile of=/home/yourusername/tmpsdbackup
swap cards and do not mount it (or unmount it if automatic),
dd if=/home/yourusername/tmpsdbackup of=/dev/sdcardfile
Then run gparted, move your ext partition to the end of the disk and expand your crap32 partition to max.
wait so do i just partion my 8 gig c6 and than copy all files off my other sd card and i should be able to boot up, of course redownload everything or should i not try that
and when i say copy my files ove3r just the ones on my sdcard not all my apps
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Quick question, I have an 2GB (Non-class 6 SD card) and it was working okay with my G1 phone. I partitioned it with no problem, have apps, themes, roms, basically the whole nine yards on it. I recently just purchased a new 8 gb 6 class SD card and was wondering if Paragon Manager or any other program can transfer the data over flawlessly? I know I have to create a new ext3 part (probably using paragon manager) and then transfer all the data over...but was wondering if anybody else did this before without running into any issues and what was the overall process you took? I appreciate any help. Thank you.
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I used Partition Manager to partition my 8g Sd card into a Ext3 partition. What I did was just wipe, reflash my ROM (Cyanogen's 3.4) and reinstalled all the apps from the Market. It seems like it would take forever, but it really didn't.
The reason why I reflashed was because when I changed SD cards originally, it stopped reading all the original files from the original SD. All-in-all, it was very easy to just: Wipe, Reflash the ROM, then reinstall apps from Market, which should still be listed under Downloads.
how do you format an ext3 partion
I have spent a large amount of time getting my Nook to boot from an SD card with CM7. It finally works exactly like I want it to but now I want to back that SD card to an identical one for a backup so I won't have to do all the setup again if something goes wrong on updates etc.
I know lots of people are talking about Win32disk imager but whenever I run it I get an error at the app start and it won't copy my 16gb sd card.
Is there another way to make a reliable backup of the SD card?
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I have spent a large amount of time getting my Nook to boot from an SD card with CM7. It finally works exactly like I want it to but now I want to back that SD card to an identical one for a backup so I won't have to do all the setup again if something goes wrong on updates etc.
I know lots of people are talking about Win32disk imager but whenever I run it I get an error at the app start and it won't copy my 16gb sd card.
Is there another way to make a reliable backup of the SD card?
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I've done it many times, running Win32disk imager in admin mode. Otherwise the 30 day trial version of WinImage (http://www.winimage.com/download.htm) works just fine.
Both programs seem to work fine with 4-16G Sandisk cards on both my Vista and Win7 machines (both 32 bit)
jziggy101 said:
I have spent a large amount of time getting my Nook to boot from an SD card with CM7. It finally works exactly like I want it to but now I want to back that SD card to an identical one for a backup so I won't have to do all the setup again if something goes wrong on updates etc.
I know lots of people are talking about Win32disk imager but whenever I run it I get an error at the app start and it won't copy my 16gb sd card.
Is there another way to make a reliable backup of the SD card?
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Try EASEUS Todo Backup Free. It performs a clone or backup flawlessly.
http://www.todo-backup.com/download/
shumash said:
Try EASEUS Todo Backup Free. It performs a clone or backup flawlessly.
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Second -- this is what I do to create perfect backups of my NC SD card.
EASEUS Todo Backup Free did not work for me. It can't even see the sd card, only the main hard drive. I upgraded from an 8gb card to a 16gb card yesterday and I used Minitool Partition Wizard Home Edition (free) to do the move. Worked flawlessly.
I use USB Image Tool. Use to backup and create clone image. Works great on 16 GB cards.
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EASEUS Todo Backup Free did not work for me. It can't even see the sd card, only the main hard drive. I upgraded from an 8gb card to a 16gb card yesterday and I used Minitool Partition Wizard Home Edition (free) to do the move. Worked flawlessly.
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I have to remove the sd card from the NC and use a card reader. It won't work left in the unit. Is that what you did?
Do these clone/backup options create images that are the same size as the card, or just the size of the used space? Every attempt I've made leaves me with a 32gb image, even if only 1-2gb are being used on the card.
Can someone suggest how to clone my entire card (all partitions) so that the resulting image is just the size of the used space? Mac or PC method is fine. I've created .DMGs on my Mac that are sized the way i'd like, but I get a ton of errors when I try to restore those images.
Thanks!
I use Easeus Partition Master Pro to image from one SD card to another. Works well, the app was offerred free about a week ago, but is well worth the $19 retail price.
brentb636 said:
I use Easeus Partition Master Pro to image from one SD card to another. Works well, the app was offerred free about a week ago, but is well worth the $19 retail price.
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Hmm... I have the home edition but don't see the option to create an image. Care to point me in the right direction? Are your images the size of the total card, or just of the space currently used by the card?
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Hmm... I have the home edition but don't see the option to create an image. Care to point me in the right direction? Are your images the size of the total card, or just of the space currently used by the card?
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Clone to another SD card, not an image. Sorry if I misled you.
Hi all,
It seems that I'm having a bit trouble with writing the image to my SD card. I'm using a 16GB currently with Honeycomb on it, but after the image finished writing, my card size is reduced to 105MB free out of 150MBish. I tried to get the CM7 boot to work on a 2GB card, after the "generic" img finished writing on the card, it gets the same free 105MB, and I can't copy the CM7 files onto the card because those files are 115MB total.
I tried partitioning the card but it's still the same, and the computer isn't able to see the second partition that's not the main one. Is anyone having this issue and/or know how I can fix it? Much appreciated.
Cheers,
kzn said:
Hi all,
It seems that I'm having a bit trouble with writing the image to my SD card. I'm using a 16GB currently with Honeycomb on it, but after the image finished writing, my card size is reduced to 105MB free out of 150MBish. I tried to get the CM7 boot to work on a 2GB card, after the "generic" img finished writing on the card, it gets the same free 105MB, and I can't copy the CM7 files onto the card because those files are 115MB total.
I tried partitioning the card but it's still the same, and the computer isn't able to see the second partition that's not the main one. Is anyone having this issue and/or know how I can fix it? Much appreciated.
Cheers,
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Very much a known issue... to work around this:
1. Write the image to SD
2. Resize boot partition (only one on it so far) to anything up to 2 GB.. I recommend keeping it less than 2 GB for compatability
3. Put your ROM on the boot partition
4. Put SD in nook and boot it up
Hey thanks!
So for some reason I was able to follow this post and root my Nook http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/231002060
I used the 2GB card again and this time after writing the image to it I still have 1.75ishGB left and the file didn't take up the whole card like it did previously. Was able to boot up CWM and flash CM7.
But I'm running into another problem, which is my 16GB card, no matter how I format it, the Nook would not recognize that it's mounted. And when it does show up in the system, it only sees about 1.5GB, and the card is completely empty. I'm really stuck here, is this another known problem?
But I'm running into another problem, which is my 16GB card, no matter how I format it, the Nook would not recognize that it's mounted. And when it does show up in the system, it only sees about 1.5GB, and the card is completely empty. I'm really stuck here, is this another known problem?
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What are you using to format it? What format, FAT32? What was on it before? What shows up when in a reader on your PC?
I used EASEUS and also just window to format the card. It's in FAT32 and my PC sees it as a removable storage device just fine, all 14.5GB of it.
LOL
Honestly, the OP does drive me nut
I want to help but I can't follow what he said.
16GB SD, 2GB SD, what?
If you, OP, still need help, then pls clearly indicate what your problem is and what you intend to accomplish.
kzn said:
I used EASEUS and also just window to format the card. It's in FAT32 and my PC sees it as a removable storage device just fine, all 14.5GB of it.
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EASEUS does help a lot (ext4) but I would then suggest never using Windows to format a uSD. This works much better IMO to get a good format.
Hi,
I wonder if someone can help me, I've got WP7.5 install as a NAND installation, with Android 4.0.4 as a SD installation. Both work brilliantly, although I do have some slight problems.
Android won't detect an SD card installed, so I can't use some apps, that require an SD card to be present.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this, surely I'm not the only person in this position.
Cheers
I'm guessing it's because your SD has been formatted specially by WP, and Android can't read this. Your FAT32 partition is probably too small for anything to be stored in it.
The Fat32 partition is 1.6Gb.
Is it worth making that bigger, or creating another FAT32 partition?
Cheers
Hmm, I'd guess that you wouldn't have any more than 200-300MB free on your SD as read by SD Android then. I don't know how much an SD Android build takes up but the data.img is at least 1GB of that. As for increasing the partiton/creating a new one, I don't actually think that's possible without losing your data is it?
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I'm not too fussed about losing anything...
Here is what I have just tried without any success.
I have a 8Gb card partitioned like this.
1.*Gb
Primary, FAT32, (Android SD install)
2Gb
Primary, FAT32, (My hope would be that Android would see this as the SD card)
4Gb Other (WP 7 partition)
No luck unfortunately, any ideas?
Cheers
Are you sure you're using an 'unlockable' WP7.x ROM? If so, try formatting the storage card to normal and flash a Android build, see if it utilises the memory card like normal, if it does, then I would say that you're doing something wrong when setting it up.
Just double check each step of a tutorial (example: this one) twice and hopefully you'll only have to flash one more time.
Why do you have 2 fat 32 partitions ?...just use one fat 32 partition..in regular sd android....data image is used as internal memory and fat 32 part as sd card
I believe your second partition is not being recognised...make only one fat 32 partition you don't need two
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I installed CM7 on a 16GB SD card for my Nook Color about a year ago and it has been working fine since then with no problems. I've been doing regular image backups of the SD card using Win32DiskImager. I recently had problems with an app update so decided to try and do an image restore of a recent backup. I get error messages from Win32DiskImager that there's not enough room on the SD card. I've tried reformatting/repartitioning the SD card using various tools (Windows format, Nook SD card format, EaseUS, SDFormatter, etc.) but haven't been able to get the full disk space back. The message I get from Win32DiskImager is: " Not enough space on disk: Size 30390270 sectors, available 30248960 sectors." This was the original SD card that had the CM image on it. Any ideas? Thanks!
zinger14 said:
I installed CM7 on a 16GB SD card for my Nook Color about a year ago and it has been working fine since then with no problems. I've been doing regular image backups of the SD card using Win32DiskImager. I recently had problems with an app update so decided to try and do an image restore of a recent backup. I get error messages from Win32DiskImager that there's not enough room on the SD card. I've tried reformatting/repartitioning the SD card using various tools (Windows format, Nook SD card format, EaseUS, SDFormatter, etc.) but haven't been able to get the full disk space back. The message I get from Win32DiskImager is: " Not enough space on disk: Size 30390270 sectors, available 30248960 sectors." This was the original SD card that had the CM image on it. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Try burning the SD image file again and before rebooting, try doing the restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
leapinlar said:
Try burning the SD image file again and before rebooting, try doing the restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thanks but I think I've figured out what the problem is. I have two 16gb sd cards but each is from a different vendor. Apparently each card has a slightly different storage capacity (~70M) so the image created from the card with the larger capacity won't fit on the sd card with the lower capacity. Does anyone know if there is a safe way to shrink the partition size on the sd card that currently has CM7 installed without losing the data? I could easily get by with 4gb instead of the current 16gb. I'd like to be able to use both sd cards using the same image.
Use minitools partition manager and shrink partition 4... as long as there's enough free space... nothing is lost.
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Use minitools partition manager and shrink partition 4... as long as there's enough free space... nothing is lost.
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I was able to change the size of partition 4 but it just move it to unallocated space and kept the total memory of the sd card the same. Sounds like I would need to reformat the sd card to change the overall size.
I ended up using an imaging program called usbit. It has an option when restoring an image to truncate oversize images. It does warn that there is a chance of data loss when doing this but I tried it and it seemed to work without any problems. I was able to restore the images that I had created with Win32DiskImager with this tool. Another good feature with this tool is that it can also compresses the image files that are created with it.