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My SD Card's been decapitated!!

NOOOOOOO! My cousin tried to partition my sd card for me and said he knew what he was doing. Next thing I know, everything is missing from my sd card including nandroid backups, PLUS it cut my memory down from 16gb to 13gb. Is this normal or what? He did it through the boot menu and did 512 for the swap and 512 for the other. Not sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure I got ****ed here. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.

Sounds like he formated as NTFS or something with huge Allocation Units or something.

MuzikJay said:
NOOOOOOO! My cousin tried to partition my sd card for me and said he knew what he was doing. Next thing I know, everything is missing from my sd card including nandroid backups, PLUS it cut my memory down from 16gb to 13gb. Is this normal or what? He did it through the boot menu and did 512 for the swap and 512 for the other. Not sure what that means, but I'm pretty sure I got ****ed here. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance.
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When you partition your card it also formats it.
The reason the capacity dropped is because it has been partitioned so that only the partition that you see, is only 13gb.
You have never made a backup of your SD card? You could tell your cousin to not touch your things.
A good piece of advice:
Always make backups of backups, on different media. Hopefully you have some nandroids saved to your desktop/laptop.
Sorry about that. Might be better in the future to do it yourself and follow guides on here. They are pretty straight forward and usually indicate when backups should be made. Sorry but those files are gone.

Partitioning a drive or card erases its contents.

You are F'd in the A! I feel your pain, I accidentally partitioned without saving all the stuff on my SD card first. Sorry for your loss.

damn. looks like it was my mistake then. well did he at least partition it right? so I don't have to again? lol. Im currently going through different file recovery programs in hope lol

Keep in mind, you can use a partition manager such as paragon partition manager to partition without formatting. Thats how I did it.

You should have lost 1 gig, not 3 if he formatted it correctly. Also, 512 swap is probably not a good idea.
Like the poster above recommended, use a partitioning program to sort your card out.. and yes it will format it again.

Get Test Disk (Opensource Disk Recovery) It will likely be able to recover everything no problem.

danknee said:
You should have lost 1 gig, not 3 if he formatted it correctly. Also, 512 swap is probably not a good idea.
Like the poster above recommended, use a partitioning program to sort your card out.. and yes it will format it again.
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damn, so should i partition it again? and lower the swap to 512 or will that just take even more space away from the 13gb?

MuzikJay said:
damn, so should i partition it again? and lower the swap to 512 or will that just take even more space away from the 13gb?
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Not through recovery, sounds like you have several ext partitions already. I use Paragon Partition Manager and you will have to load the card in a card reader outside of the phone.
Personally I don't use swap at all, the heavy read/write cycles kill sd cards at a much faster rate than even a2sd. Most guys that run a swap use 32 or 64 megabytes and 512 is fine for a2sd.
If your card really decreased 3 gigs in size then you will probably find that you have 3 swap partitions, 3 ext partitions and one 13gb fat32 partition. It would literally take 5 minutes to delete the extra partitions and restore the card with a partitioning program.

data recovery
If you add files or data to the card it will be very hard or impossible to recover. Run data recovery software on the disk immediately and it should find most of your data.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.HTML
connect the card as a removable disk to a pc and try that software, you should be able to restore most of the stuff

Droidish said:
Get Test Disk (Opensource Disk Recovery) It will likely be able to recover everything no problem.
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worked great! thanks!

So if i go to boot menu and choose, "Wipe SD:ext partition" will that get me back to 16gb or can I never get back that extra space?

MuzikJay said:
So if i go to boot menu and choose, "Wipe SD:ext partition" will that get me back to 16gb or can I never get back that extra space?
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No, but if you simply select the option to 'partition with ext', it should recover most of your space other than that used for the ext (a2sd) partition.

MuzikJay said:
So if i go to boot menu and choose, "Wipe SD:ext partition" will that get me back to 16gb or can I never get back that extra space?
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If you don't want to use a2sd you can get all of it back with a partition program.
Otherwise do what the last poster suggested and reformat your card with 32 or 0 swap and 512-1gb ext3 from Recovery.

thank you both so much

Don't forget, most companies sell cards in increments of 1,000, where a computer would read them in increments of 1024. So it's very likely your 16GB card would be read at about 14.5 to 15GB under normal circumstances.

hahaha "my cousin"

[Q] Can' t create ext3 partition.

Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.

wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Are you sure that you created it as a second partition and as a primairy (instead of a logical)?

wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Which roms are you trying it with? Have you tried other cards?
Format the card using Panasonic SDFormatter..
Format: FULL (Overwrite)
Size Adjustment: ON
Now partition again using CWM, 1GB space and 0MB swap.

Yes i had tried 2 cards 16Gb and 2GB now i will try again.
PS: I'm using Typhoon now.
http://imageshack.us/f/90/47579461.png/
Here is pic to see.

wowrlz123 said:
Yes i had tried 2 cards 16Gb and 2GB now i will try again.
PS: I'm using Typhoon now.
http://imageshack.us/f/90/47579461.png/
Here is pic to see.
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That looks like it should be correct.
Give rafdroid 4.02 a try, that is the one I use and which shows the the correct size for sure.

lukesan said:
That looks like it should be correct.
Give rafdroid 4.02 a try, that is the one I use and which shows the the correct size for sure.
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I tried it but its stuck on rafdroid logo with the green droid. I gave it 2 hours but the same. One week ago i was able to boot it but now i cant.

wowrlz123 said:
Hi everyone,
Now i have a problem with my htc hd2 nand rom. I had tried alot of nand roms and when i tried to make ext3( i tried with CWM, Gpartet, Easus, Minitool) but when i boot my rom i saw only 100mb of free memory. After puting my sd card in my PC i run easus and there is ext3 partition but the phone cant read it. Please help me if you can.
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Hi,
I think you are confusing the different sections of space on the phone.
Get yourself Titanium Backup,and it will list the different storage spaces you have:
System ROM
Internal
SD card
SD card(a2sd) or EXT.3 partition in your case.
The 100MB you see is internal free space.
You can then how much space you have on your EXT. and what is being used.

malybru said:
Hi,
I think you are confusing the different sections of space on the phone.
Get yourself Titanium Backup,and it will list the different storage spaces you have:
System ROM
Internal
SD card
SD card(a2sd) or EXT.3 partition in your case.
The 100MB you see is internal free space.
You can then how much space you have on your EXT. and what is being used.
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Here you are see it please and tell me if its alright.
http://imageshack.us/f/687/snap20110610130613.png/

wowrlz123 said:
Here you are see it please and tell me if its alright.
http://imageshack.us/f/687/snap20110610130613.png/
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Hi,
It looks absolutely fine.
260MB of free internal memory
And 999MB free on your EXT. partition.
You should update the app.It will also show system as well.

wowrlz123 said:
I tried it but its stuck on rafdroid logo with the green droid.
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make sure you clean out the old rom before booting the new rom, , in CWM choose 'wipe data/factory reset', then 'wipe cache', then 'advanced - wipe dalvik cache'

I' m right now thank you for helping me.
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HTC HD2 EXT3 partition not showing up
Hi,
I just installed miui 6.9.29. Everything is working fine but one thing: the ext3 partition i created in CWM (512 mb, 0 mb swap) does not show up as internal storage. I tried to mount it in CWM, but still no luck . Can someone please help me? I really need more than 115 mb of internal storage, since there is only 23.54 mb available. Pretty stupid actually because i only want about 3-4 apps more..
Please help!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26286781&postcount=1
try this, it worked for me

[Q] HELP!! Used Verygreen's instructions and have problems!

I have a 16Gb SandDisk class2 that I just bought, using verygreen's instructions for "ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards", and completing the first step for putting the image on the card, I now end up with an SD card that shows it is only 116MB and out of space!!! HELP!!! How do I undo this???

Edit: Relevant to emmc flashing technique only. Too tired to think yesterday.

babyfine24 said:
I have a 16Gb SandDisk class2 that I just bought, using verygreen's instructions for "ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards", and completing the first step for putting the image on the card, I now end up with an SD card that shows it is only 116MB and out of space!!! HELP!!! How do I undo this???
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If you read the instructions you'd know that was normal... that is the "boot" partition you are seeing.
You can use something like EASEUS or MiniTools Partition managers to resize it prior to putting it in the nook and letting it set up the other partitions (keep it below 2GB... I recommend 1.75GB)
After you put it in the nook and let it set up... you cannot resize partition 1... but can resize partition 4 if it doesn't automatically set up to use the entire free space automatically.

I used EASUS partition manager. You can get it for free here: http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
When you put the image on the card the software did not use all available space. Get EASUS and stretch out the last partition to the max and you will get full use of your card again.

I've been followed a lot of instructions but this particular "partition the uSD" always gives me problem. I bet I do not fully understand the process of using EASEUS or MiniTool to RESIZE PRIOR putting into the NC.
Can someone who has done this pls write up a detail instructions? Dizzy, pat, can you help?
Thing is: after creating a bootable uSD, the card becomes "boot" and only 110+ MB available like OP indicated, that's fine, we all understand that.
Next step is using EASEUS or MiniTool to resize.
Resize what?
As after creating the uSD, only "boot" partition showed as FAT32, the rest is UNallocated. Sine we haven't inserted the uSD in the NC yet, therefore no such ext4, ... created. So what are we resizing here? The "boot" partition?

votinh said:
Thing is: after creating a bootable uSD, the card becomes "boot" and only 110+ MB available like OP indicated, that's fine, we all understand that.
Next step is using EASEUS or MiniTool to resize.
Resize what?
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You then resize the only partition that has been created on the drive... the 110MB partition.
votinh said:
As after creating the uSD, only "boot" partition showed as FAT32, the rest is UNallocated. Sine we haven't inserted the uSD in the NC yet, therefore no such ext4, ... created. So what are we resizing here? The "boot" partition?
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After resizing only partition prior to running the uSD in the nook... you put it in nook...let it create the other partitions... after it is done... put it back in computer and resize the LAST partition on it.

What you're seeing is normal. The image copy sets things up, then the install step rearranges and populates the rest of the card. All that's happened is that an image of a tiny card has been copied onto a larger card, but that's not the final setup.
Unless you're unhappy with the final partitioning, you don't need to mess with it manually.
If you're feeling adventurous, Verygreen has posted that you can set up the partitions the way you want, then copy the files from the image (not the image itself) onto the first partition, and the installer will leave them that way.
Pretty slick, actually.

DizzyDen said:
You then resize the only partition that has been created on the drive... the 110MB partition.
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So, you said we "resize" the "boot" partition, right?
If so, we resize it from 110+MB to 1.75GB like you recommended in previous post?
Should we say "supersize" it? expand it? increase it?
Put the word aside, let say I increase the boot partition to 1.75GB, what about the rest? Still UNallocated, I believe.
After resizing only partition prior to running the uSD in the nook... you put it in nook...let it create the other partitions... after it is done... put it back in computer and resize the LAST partition on it.
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If I follow through, the first (boot) partition will still be seen as FAT32 and Windows will only see the very first FAT32 partition. What is the purpose of "resizing" the last partition?
Are you telling me that after resize the last partition, Windows will see it (as well as the first "boot" FAT32)?

votinh said:
So, you said we "resize" the "boot" partition, right?
If so, we resize it from 110+MB to 1.75GB like you recommended in previous post?
Should we say "supersize" it? expand it? increase it?
Put the word aside, let say I increase the boot partition to 1.75GB, what about the rest? Still UNallocated, I believe.
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Just use the resize tool to make it max 1.75GB... the rest will still be unallocated until you let it do its thing by booting it in the nook.
votinh said:
If I follow through, the first (boot) partition will still be seen as FAT32 and Windows will only see the very first FAT32 partition. What is the purpose of "resizing" the last partition?
Are you telling me that after resize the last partition, Windows will see it (as well as the first "boot" FAT32)?
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The purpose of resizing the last partition is to allow the nook to use the entire disk.... has nothing to do with windows seeing it.

DizzyDen said:
Just use the resize tool to make it max 1.75GB... the rest will still be unallocated until you let it do its thing by booting it in the nook.
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Clear!
Big thanks
The purpose of resizing the last partition is to allow the nook to use the entire disk.... has nothing to do with windows seeing it.
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I keep thinking that after the NC does the magic partition, it will automatically sees the rest.
Moreover, if the USB cable plugged in and tap to turn on USB Mass Storage, it's ready to use anyway.
I might miss that but I thought PC see the left over (via usb cable plugged) without "resizing" any partition.
I have to do it over again to be sure.

Just take the uSD out and load it in computer... start EASEUS or MiniTools partition manager and see if it shows the last partition taking the remaining space... or if there's still part unallocated.

Partitioning the SD Card? [HELP]

Hi guys!
I'm getting crazy....I'm using MiniCM7-2.1.9 + nAa kernel v11 on my X8.
But if i try to create ext4 and swap partitions on the SD card....android tell me: "it's possible to remove the SD card" and it won't mount it!
I have created: -1.4 GB partition (FAT32) (Primary)
-0.5 GB partition (EXT4) (Primary)
-70 MB partition (SWAP) (Primary)
Why it won't work?
How I can fix it?

Well, since you SD card is 2GB, try FAT instead FAT32. Partition and reboot. I have the same error, but one reboot solves.

Or make partitions on pc...have a lot off free programs for that
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hunff said:
Well, since you SD card is 2GB, try FAT instead FAT32. Partition and reboot. I have the same error, but one reboot solves.
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OK,tnx.
I've found another easy way, in CMW>ADVANCED>PARTITION SD CARD.
It seems work without errors, but I have a question, how i can install apps on the ext partition now?
I've in cyanogen Settings:
Application>Allow Application moving (enabled)
Application>Install Location (what should I select? automatic, external or internal?)
Performance>A2SD (ext) Settings> A2SD mode selected (is it correct?)

Or make partitions on pc,its easy
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milenkokg said:
Or make partitions on pc,its easy
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ok, What about moving apps to ext?

colmoschin94 said:
ok, What about moving apps to ext?
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Hye, it wont work on minicm....you have to flash GDX first....dont reboot....just mount sd, data, cache, and system, after that make ur partition....done. then you flash back minicm...just try this first ok....gud luck

[Q] Dual Boot from emmc and from internal storage

This was probably already covered by another thread but i have looked through dozens of posts and i haven't found an answer yet...
So i want to know how i can boot one rom (cm7) from internal storage and another rom (cm9) from emmc...
if possible, please provide some files and a guide...
THANKS
-David

davidmargolin said:
This was probably already covered by another thread but i have looked through dozens of posts and i haven't found an answer yet...
So i want to know how i can boot one rom (cm7) from internal storage and another rom (cm9) from emmc...
if possible, please provide some files and a guide...
THANKS
-David
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It's not difficult. Just follow these threads below.
First install CM7 to emmc per this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12797652
Then install CM9 to SD per this thread (just substitute CM9 for CM7 in the instructions):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12240928
Also you need to use my updated generic image file instead of the one in the link above. Get it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23153010
If you want to use both systems with the same SD card so you don't have to swap cards all the time, follow these instructions:
After you have installed both of these systems, go to CM7 and using root explorer, edit the file vold.fstab in /etc. There will be a line there that includes 'sdcard auto' (without the quote). Change that to 'sdcard 4'. Save and reboot. Now both CM7 and CM9 will share the same media sdcard space. No need to swap cards between systems.
Also to determine which system boots, hold the n key while nothing and a boot menu will come up. Use it to select which system you want to boot to.
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emmc and internal
heres the thing though... i dont want anything booting from my sd card... just from my internal storage and then my emmc...

davidmargolin said:
heres the thing though... i dont want anything booting from my sd card... just from my internal storage and then my emmc...
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Why?
BTW, emmc and internal storage are the same thing.
edit: There are some really old threads that tell you how to repartition the nook so that you can have two systems on emmc. But that is no longer recommended due to many issues, including updating is difficult and repartitioning is risky.
edit2: If you are thinking you can install a system to the media partition of emmc ("internal storage"), it's not possible. The only way to get two systems internally (ie., without using an SD) is to repartition. The existing media partition is deleted and new system partitions are created to accommodate the new system files and then a new smaller media partition is recreated. But that is a very non-standard installation and most update- zips will not work with that setup. You have to use specially modified versions.
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emmc
leapinlar said:
Why?
BTW, emmc and internal storage are the same thing.
edit: There are some really old threads that tell you how to repartition the nook so that you can have two systems on emmc. But that is no longer recommended due to many issues, including updating is difficult and repartitioning is risky.
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so why does my nook list emmc and internal seperately????
... look at the pic

davidmargolin said:
so why does my nook list emmc and internal seperately????
... look at the pic
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Look at my edit2 above. That "internal storage" shown is just a partition of emmc (/data, which is part of emmc where your system data and apps are stored). And other systems cannot be installed there.
Why are you against SD installs?
edit: Just a little educating, emmc means Embedded MultiMedia Card. It is where everything is stored internally. It is partitioned into several partitions, /system, /data, /cache, and others. It creates a media partition to store your media and it calls that "emmc" on that picture you posted. and it calls the /data partition "internal storage". Very confusing for noobs.

merger
forget about dual booting for a sec...
can i merge the two partitions (internal + emmc) together...

davidmargolin said:
forget about dual booting for a sec...
can i merge the two partitions (internal + emmc) together...
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No, see my edit above.
Edit: But you can change the size of each by repartitioning. The old nooks came with a 1GB /data and a 5GB /media. The newer nooks come with 5GB /data and 1GB /media. Looking at your picture you have the old nook.

mnt/usbdisk
sorry... i dont know too much bout these things...
but what about the additional storage mnt/usbdisk (see picture)... whats that

davidmargolin said:
sorry... i dont know too much bout these things...
but what about the additional storage mnt/usbdisk (see picture)... whats that
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That is if you install a usb drive by attaching a special adapter and plugging in a usb flash drive.
If you want both CM9 and CM7, I highly recommend the scheme I listed in my first reply. It's what I use and it works great.

thanks
kk.. thanks alot... ill dual boot with sd...

davidmargolin said:
kk.. thanks alot... ill dual boot with sd...
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After thinking about it, I would recommend reversing which is on emmc and which on SD. You will not be updating CM7 very often and likely updating CM9 a lot. It is easier to update emmc, so I would put CM9 on emmc and CM7 on SD.
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gottcha
so i just use the disk image u gave me and write it to my sd card...
then i put cm7 on the card and the nook does the rest... right???

davidmargolin said:
so i just use the disk image u gave me and write it to my sd card...
then i put cm7 on the card and the nook does the rest... right???
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Yes, assuming when you said 'write' you meant burned the image using win32diskimager.
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