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Mmmm toasty - 8GB SD Card appears to be FUBAR.

It started with I repartitioned it using the Aman RA recovery "Part SD: fat32+ext2+swap" and flashed a Hero ROM. It worked fine. When I wiped and restored CM 4.1.999 (nandroid) I couldn't get to any of my programs or anything else on the SD Card. After some wiping and some trial and error I said screw it and re-formatted (via Windows) and re-partitioned my card via recovery. Again, I couldn't access any of my programs or the card.
I can format the card as one 7.x GB partition and it seems to be OK, but when I try to partition into fat23+ext2+swap via recovery (or any combination of more than one partition using Paragon Partition Manager) it is rendered unusable. If I re-mount it to my computer I get that the drive is not formatted.
If I format it it to one partition and then try to create multiple partitions via Paragon I get "A new partition cannot be created on this hard disk. Most probably, all primary slots are occupied and there is no extended partition."
Any ideas?

nolageek said:
It started with I repartitioned it using the Aman RA recovery "Part SD: fat32+ext2+swap" and flashed a Hero ROM. It worked fine. When I wiped and restored CM 4.1.999 (nandroid) I couldn't get to any of my programs or anything else on the SD Card. After some wiping and some trial and error I said screw it and re-formatted (via Windows) and re-partitioned my card via recovery. Again, I couldn't access any of my programs or the card.
I can format the card as one 7.x GB partition and it seems to be OK, but when I try to partition into fat23+ext2+swap via recovery (or any combination of more than one partition using Paragon Partition Manager) it is rendered unusable. If I re-mount it to my computer I get that the drive is not formatted.
If I format it it to one partition and then try to create multiple partitions via Paragon I get "A new partition cannot be created on this hard disk. Most probably, all primary slots are occupied and there is no extended partition."
Any ideas?
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I just recovered mine from this the other day...when I went into parted it was not showing the label of "primary" which was signifying it was not actually an initialized partition....even though I told it mkpartfs primary fat32 and put the parameters for it...
My fix was to use my Mac and format it to FAT standard (not FAT32) which allowed it to be seen in my Vista machine downstairs....when I insert it asked to format and I said no (as it would only format 200MB and leave the other 7.6GB unusable) and went into Manage under My Computer (right click, choose Manage) then went down and right clicked the SDHC card and chose to format it to FAT32..which it did.
Put the memory card back in the phone, went back to parted and redid my partitions and they showed the "primary" label as they should...took card out of the phone, put back in the Mac and copied over the zip I wanted to flash to the FAT32...put back in the phone and flashed with Amun-RA 1.2.3

why dont you partition using gparted on the G1? try formatting it within windows first, and then using the gparted method. it may work, may just have been a bad format/partition the first time.

palosjr said:
why dont you partition using gparted on the G1? try formatting it within windows first, and then using the gparted method. it may work, may just have been a bad format/partition the first time.
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I've used sdpart in the recovery. I thought that used gparted?

I also had this problem with Paragon, I formatted the card and partitioned using gparted boot cd. Works great now.

ext fomatted sd space in liberated Aria (eclair) doesn't show up in cyanogen 6.1.1

Hello everyone,
I recently got an HTC aria from AT&T.
After a few days I went ahead and rooted the phone.
At first I decided to try the liberated Aria (éclair) rom. It was a good experience. But just last night I decided to try another rom, so I went with Cyanogenmod 6.1.1.
While I was using liberated aria, I used rom manager to partition my sd card with the ext filesystem, so I could move some apps to it and open up some space from my phone's internal storage.
This space, while I never figured out how to move the apps, always showed in titanium backup.
With the move to Cyanogenmod 6.1.1, this partition doesn't show at all!, in fact my sd card is at 1.7 Gb!, it's like I lost an extra 0.25 Gb (which is the partition size I chose in rom manager before)... I tried partitioning in cyanogenmod with rom manager again, but then my sd card took another 0.25 Gb hit and went to 1.5 Gb!...
How do I get back to my 2Gb sdcard space? furthermore how I do partition the card such that I can extend my internal storage for apps?
Thanks
Andres

I use gparted on linux to do that. I'm not sure what OS you use, but there are live cds you could use.
But on gparted, you should be able to see all the partitions on the card and manage them as necessary.
In order to use the ext partition, you should darktremor's app2sd. Ext3 is the filesystem you should use, but ext2 works as well I believe.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4

thanks, I use Debian Squeeze on desktop and testing on laptop.
I just got gparted, but it says my external storage is only 1.7 Gb!
Like I said...the extra 0.25 Gb is no longer being mounted with the sdcard and it somewhere lost in the filesystem and/or apportioned to some obscure directory...

Hmmm... that is quite odd. I know some sd cards aren't actually what they state. My 8GB card only shows as 7.8GB for example.
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!) And see if it comes back somehow. I am not a sd card expert.
Sent from my Aria - CM7 Build 2-4

L551 said:
Try formatting the whole card (Back up first!!)
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thats what i'd recommend.
when you installed cm6, did you do a wipe data? did you notice if it said it was wiping the ext partition? i'd guess cm6 isn't noticing the space because it was partitioned separately from the rom install.
backup your important data, format the card, and try repartitioning it again now that you've got cm6 installed.

well I'm not entirely sure why it worked this time, but I was able to fully format the card. Now I'm back to 2Gb (well, really 1.84 Gb, but that's right)
The problem I think was that I was formatting with Rom manager, and it was ignoring the extra unrecognized space. What I did different this time, is that I went into settings > sd card & storage > unmount sd card > format sd card > mount sd card > sucess!
So this successfully formatted the whole card.
Thanks for your pointers

Unfortunately trying to partition it again failed.
I tried gparted and it successfully formatted a part of the card with the ext3 filesystem (while leaving the rest as unallocated -- at least this is what gparted said). Unfortunately when mounting the sd card on my phone it complained that the card had been damaged. So I had to reformat it, undoing the previous partitioning.
Then I tried rom manager again, but the way it works is by going into recovery and partitioning the card there. Unfortunately, clockworkmod recovery showed a warning sign ( triangle with an exclamation mark in it) above an android and froze there...I had to pull the battery out to reboot my phone.
I guess my oldish version of gparted (0.7.0) doesn't like the YAF filesystem (YAFFS). So perhaps when it partitions the card, it screws up the existing YAFFS partition. I'll try to use gparted again to partition the card fully, 256 Mb ext3 as extra app storage and the rest, I guess ext3 as well.
Andres

I finally did get it to work on both R012 and FR008 (as well as CM6.1.1 and CM7)
I formatted the sdcard with gparted (chose a 512 Mb ext3 partition with 32 Mb Swap). Then from android's terminal emulator (as root) I typed
Code:
a2sd check
and it enabled apps2sd using darktremor just fine. It became aware of my ext3 partition.

[Q] Failed to setup APP2SD

Hey guys,
I decided to setup my sd card today cause my phone internal memory was constantly running out. I followed the stickies on how to partition the SD using EASEUS. After I partitioned the app2sd partition, i booted up my phone. The phone says there is no sd card. So i rebooted the phone and mount my SD card through recoverymod. I can still see my sd card and files inside of it, but it only has 7GB left instead of 8GB. EASEUS too only detects only one partition of 7GB. Other then mounting the storage through recoverymod's Mounting USB Storage, the sd card cant be mounted anywhere else. Recoverymod shows Error: failed to mount /sdcard for all functions that require the sd card.
Has anyone came across this problem and fixed it ?

ackz said:
Hey guys,
I decided to setup my sd card today cause my phone internal memory was constantly running out. I followed the stickies on how to partition the SD using EASEUS. After I partitioned the app2sd partition, i booted up my phone. The phone says there is no sd card. So i rebooted the phone and mount my SD card through recoverymod. I can still see my sd card and files inside of it, but it only has 7GB left instead of 8GB. EASEUS too only detects only one partition of 7GB. Other then mounting the storage through recoverymod's Mounting USB Storage, the sd card cant be mounted anywhere else. Recoverymod shows Error: failed to mount /sdcard for all functions that require the sd card.
Has anyone came across this problem and fixed it ?
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It seems that your sdcard is corrupted.
Try to backup all data and reformat all partitions in linux
Windows can't recognize second partition on sdcard & it can sometimes mess up the partition.
Try GParted (google it).

d4rkkn16ht said:
It seems that your sdcard is corrupted.
Try to backup all data and reformat all partitions in linux
Windows can't recognize second partition on sdcard & it can sometimes mess up the partition.
Try GParted (google it).
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I tried browsing my SD card through GParted ( linux version and boot cd version), and all of them shows only 1 partition of 7gbs. One G is still missing and sd card still fails to work .

ackz said:
I tried browsing my SD card through GParted ( linux version and boot cd version), and all of them shows only 1 partition of 7gbs. One G is still missing and sd card still fails to work .
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Did you make a backup of your sd before creating the sd ext partition
? Should be written in each tutorial concerning sd ext creation.
Otherwise your data is no more.
As already written, windows is not able to read a sd ext partition. its fully right, that your fat32 partition shows only 7gb, the other 1gb is used from the sd ext and not viewable by windows.
...to create a sd-ext very easy go into cwm-advanced-format sd card and chose 1gb ext 0 swap.
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ackz said:
I tried browsing my SD card through GParted ( linux version and boot cd version), and all of them shows only 1 partition of 7gbs. One G is still missing and sd card still fails to work .
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Try this :
Backup all data in your micro SD.
Open & boot your computer using Gparted Linux / Parted Magic Linux / any other linux that has GParted / Parted inside its LiveCD
Run Gparted.
Delete all partitions.
Options:
Create sd-ext partition using GParted :
Create 1 fat32 Partition (as Primary) & adjust the size to your liking
Create 1 ext3/ext4 (as Primary...check if your android kernel support ext4) & adjust the size to your liking (usually 1 - 2 GB is enough)
Create sd-ext partition using CW Recovery:
Create fat32 Partition (as Primary...use all space)
Boot HD2 into AD Recovery
Go to Advanced menu
Format & choose sd-ext partition options
Flash your fav. ROM
Notes:
I personally like Parted better than GParted as it's a lot quicker & more advanced options (GParted is only a front-end for Parted).
Parted is for advanced user & TUI.
If you want to try Parted,make sure you read the manual & understand everything related to your actions (open console / terminal & type : man parted)
Use Parted using Root access (open console / terminal & type : sudo parted).
Use it with caution as it can wipe all of your hard drive data !
For more info about Parted try this link :
GNU Parted

[Q] Resize ext3 partition on SD card

Have fat32 and ext3 partitions on my SD card, both 4 GB in size. Want to resize them without losing data or having to reinstall anything, using Windows tools only (no Linux!).
If I
1. backup the ext3 partition to my PC hard drive using HDClone,
2. delete existing ext3 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard,
3. enlarge existing fat32 partition into unallocated space with Partition Wizard,
4. create a new ext3 partition of desired size in the rest of unallocated space with
Partition Wizard,
5. restore the ext3 from backup to the new ext3 partition,
will that work?

hmmm, you have to try ans tell us,
afaik ,, there is no way without backing up data and reformatting .. atleast on WIN

i did a few times it works. but it may be a good idea to flash mgldr after you put sd into phone.

wuzzi said:
Have fat32 and ext3 partitions on my SD card, both 4 GB in size. Want to resize them without losing data or having to reinstall anything, using Windows tools only (no Linux!).
If I
1. backup the ext3 partition to my PC hard drive using HDClone,
2. delete existing ext3 partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard,
3. enlarge existing fat32 partition into unallocated space with Partition Wizard,
4. create a new ext3 partition of desired size in the rest of unallocated space with
Partition Wizard,
5. restore the ext3 from backup to the new ext3 partition,
will that work?
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They recommend backing up your data before resizing, it (may) corrupt the stored data

How would i do that:
-backup sd card files on pc.
-make a backup with cwm (also backups sd ext..)
-boot to recovery->advanced->partition sd card: choose your size.
-restore you files from pc to sd
-boot to cwm and restore backup.

Well, I performed the routine on a different sd card now. Created a small ext3 and restored my backups to the appropiate partitions. Said "no" when HDClone asked to "change partition sizes for best compatibility". Seems to have worked beautifully, everythings runs just like before.
Thanks everybody!

I have the same desire: i want to resize my ext partition without losing data.
Many threads have suggested the following:
- backup ext partition (for example though clockwork or in Linux)
- shrink fat partition, delete ext and create new larger ext
- restore backup
I'm sure this routine will work, but it seems rather inefficient.
Therefore my question is: can't i use Minitool Partition Wizard to shrink the fat partition and then enlarge the ext partition all through resizing (and all while the data)?

Can use minitool partition wizard home edition it's free for personal use you can create, resize ,delete any kind of partitions included ext3 and ext4
*Backup your data first
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saeid63t, i tried resizing with minitool PW.
While it can successfully resize fat32 partitions (and retain data) it cannot resize or merge ext3 partitions.
Fortunately Gparted can. I downloaded and burned the Gparted bootable live cd. Once booted I resized the ext3 partition while retaining all data of the ext3 partition.
The end result: i enlarger my ext-partition in 10 minutes without restoring or reinstalling any data from recovery and without formating or recreating partitions from scratch again. Gparted all the way for more efficiency!

Write data to ext3
wuzzi said:
Well, I performed the routine on a different sd card now. Created a small ext3 and restored my backups to the appropiate partitions. Said "no" when HDClone asked to "change partition sizes for best compatibility". Seems to have worked beautifully, everythings runs just like before.
Thanks everybody!
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How did you restore data(write data) to new ext3 partition ??
please help....

I couldn't get Mini-Partition or EaseUS to resize the EXT3 partition. I could easily create a larger one, but copying will put the EXT3 partition only into unallocated space, not integrate into an existing EXT3 partition. I even tried reducing the FAT32 partition on my smaller SD card to make room to resize the existing EXT3 partition and the same problem happened.
Does anyone know how to resize an EXT3 partition? You'd think this would be more widely asked about or addressed, given how people will move from smaller to larger SD cards. Yet... once you've got a 2Gb EXT3 partition, you never need to increase it (at least given the current Android ROM's). So, I just moved all of my apps back to the phone, installed the new SD card, then moved them back manually. Thankfully I'm just starting out and didn't have more than a dozen apps to move.

It seems we can use minitool pw to manage sd card partition directly, like resize partition, delete partition, extend partition and copy partititon.

Minitool ext4 partition not applying.

Basically after I create an ext4 partition on unallocated space and then hit apply, it thinks for a few minutes then acts as if eveyrthing's cool, after I re-instert the card back, the space is AGAIN unallocated instead of being ext4 1gb.
Why is that happening? Thus preventing me from intalling NexusHD JB Rom.

Check the read only tab on the sd adapter if you are using one. With the card in can you copy and delete any files from the fat 32 partiton?
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NightyNight said:
Basically after I create an ext4 partition on unallocated space and then hit apply, it thinks for a few minutes then acts as if eveyrthing's cool, after I re-instert the card back, the space is AGAIN unallocated instead of being ext4 1gb.
Why is that happening? Thus preventing me from intalling NexusHD JB Rom.
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i saw that too, when i was setting up to multiboot wp7 and nativesd,,, , it wouldnt create and format the ext, , i got around it by creating the partition, applying, , exiting the app, removing the sd card, reinserting the sd, restarting minitool and formatting the partition. Took me several goes before it stuck.

so did you fix it finally?

EASEUS Partition Master 7.1.1 Home Edition
try this partition
both the sd's should be connected via usb not via card reader slot or something !

make the partition from the phone

samsamuel said:
i saw that too, when i was setting up to multiboot wp7 and nativesd,,, , it wouldnt create and format the ext, , i got around it by creating the partition, applying, , exiting the app, removing the sd card, reinserting the sd, restarting minitool and formatting the partition. Took me several goes before it stuck.
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i met the similar, and I did like you said, everything is fine. minitool partition dose help me to manage sd card partition well. Thanks!!!