After a few questions I decided to write a TUT how to get a smaller wp7 partition.
Better: I tried to write a TUT
What you need: your sd card, a SECOND SD CARD with less storage, partition app for pc(I used EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition), usb cardreader
1st step: flash wp7 with magldr when the SMALL sd card is in your phone or perform a hard reset with the smaller card when you have already flashed wp7.
2nd step: connect both sd cards to your pc and run the partition app.
Delete the filesystem of your BIGGER sd card.
3rd step: copy the wp7 partition from the small sd into the unallocated space of your big sd.
Now create a new partition(FAT32) of the rest unallocated space and convert from logical into primary partition. The drive letter must be set on your fat32 partition! Otherwise your pc will not find it. In front of your wp7 partition should be a “ * “.
I used 4gb and 16gb sd cards so I got 3.5gb wp7 partition and 11.5gb fat32 left on my 16gb card .
Sorry for my English
Hope it can help anyone of you guys and don’t forget to thank DFT for LEO70
Wouldn't it work to have 2 sd cards?... 1 for wp7 and 1 for android. Just make sure the phone is off when you switch them and make sure the wp7 card is in when you boot into wp7. I want to try that... have my 16gb for wp7 and my 32gb for android. Has anyone been able to boot android off sd with magldr yet?
EDIT: Oops, I actually posted this in the wrong thread. Sorry.
Hmmmm tried doing this but failed, I think it's due to my card reader only being able to read Micro SD and not Micro SDHC, tried doing it through magdlr usb was a no go, could change the partition but not wipe it, nice idea though, I'm sure many will find it helpful
OK so having decent knowledge of how filesystems work, while trying to partition my SD with Minitool like in one of these tutorials on here, to make a second partition on it that's EXT3, minitool died and now it barely recognises the SD.
So - say I load magloader to USB MassStorage and then I can see it in Minitool as Unallocated but when I try to create the partition it stops for a while and then finishes really fast telling me it finished and afterwards the whole disk disappears from Minitool and magloader's stuck.
I tried HP Format tool, it's saying "Disk is write-protected".
I tried Harddisk Low Level Format Tool... errors, nothing more.
Currently trying Minitool Power Data Recovery... so far it says "Files Identified: 38" so that might be promising but...
If anyone knows how to get their SD unstuck ------ another detail... I can only mess with the SD card through MAGLDR, my HD2 didn't come with a SD adapter..
Please help me out
Best regards,
John
basicaly your problem is cos u trying to do it from
magldr. that's bad idea. u really need card reader for that !!!
ionutzu said:
OK so having decent knowledge of how filesystems work, while trying to partition my SD with Minitool like in one of these tutorials on here, to make a second partition on it that's EXT3, minitool died and now it barely recognises the SD.
So - say I load magloader to USB MassStorage and then I can see it in Minitool as Unallocated but when I try to create the partition it stops for a while and then finishes really fast telling me it finished and afterwards the whole disk disappears from Minitool and magloader's stuck.
I tried HP Format tool, it's saying "Disk is write-protected".
I tried Harddisk Low Level Format Tool... errors, nothing more.
Currently trying Minitool Power Data Recovery... so far it says "Files Identified: 38" so that might be promising but...
If anyone knows how to get their SD unstuck ------ another detail... I can only mess with the SD card through MAGLDR, my HD2 didn't come with a SD adapter..
Please help me out
Best regards,
John
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Yeah, it's basically what Rikardo said, MAGLDR can corrupt files and isn't the best way to mess around with your SD card. Try install CWM and do it that way, much more stable.
You should really invest in a card reader though.
Install wm6.5 on your hd2 and format it from the phone. I know I stuck a windows phone 7 sd in my hd2 and it totally formatted it and got rid of the partition and all.
lol found a microsd adapter laying around !!! it's working thank you
u can also use any digital camera with sd slot and u can format it in the camera.tested working
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HELP
My sd card is dead i cannot recover the 16 gb sd card unallocated space i cant format anymore my pc wont recognize it it would say unknown space
My HD2 is already an SD card killer.
It begins with the "there is an problem with your SD Card message" and it ends with lost of all data and an unformatable sd card.
My HD2 killed 3 SD Cards, 2 of them -> SDHC
I know my hd2 killed two 16 gb sd cards i cant recover i tried this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKl2dvzDa5U and its directions but i cant make it work it says that the driver is not supported
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I know my hd2 killed two 16 gb sd cards i cant recover i tried this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKl2dvzDa5U and its directions but i cant make it work it says that the driver is not supported
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ever tried panasonic formatter and do a full format not quick
https://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
yes thats the one from the video it cant be formated .... it says its unallocated the whole card using EASEUS and but when i have it on windows phone 7 it shows the amount of memory yet when i have it on my pc is not formated and unknown capacity? idk why is my card acting up but two 16 gb just went to waste ...i wish there was a way to delete microsoft wp7 scrypt
Hi guys !
I've a strange problem, i've bought an Kingston 16Gb SDHC card for my HD2 phone and i want to make a dual boot of WP7 and Android.
The problem is when i start my phone with the SD card it's boot in strange mod same as defaut configuration.
But when i plug my card after screen of magldr it's start normaly and in about i see the space of my SD card.
Other things when i want to start Android, in magldr service when i select ad sd dir it's will be back to home screen.
Magldr possibly have a bug with my card ? or it's my sd card it's wrong ?
I've magldr 1.13 and Xboxmod WP7 rom.
Thks for reply and sorry to my bad english.
Morphos
" Hi guys !
I've a strange problem, i've bought an Kingston 16Gb SDHC card for my HD2 phone and i want to make a dual boot of WP7 and Android.
The problem is when i start my phone with the SD card it's boot in strange mod same as defaut configuration.
But when i plug my card after screen of magldr it's start normaly and in about i see the space of my SD card.
Other things when i want to start Android, in magldr service when i select ad sd dir it's will be back to home screen.
Magldr possibly have a bug with my card ? or it's my sd card it's wrong ?
I've magldr 1.13 and Xboxmod WP7 rom."
Hi
If the sd-card is in device you must start windows phone 7 and make reset,
Settings,Info,Reset your device.
After that windows phone 7 write a 200 mb 16 bit partition on sd.
You can only see it in partition managers. There you can see although an unformatted partition. This is the windows 7 partition.
Follow this tutorial here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944288
to install both operating system on your card .
That works for me and i have the 16 GB Kingston too.
greetz
pego2007
Thanks to your reply.
But i use this tutorial for my dual boot.
that is my procedure :
- Going to setting, about and reset my phone
- Plug my SD Card to my device
- WP7 boot in english mod without tell me setting operation
To have 200Mb fat16 and the rest of SD card in unformated partion i will plug my SD card after Magldr boot screen.
If i plug after i've the setting operation what i request before and when i go to setting, about i see 15,...GB
When i plug my SD card to my computer i see 200Mb fat16 partition and unformatted partition.
If i plug my SD card before Magldr boot screen, when i go to setting about i see 15.14Mb total and 10Mb ok...
Morphos
Edit :
I've also an 2Gb SD card (so little for dual boot) and i've no prblm for WP7 boot. SD card can be already plug to my HD2 device and i can setting my hd2 as i want.
In setting, about i see all my SD card
Total : 1.64Go
Dispo : 1.52Go
Morphos
i have WP7 in NAND and installed RAFDROID in SD card. my card is 16gb. 7 gb partitioned as FAT32 for ANDROID use.. now i successfully booted up android RAFDROID ROM. but whe i go to the setting inside android i only see 800MB around of internal free space and no SD card space. i am wondering where is the rest of the space fro 7 GB gone.
because of this i cant store music and files and use in Android booting off from SD
hI M8...
The first thing to check is your sd card fat32 part for errors...
If there are file/dir errors the android cannot read the sd...
Get this tool http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
and check your card and fix the errors...
Also the android to see the partition you must do the partioning in a way like in this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944288
Watch those video and if you still have probs let me know
cheers
colossus
download something like acronis disk manager.
partitions are going into something like ext 3 and windows wont see them.
with acronis it can see it and give you the chance to reformat back to fat32 or whatever you desire!
i actually used the mnitool partition tool to partition my SD card. and followed that video. still i m not sure why i m not able to see the rest of the SD card space. i m using RAFDROID ROM
colossus_r said:
hI M8...
The first thing to check is your sd card fat32 part for errors...
If there are file/dir errors the android cannot read the sd...
Get this tool http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
and check your card and fix the errors...
Also the android to see the partition you must do the partioning in a way like in this guide...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944288
Watch those video and if you still have probs let me know
cheers
colossus
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checked there r no errors. i had followed the video guide you mentioned to put android in SD card.
solved
i did two things..
1. changed the wp7 partition to PRIMARY ( i think this was the key to the solution)
2. from the video tutorial.. copied the startup.txt and the rootfs.img files in the "Android" folder..
i am not sure which step actually made it work.. i can verify it tomorrow.
hem.acharya said:
i did two things..
1. changed the wp7 partition to PRIMARY ( i think this was the key to the solution)
2. from the video tutorial.. copied the startup.txt and the rootfs.img files in the "Android" folder..
i am not sure which step actually made it work.. i can verify it tomorrow.
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The #1 step is the one....
Its mandatory to have primary partition in the sd card ...i thing is noted on the howto video
Hi guys I have a problem installing WP7 and my SD card ends with 200mb of 8 GB
First: I read a lot of posts about 200mb , about fix sd card, about this issue, but is not clear for me. So I looking for people can help me , not to bother me and say me google or search it. This people don't have nothing to do than spend time writing useless words.
I have an HTC HD2, every time I install a WP7 ROM after the first windows boot/ start , windows let my SD card of 8GB in 200mb, lot of people know that.
I try, format and partition the sd card after and before installation.
Windows format the SD after the first set up, and after that I try format or partition the SD again, but not work.
1 st question: I can read with windows 7 the files in the SD card ...? if I save some music or data.??? May be an aplication or something can read / write the SD.
If the first question is "yes" ... I find tutorials with how to format the sd card to use android, but I don't want use android , I want only WP7 and leave my memory with the full size, and can read / write files, like music , word , excel,etc. files.
Trying to do that I flash the WP7 like 6 times today...
I want, can use my SD Card Billy G !!!!!! LOL
Thanks guys for any advice or solution can give me.
Have you tried to format your SD card with a digicam? First I saw also the 200MB on the card in the digicam, when I formated it with the cam I saw the whole memory of 8 or 16GB.
Regards, Olli2.
format the card using a digital camera...thats the fastest way to do it....
No, I do not think you guys understand what he is saying. I think he wants to format once WP7 is installed and continue using WP7. WP7 does not support hot swapping cards. Once installed and formatted, it cannot be messed with if you want to continue to use WP7.
I can format the card
Thanks guys ....
I can format the card after I install the windows 7 with the boot menu of Magldr , but when I start the phone again windows tell me the Memory card can't be read, do a hard reset or change the memory, for a compilant one and force me to turn off.
I try differents ways, format the memory card to one partition of 200mb and the other partition with the rest of the unformated card, I try format to one big partition, I do the hard reset with the volume butoms , and start my phone and the same problem.Format to FAT 32.
I don't have a camera with this micro SD card..., you traying to tell me the windows 7 use a different file system than FAT32? BEcouse the 200MB partition is FAT16.
1)What happends if I install windows with no SD card??? and at the end of all the first windows set up( means widnows format my SD card to 200 mb, I install the SD card full size in the slot.? could be work?
2)But somebody can make work windows 7 ( only no dual boot) with a full size SD card( 8gb 16gb) , and can read/write/play music,videos or text files from the SD card...? or windows don't let you use the SDcard, or may be another aplication can on the marketplace, can do it.?
Thanks for the help...
That's all very strange to me. Every time I installed a WP7 ROM my issue was trying to GET the 200MB partition. (I dual boot android/WP7). What I suggest is to format your SD card, and make it one big UNFORMATTED partition. For example, if you use MiniTool Partition Wizard (i use that) make sure it's unformatted (a green square) as opposed to unallocated (grey square). Then when you flash WP7 it should have all of your storage.
You need to have your SD card in there when flashing the ROM. If not, and you try and insert the card afterwards, it won't recognize it.
soapbox23 said:
That's all very strange to me. Every time I installed a WP7 ROM my issue was trying to GET the 200MB partition. (I dual boot android/WP7). What I suggest is to format your SD card, and make it one big UNFORMATTED partition. For example, if you use MiniTool Partition Wizard (i use that) make sure it's unformatted (a green square) as opposed to unallocated (grey square). Then when you flash WP7 it should have all of your storage.
You need to have your SD card in there when flashing the ROM. If not, and you try and insert the card afterwards, it won't recognize it.
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jajaja thats wierd !!! I will try your idea to see what happends.
Im using a WP7 ROM from YukiXDA, may be is that.
You recomend me do a dual boot, I don't have experience with android, and windows 7 look really cool.!!!
Thanks for the help
waltiti said:
Thanks guys ....
I can format the card after I install the windows 7 with the boot menu of Magldr , but when I start the phone again windows tell me the Memory card can't be read, do a hard reset or change the memory, for a compilant one and force me to turn off.
I try differents ways, format the memory card to one partition of 200mb and the other partition with the rest of the unformated card, I try format to one big partition, I do the hard reset with the volume butoms , and start my phone and the same problem.Format to FAT 32.
I don't have a camera with this micro SD card..., you traying to tell me the windows 7 use a different file system than FAT32? BEcouse the 200MB partition is FAT16.
1)What happends if I install windows with no SD card??? and at the end of all the first windows set up( means widnows format my SD card to 200 mb, I install the SD card full size in the slot.? could be work?
2)But somebody can make work windows 7 ( only no dual boot) with a full size SD card( 8gb 16gb) , and can read/write/play music,videos or text files from the SD card...? or windows don't let you use the SDcard, or may be another aplication can on the marketplace, can do it.?
Thanks for the help...
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See my answer above.....What you are trying to do cannot be done because WP7 does not support removable storage.
Also, you must use Zune software to alter the size of storage available to windows for mass storage device.
I don't get what's the problem... Let's better make some things clear:
When you install for the first time WP7 on HD2, the system will format your SD card, it doesn't really matter what kind of partitions you had earlier, everything is going to be wiped out.
WP7 will make 2 partitions on your SD:
1. [~200MB] FAT16
2. [Rest of the space] Unformatted
That's the way it should be. The partitions aren't visible under Windows, with some registry hacks in Windows 7, the card gets mounted as a media player, where you can throw the music or pictures.
After installing WP7 on your phone, go to Settings->About and check the line Total Storage, if you say you have a 8GB card, then there should be available about 6.5-7GB ...
Of course, all these things are in the most ideal case, when your SD card is compatible with WP7..
In case you want to get back to Android and your card is not recognized normally, connect your card to PC through a card reader (or MGLDR -> USB MassStorage) and format it through SDFormatter (Freeware), turning ON the FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT under Options..
After couple of months trying to make WP7 to work on my HD2 EU, i finally made it, had all kind of troubles with different cards.
1. SanDisk 2GB Class2 (Bundled with HD2) - could install WP7, card was recognized, after one day of using and installing several apps the system stars to crash, random reboots each 20 minutes or so.
2. Kingston 8GB Class4 (Bought 2 weeks ago) - WP7 installs but can't get over startup configuration, it stucks, rebootings and Hard Resets won't help (tried a bunch of different ROMs)
3. SanDisk 8GB Class4 (Bought 4 days ago) - WP7 installed perfectly, no rebootings and everything works till now, some bugs are showing up, but most probabil it's just Software/ROM related stuff..
nickriley thanks for all the info and explain to me this issue.
I have a Sandisk 8GB, and HD2 EU too, can you tell me the registry hack I need to do on the phone to can use the unformated like a media storage like you say...
"The partitions aren't visible under Windows, with some registry hacks in Windows 7, the card gets mounted as a media player, where you can throw the music or pictures.
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Thanks a lot !!!!!!
No problems.
I couldn't find the guide on XDA forums, and as i'm a new user here i just found out that i'm not allowed to post external links Check your inbox..
Used the device in this way just a couple of times, as i'm using WP7 as main OS only during the last 3 days, but it worked, can copy from device and to device also..
Is there's a way to increase the FAT (200MB) partition ?