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Formatting Mini Sd Card

Hey do any of you know how to format an SD Card? I flashed my old rom onto my 2gb sd card and really dont want to let this go to waste. is there a way to reformat this card so that my MDA will recognize it? Thanks in advance for any response.

you can use your pc to reformat a card [if you have a card reader]
or you can use your ppc to do it. resco has a format card thingie. or you can get another app [I use Storage Tools from Softwinter]

Got it. Thanks.

How to recover sd cards with xbmod unlock tool cab??

Got a 4gb sd card that got messed up trying to install bttf..
hypothetiically speaking,if i got mango working on another 8gb sd card and stick the 4gb in the phone will it recognise it? For me to activate storage unlock and will this recover my card?
Thanks

In my experience every time something is wrong with the card, the Mango will not boot beyond 'your card is not recognised' screen. So if you will install Mango with a different card and try to unlock the 4Gb one, you will not be able to. You need a card with original install on it in order to proceed, hence you will be able to unlock only the 8Gb card. I had the original install card gone off, so had it formatted in Nokia, but the phone refused to boot, even after the reset it requested. So my advise would be to format your 4Gb in a Nokia phone. I keep N95 just for that purpose.

Sd card wont show? Please help

when i installed the new windows 7.5 rom, it booted fine but it says a message that i cannot use this sdcard (emergency or turn off buttons are shown)
BUT NOW I CANNOT USE THIS SD AT ALL (WHEN I PUT IN SD READER OR MAGLDR NOTHING HAPPENS?????????????????????
PLEASE HELP

same problem

Searching the forum is the easiest way to find answers. Check this search link and you will find the information you need.

i rule123 said:
when i installed the new windows 7.5 rom, it booted fine but it says a message that i cannot use this sdcard (emergency or turn off buttons are shown)
BUT NOW I CANNOT USE THIS SD AT ALL (WHEN I PUT IN SD READER OR MAGLDR NOTHING HAPPENS?????????????????????
PLEASE HELP
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Windows Phone 7 formatted the SD cart as FAT16, MAGLDR can't read this format.
You can reformated with a SD card reader and a any partion manager program, format as FAT32 and MAGDLR will work.

Dokiropi said:
Windows Phone 7 formatted the SD cart as FAT16, MAGLDR can't read this format.
You can reformated with a SD card reader and a any partion manager program, format as FAT32 and MAGDLR will work.
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If they used the XBmod-Yuki 7720 ready ROM rather than HD2Owner's V1.20 WP7 Build 7720 [test ver. 1] their SD cards were formatted with Microsoft's WP7 proprietary SD format. This explains why their SD card readers could not recognize their cards. This by now is a well known issue, and therefore the search link I gave above may be quite useful.

I Had Same issue. just solved it now, i had to re-flash with the old rom with memory card inserted, installed DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab which unlockes your SD card again, unlocked my memory card, then switch off, put into USB flasher mode and reflash with 7720 image and now unlocked SD card, detects ok again now all working

got both my SD cards working now with 7720, had to update phone to 7392 first with one card before i could unlock it. the previous rom drivers were no good with some cards.
Couldnt use or detect the card with any partitioning or Formatting software until i unlocked it in Windows phone 7 with DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab
hope this helps some others?

[Q] Hot swapping SD cards?

Can you hot swap SD cards on an HD2 running WP7 and DEV_STORAGE.cab?
I have two HD2's.
One I had to send in to t-mobile, but I still have the locked SD card.
I tried.... and found out, that I can not boot my new HD2 with that locked SD card, so my question is can I swap them out after I'm booted into WP7 and then unlock the sd card via the DEV_STORAGE.cab?

you cant hot swap.... sd card is WP7 storage memory... if you want swap cards you must do hard reset....
for unlock card use DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab

dxdy said:
you cant hot swap.... sd card is WP7 storage memory... if you want swap cards you must do hard reset....
for unlock card use DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab
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Thanks.. that's what I was thinking.
So just to be clear, flashing a new ROM will reformat the SD card even if it's already locked by a different WP7 ROM?

[Q] How to unlock my memory card without WP7 and Nokia

Please help me. My HD2's digitalizer isn't working and I don't have Nokia phone. How can I unlock my memory card??? Sorry my bad English Please HELP

you want to re-use your SD card?
get mini partition tool
Code:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
plug your SD card to your PC run the software, delete both partitions then create a new one preferably FAT32/ Primary.
NOTE:
make sure your doing your SD Card & not your PC's HD's!!!
also disregard my post if this is not what you want coz WP7 won't boot after this procedure.

Because my pc doesn't identify my card.

that's caused by sd encryption.
The only way i found when sd is encrypted is us dev_storagelock.cab from xboxmod thread.
after you decrypt the sd your pc will recognize it...
this mean that you need to use wp7.
i'm loocking too for a solution without both...

did this software work?
I have a few microSD cards that are locked now and I can't use anywhere else.

flash Yuki ROM (BTTF) again if you flashed other, send "dev_storagelock.cab" to phone
with SDformatter format card (in option enable "format size adjustment")
P.S.
is important to read about ROM before flash... only Yuki ROM (BTTF) lock cards...