[Q] Nook wont recognize my SD card - Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a 16GB SD card that I am trying to use in my Nook and for some reason when I go to storage the card is not showing up. When I reboot the Nook I see the SD card come up in the bottom left hand corner for a second and then it is gone. Does it need to be formatted to work in the Nook?

The question implies that the card is not formatted. Yes. It needs to be formatted to work at all. What brand is it?

The card is a Sandisk, should I format it with any certain format? If I put the card in my computer I can put stuff in it no problem but the Nook is not seeing it for some reason.

Raydee35 said:
The card is a Sandisk, should I format it with any certain format? If I put the card in my computer I can put stuff in it no problem but the Nook is not seeing it for some reason.
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You were the one asking about your SD installed system and having problems and wanted to upgrade to a sandisk. So now you have your new card and you are having problems. You need to tell us more about what you are trying to do. Are you having trouble after you have burned a new SD image to it, or are you having trouble seeing the virgin card when booting to whatever system you have on emmc? Which is what system by the way? Stock or CM or something else?
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Ok I originally put CM7 on a older 16gb SD card so I could boot from the card but I found the performance to be slow. I then decided to wipe the Nook and start over but this time I installed CM7 right to the Nook instead of on the SD card. So now CM7 is running on my Nook as the only ROM. I then took that original 16gb card and wiped and formatted it so it was blank and decided to use it for extra storage on the Nook. The problem I am having is the Nook cannot read the card. When I put the card in my computer it shows it as a blank removable drive so I am a little stumped as to why the Nook won't read it.

Raydee35 said:
Ok I originally put CM7 on a older 16gb SD card so I could boot from the card but I found the performance to be slow. I then decided to wipe the Nook and start over but this time I installed CM7 right to the Nook instead of on the SD card. So now CM7 is running on my Nook as the only ROM. I then took that original 16gb card and wiped and formatted it so it was blank and decided to use it for extra storage on the Nook. The problem I am having is the Nook cannot read the card. When I put the card in my computer it shows it as a blank removable drive so I am a little stumped as to why the Nook won't read it.
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And you wiped and formatted with your PC which is running Windows? Which version?
You really should format it with the Nook, but if it is not seeing the card, I'm not sure it can do it. Go to storage and see if you can. If not try formatting on your PC with a card formatting program (from sandisk which I think you can get on the web) or another PC.
Since your original card was already sandisk and you were having trouble running the SD install on it, I suspect something is wrong with it. It may be defective. But maybe the formatting software from sandisk can revive it.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

I assume the nook is finding the card, since it looks like the mounting notification occurs. What does it say in the storage settings exactly? No sdcard or the wrong storage space?
If the sdcard install was working, even if you found it slow, then mounting the card doesn't sound like the issue.You can format the card in CWM if you believe that the formatting is wrong.
If it says the wrong amount of storage, you may have checked the swap emmc/sdcard option.

Did you format the card as FAT32 or ntfs? It needs to be FAT32.

leapinlar said:
And you wiped and formatted with your PC which is running Windows? Which version?
I am using Windows 7 64bit home edition
You really should format it with the Nook, but if it is not seeing the card, I'm not sure it can do it. Go to storage and see if you can. If not try formatting on your PC with a card formatting program (from sandisk which I think you can get on the web) or another PC.
I will try that and see what happens.
Since your original card was already sandisk and you were having trouble running the SD install on it, I suspect something is wrong with it. It may be defective. But maybe the formatting software from sandisk can revive it.
I have a smaller 2gb card that I am going to try also.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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mateorod said:
I assume the nook is finding the card, since it looks like the mounting notification occurs. What does it say in the storage settings exactly? No sdcard or the wrong storage space?
It says Unavailable.
If the sdcard install was working, even if you found it slow, then mounting the card doesn't sound like the issue.You can format the card in CWM if you believe that the formatting is wrong.
If it says the wrong amount of storage, you may have checked the swap emmc/sdcard option.
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MISRy said:
Did you format the card as FAT32 or ntfs? It needs to be FAT32.
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I formatted the card using FAT32.

When you insert the uSD in the PC, how much of storage does PC recognize? all 16GB?
Either way, try to format it with MiniTool Wizard

Ok It looks like it is only showing 14.9GB. I tried formatting it in Mini Tool and this is what I have after.
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Raydee35 said:
Ok It looks like it is only showing 14.9GB. I tried formatting it in Mini Tool and this is what I have after.
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Try deleting the partition and creating a new fat32 partition using the whole SD.
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What does the android settings/storage say when you put in the sdcard? You said it doesn't recognize it, but it sounds like it is mounting.

leapinlar said:
Try deleting the partition and creating a new fat32 partition using the whole SD.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
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I just remembered some problems I was having a while back trying to make a larger boot image for the agnostic SD installer. If the partition image was not just right the nook would not see it. It has to do with how the Master Boot Record (MBR) was written to the card. I think if you restart with mini-tool and create a whole new partition, it may revive the card. That empty space before the partition looks fishy to me.
Sent from my Nook Color using ICS and Tapatalk

Also... if you're using a computer's internal card reader it may cause you problems... try an el cheapo USB card reader/writer.

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SD Card Issues in Froyo

I've been having an issue where on roms running Froyo I can't get them to recognize my SD Card. It works fine and I can use them via recovery but once I boot the phone it doesn't see them at all for some reason. I've tried with a 16gb card from a droid and also an 8gb Sandisk I bought for my PSP. I've tried reformatting them via PC and using it, and I've tried reformatting them in the recovery screen on the phone but neither helped. It doesn't say "Blank SD Card" or anything when I put them in just nothing, but when I remove them it tells me the SD Card was removed and to insert one. So far it's happened on both Skyraider and CM6. Any advice would be appreciated.
Yesterday's news. It's why I don't use Froyo ROMs on a daily basis yet.
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My sd cards work flawlessly on skyraider and CM6. Make sure you are formatted to fat32.
I was having a problem as well. I think the issue is if your sd card is partitioned. My sd card was partitioned with ext 4 from my g1 days. i just reformatted the card to fat32 and i have not had a problem again.
xray49er said:
I was having a problem as well. I think the issue is if your sd card is partitioned. My sd card was partitioned with ext 4 from my g1 days. i just reformatted the card to fat32 and i have not had a problem again.
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It's only got got the one partition. Reformatting was tried multiple times as was multiple cards and none of the above worked.
baram said:
It's only got got the one partition. Reformatting was tried multiple times as was multiple cards and none of the above worked.
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Did you try formating the card using the phone option. In menu>settings>sd phone card storage. there is an option to format the sd card. In skyraiders rom my sd card showed up as blank and i just hit the fromat sd card. it took like 15 seconds and now my card is working.
xray49er said:
Did you try formating the card using the phone option. In menu>settings>sd phone card storage. there is an option to format the sd card. In skyraiders rom my sd card showed up as blank and i just hit the fromat sd card. it took like 15 seconds and now my card is working.
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It doesn't recognize the card as inserted at all. Everything in there is grayed out. The only place it recognizes it is in the recovery where both cards I've used work 100% fine, but in Froyo roms they don't work at all. Both formatted via CWM Recovery, two different brands, two different sizes, they work fine on Stock and 2.1 roms.
e: it technically knows there's an sdcard in the slot because if I eject them I get a message about it, but they don't mount at all when inserted, no option to connect to pc via disk drive, and everything sdcard related is grayed out. and again this is only in the booted phone and recovery works 100% as intended
Apparently it's a deeper issue somewhere. My phone's internal memory isn't getting mounted for some reason in Froyo too. Did data+cache wipe before flashing Skyraider 1.7 --> 1.9 update and adb shell df had this to say:
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so froyo isn't recognizing my external OR internal memory. what the ****?
Any more ideas as to what might be causing this issue? I finally decided to try out CM6 test 8 due to the now working camera and am also having issues with the SD card. It is formatted Fat32, one partition, works fine in Jagr and non 2.2 roms just fine, also in recovery. I also do not have the option to format with the phone, it's as if it's not even inserted when it actually is.
Same on HTC Tattoo with SP-FroYo v1.3.1
Any help is appreciated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754929

** [GUIDE] How to format SD-Card to EXT 3 **

I have noticed that some people have problems with EXT3 formatting.
So I've put together a small HowTo guide!
In this case it's a 1gb (1024MB) partition, but simply change it to 512MB if desired.
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1. Start downloading MiniTool Partition Wizard here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10479085&postcount=82
or here
[RS] http://rapidshare.com/files/442996416/pwhe52.rar
and install it.
2. Best thing is to start up with a fresh format of your SD-card to FAT32 (MUST be primary partition)
- Start MiniTool Partition
- Find your SD card partition and rightclick it.
- Select Move/Resize
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3. Pull back the bar untill you reach 1024MB. Or simply type it in, down at the bottom
4. Rightclick the unallocated partition and select Create.
- You will get a warning. Press YES to continue
5. VERY IMPORTANT: Select Primary and EXT3
6. Rightclick the ext3 partition and select Format.
- Set File System as Ext3
- Set Cluster Size to 4KB
7. Now press Apply and confirm with YES
The changes will be applied, and you are ready to go!
- Just to point out: BOTH partitions (FAT32 & Ext3) has to be set to Primary!!
Hope this guide was usefull..
PoingDK
Hey, Thanks for this guide. I followed all the steps but after booting the phone is says sd card is damaged. Did I do something wrong?
meaxx88 said:
Hey, Thanks for this guide. I followed all the steps but after booting the phone is says sd card is damaged. Did I do something wrong?
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If you followed the guide everything should work!
Maybe the SD-card really is damaged ?
Have you tried formatting it with Panasonic SD Formatter ?
Take a look here:
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter20.html
my 4gb class 2 sd card is broken too i tried with phone mass storage,mgldr massstorage and cardreader,but its really broken.
i bought a 8gb class 4 sd card and had problems, tried around the solution was i forgot step 6, format ext3 partion again seems to be important
I got this message: Failed to apply of pending changes operations abort.
mgarciar said:
I got this message: Failed to apply of pending changes operations abort.
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Hmm, haven't seen that before!
Did you format the card to FAT32 first?
poingdk said:
Hmm, haven't seen that before!
Did you format the card to FAT32 first?
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yes, I get that too.. On every program around the globe.
I tried everything, all formats, all programs say the same; they can't devide my SD into partitions.
Same problem here. I format my SD-card in mass storage modus on another phone(my dad's) Windows recognizes it, and after making ext3 partition it doesn't. I tried also every program and it never works.
Either I have internal storage and no SD-card memory, or nothing at all.
I'm really getting annoyed by this stupid Ext3.
EDIT: OKAY GUYS! VERY IMPORTANT! Do everything this man says, but also:
FAT32 MUST BE PRIMARY TOO! It worked for me. First remove everything and only make a FAT32 primary partition, then do everything he tells you.
Done so far. But how do I get things copied to that partition if I can't see it?
Sloeber94 said:
Same problem here. I format my SD-card in mass storage modus on another phone(my dad's) Windows recognizes it, and after making ext3 partition it doesn't. I tried also every program and it never works.
Either I have internal storage and no SD-card memory, or nothing at all.
I'm really getting annoyed by this stupid Ext3.
EDIT: OKAY GUSY! VERY IMPORTANT! Do everything this man says, but also:
FAT32 MUST BE PRIMARY TOO! It worked for me. First remove everything and only make a FAT32 primary partition, then do everything he tells you.
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Yep both partitions have to be primary!
I have added info to the Guide!!
no memory
I HAVE a 32gb kingston sd card and i have been repeating this process over and over and over and over again for almost a week.
Even if I set the partition to 1gb when i turn on the phone there is no memory; why doest the phone detect EXT3 as internal memory????....
gothikserpent said:
I HAVE a 32gb kingston sd card and i have been repeating this process over and over and over and over again for almost a week.
Even if I set the partition to 1gb when i turn on the phone there is no memory; why doest the phone detect EXT3 as internal memory????....
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Do everything in the tutorial but first:
Format your whole SD-card as a FAT32 partition in PRIMARY!
Then resize etc. to ext3 partition, also primary. Then it should work.
Thanks button if it helped you out!
Thanks for the suggestions but I figured out the issue but don't know how to solve it ,whenever I create the ext 3 portion and I formAt and save,the partition turns to "other" and Not ext3.
it works with my 8 gb but not the 32gb Kingston ,How can I fix this
Thank u
omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore
HectiQ said:
omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore
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Have you tried PANASONIC SD formatter ?
HectiQ said:
omg I tried another time and now my pc doesn't even recognise my card anymore
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I have this problem too. My card is death. Do you have any why try to help me to repair my card if have chance
Everytime this freaking tool, just makes my SD dead, even thouh it says successful when I partition everthing is ok. and then I reinsert the card and gone. Only way I managed to fix this is by using Clockwork Mod and going to Partition SD Card to show it back up again for me to use.
I tried at least 10 times same result.
useless.
I fix my sd card I just install Custom WM(Energy) and My phone detect the card. This method is only wich work for me. Sorry for my perfect English
hey iv got a problem in the finaly ext3 we just do finalization minitool partition (Apply) displayed error
failed to execute the following command
Resize Partition DiskIndex:1 New startingLba:32130
Error code :16
Disk I/Oerror.
please hepl
Thank you guy, thank you for the guide. Everything worked fine for me
But one noob question i have got, how is it possible after partitioning to format the complete sd from windows7 without "seeing" the partition only the Fat32... But what about the rest (ext3).. or will it be formatted automatically?
Help would be great thanks!

I can't access my SD card

Hi,I can't access my SD card when I in android platform.
I must enter MAGLDR for this and choose USB Mass Storage.
How do I fix it?
Thanks.
in android go to settings --> Storage and click on mount SD card ...
then connect your device to the pc
and click on the notifications and choose usb connected then click on turn on usb storage ...
I did it.
No help.
I try two ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050645
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908528
anyone?
so you plug in the device what thecomes up? you should get a prompy to use what usb mode
you did format your sd card as fat32 for one of the partitions, right man ?
yep.I format my sd card as fat32 and 1GB ext3...
make sure Both partitions are primary. not logical.
Test another SD card
Did you test with another SD card?
I already heard some incompatibilties with some cards.
But if you SD card worked with previous version, it should not be the problem.
Dr.Move said:
make sure Both partitions are primary. not logical.
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yep.they are both are primary.
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mariegalante55 said:
Did you test with another SD card?
I already heard some incompatibilties with some cards.
But if you SD card worked with previous version, it should not be the problem.
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yep,but still I can't access my SD card when I in android platform.
How do I solve this issue?
Thanks.
If you really need that unallocated space, move it to the end of the disk. that means having FAT32 as first partition. EXT3 as second, and the unallocated space as third partition.
I'd recommend formatting using SD formatter, repartitioning it like I said then try it again. but repartitioning without format might work.
I don't need that unallocated space,I don't created it.
How do I move and arrange these partitions?
Do you recommended this app:https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/support/jp/sd/sdfv2003.exe
?
Thanks.
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
I think they're the same though
it's made partially by panasonic I think.
You can't access it as in connect to your computer or while using your phone? Because any file manager will be able to access the SD files. If its not connecting it's probably the rom
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^ some ROMs can't access the card unless it has a FAT32 partition that is first and primary.
Now I can't access the SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR...
I think that this app MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition had ruined the USB access in my phone.
Because after the first time I partition my SD card through this app.
I won't be able to access my SD card when I'm in android platform.
Yesterday I re-partition my SD card through that app and now I can't access
my SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR.
When I'm in android platform and connect my phone to pc,I get the message of USB Storage in my phone.I turn it ON.
But the response in my computer is that my android phone cannot start. (Code 10)
I see this message in Devices and Printers .
When I'm in MAGLDR(choose 4.USB MasssStg) and connect my phone to pc.
I get the same message...
How can I solve this issue?
Thanks.
any response?
ayosopov said:
any response?
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I had a problem like this when I had corrupt drivers
How do I fix my drivers?
if you have an external card reader use it.
MiniTool is good, I used it before a lot.
1-use an external card reader,
2-backup your data if you can access your SD, if not, try to back your data up using minitool.
3-try to expand the FAT32 partition over that unallocated space using minitool, 4-try the card again on your phone, if it works you're all set, but formatting and repartitioning is still better
ayosopov said:
Now I can't access the SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR...
I think that this app MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition had ruined the USB access in my phone.
Because after the first time I partition my SD card through this app.
I won't be able to access my SD card when I'm in android platform.
Yesterday I re-partition my SD card through that app and now I can't access
my SD card also when I'm in MAGLDR.
When I'm in android platform and connect my phone to pc,I get the message of USB Storage in my phone.I turn it ON.
But the response in my computer is that my android phone cannot start. (Code 10)
I see this message in Devices and Printers .
When I'm in MAGLDR(choose 4.USB MasssStg) and connect my phone to pc.
I get the same message...
How can I solve this issue?
Thanks.
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Dr.Move said:
if you have an external card reader use it.
MiniTool is good, I used it before a lot.
1-use an external card reader,
2-backup your data if you can access your SD, if not, try to back your data up using minitool.
3-try to expand the FAT32 partition over that unallocated space using minitool, 4-try the card again on your phone, if it works you're all set, but formatting and repartitioning is still better
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I don't think that this SD problem,I used another SD card and same problem.
I posted in my previous post that I used minitool and I think this app harmed my phone.
Any help?

SanDisk 64gb not recognized

Hi all,
I ve read that the microsd SanDisk 64gb is working on the note
Unfortunately it's not for me.. Card is not mounting
I am under ics stuner 4.2
Any ideas?
Regards
Harlock
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
Format it in fat 32, when you buy it is formatted in exfat, and you don't have the kernel driver for it.
Ernesto de Bernardis
[from my Galaxy Note]
Good luck trying to format it to FAT32.
It doesn't work for me, on Win7 Prof. x64 with different programs and an SDXC-compatible USB-reader.
My SanDisk 64 GB mSDXC card was DOA (dead on arrival).
The replacement mSDXC was directly detected in my Note and ready to use after a very short formatting (less than 10 sec.).
So, if you can't read your card on the PC, it's maybe flawed.
Regards
debernardis said:
Format it in fat 32, when you buy it is formatted in exfat, and you don't have the kernel driver for it.
Ernesto de Bernardis
[from my Galaxy Note]
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Sandisk 64gb Working
Hi Guys
I have just put in my Sandisk 64gb micro sd xc1 card into my Note.
In settings go to STORAGE. My new card was not showing.
While still in STOREAGE press; Format SD Card.
Once the phone has done this the card shows up. Well it has on mine.
just copied everything on to new card from the original 32 gb card and everythings fine. Just loads more roooooooooommmmm!!!!
Try above.
Do as the friend above suggests. I also have it and it works great!
thor2001 said:
Good luck trying to format it to FAT32.
It doesn't work for me, on Win7 Prof. x64 with different programs and an SDXC-compatible USB-reader.
My SanDisk 64 GB mSDXC card was DOA (dead on arrival).
The replacement mSDXC was directly detected in my Note and ready to use after a very short formatting (less than 10 sec.).
So, if you can't read your card on the PC, it's maybe flawed.
Regards
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Sucks to be you I guess. Formatted mine fine on windows and Mac
Op like others said format fat32 and enjoy .
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http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/
that program will let you format fat32 in windows with sizes larger than 32gb
Klimt01 said:
Hi Guys
I have just put in my Sandisk 64gb micro sd xc1 card into my Note.
In settings go to STORAGE. My new card was not showing.
While still in STOREAGE press; Format SD Card.
Once the phone has done this the card shows up. Well it has on mine.
just copied everything on to new card from the original 32 gb card and everythings fine. Just loads more roooooooooommmmm!!!!
Try above.
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That's what I had to do too. It formats to Ext3/4 though so I can't plug the card straight into my Windows PC - I have to mount the phone instead which is a pain and massively slow to transfer files by comparison. I'm tempted to install Linux for the convenience of directly inserting the card into the PC for Tx speed!
emuX said:
That's what I had to do too. It formats to Ext3/4 though so I can't plug the card straight into my Windows PC - I have to mount the phone instead which is a pain and massively slow to transfer files by comparison. I'm tempted to install Linux for the convenience of directly inserting the card into the PC for Tx speed!
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I didn't know that. Bit surprised, but the days of me ripping off the back cover to take out a fiddly micro SD card a long over. Plug it in, mount, start copying and do something else!
Hi,
I have tried that Fat32formatter on mine.
I was able to delete the NTFS partition. When I then initiated the 64gb card it looked set to go.
I then clicked on format and got the message that it could not do it....
Dodgy card?
Anybody else have any pointers here.
emuX said:
It formats to Ext3/4 though so I can't plug the card straight into my Windows PC
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Try this advice on mounting EXT filesystems on Windows
marcyspark said:
Hi,
I have tried that Fat32formatter on mine.
I was able to delete the NTFS partition. When I then initiated the 64gb card it looked set to go.
I then clicked on format and got the message that it could not do it....
Dodgy card?
Anybody else have any pointers here.
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I fixed my problem! I plugged it into my MacBook Pro and within minutes problem solved.
Carried out a read and write test using SD tools. Fab!
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Now I'm gonna try and format ext3 or ext4. I'll check back shortly.
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Right then - I am using Mint Linux via VMware on my mac. I successfully formatted to ext3 but the Note would not recognise it.
The same occurred with ext4.
From what I can gather ext3 is not supported by the kernel. Is ext4? and if so, can the SD Card be set up with ext4?
The speed gains are apparently huge when compared to FAT.
It has to be fat32 to work why just use it
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DOGSofDOOM said:
It has to be fat32 to work why just use it
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Well , just for efficiency and speed - and to try to demonstrate the difference between fat32 and ext4 I guess.
ext4 is greatly superior to fat32 in every way. Fat32 is exactly that.... "Fat" and getting on a bit (although 32 is not that old really)
But thank you for your input, of course. If I find a way of getting ext3 or 4 working, I'll let ya know.
B.R.
Lol! Am just in the same atm...
Windows doesn't format it, insists in extFAT.
Linux only wants to format 32GB.
Note formats it flawlessly in a few seconds
However:
I do have a hard time copying files over... last I tried (with the card plugged in on an usb adaptor to the pc) it copied until reaching the last 16GB, then it failed. So far so good. The card showed 16GB available, but couldn't put anything on it anymore.
Thus I went and deleted everything (yes, hidden files, too). And guess what? It still showed 16GB used...
This thing is weird... Doing a final try now, with the card in the phone, mounted on the pc, copying over... I'll report back in a few hours, ugh...
pb1379 said:
Lol! Am just in the same atm...
Windows doesn't format it, insists in extFAT.
Linux only wants to format 32GB.
Note formats it flawlessly in a few seconds
However:
I do have a hard time copying files over... last I tried (with the card plugged in on an usb adaptor to the pc) it copied until reaching the last 16GB, then it failed. So far so good. The card showed 16GB available, but couldn't put anything on it anymore.
Thus I went and deleted everything (yes, hidden files, too). And guess what? It still showed 16GB used...
This thing is weird... Doing a final try now, with the card in the phone, mounted on the pc, copying over... I'll report back in a few hours, ugh...
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You might want to try disktool in linux - it worked first time on mine when I deleted all of the partition tables etc. It then set the partition table as fat32 LBA (I used to know what logical block addressing was about) as I think that LBA overcomes the 32gig limit.
The alternative is that perhaps you have a 32gig rebadged and set up to give the appearance of a 64? It used to happen when the 32gigs were expensive... lots of fakers out there.
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Try this advice on mounting EXT filesystems on Windows
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Thanks, but although that works well with ext3 they suggest you only mount as read only on ext4, and having finally got 50GB+ on my card I don't fancy corrupting it all!
marcyspark said:
Hi,
I have tried that Fat32formatter on mine.
I was able to delete the NTFS partition. When I then initiated the 64gb card it looked set to go.
I then clicked on format and got the message that it could not do it....
Dodgy card?
Anybody else have any pointers here.
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Don't know what version of Fat32Fmt you have but the older ones only used to work if you mounted the card/HDD to F:\.
Even then it only worked up to the normal Fat32 32GB limit on the drives I have managed to format (even though they 'appeared' to format to 250GB, etc correctly)
Your best bet is to see if there are custom format tools on the Sandisk website. I've been meaning to but haven't got around to it.
hey guys
is this right what im reading here???, im confused because the specs say the note can handle 32gig max, is 64 gig deffo working and if so, can someone advice me if it has to be a certain class or type, this is really good news.

I have some Questions about SD Card partitioning

Im going to partition my SD Card sometime in the future, But im a complete noob when it comes to it so i have some questions about it. Ill just write them down and hopefully you can help me with it thanks! Btw, please don't gouge your eyes out when you see these questions.
1) What software should i use to partition my SD Card? I flashed CWM onto my Droid Razr M and i tried making a partition through ROM manager but no luck.
2) What is an Ext. Size? i have 128mb, 256mb, and 512mb on ROM manager but i know if you partition your SD card through CWM it is higher, the highest being like 4000MB.
3)My SD card is 16 GB will this affect anything?
4) Just to clarify, to partition it means that my SD card will become my "internal" storage. Doing this whenever i download a game it will go straight to my SD card and that way i will have free space on the real internal space.
Well those are just my questions feel free to leave answers, and please don't kill yourself due to my stupidity Thanks!
BioSpectre said:
Im going to partition my SD Card sometime in the future, But im a complete noob when it comes to it so i have some questions about it. Ill just write them down and hopefully you can help me with it thanks! Btw, please don't gouge your eyes out when you see these questions.
1) What software should i use to partition my SD Card? I flashed CWM onto my Droid Razr M and i tried making a partition through ROM manager but no luck.
2) What is an Ext. Size? i have 128mb, 256mb, and 512mb on ROM manager but i know if you partition your SD card through CWM it is higher, the highest being like 4000MB.
3)My SD card is 16 GB will this affect anything?
4) Just to clarify, to partition it means that my SD card will become my "internal" storage. Doing this whenever i download a game it will go straight to my SD card and that way i will have free space on the real internal space.
Well those are just my questions feel free to leave answers, and please don't kill yourself due to my stupidity Thanks!
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1) just google partition software there are tons of free ones, i personally like partition wizard
2) i would assume its asking how big u want the partition, but i have never used cwm to partition an sd card
3) no the bigger the better
4) no partitioning means you are splitting it into 2 or more different sizes. example - you have a 300gb hdd but you have it partitioned to a 200gb partition and a 100gb partition its one hard drive but when u look at in windows it shows up as 2 drives so you would see drive C 200gb and drive D 100gb. the partitioning in cwm is for app2sd if i remember correctly.
Uh so im still kinda lost on my 4th questions since you were talking about computers but i sorta get it . So does my SD Card represent the C Drive, and my Internal storage represents the D Drive?
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Uh so im still kinda lost on my 4th questions since you were talking about computers but i sorta get it . So does my SD Card represent the C Drive, and my Internal storage represents the D Drive?
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no
both c and d drive represent the same hard drive so the would both be you external sd card
i was using computers as an example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning give that a read.
look at this picture, look at disc 2. see how it is split into 4? each one of those is a partition its still the same single hard drive but if you look at it in my computer you will see 4 different drives c,d,e,z in the case of this picture.
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OH . I think i sorta get it now . All your doing is just making multiples in your SD Card? And im also looking at this guide which i might use and i sorta understand it a bit more. But just one more question to clarify. When you partition, What exactly is the use of the split partitions? Just to store whatever you download?
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OH . I think i sorta get it now . All your doing is just making multiples in your SD Card? And im also looking at this guide which i might use and i sorta understand it a bit more. But just one more question to clarify. When you partition, What exactly is the use of the split partitions? Just to store whatever you download?
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The partitioning is different from the native sd problem of the razr m.
The M emulates the internal SD card. So swaps done on the older razrs will not work on ours. But I am just learning. This TWRP backup "rom" has a swap integrated I am trying it out. Let me Know if it works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2246081
So SWAP is what switches the Internal storage with the SD Card? Because what you just said kinda confused me lol
I followed the guide in this Link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2126363
I successfully partitioned my SD card. (My Ext 3 has 3.48 Gb and my Fat32 has 11 GB)
But link2sd is not compatible with my Droid Razr M. Any Other solutions?

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