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[Q] Upgrading from 4gb sd to 8th sd?

So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.

Bambam01 said:
So all i want to do is take everything off my 4gb sd card and use an 8gb sd card so that I have more storage space. Everything works great as is, and I wanted to keep everything as is. Just need more storage space. I've looked through the forums and haven't found anything that addresses this process. I am running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 w/a 4gb sandisk micro sd card. How do I copy so that it boots just like my 4gb card???? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
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I recommend just writing an image file with winimage. Then writing it to a 8gb card, then using Easeus Partition manager to expand the last partition to full 8 gb.'

Do you boot from the SD card or eMMC?
If it's the latter, just copy the contents of the old card to the new one.
If it's the former, I recommend a fresh install; use a backup program (MyBackup, Titanium Backup) to back up your Apps and Data and then restore when you're done with the fresh install.

I'd like to do this as well.. in response to previous reply.. there are 4 partitions (boot, 2 other and last one with your data) do I have to create 4 different images with winimage or just for the first boot partition or does the winimage creates the image of the whole msd card?

The winimage will create a 4 gb image of your card on the 8 gb cards including existing partitions. What you'll need to do is get the largest partition to expand to the whole card. Assuming that the 4gb install on SD is the same as an 8 gb install if you did it fresh.
If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.

Phatdawg said:
If the partitions are set different for 8 gb on a fresh install, you're better off just doing a fresh install and use titanium backup as the other guy said.
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That's a good point, the Size-agnostic SD installer uses different partition sizes for everything except the boot partition depending on the size of the card.

I tried winimage first to see if it even worked. Which it didn't. I didn't try to expand the existing partition. It just booted as a normal nook. You would think this would be a easy process but.... Lol, always new challenges. Guess that's why I enjoy doing this.

Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!

Bambam01 said:
Well I tried yet again w image, expanded the partition. Still. Didn't work. I must be missing something. How hard can it be to make a copy of a bootable card? Must b brain dead today! Any other thoughts? Thanks!
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I have done this several times, and I recommend downloading easus todo backup free. Then place both sdcards in a card reader, run todo backup and just copy the 4g to the 8g and expand the fourth partition right there in todo.
This applies especially if you want to copy to same size sd's, as you will not run into the usual image sizing issues.
Hope this helps

I don't know what you're doing wrong. before expanding the partition, make sure the sd boots, if it doesn't, then there's a problem with image being read or written as opposed to the partition.

I also had a problem with a new SD card not booting that I fixed by using the nook (that is the core nook OS) to reformat the card, then put the image onto the SDcard (shouldn't have changed anything as far as I know, but it did anyway).

Ok I tried this and it worked flawlessly. Used win32diskimager to "read" my 4gb sd with cm7 image. and then used "write" to 8gb sd card. It cloned 4 gb original image with 4 partitions and one unused partition of 4 gb. After that used easeus partition manager(latest version) to format unused pattition to fat32 and then merged with last partition of 2gb (move/resize) ..so now I have 6 gb of data partition which i can use to transfer files or move apps from nook's internal drive. The new 8gb card with cm7 image booted without any issues keeping my original settings of 4gb. One thing to mention that somehow it did not work on one pc with windows xp (kept getting write error on win32diskimager program)but worked on my laptop with windows 7.

That is exactly how I have done it in the past as I described in my first post. I don't know why a person would have trouble with it unless there was a format issue (i.e. ntsf, etc).

[Q] Creating bootable SD card size issue

Hi all,
It seems that I'm having a bit trouble with writing the image to my SD card. I'm using a 16GB currently with Honeycomb on it, but after the image finished writing, my card size is reduced to 105MB free out of 150MBish. I tried to get the CM7 boot to work on a 2GB card, after the "generic" img finished writing on the card, it gets the same free 105MB, and I can't copy the CM7 files onto the card because those files are 115MB total.
I tried partitioning the card but it's still the same, and the computer isn't able to see the second partition that's not the main one. Is anyone having this issue and/or know how I can fix it? Much appreciated.
Cheers,

kzn said:
Hi all,
It seems that I'm having a bit trouble with writing the image to my SD card. I'm using a 16GB currently with Honeycomb on it, but after the image finished writing, my card size is reduced to 105MB free out of 150MBish. I tried to get the CM7 boot to work on a 2GB card, after the "generic" img finished writing on the card, it gets the same free 105MB, and I can't copy the CM7 files onto the card because those files are 115MB total.
I tried partitioning the card but it's still the same, and the computer isn't able to see the second partition that's not the main one. Is anyone having this issue and/or know how I can fix it? Much appreciated.
Cheers,
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Very much a known issue... to work around this:
1. Write the image to SD
2. Resize boot partition (only one on it so far) to anything up to 2 GB.. I recommend keeping it less than 2 GB for compatability
3. Put your ROM on the boot partition
4. Put SD in nook and boot it up

Hey thanks!
So for some reason I was able to follow this post and root my Nook http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/231002060
I used the 2GB card again and this time after writing the image to it I still have 1.75ishGB left and the file didn't take up the whole card like it did previously. Was able to boot up CWM and flash CM7.
But I'm running into another problem, which is my 16GB card, no matter how I format it, the Nook would not recognize that it's mounted. And when it does show up in the system, it only sees about 1.5GB, and the card is completely empty. I'm really stuck here, is this another known problem?

But I'm running into another problem, which is my 16GB card, no matter how I format it, the Nook would not recognize that it's mounted. And when it does show up in the system, it only sees about 1.5GB, and the card is completely empty. I'm really stuck here, is this another known problem?
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What are you using to format it? What format, FAT32? What was on it before? What shows up when in a reader on your PC?

I used EASEUS and also just window to format the card. It's in FAT32 and my PC sees it as a removable storage device just fine, all 14.5GB of it.

LOL
Honestly, the OP does drive me nut
I want to help but I can't follow what he said.
16GB SD, 2GB SD, what?
If you, OP, still need help, then pls clearly indicate what your problem is and what you intend to accomplish.

kzn said:
I used EASEUS and also just window to format the card. It's in FAT32 and my PC sees it as a removable storage device just fine, all 14.5GB of it.
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EASEUS does help a lot (ext4) but I would then suggest never using Windows to format a uSD. This works much better IMO to get a good format.

[Q] transferring sd cards

without re installing cyanogenmod on the usd, is there a way to move all partitions from a 2gb to a 16 gb micro

YoshiFan501 said:
without re installing cyanogenmod on the usd, is there a way to move all partitions from a 2gb to a 16 gb micro
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I assume you have CM installed on SD. You can use win32diskimager to write an image file of the SD to your PC. Then put your new SD in and write the image to it. It will still only be 2GB on the card, but you can use Mini-Tool Partition Manager (free on web) to fix that. First I would move partition 4 a little to the right so that you can expand partition 3. On a 2GB SD, verygreen made partition 3 only 612MB and it really needs to be larger. 1 or 2 GB. Then expand partition 4 to fill the rest of card.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

YoshiFan501 said:
without re installing cyanogenmod on the usd, is there a way to move all partitions from a 2gb to a 16 gb micro
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Get a copy of Easeus ToDo Backup Free. It will allow you to clone the 2gb onto the 16 gb sd and use all the available space in one step.

Not to thread jack but,
I am having trouble doing this exact thing too. I used winimage to "read" my working sd card. Then put my new 16gb sd card into my usb adapter and "write" the boot.ima image to the new card. Both reading and writing take about 5 seconds.
When I put the new card into my nook, the nook just boots into stock.

donniebball23 said:
Not to thread jack but,
I am having trouble doing this exact thing too. I used winimage to "read" my working sd card. Then put my new 16gb sd card into my usb adapter and "write" the boot.ima image to the new card. Both reading and writing take about 5 seconds.
When I put the new card into my nook, the nook just boots into stock.
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Don't use winimage. I have found it troublesome. It should take much longer than 5 seconds. Use win32diskimager.

leapinlar said:
Don't use winimage. I have found it troublesome. It should take much longer than 5 seconds. Use win32diskimager.
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Thanks, tried win32 and it worked. I knew there was something wrong when it only took 5 seconds to write the image.

[Q] Restoring CM7 image on SD Card Problem

I installed CM7 on a 16GB SD card for my Nook Color about a year ago and it has been working fine since then with no problems. I've been doing regular image backups of the SD card using Win32DiskImager. I recently had problems with an app update so decided to try and do an image restore of a recent backup. I get error messages from Win32DiskImager that there's not enough room on the SD card. I've tried reformatting/repartitioning the SD card using various tools (Windows format, Nook SD card format, EaseUS, SDFormatter, etc.) but haven't been able to get the full disk space back. The message I get from Win32DiskImager is: " Not enough space on disk: Size 30390270 sectors, available 30248960 sectors." This was the original SD card that had the CM image on it. Any ideas? Thanks!

zinger14 said:
I installed CM7 on a 16GB SD card for my Nook Color about a year ago and it has been working fine since then with no problems. I've been doing regular image backups of the SD card using Win32DiskImager. I recently had problems with an app update so decided to try and do an image restore of a recent backup. I get error messages from Win32DiskImager that there's not enough room on the SD card. I've tried reformatting/repartitioning the SD card using various tools (Windows format, Nook SD card format, EaseUS, SDFormatter, etc.) but haven't been able to get the full disk space back. The message I get from Win32DiskImager is: " Not enough space on disk: Size 30390270 sectors, available 30248960 sectors." This was the original SD card that had the CM image on it. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Try burning the SD image file again and before rebooting, try doing the restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.

leapinlar said:
Try burning the SD image file again and before rebooting, try doing the restore.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
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Thanks but I think I've figured out what the problem is. I have two 16gb sd cards but each is from a different vendor. Apparently each card has a slightly different storage capacity (~70M) so the image created from the card with the larger capacity won't fit on the sd card with the lower capacity. Does anyone know if there is a safe way to shrink the partition size on the sd card that currently has CM7 installed without losing the data? I could easily get by with 4gb instead of the current 16gb. I'd like to be able to use both sd cards using the same image.

Use minitools partition manager and shrink partition 4... as long as there's enough free space... nothing is lost.

DizzyDen said:
Use minitools partition manager and shrink partition 4... as long as there's enough free space... nothing is lost.
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I was able to change the size of partition 4 but it just move it to unallocated space and kept the total memory of the sd card the same. Sounds like I would need to reformat the sd card to change the overall size.
I ended up using an imaging program called usbit. It has an option when restoring an image to truncate oversize images. It does warn that there is a chance of data loss when doing this but I tried it and it seemed to work without any problems. I was able to restore the images that I had created with Win32DiskImager with this tool. Another good feature with this tool is that it can also compresses the image files that are created with it.

File size on SD card

I got a SD card that I've formatted in my phone but I just tried to copy a movie (a copy of a Blueray I own) of around 6GB to the card but it fails. I then removed the SD card and inserted it into my Windows 10 computer and tried again after which I'm told the file is too big for the file system on the card. There is plenty of free space on the SD card.
Isn't it possible to have large movie files on the SD card? If it is: What is the trick?

Which file system has the SD been formatted with? See the SD Properties in Windows.

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Which file system has the SD been formatted with? See the SD Properties in Windows.
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The phone always formats to FAT32 - and if I format to NTFS the phone complains that the SD card is damaged and has to be formatted. It can't even read the NTFS formatted card.

FAT32 is limited to 4GB max file size.
You must format the SD card with exFAT, which also Windows reads/formats perfectly.

themissionimpossible said:
FAT32 is limited to 4GB max file size.
You must format the SD card with exFAT, which also Windows reads/formats perfectly.
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Do you know if the S7 Edge can work with exFAT or ?

Yes, of course, I use an exFAT formatted 64 GB SD card in my S7E...

Great - I'll format my card right away then! Thanks