hey people
ive run into a bit of a problem i removed my 8gb microsd card from my htc magic and formatted it to fat32 and also have created a fat 32 partition on it named EXT2, now heres where the issue arrises i place it back into the phone and swicth it on plug it into the usb on my vista laptop and mount the card through the phones options but it doesnt show up in the windows explorer so i can transfer anything to it? however if i put it in an adaptor and run windows explorer it sees it no probs, any ideas how to get the remount working!!!!
also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue
stevetigersix said:
also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue
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Your problem here is you don't understand the difference between FAT32 and EXT2 file systems. Google is your friend...do some reading. Your Windows won't be able to read an EXT2 partition without some specialist software. A Linux PC will be able to read both.
Creating a FAT32 partition and naming EXT2 is not an EXT2 partition. I'd suggest you download a Linux Live CD e.g. Ubuntu and run Gparted to create a EXT2 partition on your SD Card.
The Android runs using a Linux Kernel and natively supports EXT2.
It is not recoginized by my pc or my mac. I can not trnasfer files to it. I have tried using a card reader but there is no sucess. how can i repair it. From the htc i have no problem.
Any idea? do i backup everything on a linux pc and then format it? which format? fat32?
Most likely it's formatted with an EXT filesystem, or another Linux filesystem that the Mac and Windows don't have drivers loaded for.
With a USB cable plugged into your Magic, can Windows access the card through the device by mounting the SD card through USB?
Would be best if you could back up all of the files using Linux and format it FAT32 using Windows.
Start asking your questions in the right sub-forum (Q&A) (Theme) or even in (General), or i will be forced to ban you for 3 days or till you learn.
Thanks
I formatted my SD into NTFS format. However, it could not be detected by my HTC HD WM65. Then I formatted it to FAT32, it was going normal.
Is it normal that NTFS was not supported?
NTFS (New Technology File System) is the standard file system of Windows NT
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Windows Mobile is a continuation of Windows CE, so it's right that NTFS is unsupported in WinMo.
In any case, I doubt there'd be any benefits from having NTFS instead of FAT32 on a handheld device. The differences are aimed at desktop and domain environments.
I have a
Western Digital 3TB Mybook Essential USB 3.0 External HDD
The problem is, that the A500 will not accept this drive connected via USB.
Do anyone have an ida with such a large HDD.
A 2TB HDD has no problem.
Is the drive formatted as fat32?
size is not the issue
Depends on format. If you do not have root access, the USB drive is only mountable if it is FAT/FAT32 file system. If it's NTFS you will need root and a external app (I use Drive Mount, free from market) to be able to use said external HDD
entropy.of.avarice said:
Depends on format. If you do not have root access, the USB drive is only mountable if it is FAT/FAT32 file system. If it's NTFS you will need root and a external app (I use Drive Mount, free from market) to be able to use said external HDD
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With Drive Mount the Drive is recognized but it will not mount the drive.
The drive is formatet with the tool from WesternDigital.
hochgattererjohann said:
With Drive Mount the Drive is recognized but it will not mount the drive.
The drive is formatet with the tool from WesternDigital.
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Hmmmm. Can you hook it up to your PC and check it's properties? What format is it even in?
The drive mount tool shows the drive, but "mount all" fails?
Does the drive actually work on a USB2 port?
over 2,19TB needs Advanced Format
Hi,
I read in one of the computer magazines that MBR (master boot record) only works for drives up to 2.19TB in size, bigger requires this new Advanced Format Support . Win7 SP1 includes this by defauilt I believe. Could be the case for the Iconia that the size is simply too big and that this AF is not (yet) supported ...
just my2 cents,
Marcher
entropy.of.avarice said:
Hmmmm. Can you hook it up to your PC and check it's properties? What format is it even in?
The drive mount tool shows the drive, but "mount all" fails?
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Windows report NTSF and drive mount shows the drive but "mount all" fails
FloatingFatMan said:
Does the drive actually work on a USB2 port?
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Yes it works without a problem on a USB2 port on my PC
When you connect to pc does it shows like 2 drivers letters or only 1, if shows 2 that's your problem there is utility on wd site how to reconfigure to show 1 drive.
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does it have a virtual drive. I am not familiar with wd drive but my iomega ego came with a virtual cd drive with the encryption program and drive mount won't work. But the version 1.2 works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13337600&postcount=6
Just found out the name of the program wd its wd smartware. Below are link on how to disable them.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3835
hochgattererjohann said:
Windows report NTSF and drive mount shows the drive but "mount all" fails
Yes it works without a problem on a USB2 port on my PC
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If it is formatted NTFS and you have a stock A500 that is your problem. You need to format it as a FAT32 drive. You cannot do this through drive management in Windoze 7 (as far as I know) - you need to use a third party application or root your A500 and perform the necessary mods.
Once you root, you can use this.
I had success with the following utility and my 500GB NTFS-formatted external:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13337600&postcount=6
Hope this helps.
NTFS is the norm for External Hard Drives
External Hard Drives all come formatted NTSF. FAT32 is only used on thumb drives less than 16GB large. A file cannot be larger than 4GB on a FAT32 formatted drive and seeing how there are many files(VOB, ISO, MP4) that are larger than 4GB, most people don't think to format their drives to FAT32. If you have a Windows PC you can use an easy program you can find HERE to format your hard drive to FAT32
Ran into a similar problem with my new 1TB WD Passport.
Drive mount sees it and mounts it, but then I don't see the drive contents in root explorer.
strider_mt2k said:
Ran into a similar problem with my new 1TB WD Passport.
Drive mount sees it and mounts it, but then I don't see the drive contents in root explorer.
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Have you checked all the directories under /mnt? I haven't had an issue, just tested with a 1TB as well.
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I use WD 1TB HDD that's formated in NTFS and it does have the virtual drive as when mounted on PC there are two drives mounted.
However I have no problem to mount it on my A500 using the DriveMount. From memory it mounted as sd1(?) under /mnt/...
Just stick the cable to A500 USB port and click the mount all.
I tryed all what here was suggested.
I also splitted the drive in an 2 TB and a 1TB partition.
NTSF-Mount recognized this but didn't mount the two drives.
Has anybody other experiences?
hochgattererjohann said:
I tryed all what here was suggested.
I also splitted the drive in an 2 TB and a 1TB partition.
NTSF-Mount recognized this but didn't mount the two drives.
Has anybody other experiences?
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Are you rooted? Rom version? What third party tool are you using to mount the drive? Need more details to help you.
entropy.of.avarice said:
Are you rooted? Rom version? What third party tool are you using to mount the drive? Need more details to help you.
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I am rooted
I tried drive mount and ntsf mount. Drive mount recognize the drive but do not mount. ntsf mount sometimes mount the drives (I think when i start the pad the last 10 minutes) and do not mount when I plug in the drive.
I use the "[ROM] Honeycomb 3.1 - HoneyVillain 1.05 with 2.5 Kernel)
With 3 TB I had no chance to mount. With splitting it seems that ther are some possibilities but I didnt know at this time what really happens.
If you need a program to format a FAT32 flash drive that is larger than 32 GBs, i.e., a 64 GBs flash drive. Here's a link to the Verbatim website where you can get the tool for Windows including Windows 7.
http://www.verbatim.com/index/searc...form_submit.x=13&basic_search_form_submit.y=5
If it doesn't link then go to the verbatim.com website. Do a search in it for FAT 32. The page with the FAT32 tool download should come up.
I bought a Centon 64 GB flash drive and it came already formatted with NTFS. That's great but I wanted the most transportability and FAT32 format would be better to transfer files back and forth between my PS3, computer and Acer Iconia A500.
The price for the Centon 64 GB drive from Tiger Direct was only $29.99, no taxes and no shipping costs. Not bad, but it is a slow flash drive. Now that I got it formatted for FAT32 I'm happy. BTW, I have found when you have a FAT32 formatted flash drive attached to the USB port and you do a nandroid backup, it defaults to the USB port instead of the SD card I have in the SD slot. However, if the USB flash drive is formatted with NTFS it doen't see it for the backup and goes instead to the SD card. You can have your backups saved externally from the Acer Iconia A500.
Enjoy the FAT32 formatter. It wasn't easy to find. There's a commerical product for $40 that you can sample, which will only format to 8 GBs with trial version. It's the one that keeps coming up in searches for "NTFS to FAT32". Don't bother with that junk. Get the free one from Verbatim.
couldnt you just use gparted live cd to format, but good find anyways
I use the Easius partition manager... It was free online when I got it but not sure now...
Thanks for the feedback
I don't know much about the Android system so I didn't know about the "gparted live cd" or about the "Easius partition manager." I'm more familar with Windows so I usually look for the solutions through that system. They didn't come up in any internet searches I did. Partition Magic did and I had an older copy but i couldn't get it to work with Windows 7. Then I found the free Verbatim program. Great free program.
I'll keep them in mind if I have any problems in the future.
I had ran into this problem a while back with a external hard drive that came NTFS formatted and I needed it to be FAT32 for reading by a PS3. Usually the hard drive manufacturer has some program to convert his drive. The problem is it only works for their hard drive and they won't let it work on others. There was another free FAT32 formatter that I had previously used but that one wouldn't work on my Centon 64 GB flash drive. Searching the internet was a pain because they kept coming up with this program you had to pay for. On Pirates Bay, they had a crack for it, but it was no good. I was going to try and use a MAC to format but I found this program buried in a discussion about FAT32. Initially it didn't recognize the flash drive but later after I must have rebooted the computer it saw the flash drive and it worked.
Thanks for the feedback.
Use Minitool Partition Wizard, its freeware and for windows. Best windows partition editor I have ever used. I'm sure it can format that drive for you.
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
CORRECTION: Best disk partitioner for windows that I have ever used,
Easius partition manager is also a windows app.... I used it to repartition my laptop as the mongrel only had c partition. Works on all hdds and sd cards....