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[Q] Migrate to a bigger Sd card for Android on NAND and ext3 partition

I have android on my Hd2 and the sd card is partioned with a fat32 and an ext3 partion...
I now want to buy a bigger sd card, but how do I migrate the SD partition?
I mean I can create an ext3 partition on the new sd card, move the data from the old fat32 to the new fat32 partition, but what about the ext3 partition whch is not visible in Windows?
thanks

you'll need to find a proper partition manager. I think partition magic could work

Aryante said:
you'll need to find a proper partition manager. I think partition magic could work
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I do have a partition manager for windows, but i thought this would only create partitions and not copy them...

I found this link:
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/03/mount-ext2-or-ext3-partition-in-windows.html

a cwm restore won't work ??

Clockwork Recovery screwed my microSD

I installed the latest SwiftDroid v2.0 RC4.
Before it I wiped everything.
After flashing I entered into Clockwork Recovery. I wiped data again (I had problem with repartitioning so I did it again), and then s*it happened.
I didn't know it will wipe out SD card ! I backuped it, and it wouldn't be problem if it wiped it.
The problem is, it erased ext2 partition, swap partition, and heavily crippled main FAT32 partition. Now my microSD card has only 1,86 GB, and it has 4 GB capacity! The half capacity is gone ! I checked in MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and couldn't beleive. OK, maybe MiniTool is wrong. I booted Parted Magic, and the same s*it !
Is there any way o claim back lost 2 GB of space, or should I go and buy new microSD?

angemon10 said:
I installed the latest SwiftDroid v2.0 RC4.
Before it I wiped everything.
After flashing I entered into Clockwork Recovery. I wiped data again (I had problem with repartitioning so I did it again), and then s*it happened.
I didn't know it will wipe out SD card ! I backuped it, and it wouldn't be problem if it wiped it.
The problem is, it erased ext2 partition, swap partition, and heavily crippled main FAT32 partition. Now my microSD card has only 1,86 GB, and it has 4 GB capacity! The half capacity is gone ! I checked in MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and couldn't beleive. OK, maybe MiniTool is wrong. I booted Parted Magic, and the same s*it !
Is there any way o claim back lost 2 GB of space, or should I go and buy new microSD?
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In MiniTool or parted magic, delete all of the partitions on your SDCard. Then create a fat32 partition from the unallocated space. Note: You WILL lose all data from the SDCard when doing this. Then try re-partitioning using clockwork. Also, you don't need the ext2 partition if you are planning to use apps2sd in swiftdroid, as you can use Android's built in one that doesn't require a seperate SDCard partition.

effortless. said:
In MiniTool or parted magic, delete all of the partitions on your SDCard. Then create a fat32 partition from the unallocated space. Note: You WILL lose all data from the SDCard when doing this. Then try re-partitioning using clockwork. Also, you don't need the ext2 partition if you are planning to use apps2sd in swiftdroid, as you can use Android's built in one that doesn't require a seperate SDCard partition.
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I forgot to type I did it.
I deleted partition (it wasn't FAT32, it was FAT16 after CR messed up!), and microSD has only 1,86 GB.
Entered in Clockwork Recovery, and it can't mount microSD card.
Frustrating.

angemon10 said:
I forgot to type I did it.
I deleted partition (it wasn't FAT32, it was FAT16 after CR messed up!), and microSD has only 1,86 GB.
Entered in Clockwork Recovery, and it can't mount microSD card.
Frustrating.
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You can try something but it requires Ubuntu installed or livecd (Not sure if other distros have the same utility)
Put your SDCard into a card reader (or you can try and mount it using USB) and then search Disk Utility from the Unity menu and open it (or in the standard user interface go to System>Administration>Disk Utility)
Click on your SDCard in the sidebar, and then Choose 'Format Drive' (at the top) Choose Master Boot Record and then click ok. Then format the SDCard as FAT32.

[Q] Upgrading sd card, need a little advice

Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?

rosso22 said:
Hi, Iv'e just ordered a 16gb sd card to replace the 2gb card I am currently using and was looking for some advice on how to copy over the contents.
I'm currently running miui with a 500mb ext on the card, having looked around the forums I have seen that I can change cards by backing up using recovery, creating ext on new card then copying contents over to new card and doing a restore.
The problem I have is that the last time I did a backup/restore using CWR it simply reinstalled the ROM as a fresh install and I lost all data and apps, so I am reluctant to do this.
My question is, can I simply create an ext on the new card and copy over the data from the old cards ext and does it matter if the new ext is bigger than the old one?
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do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.

samsamuel said:
do a full cwm backup
partition the new card
copy all fat32 part contents onto new card (be sure you have unhidden all files and that you get everything)
card into phone, dont let the rom boot go straight..
..into cwm
backups/restore
advanced restore
restore sd-ext
reboot
no need to wipe teh rom and reflash or full restore, , only teh sd-ext.
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Thanks for that mate, I will try it when my card arrives tomorrow

Nice i needed to know this to 2gb is to small for a sens 3,5 ROM

Tried all the above.
I couldn't get in to CWM again. It worked when I installed my Hyperdroid ROM via SD.
I reflashed CWM, now my NAND android was gone!
I reflashed it, and it works now, but still it sucks balls.

[Q] Change SD Card on a NAND Android HD2

Hey guys!
I'm finally upgrading from a 1GB sd card to a 32GB
My Leo has a NAND android installed and the sd card has a A2SD partition with tons of apps and a fat partition with some stuff in it.
Is is possible to change the card and still keep it working without having to reflash the whole thing? The remaining ~31GB will be used to - if possible - expand the fat partition for music and such.
Thanks for the help!

into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.

fmmsf said:
Hey guys!
I'm finally upgrading from a 1GB sd card to a 32GB
My Leo has a NAND android installed and the sd card has a A2SD partition with tons of apps and a fat partition with some stuff in it.
Is is possible to change the card and still keep it working without having to reflash the whole thing? The remaining ~31GB will be used to - if possible - expand the fat partition for music and such.
Thanks for the help!
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Im about to face same issue, and here is what i plan to do:backup all apps and their data with Mybackup app from Market, copy all files on my pc(the best would be sending all apps on phone storage and only backup data- this will wor for SURE), turn off phone, put new sd, set partitions as they were with CWM(i mean same ext size) and copy all files on just created partition. I hope this will work, i'll have chance to check by myself in a few weeks.
EDIT: Seems like solution was posted while i was writing, but that assured me that i my idea was good
Cheers
Sent from my HTC HD 2 using XDA

samsamuels suggestion seems the best way to go as long as your ext partition is mounted as(/at) "/sd-ext" there are other places where the ext can be mounted; link2sd for example mounts at /data/sd-ext2. But you'll know when you backup in CWM. A full backup will find the ext if its at /sd-ext and will back it up and you'll see it doing so.
Another option would be to backup the full card; FAT and ext partitions, either within a linux distribution; Ubuntu for example where ext partition is read as normal, or using an application within windows to read it link Linux Reader or Ext2explore, although I don't recall it being too easy to write back to ext while in windows.
Third option being to use something like Partition wizard which should allow you to simply copy the ext partition from one sdcard to the other. Haven't done this myself (yet) and not sure how the HD2 handles partitions that are not made by CWM but you should be able to wipe the new sdcard to unallocated memory then copy the ext and FAT partitions across then resize the FAT to the rest of the sdcard.

samsamuel said:
into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.
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Doesn't creating an EXT partition in CWM format the card? So won't the copying of the FAT32 files have to be done afterwards?

yea, hence
step 2 - via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
and
step 6 - via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder

samsamuel said:
yea, hence
step 2 - via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
and
step 6 - via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
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Oh sorry, need to improve my reading skills

samsamuel said:
into cwm - full backup
via pc take full copy of everything on the fat32 part of the old sd card (music or whatever, making sure you have hidden files showing, especially the .android folder)
new card into phone
into cwm - partition the new card
in cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore only the sd-ext partition
via pc (cwm - mounts and storage - mount sd card if you dont have a card reader) and copy back all the fat32 stuff to the new fat32 part of the new card. The important part is the .android folder
start phone.
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Awesome post, thanks
BTW back in cwm when I repartition the sdcard, can I change the sd-part size before restoring the sd-ext part?

yea, that shouldn't be a problem.

[Q] Running CM7 off NAND - anything to consider changing SD Card?

Hi all.
I was given an HD2 running CM7 off NAND. It has a 2gb SD card in there, with around 400mb as ext3/ext4 partition.
I want to swap the 2gb for an 8gb card. Having not installed the ROM myself (and am not too familar with the process on the HD2), I'm unsure how to proceed.
Are there any files on the SD card that are likely to be needed for booting?
Can I just stick the new card in, use recovery to partition it and then remove the card - copy the old ext3/ext4 partition data over and it'll be happy?
Do I need to use recovery, can I just a Linux box to do that instead?

mr_arc said:
Can I just stick the new card in, use recovery to partition it and then remove the card - copy the old ext3/ext4 partition data over and it'll be happy?
Do I need to use recovery, can I just a Linux box to do that instead?
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assuming you don't have a linux pc that can read ext partitions, id do it this way..
into cwm - full backup.
2gb card into card reader (or mount usb storage in android - or 'mounts and storage - mount sd card' in cwm) - copy off your whole fat32 partition - make sure you have hidden files set to show in windows explorer.
8gb card into phone, back into cwm, create the new ext partition.
8gb card back into card reader (or mounts and storage - mount sd card in cwm) and copy the fat 32 stuff back to the card.
into cwm - restore - advanced restore - restore the sd-ext partition only.

Thanks for the reply.
I do have a Linux PC to hand, and the HD2 doesn't have CWM on it.
So in the end, I used GParted to create a partition table that looked like the existing card and then copied the contents of the old card over. Phone booted up fine