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[Q] Failed to get ext2 partition in any way i tried!

I have tried all kinds of ways to partition my sd card to get data2ext to work on b 0.5.
- Partitioning through rom manager
- Partitioning through paragon partition manager (didn't even work)
- Manually partitioning by running commands through terminal emulator
I manage to get the linux swap and fat32 partition but no matter which method i tried, i just can't get the ext2 partition. On the emulator, it asked if my file system was an ext2 system.
By the way, i am using an 8gb sd card that came with Nokia 5800. Is this the cause of not being able to create the ext2 partition?

Easiest way I can think of is to use the live distro of Gparted.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Awesome partitioning tool and has a gui anyone can follow.
E.E.

i just partioned my 8gb yesterday with paragon, no problems. what kind of problem did you have?

@eepunk I will try that later... i'll see if there is any solution in the current software(s) i have...
@haha123 the problem i'm facing is i cannot see the sd card when i click format partition... Maybe i'm doing it wrong. Here is how i do..
1. Plug my phone into USB and click Disk Drive
2. Open up Paragon Partition Manager 11 Personal
3. Click on Partition Manager on the left tabs and launch the partition manager
4. At the bottom, click on Basic Hard Disk (HTC Android Phone USB Device)
5. Click on Format Partition in the Disk View tab.
The problem is when i click format partition. It just shows the hard disk in my PC but not the HTC Android phone USB Device.
I even tried skipping the format partition to try creating a partition but i still cannot see the HTC Android Phone USB Device.
The Error i get is "The disk already contains four primary partitions. Basic hard disks can contain only four primary partitions, including extended one.

Eh...
Why not just boot into Clockwork and use the Partition menu

spicyjoe said:
@haha123 the problem i'm facing is i cannot see the sd card when i click format partition... Maybe i'm doing it wrong. Here is how i do..
1. Plug my phone into USB and click Disk Drive
2. Open up Paragon Partition Manager 11 Personal
3. Click on Partition Manager on the left tabs and launch the partition manager
4. At the bottom, click on Basic Hard Disk (HTC Android Phone USB Device)
5. Click on Format Partition in the Disk View tab.
The problem is when i click format partition. It just shows the hard disk in my PC but not the HTC Android phone USB Device.
I even tried skipping the format partition to try creating a partition but i still cannot see the HTC Android Phone USB Device.
The Error i get is "The disk already contains four primary partitions. Basic hard disks can contain only four primary partitions, including extended one.
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I followed this step by step guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512873
I had the card formatted to fat32 (using windows) before partitioning, maybe you can try that?

pjgodd said:
Eh...
Why not just boot into Clockwork and use the Partition menu
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Hmmm, i was looking around in that menu but there isn't any saying create partition... just format and stuff... :S
@haha123 Hmmm, give that a try.... i've just downloaded the gparted software so will try that first...
EDIT: Given up all hope, i can't even get gparted to boot with USB...

Check the GUIDE...

Thanks blayo, i tried that and it crashed all the apps on my phone until i had to format my sd card and restore nandroid... hmmm... mysterious, but thanks, i'll let data2ext pass.... wouldn't want to brick my phone...

spicyjoe said:
Thanks blayo, i tried that and it crashed all the apps on my phone until i had to format my sd card and restore nandroid... hmmm... mysterious, but thanks, i'll let data2ext pass.... wouldn't want to brick my phone...
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Well, this is the formatting guide... what the hell did you expect? There are certain files on SD fat32 partition that some of apps use. If you unmount SD card and reformat it, those files are not available any more. Right?

Yeah true but even when i restore it doesn't work. Alright man, thanks for the guide anyways.

Clone SD card (with a2sd on)?

Question:
I've noticed I'm pretty much at my limit for space on my current SD card (like 80MB remaining on a 4GB!)...
I've ordered an 8GB card to replace this one... but how can I "clone" my current 4GB card (with a2sd partitions) and then copy it over to my 8GB card, without losing data, settings, apps, etc? Is there a way?
Thanks in advance.

Do this all from within Clockwork Recovery:
1) Make a nandroid backup
2) Connect the phone to a computer
3) Partitions menu > mount USB storage
4) Copy all contents from the old SD card to a temporary folder on your computer (including the clockworkmod folder which contains the nandroid backup you just took)
5) Unmount and disconnect from computer.
6) Pull battery to shut the phone off, or if you would prefer you can boot the phone and then turn the phone off immediately afterward. Pulling battery just saves time.
7) Put new SD card in
8) Boot into clockwork
9) Format the card with Clockwork w/ ext partition
10) Connect to computer, mount USB storage again, copy all files back to the phone
11) Unmount and disconnect cable from computer
12) Nandroid > advanced restore > Restore sd-ext only
13) Reboot and you're done.
And if something goes wrong, it's not really a big deal since you will still have the original files on the old SD card so you can try again or ask for help to try another method.

Sounds complicated enough to work. I'll try when the card comes and let you all know. Thanks!

gfinockio said:
Sounds complicated enough to work. I'll try when the card comes and let you all know. Thanks!
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Haha yeah, I think it's the easiest way to do it with Windows, since you can't read the ext partition from the computer. You could probably just copy the contents of both partitions through Linux if you're comfortable doing that.

Doesn't a nandroid backup the ext partition too?
If you're using windows you could just backup your fat32 partition on your PC and partition your new card and then copy all your files back and do your nandroid restore.
I think this would work...

jdwhite87 said:
Doesn't a nandroid backup the ext partition too?
If you're using windows you could just backup your fat32 partition on your PC and partition your new card and then copy all your files back and do your nandroid restore.
I think this would work...
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Clockwork does not back up my ext partition. It can't mount it or anything. Not sure why. Might be because its ext4, but when I do nandroids the sd-ext backup always fails.
I have to use Ubuntu and mount as storage. Then both of my partitions mount on my computer and I can do as I please. For me this seems easiest anyway. Simple copy and paste and it can be done from a live cd for those that dont already have Ubuntu.
Sent from my cm7 Aria.

drumist said:
Do this all from within Clockwork Recovery:
1) Make a nandroid backup
2) Connect the phone to a computer
3) Partitions menu > mount USB storage
4) Copy all contents from the old SD card to a temporary folder on your computer (including the clockworkmod folder which contains the nandroid backup you just took)
5) Unmount and disconnect from computer.
6) Pull battery to shut the phone off, or if you would prefer you can boot the phone and then turn the phone off immediately afterward. Pulling battery just saves time.
7) Put new SD card in
8) Boot into clockwork
9) Format the card with Clockwork w/ ext partition
10) Connect to computer, mount USB storage again, copy all files back to the phone
11) Unmount and disconnect cable from computer
12) Nandroid > advanced restore > Restore sd-ext only
13) Reboot and you're done.
And if something goes wrong, it's not really a big deal since you will still have the original files on the old SD card so you can try again or ask for help to try another method.
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I'm stumped on step 9 - what menu option in Clockwork will format the ext partition? What menu?

gfinockio said:
I'm stumped on step 9 - what menu option in Clockwork will format the ext partition? What menu?
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Partitions menu

CallMeAria said:
Partitions menu
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What version has that menu option? I don't see it.

Interesting. I was sure you could format a card with ext partition through Clockwork but apparently you can't. You can do it through ROM Manager though, so I guess you may have to boot into the phone to get to it.
The programs on the ext partition won't show up yet of course. Don't be alarmed. Just partition the card through ROM Manager, then once you're done doing that, do the nadroid advanced restore. If there are any problems after a reboot (i.e., it didn't work correctly), go back and try doing the regular full nandroid restore.

gfinockio said:
What version has that menu option? I don't see it.
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v2.5.0.1
This doesnt create a partition though. It just formats an existing partition. You'll have to use drumist's method of going through Rom manager to actually create the ext3 parition from the phone.

CallMeAria said:
v2.5.0.1
This doesnt create a partition though. It just formats an existing partition. You'll have to use drumist's method of going through Rom manager to actually create the ext3 parition from the phone.
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Tried running ROM Manager - of course, it's installed on the 4GB card which isn't on my phone when I have the 8GB in to format. So then I re-installed it using the APK... but I get the exclamation mark when it boots to recovery to format... probably because a2sd is installing the same program on the ext part which it is now trying to format.
I think I'm going to have to format/partition it using Linux somehow instead, no?

gfinockio said:
Tried running ROM Manager - of course, it's installed on the 4GB card which isn't on my phone when I have the 8GB in to format. So then I re-installed it using the APK... but I get the exclamation mark when it boots to recovery to format... probably because a2sd is installing the same program on the ext part which it is now trying to format.
I think I'm going to have to format/partition it using Linux somehow instead, no?
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someone recommended in another thread that when that happens you just pull out the battery and then use volume down+power to boot back into recovery and it should then work.
But the method I use is to do it from Ubuntu (a linux version). If you dont want to install Ubuntu on your computer you can make a bootable CD or USB drive with Ubuntu on it (directions for this are on the Ubuntu download page) and actually run Ubuntu from the CD/USB without ever installing it on your computer. From there you can use gParted to create paritions. And while I recommend making backups, gparted even allows you to resize and move partitions without deleting anything.

gfinockio said:
Tried running ROM Manager - of course, it's installed on the 4GB card which isn't on my phone when I have the 8GB in to format. So then I re-installed it using the APK... but I get the exclamation mark when it boots to recovery to format... probably because a2sd is installing the same program on the ext part which it is now trying to format.
I think I'm going to have to format/partition it using Linux somehow instead, no?
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Yeah, that's what I was worried about. My suggestion then is to format the card through linux if you have a SD card reader. Easiest way is to use an Ubuntu LiveCD. Do you know how to do this on your own?
Also, definitely do a full nandroid restore once the SD card is reformatted. Since you booted the phone and tried to install an app, it's possible something got screwed up -- nothing to worry about though because a full nandroid restore should revert everything.

drumist said:
Yeah, that's what I was worried about. My suggestion then is to format the card through linux if you have a SD card reader. Easiest way is to use an Ubuntu LiveCD. Do you know how to do this on your own?
Also, definitely do a full nandroid restore once the SD card is reformatted. Since you booted the phone and tried to install an app, it's possible something got screwed up -- nothing to worry about though because a full nandroid restore should revert everything.
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I'm reverting back now, going to sleep on it, and then investigate formatting it via LiveCD tomorrow morning. It's been several years since I've had to go near anything Unix.

By the way, another option is to just do a clean install on your phone with a ROM that has ROM Manager built in. Use that to do the format on the SD card.

drumist said:
By the way, another option is to just do a clean install on your phone with a ROM that has ROM Manager built in. Use that to do the format on the SD card.
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That got me thinking...Ive never had a problem adding an ext partition using Rom Manager. Ive done it to 3 SD cards now without a single issue. BUT, Ive also always done it while on cm6/7 which both came with Rom Manager pre-installed with the rom and quite a bit of integration with the rom manager app...just a thought...
EDIT: Scratch that, I used it for 2 SD cards, the 3rd was done with Ubuntu.

Here's my post from the other thread
jdwhite87 said:
Rom manager - partition SD card - choose your partitions. It will reboot into recovery and try but fail to partition your card. Pull battery. Replace battery - hold volume down and power. Wait for it to try and find the libde. Img then press volume down and it will highlight recovery then press power. It will boot into recovery and finish partitioning your card.
I think that's how I got it to work.
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I did this with two different SD cards on fr008. Both were sandisks. One was a 16 gb class 4 and the other was an 8 gb class 6. I couldn't get gparted to partition the 8 gb for whatever reason. I didn't know what Ubuntu was when I partitioned the 16 gb

It seems like an oversight that maybe of the masses of people with Android devices that one day the general (non-xda) population would want a simple way to transfer their sd card data to a larger card...
I Imagine there are a bunch of people out there clueless.
Hell, I read XDA and there was still no clear simple way in this thread.
(I got here from a Google search for SD CARD CLONE)

Got it to work, finally. Required some back-and-forth with the Nandroid backups, but I have everything running off of my 8GB SD card now, without reinstalling!
Now, to sell off my 4GB card... anyone?

[Q] Clockwork Recovery Will Not Install .zip s

So i have searched everywhere and can not find an answer.
A couple days ago I formatted my SD Card and created an ext2 partition.
Since then, every time i have tried to flash a rom (i have tried multiple..CM7..Sense 3.0...MIUI) i get
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
E:Can't open /sdcard/ "name of ROM"
(bad)
Installation aborted.
I have used different CWM partitions, downloaded the ROMs multiple times, and even task29 ed
can someone please tell me how i can get CWM to open ROMs again?
Thanks in advance
SOLVED: Thanks to zach.antre and invisblebm for the help, you need to format your SD Card with Panasonic SD Formatter.

hey did you use the magldr to transfer files to your sd card because it sometimes corrupts ur files....

I also have this problem.
I don't use MAGLDR to transfer my zip file.
I have flashed my rom with DAF style, and I use android 2.3.4 on my hd2 cell phone. After connect my phone with my win7 pc, I transfer my zip file through file manager.
I think that maybe it is a privilege problem to open this zip [email protected]@

hemanbond said:
hey did you use the magldr to transfer files to your sd card because it sometimes corrupts ur files....
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I actually used clockwork to transfer the files.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

attp88 said:
I also have this problem.
I don't use MAGLDR to transfer my zip file.
I have flashed my rom with DAF style, and I use android 2.3.4 on my hd2 cell phone. After connect my phone with my win7 pc, I transfer my zip file through file manager.
I think that maybe it is a privilege problem to open this zip [email protected]@
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Privilege problem?
would you have any idea how to fix it?
Thanks
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

I recomend to format with panasonic sd formatter, before doing any partitions on the sd card.

invisiblebm said:
I recomend to format with panasonic sd formatter, before doing any partitions on the sd card.
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So I have tried to format the EXT2 partition back to FAT32 but it does not show up in my partition managers
any ideas?

sounds like the zip is corrupt, try opening it when in windows with winrar and see if it gives a crc error

Richy99 said:
sounds like the zip is corrupt, try opening it when in windows with winrar and see if it gives a crc error
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i have downloaded multiple zips from multiple websites, and even loaded a zip ile that i have flashed before and know works
still same error =(

The SDcard needs proper format with panasonic sd formater as invisiblebm suggested before.
Thats is the problem, don't look for another solution.
After you format it and check that it works you can create the ext partition from within ClockWork Recovery in advance menu.
In Panasonic SD Formater go options and use "reallocate size" or something like that to have back the full size of the SD

zach.antre said:
The SDcard needs proper format with panasonic sd formater as invisiblebm suggested before.
Thats is the problem, don't look for another solution.
After you format it and check that it works you can create the ext partition from within ClockWork Recovery in advance menu.
In Panasonic SD Formater go options and use "reallocate size" or something like that to have back the full size of the SD
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thank you very much
i will test this out and report back
EDIT: Success! It worked!

Hey I am having a similar problem. I too have the Clockworkmod and I tried to install a zip of Titanium Backup via recovery and I also tried to install the Tron Legacy theme for ADW.Launcher, neither one installed. Did you find a solution?

[Q] Ext Partition possible on the Play?

I used Recovery through flashboot to partition my SD Card into: 1ext and 1fat part. I already tried to mount it in another phone without problem. But in the play i just get the message "card can be removed now" all the time... Im Using FW 4. Model is R800i, tried a full wipe. tried to format.
Any suggestion?

arihellmichimich said:
I used Recovery through flashboot to partition my SD Card into: 1ext and 1fat part. I already tried to mount it in another phone without problem. But in the play i just get the message "card can be removed now" all the time... Im Using FW 4. Model is R800i, tried a full wipe. tried to format.
Any suggestion?
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For starters you need to make the 1st partion fat and the 2nd ext 2/3/4......
2nd at the moment we have no kernel with init.d support so scripts cannot mount the ext partition on boot ......

AndroHero said:
For starters you need to make the 1st partion fat and the 2nd ext 2/3/4......
2nd at the moment we have no kernel with init.d support so scripts cannot mount the ext partition on boot ......
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Ok, problem was, the backcover wasnt on, then the SDcard was not recognized. Now i got the ext partition working with link2sd, i just needed to setup it as ext3, and it now automounts when the system start. i doubt that it can switch davlik cache to partition but apps works fine. everytime i install a new app, it moves it to the sd card ext drive. Its not as comfortable as using Titanium directly to the Ext but its alright, just takes some more time. When i connect to a computer using the massstorage option, ext drive stays online and i can still use my apps. Thats what i wanted Thanks for the help anyways!!

arihellmichimich said:
Ok, problem was, the backcover wasnt on, then the SDcard was not recognized. Now i got the ext partition working with link2sd, i just needed to setup it as ext3, and it now automounts when the system start. i doubt that it can switch davlik cache to partition but apps works fine. everytime i install a new app, it moves it to the sd card ext drive. Its not as comfortable as using Titanium directly to the Ext but its alright, just takes some more time. When i connect to a computer using the massstorage option, ext drive stays online and i can still use my apps. Thats what i wanted Thanks for the help anyways!!
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Ahh i didnt know you wanted your ext for link2sd, i though you wanted to use apps2sd+ when you connect to the pc it only mounts your fat partition and your ext stays mounted to the device thats why enjoy

[Q] Memory card problem please help! help! help!

hello everybody,
i have face a big damage on my Samsung memory card.
its Samsung 16gb micro sd class 10 MC . (for my note 3 )
some how its error or damaged or got any kind of prob.
for the problem . this memory card want format on my note 3 but cant format it.
if i plug in on PC and try to format it says windows was unable to complete this format.
i have also try to format using CMD but it also says error when i go for clean command.
some one please help me to out of this damage please! ....
thanks .....:good::good::good:

sumdany said:
hello everybody,
i have face a big damage on my Samsung memory card.
its Samsung 16gb micro sd class 10 MC . (for my note 3 )
some how its error or damaged or got any kind of prob.
for the problem . this memory card want format on my note 3 but cant format it.
if i plug in on PC and try to format it says windows was unable to complete this format.
i have also try to format using CMD but it also says error when i go for clean command.
some one please help me to out of this damage please! ....
thanks .....:good::good::good:
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Try using Minitool partition wizard, it helped me a lot of times.
When you open it it should show you all hdd (external, internal) partitions, and flash memory drives. Right click on your sd card and delete partition, and then create fat partition and click on apply changes. MAKE SURE you are deleting sdcard partition, not something else. Of course, by deleting partition you'll lose all data on the sdcard. Hope it helps...

ciribic said:
Try using Minitool partition wizard, it helped me a lot of times.
When you open it it should show you all hdd (external, internal) partitions, and flash memory drives. Right click on your sd card and delete partition, and then create fat partition and click on apply changes. MAKE SURE you are deleting sdcard partition, not something else. Of course, by deleting partition you'll lose all data on the sdcard. Hope it helps...
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i have done this work . still memory card is not formatted .. its in old position . ...

re: memory card format
sumdany said:
hello everybody,
i have face a big damage on my Samsung memory card.
its Samsung 16gb micro sd class 10 MC . (for my note 3 )
some how its error or damaged or got any kind of prob.
for the problem . this memory card want format on my note 3 but cant format it.
if i plug in on PC and try to format it says windows was unable to complete this format.
i have also try to format using CMD but it also says error when i go for clean command.
some one please help me to out of this damage please! ....
thanks .....:good::good::good:
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Why not use the Window's command line disk repair utility "Diskpart".
If your sdcard cannot be formatted normally then you need to perform
"Delete/Create" partition in diskpart before you can format it.
In disk part there are a lot of options you can choose from including
"Delete partition", "Create partition"... Delete and Create partition
is what you need to do before you can successfully format it.
Just click on RUN in your start menu and type "CMD" and press "enter"
then type "diskpart" and press "enter" again.
I have done this many times with great success.
Good luck!

Misterjunky said:
Why not use the Window's command line disk repair utility "Diskpart".
If your sdcard cannot be formatted normally then you need to perform
"Delete/Create" partition in diskpart before you can format it.
In disk part there are a lot of options you can choose from including
"Delete partition", "Create partition"... Delete and Create partition
is what you need to do before you can successfully format it.
Just click on RUN in your start menu and type "CMD" and press "enter".
I have done this many times with great success.
Good luck!
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can you please tell me the full process ? i m already tried cmd its not working . but didn't do delete partition .. create partition

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sumdany said:
can you please tell me the full process ? i m already tried cmd its not working . but didn't do delete partition .. create partition
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If you want a list with examples of how to use diskpart
then click on this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770877.aspx
You will find it very helpful, it gives all commands and examples of the
command line options.
At the command prompt just type "diskpart", you can type "?" and "Help"
in diskpart itself to give you examples of the commands.
Good luck!