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I just bought 32GB sandisk sd and I tried every known way to create ext partition but every time I got the same, ıt creates an "OTHER" partition.
Please donot suggest these options.
UBUNTU 10.10 (I have dual boot on PC)
Mni Partition tool
Easeus Partition tool
CMW
I guess it is hardware (SD CARD) problem. do you know any sollition
Also I searched in forum, there is no same problem :S
am I only one who has THE problem??!!
no body? :/
Try partitioning your SD card through CWM. Keep in mind that doing this WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR SD CARD!!
Go to CWM, choose advanced, partition SD card.
First choices are for EXT partition, choose 1024MB, 0 for Swap.
Once completed, mount usb storage, throw a backup or install your new rom.
I tryed that to but its no longer a problem I just broke it to 4-5 parts
Maybe try GParted, I partitioned my 8GB card with it.
I want that 32 gb card. T-T Sad... xD
Sorry about you having to waste your money on something that didn't work though. ._.
Well a 16 gb card will work.
experiencing the same problem - i have a 32GB card and when partitioned it is read as "OTHER" have no idea why 2GB, 4GB and 8GB will work but 32GB cant be partitioned to a2SD
need help fixing this problem
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).
I have the Optimus V and the 2GB micro SD that came with it. I want to swap to a new 8GB micro SD so that I can put more music on it. I've got a bunch of apps on the card (more than the internal memory can hold) in an ext3 partition using Link2SD. I'm running the 8/10 build of pure IHO/CM7.1 RC.
I think I can do it this way but I wanted to get some confirmation:
1.) Boot into recovery
2.) Make a backup (which I can confirm does back up the ext3 partition)
3.) Swap cards and partition the new SD card using recovery
4.) Copy all files from the old SD card's FAT32 partition to the new SD card's FAT32 partition using my SD reader on my PC
5.) Put the new card in the phone, boot to recovery, and restore
I think that'll put everything back where it belongs, but I would just like someone to confirm that for me. Thanks!
Should work. Would personally use gparted or similar to clone and resize the SD card partitions on PC.
Oh, yeah, gparted. I forgot i could get a livecd for that.
Question, though - if I use gparted to clone, I need to have both cards installed at the same time, right? I only have one SD/microSD reader (it has both slots but I can only use one slot or the other at a time, so I can't use one card in a micro-to-SD adapter). Can I use USB storage for one card and the reader for the other?
Never tried this. I have tons of SD card -> USB adapters around.
How to install all applications in to SD card. LG P500 is having only <200MB internal storage space. Can any one help me.
brijeshpraveen said:
How to install all applications in to SD card. LG P500 is having only <200MB internal storage space. Can any one help me.
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take a look at the following and choose the one that suits you best:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=917377
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715940
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042828
Hi all,
One question:
Can it be, that with some SD-cards the creation of an ext partition is not possible?
I've got a sandisc 32GB card in my HTC HD2.
I formatted it in an external reader under XP using 'card formatter' in fat32.
Then I used partition manager to create one big fat32 partition, cluster size 4096 an a small, 1GB ext4 partition, same cluster size. Both are set to primary, first is fat, second is ext.
It doesn't matter, if I choose ext2, 3 or 4, as soon as I insert the card in my phone, the ext partition is not seen by it...
Using Titanium Backup, the ext partition should show up...
Under XP, in partition manager, everything works out smooth and both partitions show up fine.
Thank you for your suggestions!
jollmo said:
Hi all,
One question:
Can it be, that with some SD-cards the creation of an ext partition is not possible?
I've got a sandisc 32GB card in my HTC HD2.
I formatted it in an external reader under XP using 'card formatter' in fat32.
Then I used partition manager to create one big fat32 partition, cluster size 4096 an a small, 1GB ext4 partition, same cluster size. Both are set to primary, first is fat, second is ext.
It doesn't matter, if I choose ext2, 3 or 4, as soon as I insert the card in my phone, the ext partition is not seen by it...
Using Titanium Backup, the ext partition should show up...
Under XP, in partition manager, everything works out smooth and both partitions show up fine.
Thank you for your suggestions!
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what do you mean when you say ext partition is not seen by phone?
When you open titanium backup, in the lower part of the window, it shows:
System-ROM: 'size(free)'
Intern: 'size(free)'
SD-card: 'size(free)'
and then there should be ext?: 'size(free)'
but it doesn't show up...
jollmo said:
Hi all,
One question:
Can it be, that with some SD-cards the creation of an ext partition is not possible?
I've got a sandisc 32GB card in my HTC HD2.
I formatted it in an external reader under XP using 'card formatter' in fat32.
Then I used partition manager to create one big fat32 partition, cluster size 4096 an a small, 1GB ext4 partition, same cluster size. Both are set to primary, first is fat, second is ext.
It doesn't matter, if I choose ext2, 3 or 4, as soon as I insert the card in my phone, the ext partition is not seen by it...
Using Titanium Backup, the ext partition should show up...
Under XP, in partition manager, everything works out smooth and both partitions show up fine.
Thank you for your suggestions!
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Format the SD-card using CWR (P.s. everything gets deleted on the SD-card)
in CWR, the card gets formattedd, but no ext partition comes up
I tried several times, but checking in my cardreader, there is no ext partition
I read and tried already so many tutorials and howtos from xda and other forums, that for now, I'm a bit confused...
Some of them say, the ext partition has to be the first, and others say, it has to be the second...
But all point out, both have to be primary and clustersize should be 4k...
So I start to think, maybe its because the card is too big?
All reports refer to cards smaller than 32GB...
what rom are you using ?
[OCT16] AmeriCanAndroid AOSP HD2 GB2.3.7 CM7 | bk2sdext [KERNEL:ACA823]
thats an SD build isnt it? i dont think the ext partition works on sd builds but i could be wrong
an ext partitoin is used on nand builds, what exactly are you needing the ext partion for?
no, its a NAND-build, runs on clk...
I was running it from SD for over half a year and switched to NAND-version mid september...
From that time on I tried to get the ext stuff running, by reading and trying, but now I decided to ask
Weird.. I stick my SD-card in a computer and remove all partitions leaving it blank. Then CWR-partition it. Has worked for me all the time..
Can you try with a smaller card??
For me its weird too, I briefly followed every tutorial I've seen so far, moving the ext partition from the beginning to the end, trying different cluster sizes...
Thats why I ask if it might be the size of the card, everything else is working fine.
I've got a 2GB card lying around somewhere I'll try to find it and see if that one works.
One thing, thats making it a pain in the a.. to try again and again is, that in the meantime I've got about 16GB of music on my card, which is taking some time to copy everything back
Ok, just to end this:
I managed, to get it to work.
I didn't change anything in my setup, but after downloading Link2SD from the market, my ext4 partition is recognised and working
It's still not recognised by TB or other skripts, but thats ok for me, as long as I can use it...
Hi! Successfully rooted my Nook ST using Nook Manager, except I used a 32 GB micro SD card to do the rooting. After rooting, I ended up with two partitions on the SD card, Nook (239 MB) and Nook Manager (62.9 MB). I was wondering what I need to do to be able to utilize the rest of the space on the card? The reason I bought a 32 GB card was so I could store all my sideloaded books there, and now I find I'm just limited to the space/partitions showing up when I connect the nook via USB.
You need to repartition your card.
Partition Magic can do that.
If you want to use multiple partitions on the SD card (like 2 x 16 GB) you might want to look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184495
Renate NST said:
You need to repartition your card.
Partition Magic can do that.
If you want to use multiple partitions on the SD card (like 2 x 16 GB) you might want to look at:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184495
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Thanks, will download a copy of Partition Magic later. I really am completely clueless when it comes to programming though. In fact, I'm only here because the folks at mobileread told me I'd probably have better luck having my question/s answered here than there. So just to confirm, I can repartition the drive using partition magic so I'll have one extra partition for the books I want to sideload, and I'm good to go already when I re-insert the SD card into the Nook? Or do I have to attempt the code that you gave in the thread you linked?
If you want to have a single FAT partition on your SD card you can do that without much change.
It comes down to whether you want to be able to pull the SD card and plug it into random desktops and things.
If you want to have multiple partitions or ext3 partitions you will have to use the new vold in the link above.
if used windows 7,8. Insert a memory card into the card reader. Go to cmd(administrator mode) and run command:
Diskpart
List Disk
Select Disk 1 (#select sdcard)
clean (#clean partition sdcard)
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign (#run command if not view sdcard in mycomputer )
Renate, I tried to repartition my SD card, but got a "disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" message. So I had no choice but to do a data recovery using EaseUs Partition Master first, then went ahead and clicked format now. Then I tried using Minitool Partition Wizard (couldn't find a free version of Partition Magic) to create new partitions in the formatted SD card so that the NookManager partition would be larger (27 GB) while the NookBackup partition would be 2 GB. Except that I can't seem to create any new partitions at all. And I also have no idea how to restore the data I'd backed up earlier either.
Sorry, I missed seeing this come up when you posted it.
When your Nook asks you if you want to format you should say "No!".
It could be that it misidentified the situation.
In any case, you want to look closer before formatting anything.
Here's a gotcha.
If you are using ext3 and the internal clock has reset itself then the last mount will be in the future.
That makes things angry. Check that the date/time on the Nook is correct.
You can use gparted to give the card the partition layout you need (i.e. first NookManager partition is big, second NookBackup partition is only large enough to hold a backup), then write the first partition from NookManager.img into first partition of the card (you need to do something roughly similar to this. Then you can use gparted to set the "boot" flag on the first partition and use the card to backup&root your Nook. Then remove the "boot" flag, and keep using the card for storage (it's a bit messy to have both user&app files AND NookManager boot files in the same place, but if you only have one card, then this is inevitable - i haven't found a way to mount the second or the third partitions from the card). The card will act as normal storage device when flag is not set, and as NookManager bootable card when flag is set.