i have a regular desktop PC and a macbook, i was just wondering, if i formatted my SD card using my pc, could i plug it into my macbook and everything will be good to go? or will it slaughter my sd card? anyone know anything about this?
when you format the sdcard from windows, it should automatically be fat32 format (which is the only FS android likes)
fat32 works with every modern operating system
there is no good reason a problem should occur
just make sure you remove properly rather than just pulling the card whenever you feel like it
alright thanks garok89 for the response =]
how would one format to fat32 in os x? I am using the usb adapter that came with my microsd card
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i have tried this with 2 different micro sd cards. both 1gb. 1 sandisk, the other is a samsung. both work fine in the g1 and if i connect to my laptop (windows) i can access the files and everything as normal. when i right click and tell it to format however it ejects itself and i have to remount. i do not have an adapter to put it in my card reader, so this is the only way i can do it. can anyone tell me what i'm either doing wrong or a quick fix for this?
dont know man cuz i didnt hve that problem sorry dude
The g1 doesn't like it when you do that. If you don't have the adapter. Your only option that I know of is to format it is from android itself in the system options. Sorry to hear about your situation
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i have tried this with 2 different micro sd cards. both 1gb. 1 sandisk, the other is a samsung. both work fine in the g1 and if i connect to my laptop (windows) i can access the files and everything as normal. when i right click and tell it to format however it ejects itself and i have to remount. i do not have an adapter to put it in my card reader, so this is the only way i can do it. can anyone tell me what i'm either doing wrong or a quick fix for this?
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I have/had the same issue, so i will tell you what i did and maybe it will help. I formatted my sd card on the RC33 update in fat32 and from the computer.(when the g1 liked the sd card).
My suggestion if you don't want to downgrade to upgrade..is to stick the card in another phone that can connect to your computer and format it that way.
Upgraded to cupcake (what ever version you want). Then the g1 was reading my 4gb card wrong. So i removed all info on the sd card just copied to folder on pc and formatted the sdcard through the phone. From there it was reading the card correctly. To go on, i then partitioned with apps2sd. Placed all info back on sd card and waa laa...like magic...or dream...or hero...i dunno confusing...who's on first?
A while back ago I purchased a Disc with all kinds of recovery and maintenance programs for all versions of Winders from a company called "Spotmau". One of the uitlities in BootCare is a great partitioning program called Partition Genius, that enables you to move, shrink, add/subtract partitions without having to wipe entire drive. Specifically, I am able to modify an SD Micro card without having to flip the non-removable bit.
My question is, should I just leave the new ext3 or ext4 partition as such or should I go ahead and format it in Linux? The program has the ability for this.
This is a bootup CD so you'll work in a non-winders environment but it does the trick really good.
G1, on AT&T
CyanogenMod 4.2.13
16GB Sandisk SDHC.
Just use the recovery image in my sig, no need to have a card reader or anything extra on the computer.
Filp the non-removable bit?
Non-Removable bit
I was taught that a PC will not partition an SD card or a USB flash drive because it is addressed as a removable drive. By flipping this "Non-Removable Bit", the PC, and any partitioning program will now recognize the USB or SD card as a permanent or fixed drive. I tried a program that was published by Lexmark but I didn't get any results. I did, however, accomplished to partition any USB or SD card with Partition Genius which is a bootable program.
Diode
Oh yeah, thanx for your recovery image, highly appreciate it.
L8Tr 4 Now.
I'm running Froyo off a 4GB SD card. I've followed all of the partitioning instructions and when it's in the nook the nook shows 2.8GB free space on the SD, but I can't seem to actually access it.
When I plug it into the computer via usb, only the 155mb boot partition mounts. When I put the SD card into a card reader on my computer, I can see all the partitions in disk manager but boot is the only one I can actually access.
I think I must be doing something wrong - if there was no benefit to using a larger SD card, nobody would be doing so.
Has anyone actually gotten the last "sd card" partition to mount to their computer?
If not, how can I access it to transfer music and pictures over?
It sounds like you are on Windows. Do you have EASEUS Partition Manager or something similar? What do you see? You should see the last partition, SDcard. To the right should be unused space. Right click on the SDcard partition and expand it to fill the rest of the card and apply the change. If you see something different, describe it here.
To answer your question, I have a 16GB card with Nookie Froyo and have put a ton of PDF files on it as well as some text files. I view them on my NC all the time.
Homer
I got the EASEUS parition manager, and expanded the SD card portion to the rest of the available space.
But I still can't access it! When I plug in the nook to the computer, and turn on USB storage, it mounts the boot drive! Which has the uImage and stuff. I don't understand how the hell to put anything on the SD portion of the sd card.
This is a limitation of Windows, it only mounts the first partition on a flash drive. I use Ubuntu installed via WUBI. It lets me dual boot Windows or Ubuntu. If you have your main drive partitioned so that data is separate, you can mount that partition in Ubuntu. In Ubuntu, when you insert the SDcard, all four partitions pop up. Blame Windows, and then get Ubuntu.
Homer
Short of installing ubuntu on my computer is there no program or something I can use to mount that sd partition?
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Short of installing ubuntu on my computer is there no program or something I can use to mount that sd partition?
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Homer
Okay, not technically a Nook question. But in order to use the extras gigs of space on my sd card while using nookie froyo for sd I need to repartition the sd card. The problem is that Easeus isn't seeing the card. It's there under disk management, explorer, just not Easeus.
Anyone else encounter this problem?
Yep, had same issue. For some reason, when I took out the microsd card and plugged into my laptop via the card adaptor, I had same issue.
Was only able to get Easeus to recognize the card when inside the nook and plugged in via usb. I then partitioned normally. Also check debugging is off (i think off). This is how I got to finally work for me.
Maybe a stupid question but did you launch easeus with the card in or insert the card with easeus already up? Think it has to be in the slot before you load easeus.
I already had the card in the computer. Checked to make sure that I could see it as a drive with all the partitions first. Then fired up Easeus. only shows my C: drive...
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Sometimes your card reader can cause problem. Try a different micro sd adapter or usb reader
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Hi I also has same problem was using server edition uninstalled and installed free version can now see sd card ???
Philyk
I have the same problem. Windows management sees 4 partitions on the card. 1 of them is not formatted.
Explorer only sees files on the root.
This is after I installed CM7. So what partitions can we use for storage?
Are you running the most recent version of Easeus (8.0.1)? I had a problem with a nook SD card that updating solved.
You haven't said If it's in a laptop card dreaded yet. Easus only recognizes USB drives and internal drives. Google Mini tool partition wizard. That one will work for it (assuming you have the laptop card reader). You should be able to expand to empty space on fat32 Partitions in disk manager on windows though, but the mini tool partition wizard is much better than easeus
hi everyone! I'm currently running cm7 on sd card, but my problem is, my sd card isn't recognized by my pc. when i plug the cable in, the pc (windows 7 os) only recognizes the internal memory. Do you have any idea why it does this? Does it have anything to do with my brother doing the cm7 install in a mac?
Another thing, can we update the version of cm7 even if it's on the sd card? if so, how?
thanks!
Windows doesn't see your microsd card because it can not recognize the file system.
Even Paragon Partition Manager and Easeus Partition Manager don't recognize the file system. However if you have Linux installed (ubuntu, Mandrova) you should be able to see whats on the card. And you should be able to resize partitions using Gparted.