I formated my SD card on my mac as fat32 and now something strange has occured. It seemed to format fine, and I can add things to the card in both OS X and Windows, and Android, however now I cannot format the drive on the windows PC no matter what I try. The disk mounts in windows fine but when I right click and go to format, the SD card umounts and I get the pop-up message:
There is no disk in drive E:
Insert a disk, and then try again.
I think something weird happend when it was formated on the Mac.
My goal was to gain root access, which I've done in the past, but however the Mac disk utility formated the SD card, I cannot get the phone to recognize the DREAIMG.nbh file upon restarting the phone using the rooting method outlined in these forums.
I tryed a few different methods to format the card in windows, including diskpart, and through managment tools. The same thing happens with all methods.
edit: I also tryed formating using the format utility in in Android. It formats fine, but something is still wrong, it will not format in windows.
Any help would be much appreciated.
are you sure its a mac to pc issue? can you add files to the root of the sdcard and such on a mac
Yes, I can add files to the root of the card on the mac.
Whatever the mac's disk utility did during the format, the PC does not like.
Dude same thing happened to me
I found a work-around that. use a an sdcard reader (Usb or the one that comes with the sdcard) I formatted mine that way so I could use it.
Thank you! This worked.
no problem =)
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I have looked everywhere and cant get a straight answer ....I have upgraded my G1 through a manual zipfile on my SD Card for cupcake 1.5. Now Im trying to mod/root my g1 and started downgrading to RC29 but when I try to reformat my SD card I get an error "There is no disk in drive F:. Insert a disk and try again".
Any ideas why the G1 is unmounting me not allowing me to format?
Use win XP! Vista has this problem.
I faced the same problem.
Was unable to get the phone's sdcard formatted over usb using Vista. I would click mount the phone, so that the files on the card would be visible on the PC. But the moment I right clicked to format, the card would get unmounted and Vista would say 'no drive'. Without formatting as fat32, the phone's bootloader would say no image found. Even the phone's internal formatter (in Android 1.6 onwards) would only format the sdcard as fat not fat32 (right click and check properties in vista).
Finally did exactly the same procedure on windows xp sp2 and it formatted without unmounting!
Moral of the story - use windows xp sp2 to format phone's sdcard over usb cable.
Also, some people seem to suggest that the image file should be named in all caps : DREAIMG.NBH, however, my phone got downgraded with the downloaded DREAIMG.nbh .
joshduke2004 said:
I have looked everywhere and cant get a straight answer ....I have upgraded my G1 through a manual zipfile on my SD Card for cupcake 1.5. Now Im trying to mod/root my g1 and started downgrading to RC29 but when I try to reformat my SD card I get an error "There is no disk in drive F:. Insert a disk and try again".
Any ideas why the G1 is unmounting me not allowing me to format?
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If your trying to root this guide is very good (and easy/simple):
http://theunlockr.com/2010/04/26/how-to-load-a-custom-rom-on-the-htc-g1-dream/
Very good step by step. Get ROMS here too, xda and AndroidSpin also.
By flashing a newer ROM you should be able to partition your SD card with the phone. You don't need a computer for partitioning. Read info in the link.
easiest way is to use Amon Ra's recovery. It will format/partition your sd for you.
Hi,
I'm trying to hack my G1
The problem is that the SD card is not recognized, I tryed to farmatting it with GParted ext2 with a card reader. Plugged into the phone: NOTHING
Then I plugged in the phone and connected with the usb cable trying to mounting it. Win XP recognize it, but it's impossible to read it. Then I tryed to format in FAT32 and copy the downgrade files.
After restarting G1 in bootloader with the files in the SD nothing happens, no image file found. What's the problem??
Any suggestion??!?
you have to format your sdcard to fat32 not ext2 for your device to recognize it in the bootloader after you formart your card to fat32 place your DREAIMG.nbh on it to downgrade
I did it,
but I get that message: "NO image found"
and then the bootloader screen.....why??
Not 100% of the time but...
Mine also had that issue, i had to reformat my sdcard but with NO partition, in other words your not creating a partition your formatting the whole card.
try that and put the files back on it once you have it formatted and proceed.
I tryed with only one partition FAT32 and the image file, with no luck
Tryed also with 3 differets sd card!! I'm really in pain guys!
I have been trying this for a day and nothing seem to work so far.
The SD card is working, it can be detected/read/write from phone/pc/mac ,
I can also use the sd card to flash rom onto my phone and all works perfectly,
with disk utility, it confirms the correct partition, 64mb for swap and 1024mb for apps,
(it can be detected but cannot be mounted on my mac so no verify/repair can be done on the partition, but the fat partition can still be verified)
now, when i tried to enable app2sd, my phone says extfs partition cannot be detected under spareParts/data option.
I have tried
repartition the sd card like 20 times
wipe/reflash rom,
wiple/reflash different rom
tried different sd card , the partition works so it's not my phone/partition method
verify/repair sd disk
are there anything else to do to repair? or is it a lost cause?
any help will be appreciated
thanks in advance!
do you have any linux handy? could you do an fdisk -l on the disk and print us the partition table?
perhaps you could also use some windows utility to have a look at the table, perhaps it complains about something, if there is an error.
it may be possible that the sd card has an error in the filesystem area. you could try to plug the sd card into the pc, format it with just one partition and uncheck the quick format option. this way it would check all sectors. you should use the console version of format, i think it should output if there is an error. alternativly i think chkdsk -f prints out the bad bytes and there is another option to make it check for them (but normally a non-quick-format does just that)
thanks for the quick response,
I format with PC and MAC then do the disk check and the first time I did it was with a mac it found 5 cluster file and repaired and have since been error free with only one partition present.
I am gonna try to do the check with terminal see what i can come up with.
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knowing that it's not my phone and not my firmware, I decided to give up on the card even though it's "partly-working".
bought a new card and everything fine now.
However, extensive research showed a lot of people have similar problem and some of them have found the fix by
1. reflash
2. insert the card "correctly"
that's all.
I was trying to upload a pic to facebook when it stopped at 80%. then it said damaged sd card. reformat. so I tried on the phone but it did not work. this has happened one time in the past but I was able to copy each file to my pc and reformat that way. now my pc (XP, ubuntu) won't recognize it. How can I reformat it or is it toast?
do you have a micro reader, and see if it can read that way..?
I've tried a multi-card reader and a usb hub/card reader and neither one worked
after doing another exhausting search on google I found "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool." After downloading it and multiple failed attempts at formatting to Fat it was recommended to format to NTFS and try Fat after that works. Well, it did and now that card has been reformatted back. I'm not sure if I will use it for the phone again or just throw it in my camera. But atleast I have that option now.
Thanks for the help.
Using Amon_Ra Recovery is not working now for some reason...been waiting over 30 minutes for it to finish partitioning...but it just keeps on going. (16GB card)
I tried using ROM Manager...it said that it worked...but didn't.
Now trying to find a way to partition the SD card...easy as possible.
ADB commands? is there a windows utility?
gparted
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Windows won't help you at all, since it's not able to recognize multiple partitions on SD card and/or EXT2/3/4 partitions.
I have the same problem....the Rom Manager dosen't get the job done.
Why can't recovery partition my card anymore? Weird! When I pull the battery after 2 hours and check the card....it has a partition (unusable) with just below the amount I set it for....
So, this time I figured that I needed to keep it in a bit longer so I left it there for 8 hours (while I was sleeping) and it was still going. So, another battery pull and format of the sd card...
Is my phone telling me that I don't need to have all the apps I want?
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Windows won't help you at all, since it's not able to recognize multiple partitions on SD card and/or EXT2/3/4 partitions.
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Not at all true. I've partitioned mine and others many times on windows (tho of course not with built in software as windows has no native support to EXT 2/3/4 partitions), but if you use something such as gparted, acronis disk editor, partition magic, etc that WILL most definitely work.
That being said, you will not be able to do it via USB cable plugged into phone/pc.
OP, do you happen to have access to a card reader? That would be really the only way to format it from a computer.
i used paragon partition manager
worked fine
+1 for GParted