Should I not be using my phone in Disk drive mode ?
I read somewhere that I should basically just leave the SD Card alone.
Is it OK to use USB mode in recovery ?
It's just that recently I've seen A2SD stop working, and I've had to repair my ext partition to get it working again.
Any advice ?
You can still use your phone as a disk drive, but you can't take your the sd card when the phone is on. You also won't be able to see your apps on windows because they're on a linux partition. But you can still use the card as normal with the remaining space.
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I've had about 4 ROMs based off DC and after having each one for about a week I get an SD card error saying I need to reformat. I do think its the SD card though. its the oem . So I wanna get a new SD card today but won't have a computer til I get home. I'd rather if its possible to swap cards with out having a computer though. So my question is, if I unchecked Dalvik to SD and Apps2sd, in dconfig, will it move them back to int mem? Thus enabling me to swap the cards? (after partition of course) i would try it without asking but don't want to go the entire day without a phone. Thanks!
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Even if you do move dalvik and aps back to the phone that will only preserve what's on your ext partition. Everything else on your fat32 part will be left behind.
Ok damn. Thanks, guess I need a computer. At least I didn't try and go without a phone today. Thanks for the reply.
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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
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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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 have CM7 running off an 8GB Sandisk microsd card. Something I still cant figure out to do is how to access the remaining space on the card that is not being used by the boot partition. I can access it from the Nook, but if I take it out and try to access it from a PC I only have the boot partition which only gives me about 100mb of free space. When I plug the nook into my pc with the sdcard installed I only have access to the built in storage. Can anyone please tell me how to access the extra space or direct me to a walkthrough on how to do it. I searched but couldnt find it.
Thanks.
You can use easeus partition manager or minitools partition manager.... you need to set partition 4 to active to see it in the computer... but you MUST remember to make partition 1 active again to use it in nook....
The issue is that all 4 partitions are created as primary partitions... Window will only see the first active primary partition.
Thanks a lot. I will check out easeus partition manager. I appreciate your response.
I finally got around to trying what you mentioned, DizzyDen. I got the sd card switched to active, but still when I open it up in windows explorer I can only see the boot partition. In easeus it states that the partition will all the storage is active though. Any suggestions?
That is common and limitation of windows... it will only see the first active partition on a drive... the same as when you were using the 2 GB version.... you can change the active partition in easeus partition managare to partition 4... do what you want... but you HAVE to remember to change it back to partition 1 as active before you take it out and put it back in nook
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That is common and limitation of windows... it will only see the first active partition on a drive... the same as when you were using the 2 GB version.... you can change the active partition in easeus partition managare to partition 4... do what you want... but you HAVE to remember to change it back to partition 1 as active before you take it out and put it back in nook
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Some how this really screwed up my computer booting up. I made 100% sure not to check any of my two desktop HDD's and just switched primary and active on the SD card. Easeus asked to reboot computer and then I eventually had to do a restore point to be able to boot windows afterwards...
How about you try this:
[ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater
I know this will require you to reinstall CM7 but it Automatically adjusts for any sized card and allows easy updating without CWR or PC.
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How about you try this:
[ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater
I know this will require you to reinstall CM7 but it Automatically adjusts for any sized card and allows easy updating without CWR or PC.
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Seems they already did that... have cm7 running on SD... the problem they stated was not being able to access partition 4 on their computer.... btw... when you change active on SD in easeus don't reboot... you don't have to.
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Seems they already did that... have cm7 running on SD... the problem they stated was not being able to access partition 4 on their computer.... btw... when you change active on SD in easeus don't reboot... you don't have to.
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No... What he's talking is that he did something like install a 4gb image on a 8gb card and now he wants to expand the "sdcard"partition to fill the remaining space on the card. I had to do this when I had a Nookie Froyo 2gb image on my 4gb card but it was annoying. The only easy and smooth way to do it was to Boot to my Linux Install (Ubuntu 10.04) on my PC and Run GParted(The best Partition Manager under the Sun) Trying to do it in Windows was just miserable.
In the end I found it much easier to simply use the Method in my above post when I installed CM7 and it's been the best Expirience I've had Installing a Custom ROM. It's also been dirt simple to update CM7 as all I have to do is plug the SD into my PC and Copy the latest CM7 zip onto my boot partition and boot to recovery. It installs everything automatically. You can even do the same thing to install GApps. If I'm away from my PC but want to update I just download the Zip to my Nook and then use a Terminal App to mount Boot to a folder, and then simply copy the Zip over and Reboot into Recovery.
So I recommend just reinstalling CM7 to an SDcard with my above post for a less stressful experience.
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I don't think that's the case. He said he was able to see the storage space from his Nook but not when putting the uSD card in his PC. This is the case because Windows is only able to see the first active partition on a drive; using something like Easeus he can temporarily switch the active partition to #4 to view the storage space.
Unless what you mean is increasing the size of the first partition by deleting all the other partitions as well and just having 1 large boot partition so that it's viewable when mounted on PC (or on stock if dual booting). I don't know the viability of that because I'm not sure how CM7 needs to have partitions structured other than that the 1st is always the boot and the 4th = storage. I may be wrong
*edit: Also, if you're trying to access the root level of files during USB storage mode (for, eg., dropping a new boot animation to /data/local) you won't be able to do it, need to use something like Root Explorer or ADB*
I think the OP needs to clarify what his/her problem is because no matter how I read the OP's post I interpret it one way but other people are interpreting it other ways. Until the OP clarifies, I don't think anybody can help since none of us are on the same page.
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My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?
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My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?
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Your SD card doesn't have two partitions. "SDCard" is the phones internal storage, while "SDCard-ext" is the micro-SD card. Are you sure when you took out the micro-SD card "ext" was showing? I'm willing to bet you have that part backwards.
EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?
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EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?
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How long have you waited? An internal storage with a lot of items can take a while to site up, particularly on win 7 machines, and can be made worse by your anti virus program if it is set scan removable devices. Since you just formatted the sdcard it probably got scanned quickly whereas the internal storage may be taking longer to get scanned....
You might also try rebooting with a battery pull if it doesn't register after 10 minutes and see if that helps.
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If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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Untrue. I have USB Debugging on and I have no problem seeing either the internal storage or external storage.
I turned of USB debuggging, still only showing up SD card... So all my pictures, video, etc. is being stored on my internal rather than my SD card? How do I change this? I set in the camera apps to save to SD card rather than internal, but it's still saving to "sdcard" which is internal.. Even if that worked, all the apps that save stuff to SD would actually be saving it to internal..
How do I fix this???
I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...
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I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...
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This is highly pc dependent. I run w7 x64 and haven't had issues since I was stock. I wish we/motorola could figure out why.