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Question - migrating memory cards

I'm currently using a 2GB MicroSD card with an apps2SD partition (Ext2) and a storage partition (FAT32)
I have a 4GB card that I'd like to move everything to. I could surely partition it the same way I did my 2GB card, but then it would be a blank, partitioned card. What's a good way to get all my apps and such moved over, as I'm running windows (which won't read the Ext2 partition)
Would Norton Ghost do it?

no try Ext2IFS_1_11a
can't remember where it is: if it doesnt work DL linux and boot into it from disc (no need to install) and copy onto disc from there...

Use linux.
plug in uSD card, do NOT mount. If it automounts, UNMOUNT it. Check device name "tail dmesg".
If device name is for example, sdb, then copy contents to hard disk;
"dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/sdbackup" -- this will create a file in your home directory called "sdbackup".
pull card, insert new card. If it mounts, unmount it. Again check device path.
"dd if=~/sdbackup of=/dev/sdb"
Now pull card, the data on the new card mirrors the old card. Plug back in. Note: we pull and then reinsert to make sure that the kernel reloads the partition table. There are other ways of forcing this, but this is the easiest and most fool-proof.
You have unpartitioned free space at the end of the card.
Use a combination of "parted" and "resize2fs" to resize/move partitions, or just use gparted to handle these operations graphically.
jook11 said:
I'm currently using a 2GB MicroSD card with an apps2SD partition (Ext2) and a storage partition (FAT32)
I have a 4GB card that I'd like to move everything to. I could surely partition it the same way I did my 2GB card, but then it would be a blank, partitioned card. What's a good way to get all my apps and such moved over, as I'm running windows (which won't read the Ext2 partition)
Would Norton Ghost do it?
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Thanks for your help.
lbcoder said:
Use linux.
plug in uSD card, do NOT mount. If it automounts, UNMOUNT it. Check device name "tail dmesg".
If device name is for example, sdb, then copy contents to hard disk;
"dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/sdbackup" -- this will create a file in your home directory called "sdbackup".
pull card, insert new card. If it mounts, unmount it. Again check device path.
"dd if=~/sdbackup of=/dev/sdb"
Now pull card, the data on the new card mirrors the old card. Plug back in. Note: we pull and then reinsert to make sure that the kernel reloads the partition table. There are other ways of forcing this, but this is the easiest and most fool-proof.
You have unpartitioned free space at the end of the card.
Use a combination of "parted" and "resize2fs" to resize/move partitions, or just use gparted to handle these operations graphically.
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Are these directions explicit/comprehensive? Will I need to partition first? I don't know very much at all about linux, but I've got an ubuntu cd downloading. I've poked at it a little before - I can at least get a terminal and follow your directions, if this is all there is to it.
edit
I'm trying copying things manually in ubuntu's file.. explorer.. thingy. Then I'll partition the new memory stick with gparted and copy the files there.
This seems more natural to me, since I'm not familiar with command-line operations much anyway. Personally, I don't see why it won't work.
edit again:
I don't have permission to copy the folders "app" "app-private" or "dalvik-cache"
How can I do this?
edit edit again
google found me a "sudo nautilus" command which seems to open a file browser window with more permissions. I still can't actually copy the folders I mentioned before, but I recreated them in my backup location and I can copy the contents. Maybe this will take care of it.
update:
nope, that worked for "app" and some (but not all) of "dalvik-cache" but not "app-private"
How do I gain permission to copy it?
I'm willing to go back to the terminal, but I get an error on the tail command. There's nothing found, or somesuch. Sorry, I meant to copy the message exactly but I forgot before I rebooted the computer I was doing it with.

Can anybody help me out a little more with this?

The error I get right off the bat is "tail: cannot open 'dmesg' for reading: no such file or directory"
The only access to linux I have is an ubuntu live CD
Code:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
[email protected]:~$ tail dmesg
tail:cannot open `dmesg' for reading: No such file or directory
[email protected]:~$ _

MontAlbert said:
no try Ext2IFS_1_11a
can't remember where it is: if it doesnt work DL linux and boot into it from disc (no need to install) and copy onto disc from there...
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How do I make use of this? It sounds like it should make Ext2 partitions appear in Windows Explorer just like anything else...
I installed it, but the Ext2 partition still doesn't show when I plug in the SD card. Do I need to do something particular?
I have rebooted.

Can anyone please give me more information on this, please? I've been poking at it different ways and still can't get it to work. Who knows something I don't?

jook11 said:
Can anyone please give me more information on this, please? I've been poking at it different ways and still can't get it to work. Who knows something I don't?
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Code:
dmesg | tail
All the information to do this has been stated in this thread by now.

How to install data partition on sdcard partition

I install a lot of application so I constantly run out of space on NAND. So I tried to install Myn's Warm Donut using the following method so the system stuffs will be on NAND and the data will be on the sdcard. It is slower but I can install lots of applications now.
Requirement:
-You have to have Myn's Warm Donut or other android rom installed already on NAND. This means that both the system and the data is on NAND.
-A USB reader for your micro sdcard
Overview:
The main steps are 1) install adb 2) partition your sdcard into three partitions 3) reinstall the rom.
Steps:
1- Install the Android SDK here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. This will give you the adb tool which is a remote terminal program. You will have to locate the adb binary to run it.
2a- Connect you vogue to the desktop. Make sure that USB debug is enable on the vogue. It should be by default.
2b- Run the adb:
Code:
adb shell
2c- Repartition the sdcard using parted. You need some experience with parted which is very popular in linux. Remember, this step will destroy the data on the sdcard.
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
print
At this point you should see the list of all partitions on the sdcard. For most of you, there will be one partition. Remove all the partition using the rm command with the partition number.
Code:
rm 1
Now your print should return empty. So create three partitions using the following commands. Basically, you want three partitions. The first one is your sdcard folder which you always had. The third one is for your data. The second one is just filler because the current installer only install to the third partition.
Code:
mkpartfs primary fat32 0 6500
mkpartfs primary linux-swap 6500 6756
mkpartfs primary ext2 6756 8168
set 1 lba
Note that the size is depended on you. I want around 6.5GB on my 8GB card to be the sdcard partition for musics and videos. So what's left is around 1.5GB for the data partition. I just give the filler 256MB so maybe I can do something with it later. The partition number might be different with other rom. You have to play with it.
After this step you should see something like this when you do print:
Code:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 6500MB 6500MB primary fat32 lba
2 6500MB 6756MB 256MB primary linux-swap(v1)
3 6756MB 8168MB 1412MB primary ext2
Now you can quit parted and exit the console by:
Code:
quit
exit
3a-Turn off your phone and put the sdcard into a USB reader so you can copy the andboot installation files over.
3b-Put the card back, run the installer and choose the data on sdcard option. You should be good to go.
As you usual, you are solely responsible for your phone and your data.
Hope this helps.

I have another solution in the works that will solve the out-of-space on data very easily on ANY build and also have some other nice advantages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750768

So you put the apps on to ext2 partion and the data stay in NAND? In that case it would be better. The problem for the vogue is that the installer on the Myn's rom only put everything on the data partition on to an ext2 partition. On the vogue other rom is slow IMO. Maybe someone can separate the data and apps in the next build?
Anyway, do you know how can I extend the system partition so it can span to 256MB? Right now it is only 128MB because the data presumably should extend the other 128MB.
kallt_kaffe said:
I have another solution in the works that will solve the out-of-space on data very easily on ANY build and also have some other nice advantages: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750768
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Hi csbert,
I am new to ADB. When I typed adb shell, I got device not found. Maybe I need a driver or something? thanks
update: I think I found the instruction on how to obtain the usb driver, going to try now

When you connect to vogue to your computer, it has to say "USB debugging connect". If it doesn't, maybe you need to enable USB debugging in Settings -> Application Settings -> Development.
Cookiekaikai said:
Hi csbert,
I am new to ADB. When I typed adb shell, I got device not found. Maybe I need a driver or something? thanks
update: I think I found the instruction on how to obtain the usb driver, going to try now
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partition program
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate

Hi,
I don't think you can partition the sdcard for the phone using an xp computer. That's why I wrote this instruction. The partition android uses is from linux. You can try a linux machine but i heard that doesn't work. You can still connect to the phone using adb and format the sdcard as I explained.
Cheers
evilclosetmonkeynate said:
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate
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evilclosetmonkeynate said:
i am looking for a good free partition program for windows xp that can partition my sd card from a card reader
i have used paragon partition but it always ask to restart the pc and then partitions the sd from there
i have had it causes my laptop to crash twice now and both time had to have a friend repair my laptop
i am looking for a program that can partition the sd with out restating the computer if that is possible
thank you
nate
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You could boot from a Live CD of any Linux distro. Or download and burn Gparted Live CD, all free

Post-root sd card only 39m?

Ok, so I got an 8g sd card for my nook. It was blank so I didn't do anything to back it up. After writing the nooter image to it, it shows up as a 39m disk, and the windows disk utilities won't reformat it to 8g. How are other people doing it?

I used the following software: partition-tool.com/personal.htm
It is free for home use.

I used a partition software like JoshMiers did, but somewhere on here under the android development section other people were just using the NC itself. Remove the SD card, boot up the NC, put back in the SD card, then unmount and format the SD card.

OK got this solved. Here's what I did:
- Put the sd card into the nook & go to an adb shell
- `mount` to get the device file for the sd card. Mine was at /dev/block//vold/179:17
- unmount /sdcard
- `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block//vold/179:17 bs=1024 count=2` to wipe the header
- Insert into a windows machine and format
It's all good after that.

edembowski said:
OK got this solved. Here's what I did:
- Put the sd card into the nook & go to an adb shell
- `mount` to get the device file for the sd card. Mine was at /dev/block//vold/179:17
- unmount /sdcard
- `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block//vold/179:17 bs=1024 count=2` to wipe the header
- Insert into a windows machine and format
It's all good after that.
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or just put it into the nook and go to settings>device info>sd card> unmount, then format from the same screen

You can also use diskpart in windows to fix the sd card.
If your running windows 7 you should have it.

califrag said:
or just put it into the nook and go to settings>device info>sd card> unmount, then format from the same screen
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This is what I did.

jameswei said:
You can also use diskpart in windows to fix the sd card.
If your running windows 7 you should have it.
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Yeah I was kinda irked at this as well. Diskpart fixed it up right quick and in a hurry. Amusingly enough I bought this thing specifically to read the Windows 7 Admin guide and happened to come across the info about diskpart for USB installs of Win 7, helped out quite nicely.

OK... Since nobody else has posted this, I will...
The reason that your SD shows up as 40M (no matter what its physical size) after going through the nooter rooting process is:
The .img file that you dd to your SD card writes not only the data on the SD card but also the partition table. The partition in the nooter .img file is ~40M in size. The Nook Color doesn't look at the physical device but rather the partitions on the device. Since the partition is ~40M, that's what shows up.
/me is praying for the day that people RUN SCREAMING away from Microsoft operating systems.
Just FYI... Android == Linux. Embrace your inner n3rd.

johnopsec said:
/me is praying for the day that people RUN SCREAMING away from Microsoft operating systems.
Just FYI... Android == Linux. Embrace your inner n3rd.
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I'd rather use both. Anything Linux based I can load up in VMware and use. Of course I have a vested business interest in MS, they help pay the bills at the very least.

I used WinImage to copy the image file, can you use that to remove the partition as well? Windows 7's option to delete the partition is grayed out for me.

Okay in the disk management MMC snap in check the volume number of your SD card. It'll say something like Disk 1 or something similar. Make sure you get the right one cause this is pretty much a low level format that you'll do.
Open up a command prompt in Win7
Type diskpart into your command prompt
once you see the diskpart prompt type - select disk - n being the volume number 0,1,2,3 etc. and hit enter
once you've selected it just type format and hit enter
it'll take it a few minutes to go through, once done just type exit and you're done.
Now you'll be able to re-create a partition in your disk management MMC.
You can do all that stuff in diskpart as well, just type a ? and it'll give you a list of things you can do with it.

[Bounty] $125 if someone can make me a Nookie Froyo SD image that works with 16gb

I am absolutely pulling my hair out here. I have 3 16GB sd cards - 2 16gb ridata class 6, and one patriot class 4.
No matter what I do, I cannot get any of them to work with Froyo. ONLY my 16gb cards fail - I have various other 4 and 8gb cards floating around that work 100% fine.
With this image, I can boot the first time, run the makepart.sh command (which gives a "too many cylinders on disk error), and reboot fine again. When I go to finish formatting the SD card partition using formatpart.sh, it completes the process but never reboots - it just gets stuck on the Android... text in the bottom corner of the screen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324
With these images, both 6.6 and 5.9, I can boot initially just fine but the sd card is only seen as 884mb. When I expand the partition to take up the rest of the free space (about 14gb) using EASEUS partition manager, I can boot fine next time but get literally hundreds of force closes to the point where I can't do anything. I've tried everything - creating new partitions as both logical and primary, resizing existing partitions, formatting from terminal and windows 7 x64, etc, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175
So I've had it. If someone can make me a flashable and bootable SD card image (preferably 6.6, but 5.9 works too) that simply works with the 16GB cards (so I can actually utilize the extra space) and includes the below I will paypal them $125.
-Google Apps
-Market
-Camera and Voice apps removed
-Dropbox added
-Mount/System added (if the app does not take up the full screen force close it once)
-Nook Reader
-Phone and TelephonyProvider removed
-SetupWizard renamed (Can't get it to work. Go into Setting>Accounts & sync to add gmail account after your wireless has been setup)
-Flash installed and updated
-Default Launcher removed
-Zeam added
-Button Savior
-Angry Birds
-Astro File Manager
-Gingerbread keyboard
I basically want a version of the customized Nookie, but with Angry birds, astro, and button savior instead of softkeys (I can't stand softkeys).
To clarify, it only has to work with 16GB cards to get the $125. If it can work with 4 and/or 8GB size cards too, I'll add another $50.
Thanks for looking.

$500 if someone can de-expand my snookie "wife" from 16GB to 2GB and isolate her to sit in her fixed emcc and cook me up some gingerbread. lol. and yes i have used the search function already.

Edit: I did my own research and came to this, I did not create it but I read that some people are using it on 16gb SD cards and it works perfectly. So I decided to put it here.
Updated 2/6 new version! Pandora, YouTube, MP3's all play now. Flash might work w/o choppiness now too(?) - let us know.
Installing Nookie Froyo custom Android 2.2 ROM to boot off of an SD card:
The first thing you're going to need is a micro-SD card:
*at least 2GB in size
*at least 4GB is recommended, in order to have several GB's of storage on the SD Card partition (what Android reads as actual SD card storage)
*Class 6 or 10 is preferred
*Class 4 may be fine, 2 will likely be slow
Be aware that some companies claim to be offering a higher-class card than they really are (as there's no independent third-party that monitors the Class specification). So researching the brand you're considering is recommended.
You'll also need an SD card reader
If you have an Android phone, you may also be able to use it by placing the SD in your phone, selecting Mount as USB Drive on your phone, and proceeding from there.
First, download the latest version of Nookie
Unzip the .gz file (Winrar, 7zip, etc. Should work for that) so that you have an .img file that you're working with.
If you're on a PC, you're going to want to get a program called Win32DiskImager.
If you're on a Mac or Linux machine, you'll want dd.
Connect the SD card to your computer.
For PC Users:
open Win32DiskImager, select (using the button with the dots) the image file for Nookie that you downloaded, then select the drive of your SD Card (be very careful you're choosing your SD Card drive and not another!), then choose Write Image. *After a few minutes, you're all done!
For Mac Users (instructions credit nookdevs.com)
Open a terminal window.
Find which drive the sd card is mapped to: type in the terminal this:
diskutil list
Be very careful to identify the SD card and not your hard disk. Be VERY careful.
Now unmount that drive typing this:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk#
(My computer is was disk2 replace # with your number.)
The computer should say:*Unmount of all volumes on disk was successful
dd if=NameOfNookieFroYoImage of=/dev/disk# bs=1m
Again, replace # with the number of your card. Everything needed should copy right over to the card.
RUNNING NOOKIE:
Simply insert your Nookie Froyo SD card into your nook and power on. As long as your SD card is in your NOOKcolor when you power it on or reboot, it will boot into Nookie Froyo. Everything that would normally be on an Android phone or tablet's internal memory (plus what would normally be on an SD card) is all going to be on your SD (this is why we recommended a card of 4GB or more).
One of the first things you'll notice is that there aren't any Google apps installed. You'll need to do this yourself (I would have loved to include them, but there are legalities, yadda yadda...).
ADB Installation of Google Apps:
1. You'll need to have adb (Android Debug Bridge) installed on your computer. This link explains in relatively easy terms how to get this going . . .http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010
Basically, you'll want to install the Android SDK and become familiar with the location of the directory it was installed in.
If you want to make it easy, move the 'Tools' directory (inside the SDK directory) onto c:/ . . . (or whatever your main hard drive's letter is) then, to get there, you'll simply type cd c:/tools
2. Having installed the SDK for adb access to your nook, now download the google apps files, and unzip the file so that it extracts the folder called 'system' into the 'Tools' directory in the SDK folder you downloaded.
3. Now you'll open a command prompt in Windows (start menu>run>type 'cmd') and navigate to the correct folder (cd [folder directory's path]). On Mac, this would be done via Terminal.
4. Now, with your NOOKcolor connected to your computer's USB port, type the following (of course, hit enter after each line):
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /system
adb push [here, enter the path to your SDK tools folder]\system system/
adb reboot
5. Now your NC will reboot. When it boots, you'll have Market, Gmail, Google Maps, and many more Google apps.
* If you're getting a "device not found" error when running adb, first, reboot your Nook and your computer and see if it changes.
If that fails, download and unzip this file, open install.exe, and follow the on-screen prompts (this will install drivers so your computer will recognize the nook).
If that doesn't work, try opening the Super User app on your nook and then issuing the commands.
If that still doesn't work, refer to the steps in this thread, repeating if necessary.
One of the first things to do:
Before you start, one of the most important things to remember with the current version of nookie is to turn the screen off/on (do this each time you boot your nook). There's some serious touchscreen lag by default, and this is the very simple solution to make it go away. Nothing fancy, just put the screen to sleep for a sec, and when you turn it back on, it'll be plenty responsive.
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Here is a comment a user posted regarding the 16gb SD cards
I bought a class 10 16GB from Wintek, a brand I've never heard of and not only was the card unbearably slow -- so massive lag a points, it ended up corrupting itself... Anyways, I put in a 16 GB class 4 Kingston I have and not only is it faster than the supposed class 10 -- rarely any lag, I've not had any problems.
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Source: (all credit for creating the rom)
Android Central
Edit 2: Since you also wanted to delete any signs of cell phone options, use this theme.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944278
Hope this helps

So... since someone did end up "fixing" your problem, although not directly in response to your thread, are they going to get a nice surprise?

Chirp....Chirp....Chirp....Chirp...
(Just Kiding)

"computerpro", have you looked to see if the FAT is FAT16 or FAT32? Pretty sure a 14G FAT16 isn't going to fly.

khaytsus said:
"computerpro", have you looked to see if the FAT is FAT16 or FAT32? Pretty sure a 14G FAT16 isn't going to fly.
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It's Fat32. I'll try that solution posted above when I get home from class, but brian said he is working on an update that should work with all cards and it should be out today. What's weird is that I can even boot with a 10GB partition with 4gb unallocated space. IT's just once I get up in the 12-14gb partition size range when things start corrupting themselves. And again, what's weird is that this happens across different brand and class cards. They are not defective. I am convinced it has something to do with the too many cylinder error I get while running makepart.sh
We shall see!

I Cant install Chromium OS 0.5 on Raspberry Pi 3

Hi I am so used to installing Retropie and other distros on Raspberry Pi. You get the image and put in win32 and your ready to be written.
Now I want to install Chromium OS to test out V.05
So here's what I am doing. I download the V0.5 for the 16 Gig version.
I used 7 zip extract all to folder when it does that it gives me this.
SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.xz
I then change the extention to SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.img
Write to SD using win 32 and nothing works.
So what am I doing wrong?

Hi, think you need to decompress SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.xz file with WinRAR, and then mount the img file to Win32

now when I write the ISO after running WinRaR after mounting my SD card is now write protected and cant access it ((( How can I unwrite protect it? I dont have a button hit.

Try to Reformat your SD card as fat32

It says it's write protected no physical tab is on to make write protected. I was looking at this will step 4 work?
http://www.techcloud7.org/remove-write-protection-sd-card.html

Yes?

It said it was successful then I tried to format it and it said this disk is right protected still.

did you try to delete all of the partitions on the card? and make a new one, and then format it as fat32.

How can you do that if I can't format it?

I went into disk manager and I get this: message and this is a 16 gig card so I feel like I hosed it but all I did was mount it using win32.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKbVdRZkxPWUEwSHM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKaEQ5Q05raWg1bk0/view?usp=sharing

if its offline you can try diskpart command. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

I did exactly what you said and got this. and screen shot of the whole process I did.
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready.
See the System Event Log for more information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKN0U3emtLWW5Vbms/view?usp=sharing

Here is the system event log screen shot of the event it asked about too.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKcEpaOGdPTWhzbk0/view?usp=sharing

have you tried Partition Wizard 7 or a linux computer to delete partitions and make new ones?

chras said:
have you tried Partition Wizard 7 or a linux computer to delete partitions and make new ones?
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I don't know how to use linux to partition it. I have Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on a flash drive for a live flash OS. But if there is a easy guide like before I will try. I never tried partition wizard 7 before either.

Here is a step by step guide for you http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/hard-drive-management/creating-partitions-with-disk-utility/

Alright with a lot of trying I finally got the card to erase and go back to normal with this format. Then ran the official sd card formatter to get it to work. This method truly works if your sd card says "write protected". Thank you.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1arjgOt9qb4DSTYet1g-8zVxyqP9zTmFyag/view?usp=drivesdk

back to this topic I used Win RaR and extracted the Chromium OS 16 gig here. I get this one file out of the extracted file being 13 gigs its not a image. Should i change the extention to. IMG? Here is a screen shot. I don't want to write protect my SD card again lol
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxbcZNbmYKFKcVNJZmhIaFgwbkU

open it in WinRAR and extract the file. right click and hit "Open With" and then choose WinRAR

Try SDFormatter
http://www.trendy.co.jp/sd/en/p_formatter.html