According to Minitool Partition Wizard, the "CM7 SD CARD" partition of the Size-agnostic SD Card CM7 by verygreen is FAT only, not FAT 32. Why?
Both my Nook and my cell have always created FAT32 partitions while formatting the uSD card. No matter what was the size of it.
Thnx!
The OMAP in the nook color requires a very specific FAT partition to boot from. since you are actually booting from the SD card, it has to be partitioned with FAT with the boot sector in the correct location. Most devices don't allow for SD card boot so its a nonissue for them.
santosacm said:
According to Minitool Partition Wizard, the "CM7 SD CARD" partition of the Size-agnostic SD Card CM7 by verygreen is FAT only, not FAT 32. Why?
Both my Nook and my cell have always created FAT32 partitions while formatting the uSD card. No matter what was the size of it.
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I left it to mkdosfs to decide. It's easy to force FAT32 at all times, but is there any really compelling reason to do that?
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i can load a hero rom on my g1 and flash it, but the phone says the sd card has been removed after the rom loads. also card reader says the sd card is write protected and when i go to settings it gives me greyed out area in the mount and available space areas. tried alot of things on the forum but none have worked so far. any ideas or is the card dead.
Boot to recovery, go to console (you have cyan1.4?) and issue this command:
Code:
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 print
Post what it says.
Your card reader, what kind is it and what OS are you using. You aren't using an SD adapter with a write protect switch on it are you?
you may need to reformat your sd card and repartition it. dont use your card reader just mount if from the phone. you DO have a mini usb right? if not... you may have to reformat it on you phone. but all of your apps will be gone. if you dont have one, go out and buy one. they shouldnt cost more than...5 bucks.
1 512b 3420mb 3420mb primary fat32
2 3420mb 3932mb 512mb primary ext3
3 3932mb 3964 32.0mb primary linux-swap (v1)
4 3965mb 3973mb 8225kb primary linux-swap(v1)
whoa why do you have 2 linux swaps? you only need one....
thanks for all the help, what do i do now.some detailed instructions would be very good.
follow this tutorial on how to partition your sd card. your gonna have to reformat it to fat32 before. scroll down to the part where it says time to partition your sd card.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/boa...roidDev&message.id=7674&query.id=130222#M7674
also when loading a hero rom it needs a clear ext2/3 to boot properly.
disk is write protected thats what i get when i put it in a card reader and try reformatting
if you're having trouble partitioning your sd card back to fat32 after you root using nooter, try the method here. what that guide tells you is to basically use this program to enable the Delete Partition menu option in Windows Disk Management, if it's grayed out.
i was going crazy trying to partition my sd card until i found this info. hope it helps.
Unless you need to make separate/multiple partitions, there's a much easier way to do this.
Follow the steps to root your nook. Once those are done, and the nook is all rooted and booted, take your SD card as is, put it back into the Nook, then go to:
(this is from memory so feel free to correct me)
Press the button to pull up the context menu with device settings
Then go to device info
Then click on SD card
Click on 'umount sdcard'
Then click 'format sdcard'
And voila! You're done. The SD card has to be put back into the Nook AFTER it's booted, otherwise it will try to boot off the SD card when you turn it on.
tokyomonster said:
Unless you need to make separate/multiple partitions, there's a much easier way to do this.
Follow the steps to root your nook. Once those are done, and the nook is all rooted and booted, take your SD card as is, put it back into the Nook, then go to:
(this is from memory so feel free to correct me)
Press the button to pull up the context menu with device settings
Then go to device info
Then click on SD card
Click on 'umount sdcard'
Then click 'format sdcard'
And voila! You're done. The SD card has to be put back into the Nook AFTER it's booted, otherwise it will try to boot off the SD card when you turn it on.
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yes, you can format it, but it's still going to have a 40mb partition, because that's what the card is left with after rooting. assuming your card was larger than 40mb, you'll want to repartition it to get the full capacity of the card back.
Ben74 said:
yes, you can format it, but it's still going to have a 40mb partition, because that's what the card is left with after rooting. assuming your card was larger than 40mb, you'll want to repartition it to get the full capacity of the card back.
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Are you sure? I'm not positive that's the case. I won't be able to verify until later this evening, but I'm pretty sure the SD card is just left with one partition using the full size of the SD card, and not with the 40MB partition, and then a partition with the remainder of the space.
I know for a fact that when I plug my Nook in, I only see the Nook's internal memory and 1 SD card partition get mounted. If the 40MB partition remained, it should show me the Nook's internal memory, and 2 SD card partitions get mounted, which is not the case.
Ben74 said:
yes, you can format it, but it's still going to have a 40mb partition, because that's what the card is left with after rooting. assuming your card was larger than 40mb, you'll want to repartition it to get the full capacity of the card back.
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when you format the card using the nook it will fix the partition tables. i did this with my 4GB card and it worked fine.
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Are you sure? I'm not positive that's the case. I won't be able to verify until later this evening, but I'm pretty sure the SD card is just left with one partition using the full size of the SD card, and not with the 40MB partition, and then a partition with the remainder of the space.
I know for a fact that when I plug my Nook in, I only see the Nook's internal memory and 1 SD card partition get mounted. If the 40MB partition remained, it should show me the Nook's internal memory, and 2 SD card partitions get mounted, which is not the case.
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yeah. the nooter method leaves the card with only one 40mb partition. you can format this partition to fat32 and you will see it in the nook, but it's still only 40mb. there won't be two partitions on the card. i did this myself. then i realized the partition was only 40mb, and that repartitioning is necessary.
califrag said:
when you format the card using the nook it will fix the partition tables. i did this with my 4GB card and it worked fine.
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i see. so the nook is clever like that. very well, ignore my OP!
Partition/Format SD card
I used a 2GB (1.86GB usable)SD card to root my nook color and followed Tokyomonster's method of using the nook to format the SD card so I could get back the rest of the space available. Once formated the nook, as well as disk management in windows verified that the sd card was back to 1 partition with the 1.86GB of usable space.
Thanks Tokyomonster!!
Not as elegant or simple as using the Nook, but I use [email protected] Partition Manager (free, btw) and delete the existing partitions, then create a new one and format.
If for some reason you can't let the Nook reformat it, you can also insert the SD into a rooted android phone, and format it using Amon Ra Recovery. I did this before I found out that the Nook could do it.
There is also one additional method that you can use. I had to do this because I needed the SD card and the nookColor isn't available until after Christmas for me to use.
Basically, follow the instructions here: http://jaredheinrichs.com/how-to-delete-oem-partition.html
Then you'll be able to use the disk manager to create a partition for the entire sd card.
Searching the Nook forum for "repartition" tool or "partition tool" came up with nothing. Can you be more specific about its location? I'm in a hell of a mess right now. My entire partition table for mmcblk0 got wiped.
I have spent over an hour reading threads and searching, cannot find what I need.
I have CM7 on eMMC.
How do I get my sd card back to 8gb?
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-My Computer-Right click on SD card Drive- Format - Card is now 8 Gigabytes
Had this last night but try formatting the SD card within your nook. I had an SD card with 1 gig image and was having the same problem.
Just to clarify. Use the format options within the nook. Sorry not in front of Nook at the moment.
Larry94 said:
-My Computer-Right click on SD card Drive- Format - Card is now 8 Gigabytes
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Tks, but that did not work
Zhousibo said:
Just to clarify. Use the format options within the nook. Sorry not in front of Nook at the moment.
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I read that on CM7 on eMMC when doing that it formats the boot on the nook not the sd card, so did you do this or just think its the way to do it. THanks
Use this program, the free edition:
EASEUS Partition Manager
Windows can only see the first partition on your card. There are probably 4 partitions left from your emmc install. Plug your microSD card into your computer and launch EASEUS. You should see the driver letter assigned to your microSD card and 3 other unassigned partitions on your card. Right click on each of those partitions and delete them. Then either resize the primary partition Windows can see to the full size of the card, or delete that partition, then create a primary partition on the card that uses the full card size. You should now have your full capacity back.
rog152 said:
I read that on CM7 on eMMC when doing that it formats the boot on the nook not the sd card, so did you do this or just think its the way to do it. THanks
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No, I actually did the format using CM7 on my Nook Color. Bit hazy on the exact details, but if you look at the SD storage section in the Settings you should see the different SD cards and will show which to format. I had used my 8 gig SD card as a 120 meg SD boot with CWM so this SD card kept showing available space of about 120 meg (so I chose this to format).
'Should' be fairly obvious but can understand your hesitation.
FYI, I tried Easues Partition on my Windows 7 64 bit machine but did not recognize. Might be worth trying XP or Linux if you have but I would test the above option (Backup everything if concerned). I had just flashed CM7 to my nook so wasn't too bothered if I lost anything.
I can check when I get home.
rog152 said:
I have spent over an hour reading threads and searching, cannot find what I need.
I have CM7 on eMMC.
How do I get my sd card back to 8gb?
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Windows only sees one primary partition, so you have to use a partition manager to delete the other primary partitions. MiniTool Partition Wizard claims to work in all versions of Windows, I only have 32 bit Vista. Or you could use Linux in a virtual machine such as Vmware, it's free for home use.
Alakar said:
Use this program, the free edition:
EASEUS Partition Manager
Windows can only see the first partition on your card. There are probably 4 partitions left from your emmc install. Plug your microSD card into your computer and launch EASEUS. You should see the driver letter assigned to your microSD card and 3 other unassigned partitions on your card. Right click on each of those partitions and delete them. Then either resize the primary partition Windows can see to the full size of the card, or delete that partition, then create a primary partition on the card that uses the full card size. You should now have your full capacity back.
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Thanks, this worked.
also this link
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Format_and_partition_your_SD_card_back_to_a_usable_state
I use SD Formatter, works great
im currently buy a 16gb Class10 MicroSD for replacing my 8gb Class2 card, i have a motorola milestone, mi nandroid not have the function to backup ext partition, how i clone my old card to migrate all data and partitions to new card?
I tried to read the information from the ext2 partition with a windows driver without success.
The memory card has 3 partitions, one ext2 (i supposed) bootloader 38mb long, second partition 1,47gb ext2, and last 5,6gb fat32.
The new 16gb card, partitioned in 250mb ext2, 1,46gb ext2 , and 13,7gb aprox. Fat32.
Tried to copy only the info from the fat32 of 8gb card to the fat32 from the 16gb card, and mi apps moved with app2sd dont show in the phone, i suppose the problem is i not copy the ext2 partition from the 8gb card to the new one.
Exist some method like the ancient norton ghost to clone the both cards?
Sorry my bad inglish
Hi
I've partitioned my Micro SD but when I put in windows with a card reader, windows didn't read it.
When formatting, windows reads it, but when I do the partition, stop reading it.
I have a 4GB card, so I make the partitioned 512MB EXT2 and the rest for FAT32
windows reads ntfs and fat partitions and not ext partitions
I think you have made the ext partition primary and fat secondary and memory card reader must be mounting primary partition only
using mintool partition wizard , format and partition such that fat32 one is primary
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