Hi guys. So today I created 300mb ext4 partition on my SD card (8GB) with Partition Wizard. I did everything like it was in tutorial, I've got one ext4, 300mb, 4kb clasters and 7700mb FAT32 card. The thing is. After I did it. My PC don't shows me my SD card in "my computer". When I launch Partition Wizard, the drives are still there, but in my PC there is no SD cards. I set it active and gave it a letter (F, but nothing.
After that I inserted other card to my computer and the same thing. My pc don't recognize any SD card, but it recognizes when I launch Partition Wizard.
Can anyone explain me what the hell is happening and how I solve that please?
Windows Problem
HI there,
The problem is that windows is uncapable of reading or writing to superior filesystems than it's own rubbish and unreliable fat32 and ntfs filesystems.
Download any version of linux that you fancy from Distrowatch.org, burn the cd and boot from it.. You may work with it running from the cd and dont even have to install it..
It will let you use your sd card properly.. Youll also have read/write access to your windows disk and files from any major linux live-cd..
I suggest Mint 11 LXDE 64 bit, it comes with everything you need preinstalled including all codecs and flash player..
Youll notice how rubbish windows is if you give it a try.. Your computer will run much faster even running live from the cd.. When installed, it's even faster again..
Did I mention it can't get viruses?
Have fun and good luck,
CtrlAltDel
Thanks, I myself am linux lover. But I can't use it. There is lot of programs I need and Linux does not support them. For example Adobe progs, 3Ds max.
And the last thing that prevents me from using linux is my GPU, I've got two GPUs (hybrid) Intel and nVidia. So when I install linux, it is only intel that I can use. No drivers for nVidia and optimus hybrid system. =(
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I just created the required partitions for the hero ROM. How do you install a ROM on the card using windows. Windows does not recognize my card after creating ext/2 and linux swap It is my understanding that windows won't see card after format. Has anyone done this?
Windows should see the Fat32 just fine as long as it is in the order of (1) Fat32 (2) Ext2 (3) linux-swap
My other buddy said he could not get windows to see his card
I'm guessing you either utilized ALL your space on the SDcard for the ext2 partition or you don't have the FAT32 partition as the first one.
According to acronis Fat32 1st ext/2 2nd and linux swap 3rd. Utilitized? My buddy tried it a little bit ago same thing any other ideas?
gtrplr71 said:
I just created the required partitions for the hero ROM. How do you install a ROM on the card using windows. Windows does not recognize my card after creating ext/2 and linux swap It is my understanding that windows won't see card after format. Has anyone done this?
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You don't install the ROM on your card
You need to create the partitions in this order
FAT32, EXT2/3/4, Linux-Swap
You have to have an FAT32 partition to store your ROM updates and other files
Put the ROM on your FAT32, rename to update.zip and flash like any other ROM
AFAIK, all the rest of the setup is automatic (You may have to configure swapper to make the swapfile at /system/sd/swapfile.swp
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If its not showing up even if you have it partitioned correctly, right click on my computer and click manage (if you have vista/win7)
doubleclick storage and disk management. find your sd card, right click where it has the name, and click change drive letter/name
give it a drive letter and it should show up
If the card is mounted in your phone you could try rebooting then remounting. Maybe try a card reader if you have one? If all partitions are set up there's no logical reason why it wouldn't mount in windows.
I used a card reader to part. using acronis disk director. the software see's it windows does not I went back deleted all part. and widows still does not see it
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I used a card reader to part. using acronis disk director. the software see's it windows does not I went back deleted all part. and widows still does not see it
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Did you try my steps after the edit...... it should fix it i had the same problem....
you are the MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
something so simple can reak havok!
gtrplr71 said:
something so simple can reak havok!
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ya thats windows for you. I honestly have no idea why does that but its only happened to me when formatting with parted through the terminal in cyans recovery. I find it odd because I thought it was the command line version of Gparted which works fine for me
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.
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Oh yeah, thanx for your recovery image, highly appreciate it.
L8Tr 4 Now.
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 =)
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
Hi everybody,
today i want to get a movie (5,5 GB .mkv file) into my SGS and when i will travel i will be watch it but i have a problem. my phone write me that it cant copy this file into phone. i have free space... where is a problem ? thx
video file size > 4gigs = will not fit on external sd card formatted with fat32
As to how to get to see it on a linux based phone - you will need a linux person to tell you how to setup your sd card so that you can copy large files to it. It might not work in windows after that...
If it was a windows phone you'd format it in ntfs - but I dont think our phones will be happy with that format of card...
Linux peoples - how would this guy get a mem card to format up to take a > 4 gig file on it?
Can it be done easily? What restrictions would there be?
download a tool called 'paragon partition manager'
excellent tool for creating / formatting partitions to operate on linux systems, as well as windows.
ok thanks, but i have in my phone 2 GB microSD card. i want copy into phone's sdcard. so it mean that i should buy larger microsd card
Fastest and simplest way is to cut your movies into parts under 4Gb. This way you don't need to buy a new card or format a current card.
Could he not use GParted and format the card as ext4?