When formatting a new 32gb micro SD card to be used on the NC, what would be considered optimal, as far as file system and allocation unit size is concerned ?
Are you going to put cyanogenMod on the external memory card or just use it for storage? If you are just going to use the card for storage there is not a need to partition it.
If you are though you can use the program on windows OS called "WinImage" that will partition the card automaticly to the right partition size for your boot files. Check this link here on how its done. There is also included youtube links and other information in this thread too to get you started. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/30462-cant-root-my-new-nook/
You can also do this on linux here. http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/30462-cant-root-my-new-nook/
Just Remember to select the whole Card in linux and not just the partition table when you get started.
If its all storage, then FAT32 and default allocation units.
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EDIT/UPDATE - Nevermind. I figured it out.
Finally upgraded to a 16GB SD Card for my N1 as I was simply running out of space (I like to store a lot of music on my phone).
What is the recommended swap partition size? I just read up on it and found that a 32/64MB swap file should be enough. That being said, when I tried to create a 14GB ext3 partition, I kept getting an error.
What can I do to maximize space on my card so I can put more than 4GB of music/pictures/data?
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To quickly resize the FAT32 Data (ie music extra large data files etc) portion of any of the bootable SD cards use the following steps:
1. Create your SD Card from the Image.
2. Download and install Easeus Partion Master from Download.com
3. Close out file manager and any other active programs before starting Easeus.
4. Start Easeus, it will boot up and it will show the SD with the four partitions.
5. If your SD card has room that is unclaimed part of it will be gray and labeled unformated.
6. If it has room, right click on the last partition of the sd card and choose Resize/Move.
7. Now simply drag the end of the partition so that it extends the box to include as much of the unformated drive space as you want it to.
8. Hit Apply. Here is the rub, Easeus tries to save the data on that particular partition while extending/expanding the drive. I don't believe this is guaranteed so please backup anything you want to keep. But know that it is possible it might make the transition just fine.
9. Exit the program, you're done!
I've tried this and Easeus doesn't show any of the SD partitions. I've tried two different cards (an 8GB and a 16GB) on two different computers. Any suggestions? I posted this issue in another thread but nobody responded.
Bad reader?
Yeah, Partition Master only shows the first partition for me. I may try to pick up a different reader to see if that's the issue.
EDIT: I picked up another SD card reader over lunch and it also just shows the first partition. Is there some magic to showing all of the partitions on the card?
RE-EDIT: Scratch that...Windows only mounts the first partition as a drive letter but Partition Master shows all partitions properly. Cool!
So how do you access it
So you are correct and this works. My question is how do you access the SD card. If I pull it out and use a reader, windows only sees the boot sector. When I am booted autonooter 3.0 Rooted, put in the SD card and then plug into a computer it only sees the internal memory and the boot sector on the SD. When I connect it to the computer while booted in Honeycomb I do not see any drives.
Have you figured out how to load files on to this expanded area. I would love to try and play ripped DVDs on Honeycomb.
I'm able to resize the fat32 partition, but I would like to resize the internal memory so that I have more space for apps on my SD running honeycomb. Anyone find a work around for that?
Thanks
I have Nookie Froyo installed on a 4GB uSDHC and picked up a faster 8GB uSDHC. I'd like to migrate my "stable" install to the 8GB so that I can use the 4GB for experimental stuff such as Honeycomb (at least until that becomes stable enough to take over as primary). I'm not sure exactly how to do this, though.
It seems like I should be able to put the 4GB card in my PC and pull a raw image using WinImager, then write that to the 8GB card and use a partitioning tool to stretch the last partition out to fill the space, but that only seems to image the boot partition, not everything.
Any help is greatly appreciated, both how to copy the image to another card and how to resize the partitions to take advantage of the additional storage after doing so (if necessary).
I looked for other threads on this topic but couldn't find anything clear enough to follow, but feel free to point me at existing documentation if it already exists.
Clone thread. See general. Maybe two weeks ago..
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Thanks, Sam. Okay, so I found the following thread that I assume is the one you mean:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943164
I still don't quite follow, though. So when I insert the 4GB Froyo SD card into my computer I only see the ~117MB root partition even in utilities like Partition Master. I can instead use your utility to explicitly mount partitions 1-4 when the NC itself is connected to the PC, and I can use Win32DiskImager to read images of those partitions, but I'm not sure how to write those to my 8GB SD card.
Someone else mentions "packing your boot, system, data and sdcard partitions into a .img file", but I'm not sure how to do that. Is that as simple as catting all four files into a single image? Doesn't seem like that would preserve the partition information, though...
Do I just reformat the 8GB SD card, create partitions of the respective sizes in Partition Master, and then write the individual partition images?
Like I said...still confused here. Thanks in advance for any additional info!
For what it's worth, I was able to do this quite easily by purchasing a new SD card reader in which EASEUS Partition Master could see all partitions on my SD card, then using its "Copy Disk" wizard to copy the entire 4GB SD card to the 8GB SD card, and finally resizing the last partition to fill the card. Worked like a charm!
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.
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-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
Hi, i used win32diskimager to burn my 16 gig microsd card. Now it reads 300 mb and even when i reformat it, it won't go back to the 16gb. I was wondering how i can fix this and get my sd card back to it's real size
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Hi, i used win32diskimager to burn my 16 gig microsd card. Now it reads 300 mb and even when i reformat it, it won't go back to the 16gb. I was wondering how i can fix this and get my sd card back to it's real size
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use easeus partition master.
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use easeus partition master.
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Well, yes. Specifically, use EASEUS to delete all partitions except the storage partition (the largest) then drag that partition to fill all the unallocated space. Windows only recognizes the first partition on any flash storage.
If you are running off SD card - and left the stock NC in tact on the EMMC - you can use settings to reformat your card. It'll have a couple folders you will have to delete afterwards - but it should free up the memory to original state.
mastermind1234321 said:
Hi, i used win32diskimager to burn my 16 gig microsd card. Now it reads 300 mb and even when i reformat it, it won't go back to the 16gb. I was wondering how i can fix this and get my sd card back to it's real size
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If you are doing this in Windows you probably will have to go to Disk Management and delete the first partition and then format.
Right click "My Computer"
Select "Manage"
Select "Disk Management" (you need Administrative privileges)
Be very careful to pick the correct drive letter!
Right click the area where the drive letter appears and select "Delete partition"
Create a new primary partition and format
What I did to restore my micro SD card completely to a formatted state was put it in a SD adapter and put it in my digital camera and formatted the card. It removed all partitions and files. Works everytime.
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SD card 16 go to 74mo partition
Taosaur said:
Well, yes. Specifically, use EASEUS to delete all partitions except the storage partition (the largest) then drag that partition to fill all the unallocated space. Windows only recognizes the first partition on any flash storage.
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You made my day ! Thanks for this information! After set up debian for arm on my 16 go sd card I just had a 74mo partition I got my full space back with your advice thanks
I am using this card for Raspberry Pi and I set up debian for arm with Win32DiskImager. It is at this moment the problem happened
The simpler solution now is probably to use SD Formatter for Windows. It should wipe all partitions and get you back to a 'default' state.
Use SD Formatter
Another simple way is to look for a program called SD Formatter (free) on the internet.
and format the SD card (make sure it is correct drive letter) using NOT the default setting but i believe it is a pulldown call (erase all zeros)
Great program, if you play with SD cards you should get it.
Everett1954
Not Enough Disk Space Error using Win32diskmanager
I have been working at this for hours and can't seem to figure it out.......I have an 8 gb empty (formatted fat32) micro sd which I am trying to write the clockworkmod 8gb file using win32diskimager. Every time I try to write it I get an Error Message "Not Enough Disk Space".......does anyone know what I should do??
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I have been working at this for hours and can't seem to figure it out.......I have an 8 gb empty (formatted fat32) micro sd which I am trying to write the clockworkmod 8gb file using win32diskimager. Every time I try to write it I get an Error Message "Not Enough Disk Space".......does anyone know what I should do??
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Just find and write a smaller image file to the card. Then use a partition manager program like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard (free) to expand the partition to fill the card. I have 200MB version in my tips thread linked in my signature. It has CWM 5.5.0.4 on it.
Use the 4 GB CWM image... then use minitools partition manager or eausus to resize to full capacity.
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Use the 4 GB CWM image... then use minitools partition manager or eausus to resize to full capacity.
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First time to post. Hope I'm in the right thread. Have read many of the threads here regarding Nook Color, CM7, CM9 et al. I really enjoy learning from all the information posted. I currently have an unrooted NC running CM9 on a micro SD and love it.
My problem: like djfury, I have tried to write an image file of a given size - in my case 16GB - to a new 16GB microSD card and always get a message that the file is too large for the card. What I have done is to make an image of my current CM9 installation on the microSD card using win32diskimager. Then I try to write that image to a new 16GB microSD card. But, alas, the image is suddenly to large for the card.
I want to keep this exact same image as it contains various apps and data that I have installed to my CM9 card.
Is there any way to "resize" the created image to make it about 2MB smaller so it will fit on the card?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
madavis77 said:
First time to post. Hope I'm in the right thread. Have read many of the threads here regarding Nook Color, CM7, CM9 et al. I really enjoy learning from all the information posted. I currently have an unrooted NC running CM9 on a micro SD and love it.
My problem: like djfury, I have tried to write an image file of a given size - in my case 16GB - to a new 16GB microSD card and always get a message that the file is too large for the card. What I have done is to make an image of my current CM9 installation on the microSD card using win32diskimager. Then I try to write that image to a new 16GB microSD card. But, alas, the image is suddenly to large for the card.
I want to keep this exact same image as it contains various apps and data that I have installed to my CM9 card.
Is there any way to "resize" the created image to make it about 2MB smaller so it will fit on the card?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Yes, use a partition software program like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to make your partition 4 a little smaller (take it off the end). Then use win32diskimager to make an image of the card. Then burn that to your new card.
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I'm a little concerned about what version number of CWM people are getting in these size-specific images. Anything earlier than 3.2.0.1 (the last stable release) has a good chance of causing you problems down the road, depending on what you try to do with it, and I'm not aware of any 3.2.0.1 images bouncing around except for eyeballer's 1GB image over here (quoted text near the top).
Leapinlar's 5.5.x.x image should be fine, too, but if you have 3.0.2.8 or earlier it can be finicky about dealing with the partition tables on NCs released after July 2011 or NCs with modified partitions, which can result in boot loops and other shenanigans.
As detailed earlier in the thread, you can expand the partitions from the smaller images later if you want to continue using the card for backups, or if you're just using it one time to root or flash something, you don't need the space anyway.
Another thing that causes confusion and issues is manufacturer's selection of how to report size... some use the 1024 standard... some use the 1000 standard... If you read from a 16 GB card using the 1024 standard and try to write it to a 16 GB card using the 1000 standard... it will be approx 16 MB too large...
That being said... you are best if you can resize the last partition on a card approx 20 MB (to be safe) make the image... then write image to a new card and resize the last partition to consume the remainder of the card.
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Another thing that causes confusion and issues is manufacturer's selection of how to report size... some use the 1024 standard... some use the 1000 standard... If you read from a 16 GB card using the 1024 standard and try to write it to a 16 GB card using the 1000 standard... it will be approx 16 MB too large...
That being said... you are best if you can resize the last partition on a card approx 20 MB (to be safe) make the image... then write image to a new card and resize the last partition to consume the remainder of the card.
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Sorry about the delay in offering thanks to those who replied. THANKS.
I also found the best solution for me was to use Mini Tool Partition Wizard and the Copy Disk Wizard. This process took a mirror image of my micro SD card then allowed me to write it ot a larger or smaller card. In my case from a 16GB to another 16GB, then from the 16GB to a 32GB. The last partition was automatically resized to fit the selected card size.
I'm happy now and can use one card for experimentation and still have a backup for restore purposes.
Thanks again for the advice offered.
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DizzyDen said:
Another thing that causes confusion and issues is manufacturer's selection of how to report size... some use the 1024 standard... some use the 1000 standard... If you read from a 16 GB card using the 1024 standard and try to write it to a 16 GB card using the 1000 standard... it will be approx 16 MB too large...
That being said... you are best if you can resize the last partition on a card approx 20 MB (to be safe) make the image... then write image to a new card and resize the last partition to consume the remainder of the card.
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Sorry about the delay in offering thanks to those who replied. THANKS.
I also found the best solution for me was to use Mini Tool Partition Wizard and the Copy Disk Wizard. This process took a mirror image of my micro SD card then allowed me to write it ot a larger or smaller card. In my case from a 16GB to another 16GB, then from the 16GB to a 32GB. The last partition was automatically resized to fit the selected card size.
I'm happy now and can use one card for experimentation and still have a backup for restore purposes.
Thanks again for the advice offered.