Dudes, bit of a dilemma, if I format my 16Gb micro sd to NTFS and put it in my desire, the desire doesnt like it and it formats it as FAT32 .. which is ok, but I would very much like to tranfer files as big as 4Gb to the "removable drive" when using the desire as a USB drive.
Only trouble is you cant do that when using a FAT32 drive.
Is there a way of formatting the SD to NTFS but stil the handset will work with it.. Ie if its NTFS the desire will want to reformat it but if its FAT 32 the USB storage options only good for the odd small file.
Anyway around this so that the 16Gb SD card can be used on the desire (ie for apps and the like) but can also be used in the usb storage option to transfer large files of upto say 4Gb ?
bit of a catch 22
Why can't you copy 4GB files to the SD card? My External USB hard drive on my laptop is FAT32 and I copied the contents of my old external HD to it without issue (about 200GB). File system isn't the problem here
And no, you can't use NTFS on the Desire. Which is why it reformats the SD card once you boot Android
No!
You can copy more than 4GB to a fat32 filesystem because FAT32 partition can be larger than that.
But if one file is larger than 4GB then you can't copy it on FAT32, this is a limitation of FAT32 filesystem:
FAT 32 max file size= 4GB
this reason :
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080529220411AADT6Ut
you can move 200Gb worth of stuff but not a single file over 4Gb on a FAT32 file system (apparently)
you see my dilemma ? hehe most annoying
Biggest single file ive ever seen was about 3 GB. Never knew about the 4 GB limitation to Fat32 before. What files larger than 4 GB are there? 1080p files maybe?
.ISO Image files in this case
(work related not smut or pirated material before any suspicions are raised hehe)
I think u like to share Games with your Phone.
Why u do not extract the image files and install from the folder later?
After extracting u can copy the folder to sdcard ;-)
because once i extract the .ISO
the "Beach Hussys" .AVI file is still too large
... but seriously, there has been a few files ive had that are larger, I liked you idea tho x thanks. But there has got to be a way
Wasn't aware of the 4GB limit in FAT32, never had a file large enough to transport around!!
you can use gsplit or h-split!!! to split files on pc!!..
cheers dude that is good to know
but I really want the USB storage facility on the Desire to match having a USB key .. ie tranfer a 4Gb file the same as I would to my USB key (which is optimised and formatted to NTFS) Then I only have to take one around with me.
I have done this and it works (providing you have it plugged into USB as soon as you switch on with NTFS formatted SD in the phone) but then the sd cannot be used in that state to save apps to etc - so its one or the other it seems
ive used the sd formatted to ntfs and put it in my desire and plugged it into a usb straight away and it works - but if u dont do it straight away the handset says "SD card not formatted do you want to format it now" in which case it will format it to FAT32 or not let you use it as USB storage device at all.
hmmph !
i guess it shouldnt be hard as long as you compile the kernl with ntfs support or modprobe.
you can also split your files easily with winrar
What about exFAT? Can Desire read that format?
u can also use programs like winrar to split em in parts as well.. if its a movie u want to playback though, ;p its pretty impossible unless u split it urself with a movie editor..which aint a hard task..
Just use winrar archive the file to multiple archives, copy them over and unpack it
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if you have a big sdcard and you transfer a lot of movies or files bigger than 4gb why don't you make 2 partitions on your sdcard....on FAT32 with the size you want on the desire and one NTFS for your data!!! i don't think it would cause any trouble. i might be mistaken though i never tried it. but for usbs works wonders
What about use partitions? Let's say 4GB FAT32 and 12GB NTFS... will it work?
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I think it should work, but the Desire wouldn't read the NTFS partition, you could only use it for USB file transfer.
I would like to move all my files on the current microSD to my new one. I am using Virtuous Unity Rom
What is all that ext4 thing? I read that Unity supports ext4 but:
Does that count for the SD, too? What are the benefits and how is it meant, entire sd ext4 or just something like 500mb to 1gig for apps?
If I stay with fat32 or part sd fat32, can I just copy all the files to the new one using my cardreader or do I have to do something special? Dunno, maybe Android security flags or other kind of metadata is not recognized by Windows.
If you have a computer just copy everything from card to computer and then to new sd...pretty simple. Ext4 is a partition of sd card for app2sd and what not. Need a minimum of class4 sd card for ext4 to work from what I've read
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Anyone here with something more specific?
Connect G2 with Computer as Disk Drive.
Copy all files from G2 to a Folder to the computer.
Remove old SD, insert New. Format it (if it needs to) through the phone.
Connect G2 with Computer as Disk Drive.
Copy all files from Folder on the computer to the G2.
Ok, here is the problem:
1. create some new file on SD card (take a photo, etc)
2. connect to PC using USB
3. the file is not there; if it is, copying or viewing it will say it's corrupted.
However, if I reboot the phone, and then connect USB again, the new files will be accessible.
This problem does not appear in recovery (i.e. I can create a nandroid, and then mount SD from clockworkmod and copy it to PC).
Copying files from PC to the SD card works fine.
Properly ejecting the device vs. just pulling the cord makes no difference.
My Desire is Running:
CyanogenMOD 7.0.3
Kernel: 2.6.35.10
S-OFF
The SD card (8GB class 6) is partitioned to have a 7000MB FAT32, then, the rest is an ext3 partition.
Does it happen with all of the files you create, or it's just with one application? (e.g. camera)
Try repartitioning with smallest size of ext (max 1.5GB). using Ext4 instead of ext3 maybe help you.
I put an image on my 64Gb SD card and it went great, when I tried to reformat it with SDFormatter but my PC flipped and it didn't work.
So now whenever I put in my SD card in my PC, Phone or Tablet I see a 1.99Tb partition. I can't delete it and I can't reformat it with windows.
Is there a tool or a program with which I can restore my SD card original 64Gb size?
This is how I removed unallocated space on my machine:
Use CMD. Just search for it in your computer
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: COMPUTER
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 298 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 7509 MB 6619 MB
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
DISKPART> exit
Tried this?
Hi,
As stated my firestick formatted my external hard drive and now I cannot get windows to recognize it when I plug it in my laptop. It is seen in the disk format section but has no drive letter ( I gave it a drive letter using AOMEI partition assistant) but this fails. Any help would be appreciated.
If you used the FireTV format for internal storage option, I think it gets formatted to ext4 (Linux file system) which can't be natively read by windows.
Thanks, that actually worked utilizing that software