So I decided to go over to Frozen with EXT4 and forgot to partition my SDcard. is there anyway to return my SDcard back to RFS so that I can get my computer to recognize it again? (Win7) or do I permanently have a EXT4 Sdcard?
even if someone has a solution for Ubuntu only I have that dual-booted just need a solution because I cannot figure it out
The SD card should be formatted to FAT32. you will lose all data on it though.
Just put it in a card reader or mount it from the phone to usb, go to computer, right click on the removable storage drive and format. make sure to select FAT32 and default allocation size.
There is a program you can use to read EXT4 and backup files off of it before you do anything.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
Triketra said:
So I decided to go over to Frozen with EXT4 and forgot to partition my SDcard. is there anyway to return my SDcard back to RFS so that I can get my computer to recognize it again? (Win7) or do I permanently have a EXT4 Sdcard?
even if someone has a solution for Ubuntu only I have that dual-booted just need a solution because I cannot figure it out
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I don't recall partitioning the SD card to be part of installing sfr. I dont believe I ever did that.
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Thanks Mike worked like a charm except it's still not in fat32 format, just only erased all the data, but comp still doesn't recognize it
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Hello I have a big problem hope somebody can help me.
I have a 16g micro sd card. RA Recovery 2.2,
this is what happened:
I rebooted the phone in to recovery wipe everything in order to install a new rom I had just downloaded, after I wiped I try to install from sd card and I got a message saying that the card could not be mounted.
So I plug the phone on the computer turned on the USB-MS toggle, when I click on the sd card on the computer it tells me that the card is not formatted and ask if I want to reformat the card, If I click yes it brings me to the other screen but it tells me that the card is only 30.6mb and the card is 16g? it only gives me to option in the file system FAT or exFAT.
Can somebody help I really don’t want to lose the card
ps i have windows xp and windows 7 , the phone is running miui rom
Where did you get the card?
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I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
Rydah805 said:
Where did you get the card?
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i buy at walmart
erik077 said:
I believe you will end up formatting SD card (FAT) but if you have anything that you want to keep you can move that to your PC. After you format card and phone recognise and accept it, you can try move your stuff from PC back to SD. Again that just my opinion and I may be wrong... Before anything, try to take card out > start phone > turn phone down > insert card again.
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how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
Cjunior said:
how can i change form FAT to FAT32 is that anyway to do that? in windows it only shows FAT or exFAT to format it with.
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I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
erik077 said:
I believe you can do that with older windows (XP), but is it necessary to do it ? FAT was just an example what I give to you. Why don't you format your card with phone using standard system?
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i try but the only thing that shows is 30.6mb and this is 16g.
i was working before i had over 8g of pictures on it, when i restarted my phone and wipe to install a new rom it did something with the card. im about to give up hope
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
Cjunior said:
anybody had any idea to fix a bad fomated SD card??? it will only reconice 30.6mb and only gives me a option to format in FAT not FAT32 the card is supposed to be a 16g, im open to ideas
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Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
jauger said:
Did you try booting into recovery, run partition, set swap at zero and ext at zero?? this should format the entire card...
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i did, it didn't work
Did you ever solve this issue ?
hi,
i might have screwed up idk.
i have a rooted htc desire uscc. CDMA.
i attempted to install latest nightly build of cm_vision_full-23.zip. installation aborted. i attempted wiping, and it still said installation aborted. i attempted a sd card partition of 1024mb and swap size of 128mb. now i cant see any of my restore points. i have a 8gb card now it only reads 6.32gb. is there a hidden partition now? how do i read it? can i get to the restore files and restore (i did do a backup before doing anything, but i dont see those files now, they would be on the "missing" partition i think)
how do i get there? or am i just screwed? how do i get my full 8gb space back?
clockworkmod installed.
Partitioning will format the sd so all your files are probably gone. Also the reason you see only 6.XGb of space is because you have two other partitions using that space. In Windows you can't see the ext partition (i believe) but in linux you will see the card is still 8Gb. Depending on how important your data is you can try to recover it or just boot in to recovery, mount the sd and copy a rom to it.
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ok. i can live with losing some of the data on the phone that i had on there. i need to restore it back to 8gb and just do a factory reset. what are the steps in doing that? do i just format the card in linux or something? i would like to remove the partition i created, and get it back to 8gb one partition.
Isn't all your data on the sd card gone as well?
If yes and you still don't really mind best thing is to find a card reader and connect it to a Linux machine (can be live cd or vm), then use whatever disk manage program is available and format the hole card as fat(32).
You might be also able to do this from the memory settings if your phone will boot, but i'm not sure if that only formats the fat partition or the hole card.
yeah its probably gone. im just curious what software would i be using to try and recover the data? if thats possible id like to give that a shot. if not, its not a big deal. i attempted to use "get data back for fat 32" but it doesn't see the other partition.
hm i have the phone connected to vm linux and its showing the mass storage as 6.8gb. i dont see any options to format it or change it to 8gb. what am i missing?
You need to run (or install) GParted
installed and ran gpart. i still only see 6.34gb as a single contiguous partition. theres nothing else i can change, or allocate. its as if i shrunk 8gb sd card to 6.34gb. whered the missing space go? gpart says 6.34gb is unallocated. it doesnt see any more space. all options are greyed out. cant resize, move, unmount, etc.
update: i went to a local target and bought a 8gb sd card with a generic usb card reader. i put the new card in my phone and formatted it via OS. it shows 7.60gb aval space. and 128mb internal space. when i put the old card into the reader i was then able to see all the partitions via windows 7. so, fwiw, you have to use a card reader to see the partitions on a sd card in windows 7.
Hi, I format my sd card(his original size 8GB) and made a partition through cwm (1024MB).
Now I need this sd card for another use...
How I restore it to original size?
Thanks.
format
Insert the card into your laptop and then boot a Windows CD-DVD and then format, I have done so.
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Hi, I format my sd card(his original size 8GB) and made a partition through cwm (1024MB).
Now I need this sd card for another use...
How I restore it to original size?
Thanks.
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Where do I find this CD-DVD application?
I find a solution...
I used MiniTool Partition Wizard
and resize to original size.
But now I have a major issue,when I plug my phone to pc and choose disk drive (USB debugging marked).
I don't get any response in my pc except for the sound so I can't access my sd card through android platform,I can't copy files to my SD card.
I try two ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050645
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=908528
How do I fix it?
Thanks.
I just formated it using windows, when you want to use it for another android rom just format it with CWM
very useful thread. thank you
I can't access my SD card when I in android platform.
I must enter MAGLDR for this and choose USB Mass Storage.
How do I fix it?
Thanks.
anyone????
Can you use another SD in your phone? If not, probably you have a USB-brick. Take a look in the forum for how to resolve it.
I tried.Nope.
I'll read this:[USB-BRICK] All you need to know about USB-Bricks
Does this manual work with HD2 device?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691639
Thanks.
Can't you just partition/format it using CWM? I use Amon Ra so I'm not sure about CWM. In Amon Ra, I can select a partition size of 0 for the ext partition and Amon Ra automatically partitions/formats the entire card to FAT32.
sd card issue
I have tried to partition my 8 gb sd card but something went wrong now it is not showing free space or sometimes it shows 200 mb is available
Now iam trying to format it but it fails. I have tried tools like sd card formatter also but it didn't work
Pls help me.to format my sd card
I already have, root, s-off and tried some roms.
Unfortunately, I redid the partitions but bad and the phone continues to freeze,
to fix them I connect the sd to the computer with the recovery, and then i start gpartedlive, but I can not see the partitions ext, I only see fat32, so I can not fix them, how do I bring back as if sd new?
I need the adapter, or connect it via the recovery goes well?
i'm sorry for my really bad english LoL
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I already have, root, s-off and tried some roms.
Unfortunately, I redid the partitions but bad and the phone continues to freeze,
to fix them I connect the sd to the computer with the recovery, and then i start gpartedlive, but I can not see the partitions ext, I only see fat32, so I can not fix them, how do I bring back as if sd new?
I need the adapter, or connect it via the recovery goes well?
i'm sorry for my really bad english LoL
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You need adapter connecting via recovery only mounts the fat32 partition
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Turn off your phone and remove the back panel, battery, and slide out your SD card.
Use a USB->microSD adapter/card reader to connect it to your computer, as connecting the phone in recovery will still only mount the FAT32 partition. Boot gParted.
You should now be able to mount both partitions. I recommend using the LiveCD to copy files from the ext and FAT32 partitions to a backup location on your computer or another drive, before wiping the SD card and recreating the partition structure in gParted. Then you can copy the files back on to the SD card with the new partition structure without data loss.
thank you so much, i'm going to buy an adapter
Or if you're not worried about data loss on all partitions ie ext partition, then you could copy files from fat partition to computer then use 4ext recovery to partition the card
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Hi! I just bought a new phone and now I am trying to format my card (which was and is currently used in the desire) to just a plain fat32 partition since i won't be rooting my new phone (yet).
The problem is, Gparted does not see my laptop's card reader. Card reader does work right in windows.
Next thing I tried was formatting it straight from the phone (as in the noob proof rooting tutorials in htc desire \ development ), but that only showed me 6.5 gb of unallocated space. This is doubly wrong because the 6.g gb partition is fat32, exists and is almost full. The ext4 partition does not show up at all.
Maybe it can be done from ext4 recovery? I tried but didnt see any choice for that.
Any advice is welcome. Thank you very much!
yh use 4ext recovery. just in menu go to tools/partition sdcard then remove all partitions and start from scratch. just press skip on everything and ur sdcard will be back to all fat32.