I partitioned my new 8Gb class 10 SD card with roughly 6.5Gb Fat32 and 1Gb Ext4 in Gparted (2X Primary etc...) and installed LeeDroids R4 HD rom. Everything works fine, great rom and well pleased with it. R5 came out so I decided to do a full wipe and pop that on instead, the update said amongst other things it had improved battery life (which it does).
Anyway, I thought I'd just clear/recreate the partitions from scratch again in Gparted and reformat the card. When I booted it up with Gparted the only partition that showed up was the FAT32 one. So it reported the card as being only the size of the FAT32 patrition. And no mention of the EXT4 one at all. I loaded it up as a drive in windows (7) and the same thing happened. It only recognised the FAT32, previously it has shown the ext as unknown.
Titanium backup reports that the ext partition is there ok (app2sd), so I just cleared the caches etc.. in recovery and flashed it that way.
It's not a problem as such as it's all working, but why can't I see that other partition to delete/edit it? And if I ever use it for something else it's a bit of a pain if I'm down a gig...
Thanks in advance
I also realised I forgot to tick the "is this a question" thing too, so sorry sbout that
I had the same issue 2 days ago when I wanted to remove the ext partition from my SD card. The only thing that would show up in gparted was 7GB of unformatted space which was in fact the size of my FAT32 partition.
Instead of USB mounting it from Recovery, I took the card out of the phone and put it into a card reader, gparted was then able to see my Ext3/Fat32 partitions and I was free to make changes
Hope this helps!
Nice one, I'll try it with that later and see if it works
It is quite usual for WIn7 to not show the ext partition exists since Win7 does not recognize it... Try checking your sd card on ubuntu by running a live cd... it should show up as 2 removable medias
Thank you salty wagyu
Got round to trying it yesterday, your tip was spot on.
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Hello.
I have bought a new SD Card (kingston 16gb Class4).
I had a lot of problems with ext3 make. By Gparted it have errors.
I have readed this topic.
Can I repair my SD Card?
Sry for my english.
How are you connecting the card? Via a card reader or still in the phone? If it's still in the phone make sure you are in recovery and not booted in to android.
I made it by card reader. Formatting and partitioning by recovery - errors.
Have you tried erasing all the partitions and creating them again? What happens if you click the 'Repair' button?
I've always done my partitioning with my card in the phone, connected to my PC while in recovery and used Minitool Partition Wizard for Windows (this software was suggested in a thread I read a while ago) and never had any problems.
There is also the possibility of the card having a hardware problem, so you might need to swap it under warranty.
yes, first i have erased all partitions (deleted)
On repair ext - error, fat32 works fine.
first make an extended partition for your fat32 and inside that a primary fat32.
The unallocated space make it ext3
snowboard said:
first make an extended partition for your fat32 and inside that a primary fat32.
The unallocated space make it ext3
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
shouldn't both partitions be primary (no extended ones)?
erase everything 1st keep it unformatted then create fat32 primary then ext primary (optional linuxs swap) this is what i have done when installed miui rom data2ext
i suggest you dont use that card reader try through the cell....
I have tried a lot of methods - ext still no works.
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Where did you get the card from?
Stupid question but two of my friends bought cheap (fake) cards from eBay and both had problems with them, either the card kept losing data or they go errors loading from the card due to the poor quality. In which case you need to spend a little more and get a proper card from amazon on a high street retailer.
If not then as suggested use try formatting and partitioning the card through the recovery on your phone, most of the up-to-date recoveries can do this and it's the easiest way to get the card ass needed for a2sd etc. if it still doesn't work then take the card back it's probably faulty.
I bought this card too and even though I had no issues formatting the card I do have speed issues with it. I've been in contact with Kingston and they're looking into it. My writing speed is 1.6Mb/s....
But now a tip for you, I couldn't use Gparted since it's Live CD wont start my monitors. So I downloaded Easeus Partition Master. Very easy to use and it worked perfect.
Start with your Fat32 partition and then your Ext partition.
You can find the program here: http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
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Hey guys,
Once I was living happily with Starburst ROM Lite 1.3.0 and Data2SD (flashable ZIP of Sibere's script) with Dalvik2NAND on a 1280Mb Ext4 partition on my 8GB class 4 Kingston microSD card. However I found that a 1280Mb Ext4 was too much of a waste cuz' all that I needed was 400Mb at most, so I repartitioned the card with Amon-RA Desire and set Ext4 as 512Mb and FAT32 using the rest. Then I flashed the ROM and the script again. At the begining everything was okay. However, recently I've found that when I connect my phone to PC and select the connection type as Hard Disk, the PC can recognize a new hard disk, but tells me that it is not formatted. I checked the partition status in Paragon Hard Disk Manager, and to my surprise, it CAN recognize the FAT partition and its free space and so on; also, the FAT partition can be read and written normally with Android apps like Estrongs, Astro and RE, even in recovery.
Yesterday I reflashed everything and the situation remained the same. I wonder, what is the problem?
P.S. this situation appears not only on one computers, but many.
Many thanks!
Partition(s) may have messed up. Format your SD card so it's all a FAT32 partition and see if that works. If it does work, just repartition it again with ext4 and FAT32 and see what happens. These things happen.
Ok so. At first I thought it was the 32gb card I bought on ebay so I just returned it and bought another class 10 32gb adata card from another seller. This time I did a surface scan and chkdsk ahead of time to make sure everything checked out before I started using it. So as one partition as fat32, everything works fine, md5's verify successfully for nandroids after backing them up to external sd. Until I go to partition the sd card for fat32, and ext4, ext3, fat32 (tried every format). Tried mini partition, easus and Gparted outside of windows. Minitool shows it as "other" format when I try to partition the second ext4 partition. (which is odd)
After I do that, the fat32 begins to not show files that are copied to it. I noticed this while doing a routine nandroid through recovery, then when checking the cwmr folder on the external 32gb card, the files aren't there. NOW after reformatting and testing again, I'm getting the nandroids to show up, but the md5 verification fails.
I'm not sure on what the issue is. I just want to have a damn ext4 partition for mounts2sd.
Is there *anything* I can do further to verify if the card is in fact faulty aside from a surface scan test? Or is that sufficient?
Could it be my phone's sd card reader?
Could the kernel's "usb fast charge" enabled cause an issue?
I'm on the stock latest tmobile-samsung firmware, rooted.
Using stable kernel:
[KERNEL][3.0.90][Tiberius 4.1.2 T989UVMC6][Hercules]
Just to be sure I understand this correctly you want 2 partitions on an SD card? I would not recommend this personally as SD cards are not really designed for that...
But I could be misunderstanding you...
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Yeah, so I can have a script for mounts2sd use the ext4 partition to install apps to.
However, I'm looking for the sure fire way to test your SD to see if it's faulty or not. Is a surface scan test enough? Is there more?
I guess it's gotta be the card.. Just thought it was odd that it happened with two brand new 32gb sd cards from separate sellers.
Just put in my 8gb and everything works fine, md5's match and everything...
Oh well, return time!
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.
Hello All,
First time poster here and very much a noob so please go easy on me.
I dug out my old htc desire the other day and though i would try out some new roms. I had an old sd card that i seemed to manage to break. i tried to use minitool partition to make a fat32, ext3 and swap partitions all set to primary, for some reason this sd card would not partition. Once i hit apply Mini tool would go though the motions and after a long wait a window titled "successful" pops up "saying apply all the pending changes successfully" however the sd card immediately reverts back to unallocated. I now cant format this card at all, not in minitool partition, sd formatter or windows disk manager. I thought oh it must be an old sd card so bought a new on tried the next day and all worked i had a nicely formatted card with fat32, ext3 and swap partition. So i thought i would try a new rom it seemed to install fine but the phone hung on the white htc screen, so i tried a few times then i get some error about the sd card on the phone. So i take it out put it in a usb reader and try to reformat and now this sdcard is doing exactly the same as the first one. Seems i have a nack for bricking them! Has anyone had this experience with this and do you know how to get the SD cards working again
thanks in advance
matt
Yh never use minitool, it create bad partitions. Use only 4ext recovery or gparted to partition.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2125513