I was using gparted to give myself some more ext3 space on my 16gb microsd card and I may have unplugged / unmounted my phone or something so the partitioning failed. gparted (and other programs) now only see 12gb of space on the card. Is there anything I can do to recover the 4gb?
Have you tried to delete all the partitions and fully format the sd card?
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Yeh, still 12gb.
And if you put your sdcard in a cardreader on a pc or laptop and run a tool like partition wizzard (or Something similar) is there a partition that says unallocated space ?
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Yeh, still 12gb.
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I did this once as well
open the card up with Gparted again, delete all the partitions, unmount then remount the card, and you should have the full size in unallocated memory.
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Hi. I would like to know if i format my SD card, will this also wipe the ext3 partition? Will I have to re-partition the SD card after the format, or will it still be there?
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i was under the impression that a partition is treated as a different drive. so even if you format your SD card, it shouldn't touch any of the partitions created. like, you have SD card partition and ext 2-4. then only the SD card partition is formatted. of course i could be wrong and please let me know if that is so
As i saw, if you format with slow metod, it will delete also the partition..
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and the answer is..........
NO! Formatting your SD card will NOT WIPE YOUR EXT3 PARTITION Tried it last night, and i still have all my apps back on phone and also have 80.88 MB of internal (which is what i had before)
Ive tried to search the forums but cant seem to find the answer.
I wonder if I can safe format my sd card without ruining my DHD
I wonder what happens when SD card is upgraded to a higher capacity one. Is there a way to migrate existing data? Not sure what filesystem it uses either...
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you can do this on your DHD, go to setting, SD & phone storage, unmount SD card and then you have option to format sdcard. this will fully wipe sdcard and format to fat32 filesystem.
you can format from pc as well, just unmount sdcard, right click on sdcard from pc ,an this you the format option, again format to fat32. only thing is on windows if you have a sd-ext partiton (ext3 or ext4) on sdcard,windows does not see it and won't format this partiton
and the no problem with saving your files on to pc,then formatting and putting those files back on again.
That sounds great. Data migration via PC should be easy. Here I was suspecting they'd somehow lock the content on the SD card.
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Nah, they could not risk the case that if one's SD breaks, it would break the whole device
Hi everyone,
I have a problem: I think I've ruined my 16GB Micro SD card.
I've tried to partition it using MiniTool Partition Wizard, into fat32 + ext3. Somehow, now Windows only sees 11.38GB on the card.
I've repeatedly formatted it to no avail. I've tried deleting all partitions using MiniTool, but it just keeps getting smaller! What am I doing wrong? How can I start again....I just want those 4 or 4 GB back!
Hi there. If I am not mistaken, Windows cannot recognized the ext partition. This is why you will only see the fat32 size. I suggest you to use Gparted live cd to repartition again your SD card
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Yep, use Gparted and use a card reader or the phone in recovery. In recovery don't forget to mount all the partitions.
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How can I take a look at the partitions of my SD card, their filesystem and their size? I moved some apps to the sd card but I have no idea if there is a dedicated ext partition or not.
Thanks!
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normal sd card or when you buy a new one dosen't have any ext. partitions.
if u wish to do u can use cmw and from it choose advanced option and choose make ext. partition....
i had not done it pratically bt a friend of mine told me that after he had done ext. partition so no bad words for me when he put sd card in his lappie the win. 7 was showing the size of sd card excluding the amount of ext. partition done for e.g. if card was of 2 gb and done ext. part. of 1 gb then the size was shown in lappie 1 gb excluding the ext. part.
Right, I've always used CM7 apps2sd so I guess I don't have any ext partition.
What I'd like to know is: where are the apps moved to sd stored in my sd card? I mean, in what folder?
Thanks
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i have an 8gb sd card on my HTC wildfire S, i used this rom manager app to partition my sd card but instead of getting more internal memory now my 8gb card is showing 6gb total memory !!!! even after formatting it no change.
"plz guide me to get back my partitioned memory" thank's
Download minitool partition wizard for your pc, run it and delete tge partitipns on your card.
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Partitioning your SD card doesn't give you more internal memory
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Boot into cwm recovery click mounts and format sd
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try partition your SD from clockworkmod to 1GB external 0M swap then go to play store and install link2sd.
partitioning SDcard give you virtual 2 SD's. 1 of them, 1GB ext3 partition can be used as internal memory with link2sd. just select all apps and click create link... you will get so much memory. i have installed more than 100apps.
do not need to return your sdcard
because，now 2G you can not see it，but still can use。you can link2sd or data2sd，very useful。
SanderTheNinja said:
Download minitool partition wizard for your pc, run it and delete tge partitipns on your card.
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This is the Safest and Sure way of having an EXT on ur phone..