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
Casi92 said:
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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OK, so my Desire was working ok, but I decided it was time for a clear out, and a fresh partition of my SD Card, along with a move to Firerat's script for A2SD.
I booted my computer into Ubuntu and made a backup of my SD Card - no problems there. However, I noticed that the EXT partition had not mounted in Ubuntu, so I figured that it must be to do with being booted into Android, and so I booted into Recovery and mounted SD card there - same problem.
It was not until I physically put my SD card into a card reader and inserted it into my laptop, could I access the EXT partition. So I went ahead and copied my EXT partition, no probs.
I then (for some reason) decided to put my SD card back into my phone, mount SD Card in Ubuntu and try and re-partition the SD card in GParted. It kept, however giving me an error message when I tried to partition the card. GParted crashed and would not restart until I re-booted the system. The same thing happened after a reboot.
I had to go into Windows and format the Card as FAT32, and then remove the card from the phone, put it in the card reader, reboot into Ubuntu and then partition the card via GParted.
Now, I have a 6Gb FAT32 partition and a 1GB EXT2 partition on my SD Card and all is (kinda) working swimmingly. Still when I access my SD card (via USB cable, and HTC Desire) in Ubuntu, the EXT partition does not mount (it DEFINITELY used to), and when I view it in GParted it shows the entire disk as "unallocated"?
Is my phone somehow "corrupting" my SD card partition tables? The phone seems to read it ok?
Any ideas would be welcome?
Thanks
Stu
No one have any ideas?
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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,
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.
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/
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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
Hi all,
I have HTC Desire running ICS, after running out of battery and connecting the phone to the PC to charge, my phone didn't restarted and stayed stuck in the boot animation.
Now I can't format the sdcard through the PC or in Clockwork, I can't read it or mount when connected to the PC sdcard reader, but the sdcard mounts and the files I had are still accessible through Clockwork Recovery.
It's the second time and second sd card in which this happens.
Any ideas how fix the sd-card?
Thx
Do you have an ext partition on your SD Card? You might want to repartition the SD Card using Gparted this time.
I second that. Put your micro sd into an adapter and format it right on the PC. That's the only way you can be sure about the working state of your SD. In case you're not a Linux user, you can boot a live linux with gparted pre-installed, eg. gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php (official live cd/usb) or most other Live Linux distros (google for Universal-USB-Installer and install Linux Mint).