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[Q] Problems creating Ext partition

Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.

shav4life said:
Hi all,
I have a big problem with my desire well my class 6 32gb kingston card I should say.
I don't seem to be able to create an ext partition, I tried rom manager, but it doesn't work because it doesn't create it. It actually creates a partition which can't be recognized by my pc, rom, clockword or amon recovery, neither clockword recovery no amon's recovery seem to be able to create a working one at the moment.
Then, I tried to do it via adb and parted but it says parted not found, I pushed parted to sbin via adb and i tried to do it there, it works fine for creating fat32 partitions but when it comes to ext3 it goes until the end and then says some bug has been found in parted.
Then, I used gparted, I created a fat32 partition and then a ext3 partition, it shows clearly that the partitions are there but neither my leodroid rom nor either of the recoveries can see it, when I try to wipe it, it says unable to format (file exists).
Then, I used minitools partition wizard but with no avail, neither the rom nor the recovery can read the ext partition.
Any help is appriciated.
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are you creating an ext 4 partition with gparted? i had the same problem with clockworkmod, the file exists error, so i tried with the unbuntu live cd (ext 4) and got the same error, i deleted the partition and this time created an ext 3 instead and all worked fine, maybe theres a problem with clockwork and ext 4 partitions

believe me i have tried 4, 3 and 2 and none of them seem to be readable. It's driving my crazy. Any idea why parted is not on my rom? or is it just my particular device having this issue?
Thanks,

I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam

gamgoum said:
I am having a similar problem, would appreciate if someone can help
in my case I tried to partition the stock 4 GB SD card that comes with the Desire into 480 MB EXT2 partition and the rest into FAT32, for this i tried:
- ROM Manager but if failed to create the partition after going to recovery
- used EASUS partition manager from my Windows Vista laptop, and it seemed that the partition were correctly created
Then I proceeded to try to flash a couple of ROMS that are using A2SD (Leedroid 2.2e and 2.2f , Modaco R9) and in each time I got stuck in splash screen. I tried for many times then I decided to try with a ROM not using A2SD (pre-rooted stock HTC Froyo) and my Desire came back to life again.
The problem is that after that point my SD card was not recognisable at all by the phone although I could use it on the Windows laptop
I wonder if someone can explain in details the best way to format a SD card to be able to work with A2SD or A2SD+, preferrably from the phone itself (clockwork recovery) or from Windows PC application
Thanks
Gam
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I have the same problem, can any one help??? I gave lots of money to buy that sd card but I cant use it the way I want :S

Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!

Keon91 said:
Take a Usb-stick.
! YOUR DATA FROM YOUR STICK WILL BE LOST, BACKUP BEFOR GPARTED INSTALL!
! BACKUP YOUR DATA FROM YOUR DESIRE SD-CARD, ALL DATA WIL BE LOST USING THIS METHOD!
Download gparted, install it using unetbootin.
start gparted form your usb-stick.
Remove all partitions in GParted from your desire sd-card.
create a new partition form about 1Gb ext-4.
then create a new partition (fat-32) that fils the rest of your sd-card.
Note: the ext-4 partition needs to be in front of the fat-32 partition.
restore your desire sd-card data.
I hope this helps!
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Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.

duryard said:
Thank you Keon91. Gonna try this cos been having mega probs.
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Have you got it working?

Yes Thanks. All sorted now

Unrecognised SD card after using Win Mini Partition Tool

Hi,
I used Mini Partition Tool in Windows (7) to create a 13 gb FAT32 partition (named PADDYSD) and a 1gb Ext 3 partition (named EXT3).
All seemed well, transfered my backed up contents of the SD card to FAT32 partition, all okay, but when I put the SD card into my Desire it does not recongise it, does not recognise anything; and it doesn't give me an option to mount it.
Has anyone got a idea why? It seems out that I can see the files on laptop, the MPT recognises it and indicates the two partitions, but the Desire won't recognise any of it.
I have been struggling with Gpart Live this morning - no matter what I do I can't seem to make either of my machines boot with the live cd I made from the iso (just hangs after choosing boot from CD). So looks like I am stuck with MPT - but if don't work I dunno what to do.
Cheers

had a similar problem, in the end I had to go into cwm recovery, format the card with ext3 partition so that it would get picked up again.
Try going to cwm, mount sd card then connect it to your PC and see if your PC detects the card

I had similar prob.
Solved it in an unusual way,by inserting the Sdcard in my old Nokia 6120 and formated it there and then made a ext3 partition in w7 via Partition Magic 10.1
Edit : Also,AmonRa recovery has a very good Partition system,i flashed it yesterday,and tried it out,worked perfectly

Hi
When you ceated your partition , you must select primary for the two part ( fat32 and ext ) . I used this tool and i never have problem.
( Recorvery CW 2.5.0.7 )

i had the same problem when i still had the stock ROM, but it didnt continue when i flashed it with Oxygen. i think it is because the stock ROM does not support the extra partition

[Q] Install zip from sdcard in recovery => "no files found"

Hi,
I had a stock HTC Desire. These are the steps I took:
- First I rooted using unrevoked. That worked perfectly.
- Then I did S-off using alpharev. No problem at all.
- Next I wanted to have a2sd (or mount2sd or app2sd+ or data2ext, WTF is the difference???) to finally be released of the "no memory" messaged (HTC, what were you thinking??). I didn't want to add init.d support to my stock rom, so I picked this rom, which had it built in.
- Before I installed that ROM, I used Gparted to make two partitions on the 4 gb sd card: 3 gb FAT32 and 1 gb EXT4.
- Then I installed the Cronmod ROM. During installation it asked if I had an EXT partition, I said yes.
The phone booted fine so I started to install my apps. I soon noticed my internal memory became to small again! Why wasn't that data2ext thing working?? I remembered from the rooting faq that some ROMs don't work with EXT4 partitions, so let's see if I can change it to EXT3.
I booted into Gparted again and here things started to go bad: there was nothing there! There was 2.74 gb of unallocated space!!!
Not only was there just 2.74 gb on a 4 gb card, all partitions were gone!
- I made two partitions again: 1.76 FAT32 and 999 mb EXT3. I would try to find a solution to get the invisible 1.3 gb on the sd card back later. First I wanted to have this data2ext thing working.
- When I tried to reboot I got stuck on the Alpharev "Why so serious" screen.
- wipe data/factory reset didn't work either, because I got the "Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(No such file or directory)" error. Why is that much going wrong??
- Googling learned I probably had an SD card brick, so I followed this guide. That didn't work at all. I did these two command: fastboot oem enableqxdm 0(unblock your sd-card)
fastboot oem eraseconfig(fix misc partition).
- Finally I did a "partition SD card" in recovery and that got it to recognize my sd card again.
- It still hangs on the "why so serious" screen though. So maybe I need to reinstall the rom? I put the rom on the fat32 partition, but "install zip from SD card" in recovery gives the error "no files found". Also, in HBoot, for a split second it shows some errors: something about missing zip/img files and then "no image or wrong image"
According to the Troubleshooting FAQ I need to do this:
To fix a bootloop/ stuck on HTC Screen:
[STEP1]- do a battery pull to power off the device (as this is the only way to do so when stuck in a bootloop)
[STEP2]- hold the VOLUME DOWN button and the POWER button to boot into the bootloader
[STEP3]- use the VOLUME UP/DOWN buttons to navigate, and POWER to select. Navigate to RECOVERY.
[STEP4]- select "mounts & storage" and then select the following options
[STEP5]- format boot
[STEP6]- format system
[STEP7]- format data
[STEP8]- format cache
[STEP9]- format sd-ext (IF YOU HAVE IT)
[IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BACKUP]
[STEP10b]- go back to the main menu, select "install zip from sdcard", then "choose zip from sdcard", and flash a ROM which you KNOW works. If you have none, try my failsafe: CyanogenMod
- reboot system now
I did all that, but as explained, it doesn't find any files on the sdcard!
This is the info I have in HBoot:
---AlphaRev---
BRAVO PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNT0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
So these are my problems:
- Stuck at "Why so serious" alpharev screen.
- My SD card reports only 2.74 gb size, while it's 4 gb.
- I can't install zip files from the SD card: "no files found", while I can see they are there in windows explorer...
Please help :-(

FINALLY got it to boot again by doing this:
- recovery > advanced > partition SD card
- select 512 mb recovery, 0 mb swap
- next put the rom on the SD card from windows explorer
- install the cronmod (it could finally find the zip!!!)
- during installation select that I have an EXT partition
I can now boot my phone, but just to be sure, I checked in Gparted and I now have only one big chunck of unallocated space with size 3.22 gb :-s
How could I put the zip file on there? Where is the EXT? WTF is going on?

Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.

Elightos said:
Do you have a microSD to SD converter so that you can view your microSD on your pc? If so you might want to check if you can acces the unlocated space on your PC and format all of it back to FAT32 before trying again.
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No, unfortunately not. There's one underway, ordered online.

It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one

kotag82 said:
It looks like damaged card for me, try it with other micro sd if you have one
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But how did I manage to damage an SD card?
Is there any way to fix it?

You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?

beachcomber said:
You can test your card by using H2testw (google search should turn it up).
Odd you're getting problems with Gparted - never failed me yet. I wouldn't recommend using recovery to partition, although 4EXT Touch does seem to work. You mounting sd card in recovery in order to partition using Gparted?
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Thanks, I'll try that H2testw when I get home.
I already tried SD Formatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/), to no avail.
Yes, I mount the SD card from within CWM recovery and then format with Gparted.

I have had the same problem with one of my sd-cards.
I guess it was just the card, which wasn't completely compatible, because with other cards, I didn't had the problem.
I had no problem using it with just one fat32 partition, but as soon as I made the second partition, it failed. It had something to do with alignment. Try to experiment with that...

4EXT recovery was able to kind of revive the SD Card. It formatted it to a total of 3.7 gb, so still quite a lot short of the 4 gb the card should be.
At least it is working now.
Strange... first time I've had bad experience with Gparted.

3.7 gig is quite normal.
4EXT can also check alignment of your partitions....

led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1

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led notification not work on desire in miui 4.1
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And this has to do with the subject of this thread in what way?

[Q] Problem Mounting and Formatting SD Card

After I format my Samsung Extreme Speed Class 10 16GB Micro SDHC card in Android, it will mount in Clockworkmod Recovery 5.8.0.2, but won't show in Windows. Then formatting it using MiniTools Partition Wizard makes it visible to Windows but it then won't mount in recovery and Android says it's damaged!
After formatting it in Gparted neither will recognize it. Could someone help please?
I'm using ICS for HTC Desire 0.5.1, default HBoot, Clockworkmod Recovery Touch 5.8.0.2, aGPS and default homescreen with no scripts.
Thanks.

We have same problem before and i do this steps to solved it...
1. Format sd on windows (fat32)
2. Reformat again using CWM or 4EXT, format sd card then;
2.a. partition sd card
2.b. remove all partition and start from the scratch
2.c. 1st-ext partition 1024
2nd skip
swap skip
select 4ext
(done)
3. Reboot
I hope this will help you!

Thanks it's working now!
So annoying that this is necessary, is there a reason?

Yeah I needed to do it again and now it won't work. Tried it twice; must've been a fluke.
Can somebody please help, the problems with this are getting ridiculous.

[Q] Can no longer mount sd card after formatting sd card with EaseUs Partition Master

Hi everyone,
After my HTC Desire (GSM) went out of warranty after 2 years, i thought is was time to root the thing and get rid of my memory problems.
Here is what I did:
I decided to use following XDA guide: Noob Proof Everything Desire Guide UPDATED [04/04/11] , as Revolutionary is still in Beta.
- Rooting went OK (Unrevoked 3.21, not 3.32)
- S-Off with AlphaRev 1.8 went OK
- Partitioning with Gparted: Gparted kept looking for my SD card, but no luck . So I decided to use Easus Partition Master (on Windows XP) to Format the card. My PC could mount the SD card, so i backed up the content to my hard drive. Next I formatted to FAT32 with success. It did seem to add a small other partition that I could not delete (??). I booted to Gparted again, but it still could find the sd card.
The next day I wanted to look at my SD card, but my PC could no longer see it. The option 'USB Diskdrive' has disappeared . Cannot see SD card with ES Explorer on my Desire as well. When I try to format using the Recovery, I get: 'E: Cant mount dev/block/mmcblk0p1 ......'
I ran the fastboot commands as described in the [Troubleshooting] thread successfully, but that did not help.
What should i try next? Can somebody point me in the right direction? Should i try mounting and reformatting with my brother's Xperia U?
Some Info:
HTC Desire GSM (before rooting: Froyo 2.2.2 and Hboot 0.93.0001)
Bravo PVT1 SHIP S-OFF
HBOOT 0.93.0001
CWM - Alpharev Recovery 2.5.1.8
Any help appreciated, thanks.

Does recovery find the sd-card?
That's what you get for not following instructions. Best partitions are made my 4ext recovery or gparted.

abaaaabbbb63 said:
Does recovery find the sd-card?
That's what you get for not following instructions. Best partitions are made my 4ext recovery or gparted.
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I cannot perform operations such as backup/mount/format sd card from the AlphaRev recovery menu if that's what you're saying.
I only used Easus because the Gparted could not find the sd card in the first place, so i figured I do a generic FAT32 format with the Partition Master and then give the Gparted another spin.... Still wonder why Gparted could not find the sd card and why the Partition Master added that small extra partition (Errors on sd card?).

Alright. So my best guess is that the EaseUS Partition Master screwed up my micro sd card's format ('Protected Area'?), which is why the phone can no longer read it.
So I think my best option is to either:
- get a hold of a micro sd to sd adapter, plug it in my pc and use SD Formatter 3.1 to format it to FAT32 properly, or
- buy new SD card altogether
and then try Gparted again.
Comments welcome...