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[Q] cant access sd card

Hi can any one help i tried to install the desire hd rom, the instructions suggested partitioning sd card before installing the rom
which i tried to do using Mini tool partition wizard unfortunetly after wiping partition and the creating new partion my sd card would not mount as i wasnt sure if i should have formated the sd card at this point as that option was still available. but the instructions didnt mention wether i should have formated after creating new partition.
So anyway to cut a long story short i switched the phone of instead, hoping that when i restarted it i would be able to mount the sd card. But now i had a new problem my phone now would not detect my sd card altogether
Does any one know how i can make my sd card detectable again or will i need to fork out for a new sd card

Have you tried it in another device, say a PC card reader?

Had the same issue. Everything worked fine after formatting the SD card with Gparted. What I did wrong is that I made 3 EXT4 partitions for Data2SD and the computer didn't recognize the card. Used Recovery to mount the card and Gparted to repartition it. Everything worked fine afterwards.

yes sort of tried my friends sd card in my desire and it detected it so its definetly the my sd card that faulty

thanks for replying to my message i tried mounting the sd card in recovery using recovery manager but my phone wont mount it as it not detecting the sdcard do you think i might have better luck with gparted and if so do you have a link where i might be abe to down load it.

[Q] Ext3 on 16gb SD Card

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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Gparted Patition Strangeness

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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Cannot mount SD card

I was created two partition on SD card 2x2GB and installed Link2SD-1.8.0
Set Link2SD-1.8.0 to use another partition for data, to save space.
After that, I realized, I dont need 2GB for app, I need 800MB.
OK, then I delete Link2SD-1.8.0.
And on PC with MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, delete all partition and create 1st 3gb and 2nd 800mb. I format all partiton as FAT32.
After that Desire wont read my SD card!
I trying create one partion FAT, FAT32, Unformated... and phone dont read my card.
When I go to Recovery and mount USB, Windows read my SD card, but when trying with Desire mount sd card, he saying card cannot mount...
IMPORTANT PART
I trying another card (from nokia N73) and Desire read it.
If I use Desire SD card to N73, nokia says no SD card.
If I return back N73 card to N73, nokia says no SD card!!!?
If I return again to Andoid, then works, but in nokia no longer!
P.S
I dont have card reader...

From what I gathered from your post you made a mistake which causes the problems you described - you made all partitions FAT32... You should only make the first partition primary and FAT32 and the secondary should be EXT(2,3,4 - variant by your preference)... I'm not familiar with that MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition you used but I suspect that it won't do everything you need.... I recommend you reformat your sdcard with sdformatter or gparted (preferably because of alignment ability)... Probably after being formatted in gparted to a single primary partition you will get access to the card. If everything goes well then I'd repartition sdcard to link2sd needs in gparted or in the recovery itself (it probably won't make aligned partitions but to hell with that, they'll work )...
If you are not familiar with gparted search through xda since there are several good tutorials about using it... I use it regularly, i install it to a flash drive (through USBInstaller or Yumi or whatever tool you find) and boot to it, although you can burn it to a bootable cd/dvd just as well...
Hope any of this helped...

I used gparted and now is working! Thanx!
Great thing is gparted!

How to format microSD card back to fat32? (from ext4/fat32)

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.