Hi,
As stated my firestick formatted my external hard drive and now I cannot get windows to recognize it when I plug it in my laptop. It is seen in the disk format section but has no drive letter ( I gave it a drive letter using AOMEI partition assistant) but this fails. Any help would be appreciated.
If you used the FireTV format for internal storage option, I think it gets formatted to ext4 (Linux file system) which can't be natively read by windows.
Thanks, that actually worked utilizing that software
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Hi All,
I have a problem which might have been solved. I have installed opendesire on my HTC Desire with an ext4 partition on my SD Card. I have installed many apps on the sd card and they go to the ext4 partition.
Now, when I connect my phone to the PC and enable USB Mass storage from my phone, I see my FAT32 partition on the PC. But the apps that are installed on my phone on the ext4 partition disappear and ONLY appear after I have disconnected my phone from my PC. Is there a solution here?
Thanks
Any help/suggestion is appreciated.
I believe its because when its mounted to the computer only 1 thing will read it so since your connected to your computer your phone won't read the SD card or the apps on the ext partition
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When you set your SD card to mass storage you are allowing your pc to connect/write/delete info on it and therefore your phone will not be able to access it at the same time. Hence apps on the SD will not be accessible. Also apps with data on the SD will not work correctly either. However, if you set the connection type to charge only then it should be fine. (you just won't be able to access the SD card from your pc!)
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ansiacer said:
When you set your SD card to mass storage you are allowing your pc to connect/write/delete info on it and therefore your phone will not be able to access it at the same time. Hence apps on the SD will not be accessible. Also apps with data on the SD will not work correctly either. However, if you set the connection type to charge only then it should be fine. (you just won't be able to access the SD card from your pc!)
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Its like this. My SD Card has a FAT32 partition and an ext4 file system partition. When connected to a PC only the FAT32 partition is available as mass storage and not the ext4 system. My apps are on the ext4 partition.
It's working as designed. If you put your phone into drive mode the phone can no longer see the sd card. Windows doesn't know what an Ext4 partition is so only shows the fat32 partition.
That's just the way it is.
I agree with all the above when connected in disk drive mode the phone will not see the phone sd card regardless of the partitions etc set on it. There is an app that allows dual access but I forget the name and tbh its kind of useless when you understand why its the case.
I have installed the LeeDrOiD ROM with A2SD+ and all my apps are installed to the ext3 partition on my sdcard. But I'm still able to use these apps when connected in "disk drive" mode (those apps using the fat32 partition for storing data do have problems but the others are working normally)
I apologize if this has been covered but I tried a couple of searches of the forums and google and didn't get a definitive answer.
I was researching rooting, updating the ratio and installing froyo on my Incredible and started to gather up the files and test my setup. I ran into a problem before anything really got off the ground. In order to complete the above process correctly the SD card should be formatted in FAT32 so I hooked my incredible up to my mac and formated using disk utility. Once I format the sd card with my mac the incredible lists the sd card as unavailable under >settings>sd card and storage. I have also tried the newfs_msdos utility from the terminal and again no luck. I am hoping that someone with a deeper understanding can point me in a direction other than find a pc.
Thanks
KCRoach
kcroach said:
I apologize if this has been covered but I tried a couple of searches of the forums and google and didn't get a definitive answer.
I was researching rooting, updating the ratio and installing froyo on my Incredible and started to gather up the files and test my setup. I ran into a problem before anything really got off the ground. In order to complete the above process correctly the SD card should be formatted in FAT32 so I hooked my incredible up to my mac and formated using disk utility. Once I format the sd card with my mac the incredible lists the sd card as unavailable under >settings>sd card and storage. I have also tried the newfs_msdos utility from the terminal and again no luck. I am hoping that someone with a deeper understanding can point me in a direction other than find a pc.
Thanks
KCRoach
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When you selected format did you choose FAT32? MAC use a Unix (journal file System) format by default.
It is much better to power down the phone pull the SDCard and place it in the the computer for formatting, the Incredible has 2 memory locations 1 8GB internal (non-removable) and the SDCard that you an remove, when you connect to a MAC both memory locations will be displayed.
You very lucky you did not format the the internal location.
Hope this helps
Try formatting it via the phone. Settings - phone storage - format SD card. You can do that in every Rom but cyanogen.
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couple weeks ago i played around with disk utility on my mac too and my card stopped being recognized, it finally took me turning the phone off, popping the card out, and pushing it back in and it came right up. might give it a try.
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Try formatting it via the phone. Settings - phone storage - format SD card. You can do that in every Rom but cyanogen.
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Yes. This. I have a mac and I formatted my sdcard using disk utility to FAT32 and I have had no problems, but just format from the phone.
Are getting a 200mb partition and that's it or is it completely unrecognizable. Formatting it through the phone is the only way I've found to get rid of to clear that partition.
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When you selected format did you choose FAT32? MAC use a Unix (journal file System) format by default.
It is much better to power down the phone pull the SDCard and place it in the the computer for formatting, the Incredible has 2 memory locations 1 8GB internal (non-removable) and the SDCard that you an remove, when you connect to a MAC both memory locations will be displayed.
You very lucky you did not format the the internal location.
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I formated to the "MS-DOS" option using both utilities. The disk utility defaults to FAT32 and the other utility was specified as FAT32. The result is that after formatting the disk utility says that the device format is mac OS extended (journaled) and the volume is MS-Dos FAT32. I have tried both utilities while the sd card in the phone and the phone is connected and while the sd card is directly in a reader. I believe that while the sd card was in the reader, I may not have gotten the mac os extended formatting in the device but it still wasn't recognized by the phone.
I have formatted the card several times with the phone, to make it readable again after formatting with my mac. Unfortunately, I still have the stock 2.1 that the phone was shipped with and that formats the sd card to FAT16 not FAT32. I assume that if I buy are larger sd card the phone may bump it up to FAT32 but am just puzzled by the inability of phone to read the mac formatting of FAT32.
I have also tried turning the phone off and on after reinserting the sd card.
So, I guess, is there a way to force the phone to format into FAT32 rather than FAT16 from the settings.
Thanks
KCRoach
Download a utility called hirens boot cd. Burn the image and boot from it on a cd rom.this should give you a windows xp environment to properly format with among many other useful tools. I'm sure there is an easier way but I'm not that familiar with mac.
Hope this helps
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Is it possible to format an external SD card or a 2.5" HDD connected via OTG to something other than FAT32 and make the tablet (8.4) see it ?
I've searched and found pages and YT vids about formatting to EXT2 and 3 etc, but they all seem to be for moving apps/games to the SD card with software like Link2SD etc.
I've formatted the SD and HDD to none FAT32, but haven't used the Link software. But, obviously the tablet can't see the card/drive.
I'm just wanting a storage location, not to move apps/games.
The reason is, I want to be able to download RAR files when away from home, then extract the files, but most of the files I'd download would extract to over the 4GB limit.
At the time of writing the tablet isn't rooted, but will be soon.
Thank for any help :fingers-crossed:
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Never mind, I figured it out.
I'd like to use a WD USB-powered 4TB drive on my Pixel XL's OTG with stock 7.1.2, stock adapter. What disk type should I set this as in Windows Disk Mgmt, partition type, and capacity? When I plug it direct in the phone, phone wants to format is as a 2TB FAT32 MBR disk, which a) as a basic MBR disk is limited to 2TB, wasting half the drive), and b) as a FAT32 partition, is limited to 2TB, again wasting space.
Any way around this, or is 2TB MBR FAT32 effectively a hard limit in Nougat?
What is it formatted as now? What do you plan to use it for?
whats up guys?
So i just bought a 128GB USB C thumb drive. when i insert it into my pixel, it gives me the option to format it as internal storage or as portable storage. if i format it as portable storage, i can not download movies and shows from google play movies and netflix to it. the only way i can do that is to format it as internal. once formatted as internal, i can not insert it into any other device including my PC without having it have to reformat. is there a way to edit the partition it creates to half the size once its formatted on my phone as internal? this way i can plug it into a PC and still use it as a thumb drive? ive been playing around with EaseUS and have not gotten windows to recognize it once modified. anyone got anything?
ok so no matter how i edit partitions after android creates them, they get corrupt and i have to reformat it. now the other thing i tried it to partition the usb drive into 2 64GB partitions. android sees this as 2 partitions and allows me to select which partition i want to format as internal storage or portable storage. if i select the first partition, or the second, it does not matter, android will format the entire drive and use the full 128GB for the phone rather than the 64GB partition. so now my question is, is there a way to "trick" android into thinking its only a 64GB thumb drive so i can later format the second partition and have windows recognize it as a separate 64GB drive?
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ok so no matter how i edit partitions after android creates them, they get corrupt and i have to reformat it. now the other thing i tried it to partition the usb drive into 2 64GB partitions. android sees this as 2 partitions and allows me to select which partition i want to format as internal storage or portable storage. if i select the first partition, or the second, it does not matter, android will format the entire drive and use the full 128GB for the phone rather than the 64GB partition. so now my question is, is there a way to "trick" android into thinking its only a 64GB thumb drive so i can later format the second partition and have windows recognize it as a separate 64GB drive?
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What file format are you formatting the drive to? Have you tried formatting it in Windows exFAT and then using a decent file manager with OTG support like Solid Explorer? Are you using the stock kernel or custom? Sorry, I don't have a USB-C thumb drive.
I was formatting it to exfat I'm windows. Both partitions. When inserted into my phone andoid says that it is unusable and needs to be formatted. So I click on the first partition and format it as internal. Android reformats the entire drive. Not just the first partition.
If I format it as fat32, Android just reconizes it as a portable thumb drive. I can't change anything about it or format it as internal
This is on pure stock Android and kernel. I'm not rooted.