[Q] Big SD Problem.....HELP - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

Hy every body, does some one heard about SD damaged after a FAT32/EXT4 Format?
Let me explain myself:
I've SD-FROMATTED my sd, then using GPARTED LIVE SD in my HD2 in MAGLDR
i've created two partitions:
1/ FAT32
2/ EXT4
I do have click on "apply".
Now, my SD is unreadable and unrecognized by my phone.
The oly way i have to use it now is FAT32 only.
It is the third time i do the partitioning on this SD and it's the first time it does'nt work
HEEELP!!!
I've heard about file corruption using MAGLDR USB MassStg...Is-it true
Thanks for your anwers

No answer? Nobody?

download panasonic SD Formatter 3.0 and that will sort it no probs.
matt

Try Panasonic SD Formatter as mentioned above. With the stock SD card I've had problems formatting using a card reader, however. I had to flash back to a windows mobile rom, connect to PC as a hard drive (not active sync) and re-format the card via that method. It's a pain, but try this if you're really stuck.

Thanks i'll try those methodes

i use minitool partition manager
but first go to control panes, then computer management, devices, find your sd card and right click on it. select create new disk label and that should solve your problem.
now after that run minitool partition manager and you 'll be able to see your sd car as new disk (or something) just create a new partition as (fat32, primary) format maybe that could solve your problem.
(the same thing happen to mee and i was about to cry because of it)
(sorrry for bad english, i'm still learning)

Thanks kof102. I'm on it

ttersu said:
Hy every body, does some one heard about SD damaged after a FAT32/EXT4 Format?
Let me explain myself:
I've SD-FROMATTED my sd, then using GPARTED LIVE SD in my HD2 in MAGLDR
i've created two partitions:
1/ FAT32
2/ EXT4
I do have click on "apply".
Now, my SD is unreadable and unrecognized by my phone.
The oly way i have to use it now is FAT32 only.
It is the third time i do the partitioning on this SD and it's the first time it does'nt work
HEEELP!!!
I've heard about file corruption using MAGLDR USB MassStg...Is-it true
Thanks for your anwers
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Also, as a long time Android recovery user (I went through several Android phones before coming around to the HD2), I would highly recommend formatting your card using Clockwork Recovery.

HyoImowano said:
Also, as a long time Android recovery user (I went through several Android phones before coming around to the HD2), I would highly recommend formatting your card using Clockwork Recovery.
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One problem can be that when try create a Ext partition using CWR it only creates an Ext2 which isn't really the best.

I've seen on differnt French forums that i'm not alone. Is there a Risk formatting and partitioning an SD Card, that is not done for, to damage allocation Table?
My SD is dead now. Not even my PC, my Phone or else are abble to find my SD. Have you heard about that?

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try using EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition with this u will be able to see what is going on.. hope it helps.

Thanks, Have you allready heard about that befor?

I had a problem with my SD it didn't come up on my pc too,when I was playing with the dual booting partition making for wp7 and android. some how it messed up and SD didn't come up so I found this program Easeus and some how managed it to work again it was a simple problem that all I had to do is to recreate the partition and only after that u can format it. if it doesn't exist u format nothing actualy lol.
hope u have the same problem.

I've tried EASUS but it was unable to read my SD...
I think it's dead now...
I've bought an other one and part it with CWM. It's EXT2 but it work perfectly!
Maybe it could be nice to check if nobody else had the same than me...and tell it to Master COTULLA!

No body else?

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[fixed] FAT partition is missing on SD - cannot re-allocate?

I'm kind a desperate... My SD-card is unuseable right now...
Didn't know exactly where to post...
Hi all
I'm desperate.
Just wanted to reformat my SD card. Wasn't possible right away since I've partitioned it in 3 (fat-ext2-ext3) with my formerr HTC Desire.
I deleted the fat partition, and now the card isn't recognized and I cannot reallocate the large partition.
I'm using a Samsung SGS (i9000). But clockwork recovery doesn't allow me to format SD-card?
I've tried Paragon Harddisk Manager, and Diskman4. Windows7 devicemanager doesnt allow anychanges either...
Please help
i found a solution. Couldn't get it to work in windows 7. Tried almost everything. The thing that worked was entering recovery on my old htc magic and partitioning the card from there.
Just wanted to let you guys know if you should end up in the same situation...
Regards

[Q] fat32 + ext2 = damaged, killed SD card :/

Another thread, i think i'm a totally noOb
Today, i downloaded Wildpuzzle Rom .. and flashed it ... everything went fine
I used this tutorial...
http://baert.ulyssis.be/2010/10/13/wildpuzzle-rom-for-htc-wildfire/
this was okay...but in the 4. point ... "Creating an EXT partition on the SDCard"
there was a problem ... after i selected the fat32 and ext2 size, and the phone rebooted .... i had an error message .... "E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip" ...
i've tried a lots of time...always rom manager failed to made the right partitions...
so i moved on, and i tried to made the partitions with manually in windows xp
i've downloaded Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 to do the partitioning....
After i had the 2 partition, 1500MB Fat32 and 300MB ext2, the pc rebooted to make the changes .... and then i had an error message (i can't remember, cause it dissapeared quickly).....
when xp started again i saw my sd card is not working .... windows said, "You must format the SD card" .... and it was only 512 kbyte the full size
i tried a lots of applications, which recovery, or fix sd cards, but nothing helped :/
any solution?!
i wouldn't like to throw away my sdcard if its not necesarry
thx.
lazlo
Try gparted, linux boot cd, make fat32 partition first then make ext3 partition no need for swap on phone
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i have tried gparted, in ubuntu live cd, but when i insert the sd card to the reader nothnig happen ... and gparted stop working :S .. its freeze or something like that
Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...
I guess gparted was loading, it take a little while to read the entire HDD.
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LogicXLz' said:
Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...
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No thx, Paragon partition manager killed my SD card ... so i won't use that app again, never...
But meanwhile, i could fix the SD card with Ubuntus's gParted ... i've tried a lots of time ... reinserted the card to the reader .... and finaly it recognised it ... and can made a valid partition ... so the problem solved
anyway, thx the idea
A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)
phunctionist said:
A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)
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thx a lot dude ... this is a simple and a good idea
never would thought this
Good one!!! It is a very simple solution. However if it works with "camera formating", then the issue with SD card is not too bad. I mean, it's not corrupted in a way to be unusable or "bricked" in some way.
And thus, I think you needn't even bother using some other gadget, just a sufficient knowledge on partitioning tools and you can make it work on your computer. I still believe it could be repaired with Paragon Partition... 've been using that program ever since and never had any problems...
Anyway, the more options avaliable, the more possibilities for a success! ;-)))

[Q] sd card ext partition...............?

Hello, i was searching these forums and couldn't find my answer. I just got a new 32gb sd card and would like to do a ext3 partition and instsall S2E. I copied orginal sd card to pc, then tried to do a 512mb, 0 swap on new sd. But for some reason rom manager gives me this triangle exclamation error picture. i really want to set up my 32gb correctly like you pro's! please explain how to set this situation up. greatly appreciated.
Is gparted the easiest way? Also should I use dt a2sd, or s2e?
"the only good bug is a dead bug"
gparted is what i recommend. Ive gotten Rom manager to work as well but a lot of people seem to run into the same problem you do when using it to partition.
And I prefer s2e for its simplicity and the fact that it persists through flashing nightlies (unless you do a full wipe). Its never given me any issues what so ever. DTa2sd works great and the only problems ive ever had with it are the getting it to initially flash. But once it installs its always worked for me. But if you're on cm7 theres no reason not to run s2e
Thank so much for replying and helping me out. Going to Google about gparted this weekend and figure it out. Again thanks for your two cents.
"the only good bug is a dead bug"
Gparted is fairly easy to do. Boot your computer into Ubuntu and connect your SD card to your USB port using a USB card reader (not your through your phone). Then just go to gparted in the application list and reformat and partition the card the way you wish.
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Just remember that the first (main) partition needs to be FAT32, followed by your smaller ext partition.
Gparted is not as easy as mentioned above. If you use windows system and not familiar with linux, it's quite complicated for my pont of view.
I guess you have two choices:
1. Gparted under win (Gparted+VMwareplayer), faster reading speed
2. Partition Magic(but reading speed for sd card might be slower than solution 1), easier operation.
So I ran the CD and my 32gb shows 26gb at fat32 and 4gb unallocated? Is my 4gb lost? ok... Got that problem resolved, now a new one. ive made my main fat32 and then for some reason i get a flag on my /dev/sdc2 ext3 partition after ive selected apply.
So I was wondering is the flag icon going to be a problem? Or is this puppy ready go!!!
Found the problem.....faulty SD card!!!! This a lesson to myself. Never buy a no name SD card from ebay. I grabbed a patriot, made myself an ext3 partition using gparted. No flag popped up and installed s2e and we are good now. Thank peeps. Delete this thread if you want.
I know you solved this but just throwing this out as an FYI...
I have the same triangle/exclamatiuon problem almost whenever I do a backup/restore etc...
I found if I pull the battery, and immediately reboot into recovery manually -- by pressing vol down and power, the phone takes the previous command (like backup/restore/partition) and goes ahead with it...
Maybe Mines' a failing SD card...but I back it up regularly

Still No Success.. cant Partition 32GB SD Card

Well guys - after trying to figure out why this SD Card isnt being partitioned - i've gone through every procedure and it all ends the same.. the creation of an "Unknown" or "Other" Partition i've tried with minitool, with GParted, with CWM on 2 different phones - i've tried all sizes of ext partitions - it still comes out the same
im wondering whats wroing? can anyone enlighten me?
Your post is unclear at least to me, what are you trying to accomplish, can you give more details?
The only other thing I can think of is, if I remember correctly, you said you were putting an ext3 partition on it right?
I guess it couldnt hurt to try putting an ext4, other than that I'm stumped man.
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Ok I see, use this formatter: Panasonic SD Formatter
Then use this tool: ext3 partition tool
Also look here: ext 4 help
Vylle said:
Well guys - after trying to figure out why this SD Card isnt being partitioned - i've gone through every procedure and it all ends the same.. the creation of an "Unknown" or "Other" Partition i've tried with minitool, with GParted, with CWM on 2 different phones - i've tried all sizes of ext partitions - it still comes out the same
im wondering whats wroing? can anyone enlighten me?
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If you have aMagldr 1.13 installed, you can try CWR (Clockworld Mod Recovery) , i does the partition.
But very limited, only 1 ext 1 swap .
i've used CWR to make the partition - it didnt work
i sold the card some time back, i think i've concluded that the card probably was a fake card. next time i'll make sure to buy a genuine kingston card

[Q] Problems with dual boot Phiremod/HC update, expanding sd card etc.

Can anyone help me out with updating the dual boot Phiremod/HC install?
My pc is a Windows 7 64-bit and I'm having absolutely no luck expanding the sd card to use the full 8GB.
Windows 7 and Easeus don't see the partitions, and Gparted does, but won't let me expand to include the free space (listed as unallocated).
I finally managed to mount the sd card via ADB, and have copied the phiremod update zip there, but when I try to install it, I get an error (bad) and after a restart, the file has vanished from the partition.
I'm very new at this, but can usually follow detailed instructions.
Here's what I did to update to 6.3:
Insert SD Card into my computer's card reader
Download EASUS Partition Manager (also using W7 64-bit)
Take the SD Card partition (#6 I believe) and extend it using the unallocated space left (mine was about 6Gb left on my 8Gb card)
Run the job in the partition manager
Throw SD Card and boot into Phiremod 6.2
connect to computer via USB and copy the 6.3 update to the SD Card
reboot in recovery, clear cache and dalvik cache (under advanced)
flash the 6.3 update zip
Mine hung at the android... screen for about 10min then I did a hard reboot and it fired up and has been working fine.
I was getting gmail force closes until I wiped cache and dalvik cache so I added that step in before flashing.
Let me know how it goes!
Ummm.... yeah, what he said above.
Thanks "toosurreal01"
It's great when a community like this helps each other out.
-Racks
toosurreal01 said:
Here's what I did to update to 6.3:
Insert SD Card into my computer's card reader
Download EASUS Partition Manager (also using W7 64-bit)
Take the SD Card partition (#6 I believe) and extend it using the unallocated space left (mine was about 6Gb left on my 8Gb card)
Let me know how it goes!
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Thanks for the step by step instructions, but for me the buck stops at trying to extend the partition. Easus only sees the boot partition. Gparted shows all the partitions, but won't extend the sd partition. It looks like it should work (lets me drag the extender thingy), but when I apply the action, it reverts back to the original, with no error message. Just doesn't do it.
Should I start over and reformat the card?
It wouldn't hurt. Only thing you would lose are apps you've installed.
You could always use Titanium Backup for that though.
If you do reformat make sure you do a full format and not a "quick" one so no data is still lingering on the card.
Let us know how it goes!
siskiou said:
Thanks for the step by step instructions, but for me the buck stops at trying to extend the partition. Easus only sees the boot partition. Gparted shows all the partitions, but won't extend the sd partition. It looks like it should work (lets me drag the extender thingy), but when I apply the action, it reverts back to the original, with no error message. Just doesn't do it.
Should I start over and reformat the card?
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Just a shot in the dark. But did you unmount the partitions first before applyin your changes in EAsus?
racks11479 said:
Just a shot in the dark. But did you unmount the partitions first before applyin your changes in EAsus?
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Hm, no, I don't think so.
How would I do that? Card in Nook, or in PC?
Again, Easus only shows the boot partition, and nothing else.
siskiou said:
Hm, no, I don't think so.
How would I do that? Card in Nook, or in PC?
Again, Easus only shows the boot partition, and nothing else.
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I meant gparted. Sorry. Did u unmount the partition before attempting to extend it?
And when doing so. Please don't do it while card is in nook. Only when its in PC directly with a nmicrosd card reader
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racks11479 said:
I meant gparted. Sorry. Did u unmount the partition before attempting to extend it?
And when doing so. Please don't do it while card is in nook. Only when its in PC directly with a nmicrosd card reader
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Ah, do I need a usb micro sd card reader?
I only have a regular size sd card adapter for it.
And no, I didn't unmount the partition. I checked earlier, but there is no such option in the gparted menu, and I don't have much advanced partitioning knowledge.
A google search didn't help much.
Would appreciate if you could tell me how to do this!
siskiou said:
Ah, do I need a usb micro sd card reader?
I only have a regular size sd card adapter for it.
And no, I didn't unmount the partition. I checked earlier, but there is no such option in the gparted menu, and I don't have much advanced partitioning knowledge.
A google search didn't help much.
Would appreciate if you could tell me how to do this!
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It is preferred to use a micro sdcard reader. I assume you are using a Linux box or live CD with gparted. But there should definitely be a n option for you to unmount the partition. You will not be able to make any changes to mounted partitions.
Right click over the partition that you want to work with. It should give you a menu. And unmount should be one of the options.
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racks11479 said:
Right click over the partition that you want to work with. It should give you a menu. And unmount should be one of the options.
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Thanks for all your help!
I'm using a live cd on a Win 7 pc, and there is definitely no unmount option in the right click menu when I boot into gparted. Not even a greyed out one.
I'll try and burn another cd and see if that changes things.
siskiou said:
Thanks for all your help!
I'm using a live cd on a Win 7 pc, and there is definitely no unmount option in the right click menu when I boot into gparted. Not even a greyed out one.
I'll try and burn another cd and see if that changes things.
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That is very strange. There should always be an umoint option for partitions if gparyed recoginizes the drive. Hmmmm.... which version of Ubuntu are you using?
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I downloaded the Gparted live version 0.8.1-3.iso.
siskiou said:
I downloaded the Gparted live version 0.8.1-3.iso.
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Yeah. Then there shouldn't be an issue. :/
It might just be an issue with your card reader.
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Thanks again. I'll report back in once I get a usb card reader!
racks11479 said:
It might just be an issue with your card reader.
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Got a card reader and Easeus and Win 7 Disk Management can now see all the partitions.
No luck expanding the sd partition, though. The action seems to happen, but then everything reverts back to what it was originally.
No mount/unmount option anywhere to be found, not with Easeus, nor with Gparted or Win 7.
I'm out of ideas at this point and will reformat the card and start over.
Edited to add: Aaand I'm now having trouble doing *that*, too.
Tried it on the pc: no go.
Tried it on the Nook: it claimed the card was sucessfully formatted in about 1 sec, and then got stuck on that notice.
Waited 5 minutes, still stuck. Turned it off and back on, and Nook booted into Phiremod.
Any ideas how I can reformat this demon card?
Edited to add: Am now using a low level formatting tool and get "format error occurred at offset ...". The program is still running and seems to be formatting the rest of the card.
Does this sound like the sd card is damaged?
A couple other options for you to try:
SD Formatter 3.0 - Made specifically to format SD cards - http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Partition Wizard - This is the software I used to extend the SD Card partition. Really simple to use - http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html?tag=mncol;7
I would try formatting the SD card, reinstalling the dualboot image, the using Partition Wizard to extend the SD card partition.
As far as updating, I haven't tried the newest update the when I updated from 6.1 to 6.2 I plugged my Nook into my computer, dropped the update file onto the Nook's internal memory, then moved it to the SD card with the Root Explorer app.
Hope any of that helps. Good luck!
kwyrt said:
A couple other options for you to try:
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Thanks! I will give those a try, since everything was still on the card after the low level format.
Who knew that reformatting would be such a problem!
Did you have to unmount the sd partition, before extending it?
I extended the partition with Partition Wizard immediately after burning the dual boot image. Never messed with mounting or unmounting anything. I'm a little new to this myself really. Why would you need to mount the SD card partition?
I didn't think I had to, but racks11479 mentioned it as a possible solution in this thread, so I thought I'd ask.
None of the programs had any success in reformatting my card, so I returned it to the store and got a replacement.
Now I'm very ambivalent about trying again and possibly messing up another card.
Can anyone here think of anything that I might have done (or should have done) to cause the card to act this way?
And if anyone feels like posting a baby step guide for someone like me, I'd very much appreciate it!
Edited to add: I just found the following
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It also will produce a multi partition removable disk for which windows will not allow you to re-partition. If you want to get back to "normal" disk you can reformat it with Hewlett-Packard Company's HPUSBFW.exe
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Also, I used an old 2GB card to reformat my NC (went fabulously easy) and then reformatted that and tried a CM7 rom, which worked, but was way too slow. This reformatted again, without any problems, so I'm not sure if the above statement (regarding bootable sd cards) is correct or not.
And if anyone feels like posting a baby step guide for someone like me, I'd very much appreciate it!

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