Hello
I upgraded my hd7 to 32giga sd card and now want to use the 8 giga sd card on android but it gives me an error wen i want to format the sd card to use it on an android phone it ask me for a password what should i do?
Thank you very much
Hi!
Can you see the 8GB at Windows Explorer?
If not try to low-level format the SD.
I come from HD2 were I've changed the mikroSD very often.
After using the mikroSD with WP7 the explorer only saw 200MB of FAT partition, so we have to delete the whole card to get the complete storage capacity back.
good luck!
Hello. Thank you for your answer
I cant see the sd card on explorer
Can you tell me how do i low-level format the card?
Thanks
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u have to format the card with a nokia device before using it
1. Plug-in your flash drive to your computer.
2. Open Command Prompt with admin rights. Use any of the below methods to open Command Prompt with admin rights.
*Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.
Or
*Go to Start menu > All programs > Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
3. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt:
First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message.
Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive. In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1.
4. Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is “Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
Just download gparted livecd, connect the card to the pc with a usb reader and boot with the livecd. Gparted will show you the unknown partition on the sdcard, delete it. Put the card in the the android phone and format it, enjoy
Hello!
Thank you all for your help I will try that
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Did gparted livecd work?
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I had to give up nothing worked
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try panasonic formatter...worked for me when nothing else would
Format WP7 MicroSD with Nokia
Hi!
I had the same issue. You cannot format your card even with gparted live CD I've tried that and a lot other. Your card is security locked according to SD-CARD standard. No implementation of any PC-OS (Win/Linux/Unix/Mac) capable of formatting such a card (no such software written). It would need a driver level modification of SD CARD handling routines which simply does not exist.
Newer Nokia phones are capable of formatting the card even if this security lock is on. Go to a Nokia shop and ask them to format your card. That was what I did. It took them 1 minute. My card is fully working now.
No other way. Believe me and you would not waste a day finding this out just as I did.
Regards,
Cina.
Arrg too late for me I putted my card on the garbage
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earlier today i checked my phone out, i have apps2sd, and out of nowhere none of my programs could be recognized. I got an error saying that the card was blank and unreadable. So i formatted it with windows vista. When I did that the paragon partition manager couldnt move or repartition the card. SO i tried deleting the partition that the Windows put on the card so that way I could repartition it in Paragon later and hopefully have it work but now windows wont recognize my card! What happened and what can I do now! arg help!
Bring.Da.Pain2 said:
earlier today i checked my phone out, i have apps2sd, and out of nowhere none of my programs could be recognized. I got an error saying that the card was blank and unreadable. So i formatted it with windows vista. When I did that the paragon partition manager couldnt move or repartition the card. SO i tried deleting the partition that the Windows put on the card so that way I could repartition it in Paragon later and hopefully have it work but now windows wont recognize my card! What happened and what can I do now! arg help!
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I've used SD Formatter a few times. It helped when Windows wouldn't recognize my card either.
Site Link : http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
Direct Download: http://panasonic.jp/support/sd_w/download/ftp/sdfv2003.exe
I have had similar issues to this. I just formatted it in the phone and it formatted the entire card and got rid of the ext2 partition, then my computer read it fine and I was able to format to fat32 then re-partition it with paragon
But my problem is that not my computer or my phone is recognizing my card. I tried the sd formatter and even that didn't work. Its like I removed the way that the card would even be bootable. Its a class 6, 4 gb card so I want to get it back. Idk whats going on. It wont recognize it at all.
Im having the same problem I think, my phone reads the card fine, but Windows doesnt, and I reformatted it as an FAT32 and Windows still wont pick it up this wuld really help since I jus bricked wit the new SPL and I had the new radio, how gay
happened to me.
open up paragon and see if you can format it...
if it shows up and it wont format then atleast try to assign a drive letter to it.
after i did that i inserted the card into my phone and restarted the phone.
the phone recognized that the card was not properly formatted and then it formatted it.
after that your computer should be abl to see the card and you should be able to reformat into ext2/fat32 combo if you want
or atleast thats what i did.
kp126 said:
happened to me.
open up paragon and see if you can format it...
if it shows up and it wont format then atleast try to assign a drive letter to it.
after i did that i inserted the card into my phone and restarted the phone.
the phone recognized that the card was not properly formatted and then it formatted it.
after that your computer should be abl to see the card and you should be able to reformat into ext2/fat32 combo if you want
or atleast thats what i did.
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That's sounds gr8 and I would definitely do that, but paragon nor windows even recognizes tht there is something in the sd card slot. When I put the card into the phone it doesn't even know tht there is a card in it. Do you think I would have better luck if I place the sd card in the phone and plug the phone with the usb cord into the computer?
Something else just occured to me, after you said to assign a drive lettter to the card. It might nt have a letter assigned to it so tht might b why it won't show up on the computer of phone. Is there a way to assign a letter to the sd card w.o. it appearing on the computer? Or a way to manually tell the computer that the card is there?
Try using the defualtly assigned letter to do a fromat directly from a cmd prompt with administrive privliges. That worked for me even when windows didn't recognize my card.
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Try using the defualtly assigned letter to do a fromat directly from a cmd prompt with administrive privliges. That worked for me even when windows didn't recognize my card.
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Ok tht sounds like it might work. I guess I woulf use f:/ as the default letter right? Thts what it was before it started doing this houdini thing. And how do I use the command prompt to format the card? Remember tht nothing happens. I've tried to use 2 different computers to discover the card. One does nothing and the other starts to freeze wen I plug the card in. I'm also using a memory card reader.
Bring.Da.Pain2 said:
Ok tht sounds like it might work. I guess I woulf use f:/ as the default letter right? Thts what it was before it started doing this houdini thing. And how do I use the command prompt to format the card? Remember tht nothing happens. I've tried to use 2 different computers to discover the card. One does nothing and the other starts to freeze wen I plug the card in. I'm also using a memory card reader.
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Something of use from M$ themselves
If that's what it was using b4 then ya probably go with f:. Open a command prompt and input format F: it should ask you if you're sure. Say yes and its done.. I would actually try using the computer that freeze's just don't try and access the card, only try the format.
GoodLuck!!!!
Im trying to do the formatting thing on the command prompt but it says that the specified drive does not exist. im really lost. How to i get my sd card back now?
how old is your card? its possible it is dead, especially if you're doing apps2sd, all the read/write cycles will shorten the life of it.
you may also try clearing the partition table with a linux command:
busybox dd if=/dev/full of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1k count=1
do this under adb shell or terminal with the SD card in and you should have a "new card". pull the card out and plug it back in. now you can format the card using the phone or a computer, then follow the steps to partition it again.
breaultm said:
how old is your card? its possible it is dead, especially if you're doing apps2sd, all the read/write cycles will shorten the life of it.
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I only got the sd card about 2 weeks ago and its been working fine until now. I also asked Marcusmaximus what the damage was to the sd card if I applied the dalvik-cache and the apps2sd to my card and he said it was minimal.
billc.cn said:
you may also try clearing the partition table with a linux command:
busybox dd if=/dev/full of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1k count=1
do this under adb shell or terminal with the SD card in and you should have a "new card". pull the card out and plug it back in. now you can format the card using the phone or a computer, then follow the steps to partition it again.
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I tried your command in the adb shell and in the terminal of the sd card and it responded back on both devices
C:\sdk\tools>adb shell busybox dd if=/dev/full of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
I tried to format the card after and the computer nor the phone would recognize the card still.
Bring.Da.Pain2 said:
I only got the sd card about 2 weeks ago and its been working fine until now. I also asked Marcusmaximus what the damage was to the sd card if I applied the dalvik-cache and the apps2sd to my card and he said it was minimal.
I tried your command in the adb shell and in the terminal of the sd card and it responded back on both devices
C:\sdk\tools>adb shell busybox dd if=/dev/full of=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=1k count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
I tried to format the card after and the computer nor the phone would recognize the card still.
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I did try this before I post. After I used the command and put the card into my card reader, Windows immediately asked me to format the card.
I think vold may interfere with this process though, try this under recovery mode if you can.
Do you mean for me 2 restart the phone and place it in the mode with home and power buttons pressed. Then do the alt x command? Sry bit of confusion when u say recovery mode.
try...
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.
see if it picks up your sdcard there, if it does, format it to FAT and restart what you did.
if not, get a new card, i don't see another way.
try turning on USB Debugging from your phone and then re-connect to your computer and if your computer doesn't read it try rebooting your phone!! this process worked for me!!
1. Turn on usb debug
2. reboot(both comp and phone)
3. connect to comp
walla!
well it worked for me!
Hi everyone i need help here to sort out my lost Micro SD Card For My GENE I Was Using IT When Suddenly My phone Switched Restarted When I checked My File Explorer It does not Shown My card When i put it on card reader it first shows disk is not formatted do you want to format when i give yes it gives error that windows cannot format the drive and another sad thing is it shows the size of the disk as 2.0kb only any body please trouble shoot i request all senior members to help......
try to format the card using disk management utility
Thanks Vibhav but dint got solution
hello thanks for reply but i didn't get solution i tried but it does not show only
try to use this soft EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional 4.3.6
my sd card also got same problem.
Try USB Card reader. In case the USB Card Reader is able to recognise the SD Card, format it while connected to windows desktop/laptop.
your sd card will be not format with windows format utility, it will be format by DOS . Use this method
Open windows xp
click start --> program --> acessery -->
commond prompt
you will see a box, Type here
>format k: ( press return key)
note : k is the destination drive where your SD card ploughed
follow the instruction.... enjoy
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I formated my SD card on my mac as fat32 and now something strange has occured. It seemed to format fine, and I can add things to the card in both OS X and Windows, and Android, however now I cannot format the drive on the windows PC no matter what I try. The disk mounts in windows fine but when I right click and go to format, the SD card umounts and I get the pop-up message:
There is no disk in drive E:
Insert a disk, and then try again.
I think something weird happend when it was formated on the Mac.
My goal was to gain root access, which I've done in the past, but however the Mac disk utility formated the SD card, I cannot get the phone to recognize the DREAIMG.nbh file upon restarting the phone using the rooting method outlined in these forums.
I tryed a few different methods to format the card in windows, including diskpart, and through managment tools. The same thing happens with all methods.
edit: I also tryed formating using the format utility in in Android. It formats fine, but something is still wrong, it will not format in windows.
Any help would be much appreciated.
are you sure its a mac to pc issue? can you add files to the root of the sdcard and such on a mac
Yes, I can add files to the root of the card on the mac.
Whatever the mac's disk utility did during the format, the PC does not like.
Dude same thing happened to me
I found a work-around that. use a an sdcard reader (Usb or the one that comes with the sdcard) I formatted mine that way so I could use it.
Thank you! This worked.
no problem =)
So I'm a NewB and managed to get DeeperBlue's v4.0 on a 16gb class 2 uSD card and IT WORKS!!! Even beyond that - I got Android market installed and now with Amazon's market (launched today), I've downloaded and installed swiftkey, and a number of other apps not avail in the android market. THis is a perfect device. Now ... I want to make sure I have a backup of my SD card in case something happens, i can quickly stick a new card in and go. (NOTE: - I bricked my laptop/XP in the process which I have since recovered - - - i said I'm newb...). So I dont care to go back through installing Java, Android SDK, etc.. if I can simply image one card onto another. Particuarly since I have several apps with all my configurations and after taking hours to get this all setup - i simply want to create a duplicate uSD. any help would be GREATLY appreciated... THanks in advance. PS... with everyone creating bootable uSDs my guess is there will likely be others interested in doing the same.
1 - Go to Softpedia.org or equivalent and download FREE Win 32 Disk Imager application (for Windows).
2 - Insert MicroSD card into a USB card reader and insert that into PC USB slot.
3 - Start Win32DiskImager, and make sure that the Disk Letter is the one of your MicroSD card (this step is IMPORTANT!)
4 - Type a name and add .img in the field of the program for an image file name. You can also select a folder on your hard disk using the Browse button.
5 - Click ON READ (not write) and your microSD card will be backed up as an .img file.
6 - Exit
7 - Click on "Safely Remove Hardware" and select the disk letter of your USB reader.
8 - Do it all again, except that:
a - use a blank MicroSD card
b - use the Browse button to select the same .img you created earlier
c - use "WRITE" this time (not read) to burn the .img file to the new MicroSD card.
So, nothing else is needed except a PC with a USB slot, a USB MicroSD card reader (often included free with the card), and Windows (you could even use the stock IE to go to softpedia.org).
Thanks for your quick reply! My hope is my newer higher class card will result in faster performance.
claycourtdad said:
Thanks for your quick reply! My hope is my newer higher class card will result in faster performance.
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The best way to format an SD card in Windows is a program called "SDFormatter" which is a free product of the SD card manufacturers association, which is at:
sdcard.org
You can download the latest version, 3.0 there.
Hi, I've been having a problem with my micro sdhc card, everytime i've tried to copy music or any file it is shown on my computer, but when I use the phone most of the files dissapear, and the few ones that are shown are damaged, how can I solve this?? i've tried with 2 32GB micro sdhc and its the same
rualquivi said:
Hi, I've been having a problem with my micro sdhc card, everytime i've tried to copy music or any file it is shown on my computer, but when I use the phone most of the files dissapear, and the few ones that are shown are damaged, how can I solve this?? i've tried with 2 32GB micro sdhc and its the same
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Did you format the card on/in the phone? Don't format it on you pc
Are you properly ejecting/unmounting/removing the device from your computer? I've had similar issues with my digital camera when I forget to eject he card from my Linux computer. I think the files don't get closed properly. May not have anything to do with your problem...
rualquivi said:
Hi, I've been having a problem with my micro sdhc card, everytime i've tried to copy music or any file it is shown on my computer, but when I use the phone most of the files dissapear, and the few ones that are shown are damaged, how can I solve this?? i've tried with 2 32GB micro sdhc and its the same
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Hi, I have had the problem with class10 sdhc card. it randomly lost data (or whole sd card unmounted when locked screen). I use class 4 instead. However, lost data appeared (a week ago) too - and it was (perhaps) because I didn't "eject" before unplugging... but usually I don't do it, and everything was ok.
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32gb Micro SDHC card is not detected by phone and unable to format in PC
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I bought a Sandisk 32gb Micro SDHC card with class 4.. I try to make a partition on it using MiniTool Partition Wizard Manager into primary FAT32 & Ext2 for my android phone. Now it is not detected by my android phone. So I tried with windows phone.Result is same.Then I try to connect it through a USB card reader to my PC. It asks for Formatting the removable disk.When I try to format it in basic FAT,NTFS or exFAT it shows only 30.6 mb capacity and a prompt message "Windows was unable to complete format". I tried various way to format from the command prompt, Disk Manager, SD formatter 3&4, please can anyone help...
SanDisk 32gb MicroSDHC card damage after unsuccessful partition unable 2 format on PC
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I bought a Sandisk 32gb Micro SDHC card with class 4.. I try to make a partition on it using MiniTool Partition Wizard Manager into primary FAT32 & Ext2 for my android phone. Now it is not detected by my android phone. So I tried with windows phone.Result is same.Then I try to connect it through a USB card reader to my PC. It asks for Formatting the removable disk.When I try to format it in basic FAT,NTFS or exFAT it shows only 30.6 mb capacity and a prompt message "Windows was unable to complete format". I tried various way to format from the command prompt, Disk Manager, SD formatter 3&4, please can anyone help???
bkonthoujam said:
Hi,
I bought a Sandisk 32gb Micro SDHC card with class 4.. I try to make a partition on it using MiniTool Partition Wizard Manager into primary FAT32 & Ext2 for my android phone. Now it is not detected by my android phone. So I tried with windows phone.Result is same.Then I try to connect it through a USB card reader to my PC. It asks for Formatting the removable disk.When I try to format it in basic FAT,NTFS or exFAT it shows only 30.6 mb capacity and a prompt message "Windows was unable to complete format". I tried various way to format from the command prompt, Disk Manager, SD formatter 3&4, please can anyone help???
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I have the same problem, any answer about how to solve this?
thnx
Does your phone let you format it?
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I know im off topic but.I cant flash cyanogenmod10 Final (Xperia Play) using my sdhc But when i flash it with other sd it works...Please help.Im using Lupus Jb v8 Kernel
Same problem here. However im able to view all the data but i cant remove it, or format. I think i have tried all the programs availeble.
Please help.