I'm currently using the stock 16GB card that came with my Telus Milestone. I just ordered a 32GB class 10 card to replace it. I'm using EXT2 on CM7, so I've got a Fat32 partition and an EXT2 partition.
What's the best way to get all my data on all partitions over seamlessly and easily? Can Norton GHOST or Acronis access the cards and do a clone from 1 to the other, as if they were regular harddrives? (using USB card readers)
Any advice would be appreciated!
rcummings100 said:
I'm currently using the stock 16GB card that came with my Telus Milestone. I just ordered a 32GB class 10 card to replace it. I'm using EXT2 on CM7, so I've got a Fat32 partition and an EXT2 partition.
What's the best way to get all my data on all partitions over seamlessly and easily? Can Norton GHOST or Acronis access the cards and do a clone from 1 to the other, as if they were regular harddrives? (using USB card readers)
Any advice would be appreciated!
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Yeh norton ghost worked fine for my 8gb with fat32 and ext2 partitions to a new 16gb card.....
Ghost didn't work for me. It simply wouldn't see either card, using a multitude of card readers.
I ended up partitioning the card manually using Minitool partition wizard. I needed a FAT32 partition and EXT2 partition. I then created a nandroid backup of the phone which included the ext2 partition and copied everything from the old card's fat32 over to the new card manually on my windows machine with robocopy. Popped the new card into the phone and immediately restored the nandroid backup before the phone could boot.
Worked like a charm, though annoying. I really wish Ghost would have worked!
And I'm an idiot: partition wizard has an option to do exactly what ghost does: copy the entire disc, and resize whatever partitions you needed.
I just did that on a second card and it was a lot easier than the first time around...not that the first time was difficult
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hi, i've been trying to format my microsd card and partition it to fat32 and ext4.
i have used paragon partition manager but its only v9 so its only able to partition to ext3.
subsequently i used gparted but i booted and did not detect my micro sd card at all, making it impossible to partition.
Any ideas/workaround? or other programs to do so?
Cheers
Search google for 'gparted'. Burn the image and boot it to partition for free. Used it myself to create fat32 and ext4. It works flawlessly
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MZWiZard said:
Search google for 'gparted'. Burn the image and boot it to partition for free. Used it myself to create fat32 and ext4. It works flawlessly
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i tried that but i have no idea why the gparted do not recognise my microsd card. all it recognise was the harddisk only, therefore its not even listed on the list on formatable memory slots
I am getting the same issue, I also tried Paragon but even that is not allowing me to create a new partition.
I starting to think it's my SD card, I got a 8GB Samsung Class 6 card.
I really want to apply this mimocan fix.
Update:
I tried it on my work machine and GParted worked, going to install samset 1.9b now.
I used Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 and it worked without problems.
When booted up in gparted you insert your sd card and after that you need to hit the "refresh" option in one of the menus, cant remember the exact name of the menu, but try it if you havnt.
So I got myself a class 10 MicroSD from newegg from the company called Patriot (reviews for all their products say its a good company)
NewEgg page with item
In any case I figured 99$ isnt too bad. So I got the memory card today and sure enough computer has no issues reading it.Speeds are great and no bad reads or writes
So Im trying to set it up with ext3 etc and nothing seems to be working. So in any case I reformatted everything to fat32 on my PC and the phone isn't even detecting the memory card.
I was under the impression 32GB microsd should be ok. I hope this isnt a compatibility issue. Anyone else have thoughts in this?
Tried partition magic, default disk management application on xp also tried MiniTool Partition Wizard and no luck. At this point I just want the phone to detect the memory card to I can format it from the phone and then do the ext3 either from CW or Amon
Anyone? Is changing the drive letter on a computer going to change anything?
I heard that FAT32 does not support 32GB partition very well.. also some card readers have problem with reading a 32GB shdc card.
Try to make a 10GB Fat32 partition on your SD card and leave remaining space free, see if your phone can use it.
houzuoguo said:
I heard that FAT32 does not support 32GB partition very well.. also some card readers have problem with reading a 32GB shdc card.
Try to make a 10GB Fat32 partition on your SD card and leave remaining space free, see if your phone can use it.
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Thanks ill give it a try but no point in a 32gig card if cant use most of it on the phone. Dont need most of the card as ext3 lol
Working fine here. I used Acronis True Image to clone the card the first go around, but didn't like how it setup the card. Then used Acronis Disk Director to reconfigure a 31gb FAT & 1gb ext3. You can use Amon_RA Recovery to setup the card too. I did do that too, but I already have Disk Director to give me the gui view of what's going on.
Cannot get EXT3 partition to work on Desire
I'm also having issues getting the ext3 partition of the Kingston 32GB micro sdhc card to work with my desire.
I used GParted to create a large fat32 partition and also created a 1GB ext3 partition, but when i reboot the handset i get an error meesage on the desire telling me that the sd card is damaged and that i need to format. When i go back into GParted the FAT32 partition looks healthy but ext3 partition comes up as unallocated.
This method has worked fine with an 2 and 8GB micro sd but it seems to have issues when using the 32GB.
I've also tried using rom manager to create a 512MB ext3 partition but that just causes the phone to sit on on the boot up screen.
If anyone is experiencing the same/similar problem, please let me know how you tackled it.
Try to use Amon_RA's recovery and reformat your SD card with it.
Gparted seems to be the best tool to use.
Hi,
Same problem with a Patriot MicroSD 32GB Class10.
Attempt to partition MicroSD with :
-Gparted
-Minitool Partition Wizard Home
-CWM (HD2)
Partitions are always destroyed or strange modified so Android can't read FAT32 partition.
No problems with a Sandisk 32GB Class 2.
Ok i worked out what this issue was.
Unfortunantly i've purchased a counterfeit Kingston MicroSD.
Kingston confirmed that it was a fake after i send them pics so that explains everything.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
The reviews seem mixed on the Patriot
I like sdformatter--thorough job--make sure settings are as recommended
im currently buy a 16gb Class10 MicroSD for replacing my 8gb Class2 card, i have a motorola milestone, mi nandroid not have the function to backup ext partition, how i clone my old card to migrate all data and partitions to new card?
I tried to read the information from the ext2 partition with a windows driver without success.
The memory card has 3 partitions, one ext2 (i supposed) bootloader 38mb long, second partition 1,47gb ext2, and last 5,6gb fat32.
The new 16gb card, partitioned in 250mb ext2, 1,46gb ext2 , and 13,7gb aprox. Fat32.
Tried to copy only the info from the fat32 of 8gb card to the fat32 from the 16gb card, and mi apps moved with app2sd dont show in the phone, i suppose the problem is i not copy the ext2 partition from the 8gb card to the new one.
Exist some method like the ancient norton ghost to clone the both cards?
Sorry my bad inglish
Hi guys
I'm looking forward to use Link2sd so I installed minitoll partition wizard and tried to create 2 partitions:
1 Primary 7 Gb FAT32
1 Primary 0.6 Gb Ext2
i could never complete the task and partition wizard kept saying the sd card was unformatted. I found on anther thread that for some phones Ext2 partition did not work and that a second Fat32 could solve the issue.
I went down that road and the sd formatting went fine creating 2 Fat32 partition.
The BIG problem is that the sd card (Kingston 8 Gb class4) is extremely slow, getting all my backuo data back into it took like 30 hours.
Is this normal ?
What is the proper partition combination for the X8 on order to use Link2sd ??
Such slow writing speed to the sdcard seems a pretty high price to pay...is it worth ???
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Hi guys
I'm looking forward to use Link2sd so I installed minitoll partition wizard and tried to create 2 partitions:
1 Primary 7 Gb FAT32
1 Primary 0.6 Gb Ext2
i could never complete the task and partition wizard kept saying the sd card was unformatted. I found on anther thread that for some phones Ext2 partition did not work and that a second Fat32 could solve the issue.
I went down that road and the sd formatting went fine creating 2 Fat32 partition.
The BIG problem is that the sd card (Kingston 8 Gb class4) is extremely slow, getting all my backuo data back into it took like 30 hours.
Is this normal ?
What is the proper partition combination for the X8 on order to use Link2sd ??
Such slow writing speed to the sdcard seems a pretty high price to pay...is it worth ???
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I used the same software to create partition in my Sandisc 8GB class2 SD card. It took around 10 mins to create and format the card with 7.5GB FAT32 and 0.5GB Ext2. Both are primary.
I suggest you to check the Card and software by interchanging them. That is try with same software on a new computer with this card and again on your machine try a new or another card.
Another way that you can make the partition in CWM recovery.
Positively there is something wrong, the time you mentioned is too unusual.
Hi
Thanks a lot, when you are so close to the trees you can't see the forest.jaja
After several combinations I realized that the sd card port on the laptop was defective. I used an usb adapter and partioned with minitools, just as you said and worked...finally.
Cheers
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Hi
Thanks a lot, when you are so close to the trees you can't see the forest.jaja
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Yes thats right. If you hold a book so close to your eyes, you cant read anything even a single letter. Anyway I am feeling happy to help you.
Hi,
2 weeks ago I bought a new Transcend 32GB class 4 microSDcard because the 2GB card that was delivered with my GT-S5830i gave the message "possibly damaged" and after formatting it, the message came back after a few days.
After taking backups I resized my new 32GB with GParted:
the current fat32 partition 1GB less and creating an extra 1GB ext3 partition to use in the future for custom roms.
Everything went well for a couple of days, then I got suddenly the notification that my card was unavailable.
I have a microSD card adapter, so I put the 32GB card in it, but the card was not recognized by my Windows laptop.
(The original 2GB card is recognized by my Windows laptop.)
Conclusion: I can throw away my new card?
I guess this problem is not caused by using GParted? Maybe GParted can corrupt it, but than at least I would be able to mount the SDcard and format it and start over again?
michielvDroid said:
Hi,
2 weeks ago I bought a new Transcend 32GB class 4 microSDcard because the 2GB card that was delivered with my GT-S5830i gave the message "possibly damaged" and after formatting it, the message came back after a few days.
After taking backups I resized my new 32GB with GParted:
the current fat32 partition 1GB less and creating an extra 1GB ext3 partition to use in the future for custom roms.
Everything went well for a couple of days, then I got suddenly the notification that my card was unavailable.
I have a microSD card adapter, so I put the 32GB card in it, but the card was not recognized by my Windows laptop.
(The original 2GB card is recognized by my Windows laptop.)
Conclusion: I can throw away my new card?
I guess this problem is not caused by using GParted? Maybe GParted can corrupt it, but than at least I would be able to mount the SDcard and format it and start over again?
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If you somehow get the card(s) detected in windows, or if you buy a new card; try MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (Free for windows) to created partitions. It works like a charm for me and many others. Hope this helps you. Cheers and Hit Thanks if I Helped You
some days ago i had similar problem, my microsd was not recognized.
i put the card into my laptop, and formatted using gparted (i use linux).
everything work fine now