Transfer 4GB Rooted SD to larger 8GB card how?

[Guest choccy]

Hi guys,

I am rooted on the R8 Rom and have just got a larger SD card but having problems getting my smaller card to transfer over onto my larger card with the partitions and everything included so it work exactly the same.

Has anyone been able to do this and if so how did you manage it.

Thanks

[Guest David_P]

Hi guys,

I am rooted on the R8 Rom and have just got a larger SD card but having problems getting my smaller card to transfer over onto my larger card with the partitions and everything included so it work exactly the same.

Has anyone been able to do this and if so how did you manage it.

Thanks

I would get a live CD for an easy Linux distro such as Ubuntu, boot up from that and have your phone plugged in and mount the SD card and use another usb or slot to mount the new card. Create the same sixed paritions using gparted or ubuntu disk manager and then copy the data from each partition on the phone to the relevant partition on the new sd card. Once complete, swap the cards while phone is off and turn back on with the new SD card.

I have not tried this myself but it seems the logical course of action.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

David_P

[Guest DragosP]

1. Nandroid + ext backup

2 Copy all files and folders from fat partition (including nandroid backup) from terminal to pc.

3 If you have amonra recovery, do the partitions card from it

4 Put the card onto terminal, boot into recovery

5 Start ms--usb and copy all to fat partition

6 Resore nandroid and ext.

7 Reboot your terminal and enjoy!

Good luck!

[Guest choccy]

1. Nandroid + ext backup

2 Copy all files and folders from fat partition (including nandroid backup) from terminal to pc.

3 If you have amonra recovery, do the partitions card from it

4 Put the card onto terminal, boot into recovery

5 Start ms--usb and copy all to fat partition

6 Resore nandroid and ext.

7 Reboot your terminal and enjoy!

Good luck!

Im using clockworkMod Recovery and not getting much joy with the partition ext part via rom manager :-(

[Guest DragosP]

Yes, I know. Then, use a linux computer and a card reader/writer to do the partition.

[Guest Noonski]

1. Nandroid + ext backup

2 Copy all files and folders from fat partition (including nandroid backup) from terminal to pc.

3 If you have amonra recovery, do the partitions card from it

4 Put the card onto terminal, boot into recovery

5 Start ms--usb and copy all to fat partition

6 Resore nandroid and ext.

7 Reboot your terminal and enjoy!

Good luck!

I Did the same using ClockWorkMod.

Make backup.

Make paritions on new SD (you can even go bigger on EXt partition on new SD if you want)

Restore Nandroid, pronto.

As for making the new paritions i always use:

http://androidandme.com/2009/08/news/how-t...ndroid-apps2sd/

Edited September 6, 2010 by Noonski

[Guest Phazeshift]

You could use a card reader and clonezilla live CD: http://clonezilla.org/ it should be able to copy / resize your existing partitions. (I'm assuming it will work with usb storage. I've never used it for anything other than HDDs.)

I did something similar recently when changing ROM & repartitioning SD card. I used Titanium backup to back up all my apps to the fat32 partition on my sd card. Copied all the files from fat32 partition to my windows machine, partitioned the new card using ROM Manager / fake flash, restored the files to the FAT32 partition, then did a Titanium app restore. This will probably work for you as well.

Edited September 7, 2010 by Phazeshift

[Guest choccy]

You could use a card reader and clonezilla live CD: http://clonezilla.org/ it should be able to copy / resize your existing partitions. (I'm assuming it will work with usb storage. I've never used it for anything other than HDDs.)

I did something similar recently when changing ROM & repartitioning SD card. I used Titanium backup to back up all my apps to the fat32 partition on my sd card. Copied all the files from fat32 partition to my windows machine, partitioned the new card using ROM Manager / fake flash, restored the files to the FAT32 partition, then did a Titanium app restore. This will probably work for you as well.

Thanks,

I might have to flash the rom again, as it doesn't quite seem right after I did what I did, so may just re do it all again and i will try this method.

Cheers

[Guest ez1]

You could use a card reader and clonezilla live CD: http://clonezilla.org/ it should be able to copy / resize your existing partitions. (I'm assuming it will work with usb storage. I've never used it for anything other than HDDs.)

I did something similar recently when changing ROM & repartitioning SD card. I used Titanium backup to back up all my apps to the fat32 partition on my sd card. Copied all the files from fat32 partition to my windows machine, partitioned the new card using ROM Manager / fake flash, restored the files to the FAT32 partition, then did a Titanium app restore. This will probably work for you as well.

Hi,

I have a new Desire updated to official froyo, and also would like to change to a bigger class 6, 16Gb sd card, but I am not planning to flash a new rom.

On clonezilla site, it seems to take usb disks as any other disks

So, I suppose using only Clonezilla to copy the 'disk' image of old sd card to local disk or usb card

and then restore it to new card, should do the job

Then, if is necessary to resize the partitions could use GParted

I have another doubt, clonezilla claims to support FAT filesystem, but say nothing about FAT32

Do you think this could work?

Thanks

[Guest ez1]

Hi,

I have a new Desire updated to official froyo, and also would like to change to a bigger class 6, 16Gb sd card, but I am not planning to flash a new rom.

On clonezilla site, it seems to take usb disks as any other disks

So, I suppose using only Clonezilla to copy the 'disk' image of old sd card to local disk or usb card

and then restore it to new card, should do the job

Then, if is necessary to resize the partitions could use GParted

I have another doubt, clonezilla claims to support FAT filesystem, but say nothing about FAT32

Do you think this could work?

Thanks

I tested Live Clonezilla with two usb drives (sd cards) to read one and write on the other.

But it was not accepted an usb drive as a source, only as a repository of images.

The only options presented as a image source were the hard disks on PC

So, no options here

More ideas?

[Guest Phazeshift]

I tested Live Clonezilla with two usb drives (sd cards) to read one and write on the other.

But it was not accepted an usb drive as a source, only as a repository of images.

The only options presented as a image source were the hard disks on PC

So, no options here

More ideas?

Strange, it should work Ok. The SD cards should be listed as sdb / sdc etc. There is a post here: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=74754 by someone that was cloning an Ubuntu install on SD card, the process should be the same for you:

Boot from the CloneZilla live CD and navigate the menus until you select "Disk to local disk" option. It will then prompt you to select the source. Here you will have to pay attention and select the correct entry. If not you might end up with two blank SD cards. Then it will ask for the destination and then you select the SD card on the reader. I noticed that invariably CloneZilla assigned a smaller letter (first in the alphabet) for the disk to my internal card reader than to the external card reader. That translated into my Windows internal disk getting sda (sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4), my internal SD card reader getting sdb (sdb1,sdb2, sdb5) and my external SD card reader getting sdc. CloneZilla will ask you a bunch of questions and usually suggest that if you don't know what you're doing leave everything by defaults. The only thing I changed was to make the process verbose so I could follow all the details.