Cant partition my sd card - Help please?

[Guest Rhysd2]

gah no option for that in paragon I can see. Any last ideas?

[Guest goatee]

gah no option for that in paragon I can see. Any last ideas?

Well, as long as the FAT partition works, there shouldn't be a problem using it - how much space is in it?

[Guest Rhysd2]

it was a 1.89gb card. Now its registering 1.36gb. I'll try it but it was boot looping last I tried.

[Guest Rhysd2]

Ooh OK its letting me flash back to the non apps2sd version now....

[Guest Rhysd2]

OK so I applied the update.zip for the non apps2sd rom but the things still boot looping. It gets as far as the modaco man but then he flashes off the screen for a second and comes back up again. *sigh*

[Guest Rhysd2]

OK one factory reset later and I had a blank rom. So I did an unmount, then a format from within the phone and VOILA 1.89gb. thank goodness.

Im going to try this partition thing again and see if it works this time LOL

thanks for the help :rolleyes:

[Guest goatee]

OK one factory reset later and I had a blank rom. So I did an unmount, then a format from within the phone and VOILA 1.89gb. thank goodness.

Im going to try this partition thing again and see if it works this time LOL

thanks for the help :rolleyes:

Phew :huh:. Now you have gparted, I'd use that for the partitioning - probably the safest way to do it.

[Guest Rhysd2]

I tried using the mini tool again but that wouldnt work. Im going to try and use rom manager. fingers crossed.

[Guest goatee]

I tried using the mini tool again but that wouldnt work. Im going to try and use rom manager. fingers crossed.

Did it work, did it work?

[Guest Rhysd2]

It did indeed thanks :rolleyes: had a odd bit at the beginning where rom manager didnt think I had clockwork installed but soon fixed that. it then partitioned. Reflashed. and is now working fine. sorry for not replying been resetting up the phone.

and thanks so much again for the help

[Guest goatee]

It did indeed thanks :rolleyes: had a odd bit at the beginning where rom manager didnt think I had clockwork installed but soon fixed that. it then partitioned. Reflashed. and is now working fine. sorry for not replying been resetting up the phone.

and thanks so much again for the help

Woo, I'm glad to hear that! Still, if it aint hard, it's not so rewarding :huh:, or something like that!

[Guest tibbyltd]

That's really odd. So when it looks at your SD card, does it see anything other than the FAT32 partition? It sounds like Partition Wizard didn't complete creating the ext2 partition, and the partition table has become corrupted.

I'm having the same problem. Windows doesn't recognise ext2. I fell like smashing my phone and computer.

[Guest ritterkeks]

*update* Just in case anyone stumbles over the same problem,

but it seems to affect only a few people.

Ok officially starting to panic. Cant apply any update.zip.

I try and I get:

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)

(invalid argument)

E:Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip

Installation aborted.

So I cant boot in to try rom manager

I cant get gparted to boot from the USB sticks we have here.

umm help! is it worth doing a factory reset?

I also experienced this problem, have been trying to get a2sd working for 12 hours now...

But no matter how i do partition the sdcard, I will get the above error in clockworkmod, so no way to install a new rom.

The installed rom boots fine, though, but then says, sd card is broken.

I have read ALL a2sd guides I could find, I made sure, gparted doesnt ROUND to MiB, of course I made fat32 the first paritition, I took care that the ext3/2 fs is not owned by my linux user... well I partitioned the SD-card at least 8 times, with gparted or diskutility.

At the end, the phone even wouldn't recognize the card when only one single fat32 partition was on it.

SO Eventually I deleted the partition table and made the entire card a fat32 volume...

That was the only thing that worked!

Now I could install the newest ROM and will copy my backup of the card when im at home...

Oh and don't apply and fastboot oem commands!

As the argument "oem" suggests, they are device specific and may only help for the htc desire, which seems to have its own problems.

I'm having the same problem. Windows doesn't recognise ext2. I fell like smashing my phone and computer.

Oh and for ext2:

No version of Windows supports ext2 as filesystem!

Windows doenst know any kind of ext or any other filesystem,

so the only thing it will do is show "unknown partition" in the device / volume manager.

THE EXT PARTITION WONT SHOW UP IN WINDOWS EXPLORER!

(the only way to see it is to install one of the ext-drivers for windows, however then you still should know more about linux partitions and how they are treated)

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

*update* Just in case anyone stumbles over the same problem,

but it seems to affect only a few people.

I also experienced this problem, have been trying to get a2sd working for 12 hours now...

But no matter how i do partition the sdcard, I will get the above error in clockworkmod, so no way to install a new rom.

The installed rom boots fine, though, but then says, sd card is broken.

I have read ALL a2sd guides I could find, I made sure, gparted doesnt ROUND to MiB, of course I made fat32 the first paritition, I took care that the ext3/2 fs is not owned by my linux user... well I partitioned the SD-card at least 8 times, with gparted or diskutility.

At the end, the phone even wouldn't recognize the card when only one single fat32 partition was on it.

SO Eventually I deleted the partition table and made the entire card a fat32 volume...

That was the only thing that worked!

Now I could install the newest ROM and will copy my backup of the card when im at home...

Oh and don't apply and fastboot oem commands!

As the argument "oem" suggests, they are device specific and may only help for the htc desire, which seems to have its own problems.

Oh and for ext2:

No version of Windows supports ext2 as filesystem!

Windows doenst know any kind of ext or any other filesystem,

so the only thing it will do is show "unknown partition" in the device / volume manager.

THE EXT PARTITION WONT SHOW UP IN WINDOWS EXPLORER!

(the only way to see it is to install one of the ext-drivers for windows, however then you still should know more about linux partitions and how they are treated)

it's very simple

just burn an ubuntu live cd

boot on it

make your partitions with it

that's all

[Guest ritterkeks]

its really not that simple...

maybe my post became a bit too long.

however, I used gparted under ubuntu 10.10. no live cd, but my standard linux OS.

And I have also tried the native ubuntu Disk Utility, which also supports partitioning but is much easier to use.

I really tried anything that makes sense and all under ubuntu - no other OS used.

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

have you used a card reader or the phone's mount ?

[Guest ritterkeks]

...sd mount through clockwork.

I wanted to use my SD-USB-Dongle,

but that won't get recognized anymore,

only produces errors in log.

then settled for the cardreader in my old tower, which works when enough tape is appllied to produce pressure to the contacts.

however, it seems that my graphics is finally broken, because i cannot get a picture on the monitor anymore...

anyway, i wanted to flash the rom so i partitioned with my laptop, which has no cardreader built in, so i used clockwork.

this method is mentioned in maaaany tutorials and confirmed working...

seemed nothing wrong with it, since clockwork seems to simply passthrough the SD-interface.

of course I did NOT try to partition it while running android.

also, some time ago i have tried partitioning precisely this 16gig-sdhc for HAreT / Android for my old kaiser.

Back then I have tried the cardreader as well as the sd-dongle...

It didn't work either.

But I presumed, I had done something wrong and wanted to try again...

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

i have asked because i had some strange effects with the mount in clock

in the pc with a modern usb card reader (the built in card reader can't read sd over 4 gigs)

i had success with a 8 gigs sd card (from sandisk)

sd card from kingston has never worked

in gparted you only see unallocated partitions

[Guest ritterkeks]

hm.. i would settle this and perhabs blame SAN DISK for managing the NAND differently on this particular sdhc.

maybe the controller uses larger block sizes?

this seems to cause quite a lot of trouble with current large hard disks...

it could be, that partitions are simply not supported (so a normal MBR with partition table would cause trouble).

well.. since MCR r12 is so slim anyway, i wont run into problems, i hope.

the problem seems to occur only for a few people, when no other faults could have happened...

maybe it happens only with certain 16GB class 6?

anyway,

thanks for your help

[Guest lakicamm]

heh i did almost everything to format my sd card to fat32 + ext2, but no luck... rom manager, clockwork, usb sd card reader, usb cable from blade with partition managers etc etc...

another strange thing happened when i tried to use sd card formatter software: some ppl say it worked for them, but it doesnt give me option to make more than 1 partiotion - which is suspicious.

sd card that i tried to format was Transcend 16GB class 6, so i guess that ritterkeks is right - it might be possible that some sd cards can not be formatted with ext2 partitions

mine is Transcend 16GB class 6, so you know :-|

EDIT:

ok, spent another few hours... after watching some youtube videos heheh :)

1) moved all my applications from apps2sd into phone (i repartioned phone memory, so i could do it)

2) managed to format sd card - 13.7gb FAT32 primary, 1GB Ext primary using MiniTool Partition

3) rebooted phone since it says "card blank/damaged/whatever"

4) now i have 2 partitions, as expected

5) installed link2sd, started it, needed reboot so it could mount ext2 partition

6) after restart, link2sd gave me the same message - meaning somethings wrong with mounting the ext2 partition

7) after many attempts (formatting 2nd partition as fat32, formatting in clockwork, root exploring, partitions lite), i still cant make link2sd to see 2nd partition, even though it IS mounted in system and viewable in rootexplorer and partition lite

8) weird thing - if i use apps2sd to put some app on sdcard, and then putting it back into phone, it shows on 13GB sdcard instead on ext2... so i guess that somehow ext2 partition is linked like 1st????

if anyone has some quicker solution i would very appreciate it... if not, then i guess i would have to wipe everything and install new ROM (hopefully with better luck with ext2 this time heheh)

Edited April 21, 2011 by lakicamm