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Root Can I upgrade my SD card?

dustinw82 said:
What did this guy do wrong?

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I'm rooted using CM7 and was thinking about upgrading my 8GB card to a 32GB card. Is there something special I have to do other than copy everything over from the 8GB card?
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Not sure what that guy did honestly. I would copy the entire contents of your current card to a temporary folder you create on the PC desktop. Then unmount the card, put in the new card and remount to the PC in disk drive mode. At this time since you're rooted, I would highly recommend you format the new card to Fat32 by way of the PC. My Computer > Right click on the drive that is the new SD card and format. Do a full format rather than the quick option and be sure you're not accidentally formatting the internal storage as it will show up as a drive also! Once formatted, copy the old card's contents from the desktop onto the new card. Unmount and done. Might reboot just for good measure.
 
BTW, if you have a lot of drives on your machine and you're confused as to which is the new SD card (since it's blank), you can place it in the phone before this whole procedure, let it mount, then use a file manager app on the phone to make a folder on the card...call it "SD" perhaps...then when you locate it on your PC, it will be readily identifiable by your newly created folder. You'll lose it when you format the card but who cares, it's just a temporary workaround for peace of mind. You might not need this, just throwing it out there.
 
Just formatting the new sd card in the phone has always worked well for me in the past as well. Just make sure it ends up in fat32 as stated above. Another random thing that has worked well for me when switching cards is moving all apps back to internal before copying your sd card to computer, and then just moving them back. For some reason when i just left them on the card it seemed they took longer to load on startup and the app picture in the homescreens would not show ip on certain apps either.
 
Does is make a difference if I just plug the new card into my sd card slot on my computer and format it that way or do I have to have it in the phone when I format it?

BTW thanks for all the advice!
 
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