I have a 16g sd card in my Dinc 2 4g. There seems to be a partition on it though making a HTC storage G: drive with 4gigs and an H: drive with 14 gigs 7 being used and 7 free. Any suggestions on how to make this one 16 gig sd card? And yes I'm also curious how I got 18 gigs on a 16 g card?
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Rukbat
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14GB is almost 16gB. Your G: drive may be internal to the phone, not the SD card. (Memory manufcturers consider a billion bytes to be 1,000 * 1,000 * 1,000. Computers consider 1 billion to be 1,024 * 1,024 * 1,024. So the computer reports a smaller number, because it's reporting a different measurement. It's like a US gallon vs. an Imperial gallon. They're both "gallons", but they're different amounts.)
But ... if you want to make one large partition on the card, get a card reader, so you can plug the card directly into the computer and try Device Manager to delete all partitions on the card, then create one partition using all available space. Or you can download GPartEd, burn it to a CD, boot your computer with that and use it to repartition and format the card. (Format it as FAT32.) If you partition it with Device Manager, you'll have to then right-click the carc and choose Format. (Again - FAT32.)
But ... if you want to make one large partition on the card, get a card reader, so you can plug the card directly into the computer and try Device Manager to delete all partitions on the card, then create one partition using all available space. Or you can download GPartEd, burn it to a CD, boot your computer with that and use it to repartition and format the card. (Format it as FAT32.) If you partition it with Device Manager, you'll have to then right-click the carc and choose Format. (Again - FAT32.)
I tried using the card reader to format the card but windows explorer couldn't do it. First it said it needed to be formatted to use I went thru those steps and it couldn't do it. It wasn't locked or anything. it still works in the phone. Makes me think there is different formats from phone to PC. The phone accepts it the pc won't unless plugged into the phone. NEXT!