anabellita
Newbie
Yesterday I bought a new 32GB microSDHC card calss 10. I then proceeded to partition it, creating one FAT32 partition and one EXT2 partition using the Minitool Partition Wizard. I then copied a few flashable zips with ROMs on them to try out.
This morning I set out to flash a new ROM, and noticed on the instructions that I needed a third SWAP partition. So I went back to the drawing board and created one. So far so good.
Except that then a few strange things happened:
* First, partition wizard, after having me the thumbs up, did not recognize the 2 partitions it had supposedly created. So I un-partitiones and re-partitioned. I hope this didn't screw anything up. Only later did I read that this was normal because XP does not recognize EXT2 or SWAP, which is why the wizard was showing it all as an "unallocated" lump.
* Then, although windows saw the files on the SD card, it did not allow me to transfer new any new ones.
Windows XP kept telling me the device was not ready and asked me whether I wanted to format. In the end I accepted, but it is not even able to format ...or maybe it was at first and then no more, can't remember. Thing is, there are no more files on the card (which is fine, no need to recover them)
* Now, partition wizard sees the sd card, but windows explorer doesn't. However, partition wizard sees it as fully used up (no free memory left), even though there is nothing on it. It also found the whole card to have errors in every sector but won't give me options to correct them. Wiping did not help. Formatting and resizing are not an option. I could delete the partition, but I'm afraid of what that would do.
Can you please help me?
Thanks!
This morning I set out to flash a new ROM, and noticed on the instructions that I needed a third SWAP partition. So I went back to the drawing board and created one. So far so good.
Except that then a few strange things happened:
* First, partition wizard, after having me the thumbs up, did not recognize the 2 partitions it had supposedly created. So I un-partitiones and re-partitioned. I hope this didn't screw anything up. Only later did I read that this was normal because XP does not recognize EXT2 or SWAP, which is why the wizard was showing it all as an "unallocated" lump.
* Then, although windows saw the files on the SD card, it did not allow me to transfer new any new ones.
Windows XP kept telling me the device was not ready and asked me whether I wanted to format. In the end I accepted, but it is not even able to format ...or maybe it was at first and then no more, can't remember. Thing is, there are no more files on the card (which is fine, no need to recover them)* Now, partition wizard sees the sd card, but windows explorer doesn't. However, partition wizard sees it as fully used up (no free memory left), even though there is nothing on it. It also found the whole card to have errors in every sector but won't give me options to correct them. Wiping did not help. Formatting and resizing are not an option. I could delete the partition, but I'm afraid of what that would do.
Can you please help me?
Thanks!