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[oldskoolboarder]

I need some kind of utility that will let me format my 2GB microSD as 2 1 GB partitions.

[kkan]

why would you want to do that !?

you could in theory do this in windows but it would only work in windows  added to this you can only use FAT format with mem cards as a rule this wouldnt really work .. that and a DS/supercard wouldnt see 2 partitions and you wouldnt really be able to choose to boot from either partion either!

why not just make 2 or more folders and put what you need in each  

[liquidnitrogen]

hm.. the only way i know how is to get something like Knoppix (or another live linux cd) and use Qparted to make the two 1 gig partition...

[Perseid]

Windows XP Disk Management won't do it. I just tried. And even if you could somehow do this, no handheld device will understand what you did. It might not even work in Windows anymore.

What are you trying to do? Maybe there's a different way to do it.

[oldskoolboarder]

Windows XP Disk Management won't do it. I just tried. And even if you could somehow do this, no handheld device will understand what you did. It might not even work in Windows anymore.

What are you trying to do? Maybe there's a different way to do it.

I can't get my 2GB card to work on my Supercard.lite.  On my Mac, it sees a 2 GB card.  On a PC, it only sees 1GB.

On my Mac if I load programs onto it up to 1GB, I seem to be OK.  Over 1GB, the games won't work.

I was trying to see if I could get it to work on the supercard if I formatted 2 1GB partitions.

[meangreenie]

I think you need a better card reader

[popinadam]

Or a better PC, which ever is cheaper.

[strells]

How is the card currently formatted?

Steve

[dai_uk]

Have you tried deleting and  re-partitioning in windows then forcing a full format - not quick ?

[kalabaw]

reformat it using a digital camera, it can now be detected as 2gig on window$

[Perseid]

Let's see...

You might have a fake card if it only seems to work up to 1GB.
If you formatted it on the Mac, try formatting it in Windows instead as FAT, not FAT32.
If it still doesn't work try formatting it on the Mac and see if you can access the full 2GB on the Mac alone. Your PC's card reader might be bad/old. If you're using the same reader on the PC and the Mac try it in a camera or someone else's computer.

[kkan]

Let's see...

You might have a fake card if it only seems to work up to 1GB.
If you formatted it on the Mac, try formatting it in Windows instead as FAT, not FAT32.
If it still doesn't work try formatting it on the Mac and see if you can access the full 2GB on the Mac alone. Your PC's card reader might be bad/old. If you're using the same reader on the PC and the Mac try it in a camera or someone else's computer.

I think your missing the topic here  :roll:  the cards a 2gb the user wants to make 2 x 1 gb partitions on the 2gb card

facts here that it WILL NOT work due to

a) I doubt very much that FAT file structure limits would allow it to be 2 x 1 gb (hence fat 32 replaced it and then NTFS when the limits on fat 32 were reached )

b) the DS wouldnt read it/see it as 2 separate partitions anyhow!

suggest forget the idea of trying for 2 partions and format as FAT (16) and have all the files in separate folders because of the limits of FAT you have a set limit to number of files you can have in the ROOT directory this is why people cannot fit lots of files on a 2gb card without putting them into their own separate folders  

[Sonny_Jim]

facts here that it WILL NOT work due to

a) I doubt very much that FAT file structure limits would allow it to be 2 x 1 gb (hence fat 32 replaced it and then NTFS when the limits on fat 32 were reached )

Erm, you can almost certainly have two FAT fs's on one disk, FAT doesn't limit how many partitions you can have on a disk.  The limits your thinking  of relate to file size, filenames, file amount etc etc

The supercard more than likely wouldn't recognise a card in two partitions, or (hopefully) would ignore the second.  I've been meaning to try as I want to use an ext2 fs on a second partition for DSLinux.  Running Linux on a filesystem that doesn't handle permissions properly sucks.

In fact I'm going to check.

A 256MB card split into two 128 works fine in a SCSD.

[Perseid]

Let's see...

You might have a fake card if it only seems to work up to 1GB.
If you formatted it on the Mac, try formatting it in Windows instead as FAT, not FAT32.
If it still doesn't work try formatting it on the Mac and see if you can access the full 2GB on the Mac alone. Your PC's card reader might be bad/old. If you're using the same reader on the PC and the Mac try it in a camera or someone else's computer.

I think your missing the topic here  :roll:  the cards a 2gb the user wants to make 2 x 1 gb partitions on the 2gb card

facts here that it WILL NOT work due to

a) I doubt very much that FAT file structure limits would allow it to be 2 x 1 gb (hence fat 32 replaced it and then NTFS when the limits on fat 32 were reached )

b) the DS wouldnt read it/see it as 2 separate partitions anyhow!

suggest forget the idea of trying for 2 partions and format as FAT (16) and have all the files in separate folders because of the limits of FAT you have a set limit to number of files you can have in the ROOT directory this is why people cannot fit lots of files on a 2gb card without putting them into their own separate folders  

Actually, the original poster has now said they wanted to partition it because they couldn't get their systems to see the entire 2GB. I am now trying to diagnose that, not the partitioning.

And while you in theory could format the card to two 1GB FAT partitions, Windows won't by itself allow you to partition the SD card at all. Linux would probably do it. And the resulting card would probably work in Linux. Maybe in Windows or OSX. Not in anything else.

A 256MB card split into two 128 works fine in a SCSD.

Really? What did it do? Pick the first 128MB partition?

[tc1415]

Maybe in Windows or OSX.

IIRC, Windows will refuse to read it all. I can't check as I'm on a better OS  :razz: .