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Anyone have suggestions on how to partition a 2GB card?

Started by oldskoolboarder, February 16, 2007, 04:38:40 PM

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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

Quote from: "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.

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

Yes I'm mad

popinadam

*Adam's Sell/Trade List*
GBMicro (U): 20th Ed. - 2GB Ultra MiniSD
NDSLite (U): Jet Black - M3 Simply w/ 1GB Sandisk
Wii (U): 2GB Sandisk (Wii Edition) + Wiikey SD/AR

strells


dai_uk

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

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

Quote from: "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  :)

Sonny_Jim

Quote from: "Perseid"
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

Quote from: "kkan"
Quote from: "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.

Quote from: "Sonny_Jim"A 256MB card split into two 128 works fine in a SCSD.

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

tc1415

QuoteMaybe in Windows or OSX.
IIRC, Windows will refuse to read it all. I can't check as I'm on a better OS  :razz: .
n cases of major discrepancy, it is always reality that's got it wrong. -- RFC1118