I have TWRP v2.8.0.0 installed and cannot mount my 64GB microSD card (PNY). I formatted the card using my LG G3 (VS985).
In TWRP, I cannot tick the check box for "external_sd".
I can access the card and transfer files to and from when I'm in the Android OS.
Any ideas as to how to get microSD to mount?
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I figured out the issue...
It looks like TWRP does not like exFAT. So, I had to format it to FAT32 using this tool "Fat32 format" tool from Ridgecrop since Windows only gave me the option to format the card to exFAT or NTFS.
Link to the tool: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1726154/format-64gb-card-exfat-fat32.html
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TWRP does not like exFAT
xstahsie said:
I figured out the issue...
It looks like TWRP does not like exFAT. So, I had to format it to FAT32 using this tool "Fat32 format" tool from Ridgecrop since Windows only gave me the option to format the card to exFAT or NTFS.
Link to the tool: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1726154/format-64gb-card-exfat-fat32.html
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Thanks for this information! You saved my @$$ :laugh:
I was going round and round until this post came along. Much appreciated! Please stay engaged.
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old thread but same/related problem, this might help someone troubleshooting with google.
it seems that TWRP only recognizes the 1st partition on the sd-card, so if that's not fat32 storage, you can't make system backups. namely, in order to make link2sd work on a phone (lg g2 mini) that has a funky "sd-card" configuration where there's one in the internal memory, i had formatted my external one part1 - swap; part2 - ext2; part3 - fat32.
with this setup, twrp failst to see the external sd-card. not sure yet how i'll make both link2sd & twrp work.
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My friend did a mistake and created ext4 part. for 4gigs that he doesn't really need using CWM.
How to make everything back as he wants to use all his 16gb card as usb mass storage on windows os?
you have to delete both partitions and make one in Mini Partition Tools
ovitz said:
you have to delete both partitions and make one in Mini Partition Tools
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OK. I'll advise him this soft. Deleting/creating partitions is supposed to be performed using card reader or he can see ext-partition just connected his atrix via usb?
I am just surprised that there is no android app for such purposes ((
Someone should write it if it's practically possible)
Problem solved with Mini Partition Tool.
As I sad it would be nice to have any app to do it just on our devices.
if someone found anything pls post it here.
Thanx
Okay so I have a Sandisk 64gb sdxc and it works in my GS3 just fine as exfat. However, I would like to format it to fat32 so I can take full advantage of CWM and accessing my SD card. I have tried the following:
-CMD promt format to fat32 in windows and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format to fat32 with swissknife and it formatted fine, but SG3 woud report as damaged SD card.
-Format with E4GT but the E4GT would not even recognize the 64GB card regardless of how it was formatted.
-Format in my Xoom but it would also not recognize the card.
So what is my solution here? Is there a way to format this card in FAT32 and use it in my GS3 or do I need to just deal with Exfat until the CM team develops an exfat compatible CWM?
If i format it to FAT32 then go directly into CWM it recognizes the card but when I boot up it still gives and SD card damaged error. Guess i will just have to deal with no CWM access if I use the 64gb card.
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
hyann said:
exactly my experience. fat32 format the phone reads it occasionally and then starts to report it as damaged.
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Thanks for the verification. Either CWM will need to be made to work or I will need to go back to the 32gb card i guess.
Thought there would be more people here using the 64gb cards with thier GS3. Anyone have a work around?
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
I wonder if it'd work formatting fat 32 on a Mac. Only way a year ago I was able to format a 250GB hdd fat32 so I could backup my PS3 back then.
Tried through windows and even though I found ways to format it, it never worked right.
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i had to do this earlier today for cwm purposes! use a free prog called active partition manager. i already did a nandroid also. otherwise, that exfat will give you mounting error.
use extfsd
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This is what I used too. Other methods didn't "stick" for some reason, maybe the tools weren't actually formatting it to FAT32 but exFAT and just figured that it wouldn't matter to most people using the tool. This tool, however, worked perfectly. Haven't had any errors since using it.
Didact74 said:
A full format in swissknife then a quick format in Active Partition Manager is the only thing that worked for me. Got it working though!! Thanks for all the help.
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great! glad i could help out as it took me at least an hour myself.
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
SONE9 said:
Just got mine and all it says is blank sd card, and it is not willing to format it via my phone or windows as well as third party programs. Not sure what's going on. Windows formatting just says it can't, while 3rd party programs just hang forever. Any ideas?
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I just had the same problem. Other than downloading some software to install FAT32, what I came up with was installing it in my Epic 4G Touch. It saw that it was blank, and then allowed me to format it.
drothenberger said:
I used the GUI version of Fat32 Format: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Worked for me. Win7 x64 with a 64 GB Sandisk card. I'm using rooted stock AT&T ROM and it has never complained about an invalid card. CWM works fine, too.
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This just ended about two hours of frustration and searching. Thanks for posting that link!
So I recently flashed TWRP and when i try to mount the the externel sd it won't check the box. So I can't save backups onto my external SD. I can access it fine when I connect using the usb.
KelpoOrganic said:
So I recently flashed TWRP and when i try to mount the the externel sd it won't check the box. So I can't save backups onto my external SD. I can access it fine when I connect using the usb.
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From what we discovered. The newer version of TWRP is very picky on how the sdcard is formatted.
Go to "Install" and make sure it is point to /sdcard.
If it doesn't go to /sdcard. Keep toggling the radio buttons for internal and External sdcards until it pops up or press "Install" then back a few times.
You beat me to it! What I actually had to do to get mine to work was go into advanced and partition the sdcard, I made the ext-sd partition as small as possible since I never plan on using it. Once I did that everything was fine. Just make sure to back up your stuff because it will wipe your sdcard!
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You beat me to it! What I actually had to do to get mine to work was go into advanced and partition the sdcard, I made the ext-sd partition as small as possible since I never plan on using it. Once I did that everything was fine. Just make sure to back up your stuff because it will wipe your sdcard!
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So I have EXT Size and Swap Size. Which one do I make small and which one do I make large? Also, do I use EXT3 or EXT4
I set the ext size to 128 and swap to 0, I also used EXT4. I don't think it really matters which one you use because you're not going to be using it anyway. EXT4 just provides performance enhancements over EXT3.
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I set the ext size to 128 and swap to 0, I also used EXT4. I don't think it really matters which one you use because you're not going to be using it anyway. EXT4 just provides performance enhancements over EXT3.
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Thanks! That worked
Glad I could help!
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Glad I could help!
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i still can't mount my external sdcard what to do???
How did you manage to backup your SD card to partition it when in the first place you can't backup it because TWRP fails to mound the SD card!
I can't seem to get my SD card to mount either. I flashed TWRP last week. I just rooted my wife's old rezound. I tried all the fixes mentioned and nothing worked.
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TWRP keeps telling me it can't open 'E:' (when trying backup to ext_SD).
'E:' was the drive designation used when formatting the card.
How do we tell TWRP to just write the card that's installed in the tablet?
TWRP 2.8, KitKat 4.4, if that matters.
rogerlig
KelpoOrganic said:
So I recently flashed TWRP and when i try to mount the the externel sd it won't check the box. So I can't save backups onto my external SD. I can access it fine when I connect using the usb.
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I reformatted the SD Card and it worked on the Nubia Z17 NX591J after getting twrp installed. Ran restore and all is good. Rooted!
KelpoOrganic said:
So I recently flashed TWRP and when i try to mount the the externel sd it won't check the box. So I can't save backups onto my external SD. I can access it fine when I connect using the usb.
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I my case same you just format sd-card in Primary partition no logical partition and then try again [Use Mini Tool ] Link:https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html
Hello.
I've saw the reply for this question in other posts, but i got confused.
Well, i've a SanDisk 32GB SD card i'm using on my RAZR.
I would like to copy some files (videos) wich are over 4GB+ to the sdcard on my phone, so i can watch'em using the microhdmi output.
Well, it seems that android is recognizing only fat32 partitions, that have a size limitation.
If i try to format it to NTFS or EXT4 (using SafeStrap Partition command) i can't read it on the system.
Is there any piece of software i can use, or any trick to make the sdcard able to recive 4gb+ files ?
Thanks in advance [email protected]
pablobhz said:
Hello.
I've saw the reply for this question in other posts, but i got confused.
Well, i've a SanDisk 32GB SD card i'm using on my RAZR.
I would like to copy some files (videos) wich are over 4GB+ to the sdcard on my phone, so i can watch'em using the microhdmi output.
Well, it seems that android is recognizing only fat32 partitions, that have a size limitation.
If i try to format it to NTFS or EXT4 (using SafeStrap Partition command) i can't read it on the system.
Is there any piece of software i can use, or any trick to make the sdcard able to recive 4gb+ files ?
Thanks in advance [email protected]
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Maybe you can try somehing like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14894212
HKreutz said:
Maybe you can try somehing like this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14894212
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Interesting.
I'll give it a shot when i get home.
Yesterday i screwed up my rom (Verizon JB Leak) after trying tons of stuff to mount NTFS partitions lol
had to reflash, restore backup, etcs
Thanks in advance
Sup Yall.
Messing around with my new S4. For some reason I am already running out internal memory on the phone. Since I cant move any apps to the ext SD card yet..Im lost...never the less, I still bought a 64 gig class 10 card and put it in the phone. It won't read it. Just says Mount SD card. I try to do it and says the card is safe to remove.
How do I get this to work?
Verizon S4 Galaxy
CleanRom
Faux Kernel
Thanks,
J
Jay Slay said:
Sup Yall.
Messing around with my new S4. For some reason I am already running out internal memory on the phone. Since I cant move any apps to the ext SD card yet..Im lost...never the less, I still bought a 64 gig class 10 card and put it in the phone. It won't read it. Just says Mount SD card. I try to do it and says the card is safe to remove.
How do I get this to work?
Verizon S4 Galaxy
CleanRom
Faux Kernel
Thanks,
J
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The problem is in format of SDcard. Actually, Faux Kernel won't read exFat format, which is mostly used to format 64Gb storages. There two ways to fix it:
1. Flash Ktoonez kernel (KT-kernel) that supports exFat (just like stock kernel).
2. Find the way to format your SDcard into Fat32 format. There is utility named Fat32Format can be found on the Internet. Or, if you are on Mac - just select Fat format.
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The problem is in format of SDcard. Actually, Faux Kernel won't read exFat format, which is mostly used to format 64Gb storages. There two ways to fix it:
1. Flash Ktoonez kernel (KT-kernel) that supports exFat (just like stock kernel).
2. Find the way to format your SDcard into Fat32 format. There is utility named Fat32Format can be found on the Internet. Or, if you are on Mac - just select Fat format.
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I have a Mac as well. Formatted it in like 2 seconds..Phone recognized it. You sir, are a true pimp...thanks! :good:
Can a windows 7 computer format a 64GB to fat32?
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Jay Slay said:
I have a Mac as well. Formatted it in like 2 seconds..Phone recognized it. You sir, are a true pimp...thanks! :good:
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caution, formatting 64gb cards in fat32 can cause data corruption over time. i recomend this mod. works on aosp and tw roms that have init.d support. i use it and works great for exfat support http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155363
Zer0r said:
The problem is in format of SDcard. Actually, Faux Kernel won't read exFat format, which is mostly used to format 64Gb storages. There two ways to fix it:
1. Flash Ktoonez kernel (KT-kernel) that supports exFat (just like stock kernel).
2. Find the way to format your SDcard into Fat32 format. There is utility named Fat32Format can be found on the Internet. Or, if you are on Mac - just select Fat format.
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I'm assuming the OP or new'ish member isn't aware of the 'Thanks' option/button. It's a way of showing your appreciation for another member willingly sharing valuable and or helpful info that specifically responds to your request for 'Help'.
I selected 'Thanks' for everyone who took the time to chime in and help the OP. Thanks for sharing...:good:
To the OP...no ill intent from me, simply want to help.
mach1man said:
Can a windows 7 computer format a 64GB to fat32?
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yes