hi my windows disk has the following partitions
a 600MB (used 40.72MB) it says system partition EFI
my main partition that has the files
and a 655MB (used 566.17MB) it says recovery partiton
are the 600 and the 655 needed both?
what do they do?
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akaloith said:
hi my windows disk has the following partitions
a 600MB (used 40.72MB) it says system partition EFI
my main partition that has the files
and a 655MB (used 566.17MB) it says recovery partiton
are the 600 and the 655 needed both?
what do they do?
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The first 600MB is your EFI partition and you absolutely cannot delete it or else your Windows will not be able to boot. The last partition is used to store data for Windows recovery. While it is not a must be highly recommended.
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The first 600MB is your EFI partition and you absolutely cannot delete it or else your Windows will not be able to boot. The last partition is used to store data for Windows recovery. While it is not a must be highly recommended.
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because the size is almost the same of the 2 partitions I thought i had 2 recovery ones and wanted to delete one of them
the system partition EFI shouldnt it be smaller?
I think it got bigger when i cloned the disk (now using the cloned one)
You can resize it to 300 but I wouldnt recommend anything smaller than that.
my original disk I had had 2 file partitions c,d (which i merged to one before the clone) AND
one 100MB, 16MB, 658MB
the 658 was the recovery i guess
the 100 was the system? that became 600 on the clone ?
and the 16 ? vanished on the clone
akaloith said:
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my original disk I had had 2 file partitions c,d (which i merged to one before the clone) AND
one 100MB, 16MB, 658MB
the 658 was the recovery i guess
the 100 was the system? that became 600 on the clone ?
and the 16 ? vanished on the clone
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Like mentioned, be careful with the partitions. I suggest doing some reading, on the required size needed per system. Just a thought.
Yeah not gonna mess with the size etc
Just wondering why my previous system was 100 and got 600
And what did the 16mb do? I guess nothing cause it was not cloned in the new disk
When you clone the drives, there is a chance where the software "scaled" the partition size, and in this case increased your EFI partition from 100 to 600. The 658 partition is definitely recovery because it is a NTFS partition.
Also it is good to know that EFI partition is always FAT32. The only thing I am not sure is the 16MB but I guess there is nothing to worry about since it is no longer there and only 16MB.. LOL
Microsoft reserved partition (MSR)
In Windows 10, the size of the MSR is 16 MB.
this got lost while cloning, still works though
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I want to be able to copy files >4Gb to my Touchpad. This is so I can watch HD movies on the device.
I already tried adding resizing the media partition and adding an ext3fs partition using "Tailor" (a webOS app). Although this is easy and it worked, I couldn't find any way to have this partition mount at boot time and be seen by my Android apps.
There are a couple of posts out there on the web from people claiming that they "reformated" the shared partition (/media/internal) to ext3fs successfully.
Has anyone here done that, and if so (a) how? and (b) were you able to have it mount and be visible from android apps?
Otherwise does anyone have any suggestions please?
cheers
Paul
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Getting somewhere...
I tried again having found out that the ext3 partition I created in webOS is found at /dev/mapper/store-ext3fs
Under Android - everything below is done in Android
I am able to mount this partition to my fake sd card (I just created a folder there called "ext").
Code:
su
mount /dev/mapper/store-ext3fs /sdcard/ext
I found that copying files by USB doesn't work while my ext3 partition is mounted, which is a pain - would be good to get that fixed. Anyone have any ideas?
I am now testing copying over a >4Gb file to my ext3 partition using ftp client. Will take some time on my crappy wifi, hence the comment about fixing USB.
I found that in order to make the ftp process work, I had to give full permissions to this folder.
Code:
chmod /sdcard/ext
I am a noob, so if anyone can help me with a less insecure set of permissions I would be grateful.
I'll post an update later on.
Nah, didn't work. After a few hours of copying I went to bed, this morning the folder is empty. I'm not sure if there was an error or anything.
My suspicion is that it crapped out when it got to 4Gb because even though the partition is ext3, it is mounted at a mount point on a FAT32 partition.
I realised I can test this more easily and eliminate possible network errors or ftp client instability, I'm running
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat bs=1024 count=51200000
within my /sdcard/ext folder (my mount point), this should create a 5Gb file.
I'm expecting this to fail, again because even though the partition is ext3, it is mounted at a mount point on a FAT32 partition. If anyone can help me to mount the partition some other way so its not mounted in a FAT32 partition, or point to another method to overcome the file size limit, I would be grateful.
thanks
Paul
That worked!
dd-ing a large file worked. I think I got my calculations wrong so when it got to >7Gb I just stopped it.
Now it would be great to get this working such that I can use USB instead of ftp to get my movies across.... Anyone?
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USB transfers not working
Anyone help me identify partition number for my ext3 partition please?
My ext3 partition is all working except when mounted I cannot use USB transfer.
Believe this is because my vold.fstab mounts the first available partition as SD card.
So would like to know correct partition number for SD card and ext3 partition.
I gave up on this in the end. Assured by clearly very clever jcsullins over on the cm touchpad IRC that the partition doesn't get a number and I would not be able to get my USB file transfer working. I also found the available media players (or maybe CM itself at the moment?) unable to cope with my 720P movies.
All is not lost though. I'm having more luck over on webOS using touchplayer and an overclocked kernel.
Thanks to those who tried to help with this!
Before Trying this mod wanna clearify something : I am not responsible for bricked device , dead sdcard or thermonuclear war or whatever . Try at your own risk .
Things required before approaching :
1. mtk droid tool
2. Sp flash tool
3. Hex edior or notepad++ (go to plugin manger and install hex editor plugin)
4. some sense about mathmatics
Need to know :
This is not a noob guide , You need to be little bit experienced before trying this mod . It may or may not hard-brick your device . You need to keep backup of the whole device before approaching . And it will resize the whole device's partition . And i am using a this template here : 1gb system , 2gb data , 16mb recovery , 10mb bootimg and 300mb internal sd-card . Don't forget to pull out external sdcard and sim-cards before flashing . And this mod is only for devices with 4gb emmc .
Enough introduction , Let's get our hands dirty
First of all , go to your flash tool backup directory and open EBR1 with notepad++ and you will see somehing like this :
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avoid the lines before the last four lines , No need to worry about those zeros . all you need to worry about is this :
Same process goes for MBR too .
Now lets come to the tricky point . open my MBR and EBR1 in notepad++ or any other hex-editor you like ; Open your MBR and EBR1 too and compare the last four lines with mine . just adjust the line which mismatches with your MBR and EBR1 . click on the number and adjust .
Use my attached MBR and EBR1 as base . And remember to keep a nandroid backup from custom recovery because you have to completely format and reflash your stock rom for this mod and your data partition will be wiped completely . Last but not least please keep a backup of original MBR and EBR1 somewhere .
That's All . Flash using sp flash tool And Enjoy
Feel free to ask question if you are stuck somewhere .
Credits :
1. @yuweng (for all his support and teaching me a lot about mtk . Really indebted to him )
2. darklord4822 ( for his EBR1 and MBR , he is the reason I found out it is possible to recreate the partition table myself ) . Here is his base link .
Reserved
Few updates
v2 changelog :
1. added scatter file to avoid flash error
Few notes :
Adjust linear start address , physical start address and partition size . Convert hex value to get the decimel bytes online here and use online byte to megabyte converter online here to be sure and if you wanna need more info go to this site .
Hey, not like i dont apreciatte it, i'm gonna try it out, but this guide is kindof half way thru...
Why do i need mtk droid tools? you didn't seem to use it in this guide..
Also it is a noob guide, there is no maths involved, nor an explanation to which number represents what.
Its a copy-paste-wish it works job..
No harm intended, just being objective.
But ty, i'll try it out.
Funny, it worked (altho i had to fix the partitions thru twrp), but now my app2sd is broken
edit:
And i fixed it, i had to adapt fbstab.mt6572 and init.mt6572.rc, removing all the lines refered to sdcard1, since, now, repartitioned our device no longer has an integrated external storage, so those files musnt have 'emulated storage' or 'sdcard1' refered lines.
Ty!
Hi everyone,
After several hours I've installed RemixOS 2.0.402 on my 1 Tb hard drive, I installed it on a 12 Gb partition which appears as 3.7 Gb of storage space in RemixOS, so I resized the partition to 1 Tb (all in FAT32) but RemixOS still diplays 3.7 Gb.
How can I extend the size of it ?
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CMfanuser said:
Hi everyone,
After several hours I've installed RemixOS 2.0.402 on my 1 Tb hard drive, I installed it on a 12 Gb partition which appears as 3.7 Gb of storage space in RemixOS, so I resized the partition to 1 Tb (all in FAT32) but RemixOS still diplays 3.7 Gb.
How can I extend the size of it ?
Cheers.
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Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
Thisu said:
Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
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Great, thank you very much for your help, and please, I've got a BIG problem.
When I use the RemixOS install tool under my Windows-PC to install RemixOS on the hard drive which will go into my Laptop-PC, the tool makes the hard drive bootable from my Windows-PC by adding the RemixOS bootloader with 2 options (Windows or RemixOS) as a dualboot but I don't want this. I just want to install RemixOS on a hard drive which will be the only OS on my Laptop-PC. How can I do this ? I want the hard drive to be bootable by itself because I won't use it on my Windows-PC but on my Laptop-PC. (PS : my Laptop-PC doesn't have any OS, I want it running RemixOS, alone).
CMfanuser said:
Great, thank you very much for your help, and please, I've got a BIG problem.
When I use the RemixOS install tool under my Windows-PC to install RemixOS on the hard drive which will go into my Laptop-PC, the tool makes the hard drive bootable from my Windows-PC by adding the RemixOS bootloader with 2 options (Windows or RemixOS) as a dualboot but I don't want this. I just want to install RemixOS on a hard drive which will be the only OS on my Laptop-PC. How can I do this ? I want the hard drive to be bootable by itself because I won't use it on my Windows-PC but on my Laptop-PC. (PS : my Laptop-PC doesn't have any OS, I want it running RemixOS, alone).
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Since you are using Windows,you don't have much control over the bootloader. Are you on using EFI? If so,try mounting your EFI partition. refer to this http://superuser.com/questions/6628...-windows-8-1-so-that-it-is-readable-and-write
There's a grub.cfg file there in the EFI partition,you'll have to edit it by hand.
Or,use a linux live cd like Ubuntu and you can access the EFI partition of your HDD through it.
Thisu said:
Since you are using Windows,you don't have much control over the bootloader. Are you on using EFI? If so,try mounting your EFI partition. refer to this http://superuser.com/questions/6628...-windows-8-1-so-that-it-is-readable-and-write
There's a grub.cfg file there in the EFI partition,you'll have to edit it by hand.
Or,use a linux live cd like Ubuntu and you can access the EFI partition of your HDD through it.
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There's no EFI partition on my external hard drive, this partition is on my Windows-PC but I want to use the hard drive on Another computer.. but I need a bootloader for it.
CMfanuser said:
There's no EFI partition on my external hard drive, this partition is on my Windows-PC but I want to use the hard drive on Another computer.. but I need a bootloader for it.
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You don't need an EFI/ESP partition just an efi folder
That obviously relates to UEFI systems - for bios it installs grub1 to the mbr.
Thisu said:
Please refer to this article http://support.jide.com/hc/en-us/articles/218463867-How-to-increase-the-memory-size-
I think you had to keep the 12GB partition and alter to an 8GB storage.
Read the instructions carefully,and choose a storage size of your choice. I'd prefer 8GB or 16GB since a bigger size will cost you a longer boot time.
You can use a 20GB partition if you want 16GB storage.
And you can make more partitions with the rest of the HDD or leave it as a single partition if you like.
It will be mounted at the boot time and you can store your other stuff there.
The RemixOs storage (data.img) is actually for installing apps and storing there data. You don't need an unnecessarily big data image.
(Use NTFS for partitioning, Fat32 doesn't allow you to make files larger than 4GB )
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please help me. On step 3 when I type the command cd/mnt/RemixOS
There is the warning: "the directory not found"
I have a Landvo L200G 4G MTK MT6582 phone from China. The phone only has 4GB of storage space.
I wanted to repartition it so the primary partition would have 3GB instead of the less than 1GB it currently has.
I followed the MTK repartitioning video on YouTube exactly. Even though the preloader flashed successfully, the new EBR files did not work. The phone would only boot to the logo screen and hang. When I flashed the preloader using the original EBR files, the phone will boot up normally.
I tried 3 different EBR files from xdadevelopers website, specifically for the MTK 6582 4GB. They all flashed OK but left the phone in a boot to logo screen only condition.
The phone is currently back to it's original condition. Can anyone help me with my problem regarding the repartitioning of the primary partition size? Thank you.
The partitions size was changed. Problem in boot. There are two boot screens. Boot of the kernel and boot of the Android. Which one of this screens is last? If first screen, than the kernel can't find ramdisk. This is strange behavior. If second, than init.rc can not mount file systems, run daemons, because partitions were changed. In this case you must compile Android form source with correct values of partitions size. Or maybe there is an easier way.
AlexanderBabansky said:
The partitions size was changed. Problem in boot. There are two boot screens. Boot of the kernel and boot of the Android. Which one of this screens is last? If first screen, than the kernel can't find ramdisk. This is strange behavior. If second, than init.rc can not mount file systems, run daemons, because partitions were changed. In this case you must compile Android form source with correct values of partitions size. Or maybe there is an easier way.
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The phone only boots with the Landvo animation screen. Then the home screen appears.
When I tried the other EBR files, the phone booted with the Landvo logo on screen with no animation and remained like that.
This means that Android can not boot. When ROM was compiled from Android source, there is file BoardConfig.mk in source. It contain device specific information like CPU, and partitions. ROM was compiled for standart partition scheme. It can not find partitions in old places. I think problem in this.
This is example of BoardConfig from LG Mako.
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AlexanderBabansky said:
This means that Android can not boot. When ROM was compiled from Android source, there is file BoardConfig.mk in source. It contain device specific information like CPU, and partitions. ROM was compiled for standart partition scheme. It can not find partitions in old places. I think problem in this.
This is example of BoardConfig from LG Mako.
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I assumed that using the Flash Tools program to change the partition size would modify any other files required for boot, such as BoardConfig.mk
The instructional video by xda-developers for changing partition sizes I watched was specifically for the MTK 6852, which is the type of handset I have. I used the same instructions to change the partition on a L200 phone that worked OK.
Do I need to make some changes to the BoardConfig.mk file to get the partition changes to work?
Can you give link to instructional video?
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Can you give link to instructional video?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDf6SpuOuz4
I finally got this fixed (sort of)
I ended up using EBR Tweak to allocate 3Gb of space.
I used MTK Droid Tools to backup and create scatter file. From that I tool the generated EBR files and copied them to EBR Tweak folder and ran the application, selecting the 3Gb option.
I copied the 2 new EBR files generated to the Files To Flash folder and used SP Flashtools to flash the phone.
The storage partition space was changed. However, there is a notification now saying Damaged Phone Storage - Try formatting the SD card.
I backed up the SD card and chose to format. The phone doesn't proceed to format the card and all data on it is intact.
In summary; phone storage is fixed but have that error constantly now.
Hello everyone. I really need help with this problem and would be very grateful if you helped me.
I accidentally took out my MicroSd card from my phone, when I tried to put it back in it wouldn't read it so I went ahead and plugged it to the computer, when I try to access it it says "The disk in drive H is not formatted. Do you want to format it no?" I always press no.
Here's what it says in the Disk Management
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1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
Pugnaq said:
Lol I've been using this card for over 3 years and it always had 31 gb of data without a problem so it being fake is out of the question. I need to retrieve the data out of it before formatting
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That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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Skyhuppa said:
1. The card is fake
2. Use mini partition tool to format or repartition
3. Search online for SanDisk repair tool Chinese version
4. Use Linux related OS to check partition size
5. Worse state use hirens boot CD , boot the system on hirens based on Windows XP format it from device management. It will restore your total volume when you are able to get the tricks right.
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Skyhuppa said:
That is the behavior of sandisk, is of low quality you might not believe this. Your data is corrupted. After bringing back the volume it may corrupt again.
That is the best options I have provided. I had SanDisk recovery tool but my system had crash severally. The best way is to use hirens boot cd.
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But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
Pugnaq said:
But this happened when I tool out my microsd card out off my phone without safely ejecting it first. I can always get a new card I just want to recover my data hopefully. When I use a partition program it says no partition found
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If you have,
1. digital camera insert it to check storage.
2. Old phone that can read 32gb microsd can repair it.
I use these native methods to recover my staff.
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