microsd issue

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hey people

ive run into a bit of a problem i removed my 8gb microsd card from my htc magic and formatted it to fat32 and also have created a fat 32 partition on it named EXT2, now heres where the issue arrises i place it back into the phone and swicth it on plug it into the usb on my vista laptop and mount the card through the phones options but it doesnt show up in the windows explorer so i can transfer anything to it? however if i put it in an adaptor and run windows explorer it sees it no probs, any ideas how to get the remount working!!!!

also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue

Originally Posted by stevetigersix

also does the scond partition need to be fat32 also or ? and ive called it EXT2 in caps not ext2 in lower case will this be an issue

Your problem here is you don't understand the difference between FAT32 and EXT2 file systems. Google is your friend...do some reading. Your Windows won't be able to read an EXT2 partition without some specialist software. A Linux PC will be able to read both.

Creating a FAT32 partition and naming EXT2 is not an EXT2 partition. I'd suggest you download a Linux Live CD e.g. Ubuntu and run Gparted to create a EXT2 partition on your SD Card.

The Android runs using a Linux Kernel and natively supports EXT2.