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Partitioning a microsd card

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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:44 am

I am currently trying to partition a 4gig microsd card. I used the gparted live disc version 0.3.9-13 to partition it into 2 separate primary fat32 partitions. While Kubuntu has no problem recognizing and mounting both partitions as separate volumes, windows XP will only mount the first partition. Windows XP will recognize the second partition exists when I view it in Disk Management, but it refuses to assign it a drive letter.
I need to know how to get windows to recognize both partitions as individual drives. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:09 pm

And your asking in a Linux guild for a windows problem? What you could do is try to redo the second partition on the SD card.

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cutterdclown

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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:10 pm

I partitioned the card in linux; windows won't partition an sd card. Thats why I'm asking the linux guild.

I have tried to "redo" the second partition several times. Believe me, I wouldn't be asking if it were that easy.

I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with this problem, has had massive successes with this process or has heard from a source who has.

thanx much.

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:19 am

Try reformatting the 2nd partition from the Disk Management console and then assigning it a drive letter (obviously back up your files first).

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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:50 am

That should do the trick

Formating a disk under Linux, in file systems that Windows can read of course, should not have this issue. The only problem I ran into is when I had to reformat my thumb drive in FAT, Windows XP reads it just fine and plays nice but Windows Vista complains on how it is dirty and wants to scan it but it never finds a problem so all I have to do is click the don't scan option.

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