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negative memory in SD Card |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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hi i recently purchased nokia 6708 and a 4gb sd card from topram...
when i use this memory card in my mobile its showing negative memory of around 3gb ( -3gb)...... and i cannot install any programs on this memory card...
i copied a few files like songs to the memory card using card reader and when i put this back in my mobile the music player is able to detect it and songs work.....
i heard that this has something to do with cluster size.... for nokia they need a 16Kb space allocation....
can some one tell me how i can format the memory card to get it into a fat format and 16kb space allocation....
is it possible to partition sd card using windows XP....
Gopu |
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niranjan007
Joined: Dec 12, 2004
Posts: 230
From: The garden city of India
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when you right click a drive and select format, you see a selection box with the options fat and fat32, with 32 as default. Select fat and proceed with the formatting.
Then copy everything back to the sd.
Sd partitioning? Never tried it |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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hi thank you... i tried this but i am unable to decide the file allocation size...
its always comes as default and its 64kb.... i want it to be 16kb..
any way out
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bugsiiy
Joined: Jan 10, 2006
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You could try to format the card using your phone. I don't know how to do it on your phone, just search through the menus and search for format memory card |
niranjan007
Joined: Dec 12, 2004
Posts: 230
From: The garden city of India
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if you select fat, the allocation size will change to 16k.
To format from phone, open the "memory" application present under tools and format from there |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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i tried to do that but it wtillonly formats in fat32 and i am not getting the fat option... |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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i tried to do that but it formats only in fat32 and i am not getting the fat option...
i think the problem is with the huge size of the memory card....
if only i could partiton it, i could solve the issue...
but how to partition an sd card... |
Dogmann
Joined: Jan 29, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: London England
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Hi the suggestion of formatting the card in the phone should of done the trick and created the correct folders on the card as well as the correct configuration. Now i am not 100% sure but i think even on the newer Nokia's i have an N73 max card size is only 2gig that is supported and this may be what is causing your problem as the phone just doesn't see all the card. The only other thing i can suggest is join Club Nokia which is free and then you can get free support from them and i am sure they will have the answer for you.
Marc
[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2006-08-20 07:59 ] |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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thanks... i will try that and see
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niranjan007
Joined: Dec 12, 2004
Posts: 230
From: The garden city of India
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oh...i think the size limit for fat16 is 2gb. So unless you partition it to 2gb each, it wont let the fat cluster size to be 16k.
Btw how is a hard disk partitioned? Can the same method be used for a sd?
And most importantly, can the partition be undone? In case the phone wont read a partitioned card, or reads only 1 partition? |
drgopoos
Joined: Dec 02, 2004
Posts: 307
From: Toronto
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i searched every where but could not find a method to partition the sd card...
there are methods mentioned to partition in a linux system and not in windows...
i dont have any idea about the linux system....
if any one could suggest a method to partition an sd card ( 4gb) in windows, it could be wonderful
gou |
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Posted: 2006-08-20 06:43
