I currently have Obsidian V2 installed and I cannot copy files to my sd card. I was wondering how I would be able to install another version or different version of froyo if I cannot copy the zip file to the root of my sd card. Sorry if it's a noob question but I searched the forums and didn't find anything.
are you running windows? i had this problem in win7 64bit, but was able to successfully copy files in ubuntu. so you could try dling and burning ubuntu to a cd, boot it off the live cd (you don't have to install it), mount your hdd and vibrant and move the files that way.
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are you running windows? i had this problem in win7 64bit, but was able to successfully copy files in ubuntu. so you could try dling and burning ubuntu to a cd, boot it off the live cd (you don't have to install it), mount your hdd and vibrant and move the files that way.
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i'm running windows vista 64 bit. If burning ubuntu is the only option I would be willing to try it...but i've never done it before, I guess I could google it or something. Is it hard to try
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i'm running windows vista 64 bit. If burning ubuntu is the only option I would be willing to try it...but i've never done it before, I guess I could google it or something. Is it hard to try
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it's easy. you burn the cd, then boot to cd (like you are going to install it) and there is an option to boot the live cd to try ubuntu. in the 'places' drop down will be your hard drive, mount it so you have access to the rom you dl'd then mount your vibrant. no drivers are necessary to mount the vibrant. just don't try and install ubuntu because if you don't know what you are doing with the hdd partitioning you will lose everything on your hdd.
another option i thought of is to connect your phone to wifi and dl a rom directly to your phone.
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I spent hours trying to findout how to convert my sd car for ext4 format with no luck. I dont have a evo or other phone to help me with this. Is there any other way I can use windows to get my sd setup for roms that use ext4? Thx
Y not do it in recovery??
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how you do this? my understanding you cant get amon ra for evo 3d so thats not an option for me
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I spent hours trying to findout how to convert my sd car for ext4 format with no luck. I dont have a evo or other phone to help me with this. Is there any other way I can use windows to get my sd setup for roms that use ext4? Thx
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I was going to tell you to use TWRP, but I see it doesn't format, yet. So, here's what I have done in the past. I use gparted in LINUX. Now, my laptop and netbook are dual boot, Win/LINUX. If you don't want to install LINUX, go download a live LINUX distro and burn it to CD or DVD, whichever it takes. I've used Ubuntu for this and it's what I have on my laptop and netbook. Then, after you burn it as an iso, put it in your computer and reboot into it. gparted is found under the Administrative on the taskbar. I generally will put my microsd into a reader and plug it into my computer. Sometimes your reader will show up on the desktop, but if not, just go to Places on the on the taskbar, and click My Computer. If you need more help, give me a shout.
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Is there any other way I can use windows to get my sd setup for roms that use ext4? Thx
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not sure what utilities windows has for ext4 partition formatting. perhaps a google search might turn up something useful? i know in ubuntu, as stated above, gparted works well. another option to the ubuntu live cd and the dual booting ubuntu is to run a VM of ubuntu. just to add another option!
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I was going to tell you to use TWRP, but I see it doesn't format, yet.
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long manual process:
grab the arm compiled ext4 formatting binary used in amonra recovery off his github and manually run the commands. the commands should be found in his github source .. can prob grep for the format menu (usually in recovery.c or recovery_ui.c for a starting point) and follow the menu logic out to the exact command being sent to the ext4 formatting binary along with the arguments.
hope that might help those wanting to manually format ext4 partitions on their sdcard!
After trying to figure out how to get my 16 gb sd back instead if only having 70 mb partition I screwed something up by deleting the partition and some how made the whole sd bad and now my card won't even read. I'm rooted but don't see a market, nothing no apps but I have cwm so idk weird I can't figure it out so ne help on fixing my sd would be great thanks
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When you say it won' t read are you refering to from within the NT? This issue has been discussed and the easiest way is to format the SD from within the NT.
If you hear the ding dong upon inserting and ejecting the SD card fom the nook chances are pretty good you will be able to format it.
I assume you are NOT running CM7 and if you are ignore the above and RUN as fast as you can away from any formating within to NT. LoL
I had this same problem. I couldn't figure out a way to do it in windows so someone else chime in that knows more than me.
What I had to do was put it in a linux machine and using gParted find the menu option to create a new partition table then select msdos for the type. Hope you have a linux machine handy.
Good luck!
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I had this same problem. I couldn't figure out a way to do it in windows so someone else chime in that knows more than me.
What I had to do was put it in a linux machine and using gParted find the menu option to create a new partition table then select msdos for the type. Hope you have a linux machine handy.
Good luck!
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This is a sure fire way. I didn't referance it because not many users have access to a Linux machine.
If formating within the NT doesn't work this will for sure!!
No Linux sorrie but yeah didn't think about the nook doing it I'll try and see if not my 16gb is bricked till I can figure something out thanks for the responses
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Careful with what Land Master said, If you're running CM7 you'll have troubles. I tried it after I did the new rom and luckily got an error message and didn't brick my device but there have been lots of reports of that happening.
If you have a usb stick lying around you can make a live boot usb with unetbootin. It should have gparted on any distro you choose from the list.
So now I got the card to show on the nook but now it won't show up on the computer so idk what's going on with this sd card I really would hate to get another sd card
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The card itself is pefectly fine and you can always run either the live cd for gparted or you can run a live cd of any linux distro and have access to the program. A live cd means the distro runs from the cd and doesnt touch your Hard drive at all so theres zero chance you will mess up your pc. Heres what I would do in your case. I would download and burn one of the millions of linux distros out there and then unplug the Hard drive from the computer so that it doesnt get wiped at all then put the disc in and boot from it then use gparted to correct the sdcard issue.
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The card itself is pefectly fine and you can always run either the live cd for gparted or you can run a live cd of any linux distro and have access to the program. A live cd means the distro runs from the cd and doesnt touch your Hard drive at all so theres zero chance you will mess up your pc. Heres what I would do in your case. I would download and burn one of the millions of linux distros out there and then unplug the Hard drive from the computer so that it doesnt get wiped at all then put the disc in and boot from it then use gparted to correct the sdcard issue.
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Someone said I can do a boot from usb but im also on Windows 7 so there's no gparted clone for Windows lol?
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Someone said I can do a boot from usb but im also on Windows 7 so there's no gparted clone for Windows lol?
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Unetbootin (referenced above by Binary_Aegis) is a WINDOWS program that is used to make a bootable memory stick. Once done you will boot into the memory stick without the need to "install" Linux on you Windows Hard Drive.
Google it for more information but it was an excellent suggestion!
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Unetbootin (referenced above by Binary_Aegis) is a WINDOWS program that is used to make a bootable memory stick. Once done you will boot into the memory stick without the need to "install" Linux on you Windows Hard Drive.
Google it for more information but it was an excellent suggestion!
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OK thanks what's the required memory? Also if it's to big for my usb I guess ill use my phones sd lol
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Everyone has access to a linux machine as long as they own a cd burner or a 2gb usb stick.
Download ubuntu and either burn it to a cd, or make a bootable usb drive (instructions are right there on the ubuntu download page on how to make a bootable usb drive).
Put the drive or cd in the computer, turn computer on, select the first option on the menu. (live boot or whatever) This will boot you into a ubuntu machine capable of running gparted.
To access Gparted from that live desktop, do the following:
1. open a terminal (ctrl+alt+T or ctrl+shift+T I don't remember which offhand)
2. with terminal window open type in: sudo passwd root <press enter>
3. type in a password. something short, reenter it when asked.
4. now type: su<press enter>
5. put in the password you just made.
6. now type" gparted
The Gparted window will open and automatically scan for all connected drives. Figure out which one is your sdcard, make changes, exit.
Restart pc from ubuntu menu and remove cd/usb drive.
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Everyone has access to a linux machine as long as they own a cd burner or a 2gb usb stick.
Download ubuntu and either burn it to a cd, or make a bootable usb drive (instructions are right there on the ubuntu download page on how to make a bootable usb drive).
Put the drive or cd in the computer, turn computer on, select the first option on the menu. (live boot or whatever) This will boot you into a ubuntu machine capable of running gparted.
To access Gparted from that live desktop, do the following:
1. open a terminal (ctrl+alt+T or ctrl+shift+T I don't remember which offhand)
2. with terminal window open type in: sudo passwd root <press enter>
3. type in a password. something short, reenter it when asked.
4. now type: su<press enter>
5. put in the password you just made.
6. now type" gparted
The Gparted window will open and automatically scan for all connected drives. Figure out which one is your sdcard, make changes, exit.
Restart pc from ubuntu menu and remove cd/usb drive.
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Great information here! I linked this post in This Thread. I hope you don't mind.
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Great information here! I linked this post in This Thread. I hope you don't mind.
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Thanks u i dont mind ur helping and maybe this thread can help others who delete their partition bc they thought it would delete the boot partition that was created with root making a 16gb sd a 70 mb sd. So yea trying to get my 16 back screwed everything up so yeah I'm sure there's others like me so thank u foreal
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I had that issue when I playing around with the Indirect root method for sd card and what not. I lurked around the forums and tried a program called EASEUS Partition Master. From there I could delete the partition and reformatted the whole sd card to fat32 and that restored function to it. Another issue I ran into was that the reader from my NT wasn't picking up the sd card, but luckily my laptop had an sd card reader and that picked it up.
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I had that issue when I playing around with the Indirect root method for sd card and what not. I lurked around the forums and tried a program called EASEUS Partition Master. From there I could delete the partition and reformatted the whole sd card to fat32 and that restored function to it. Another issue I ran into was that the reader from my NT wasn't picking up the sd card, but luckily my laptop had an sd card reader and that picked it up.
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See the problem I'm having now is i got the card working its back to normal but for some odd reason it won't show on the computer ne more. So I'm thinking a driver on the computer for showing the sd is messed up somewhere. So I'm wondering exactly where and how to get to these drivers to uninstal and rehook the nook and put the drivers back on there. So ne insight on this feel free to lmk k thanks
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See the problem I'm having now is i got the card working its back to normal but for some odd reason it won't show on the computer ne more. So I'm thinking a driver on the computer for showing the sd is messed up somewhere. So I'm wondering exactly where and how to get to these drivers to uninstal and rehook the nook and put the drivers back on there. So ne insight on this feel free to lmk k thanks
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I had the same problem, the problem is that the NT can actually read sd cards better than windows. This happened to me when I reformatted but did not change the type of the partition table. Are you sure you created a new partition table of the msdos type?
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I had the same problem, the problem is that the NT can actually read sd cards better than windows. This happened to me when I reformatted but did not change the type of the partition table. Are you sure you created a new partition table of the msdos type?
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The only way that I've found to allow Windows to recognize more than just the first listed SD partition is to install drivers to make the card a Local Disk instead of a Removable Disk.
This would be extremely useful for users who run the SD version of CM7, where the image creates a four partitions with the 4th being all of your user data.
Here is the tutorial on how to modify and install the Local Disk drivers:
http://www.getusb.info/usb-hack-turn-a-usb-stick-into-a-hard-drive-or-local-disk/
In theory, if you use a USB to SD adapter, this should work, but it's not working for me. I thought all XP drivers were compatible with Windows 7, but maybe that isn't correct.
Anyone else want to give it a shot?
Ahh, the old hitachi drivers. I posted a guide about them some weeks ago. They will work on Windows 7, just not the 64bit version of it. Where exactly are you having problems with it?
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I have problems exactly where you say. It seems that the drivers aren't compatible with my 64bit operating system.
Any chance I could modify the driver to make it work?
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The only way that I've found to allow Windows to recognize more than just the first listed SD partition is to install drivers to make the card a Local Disk instead of a Removable Disk.
This would be extremely useful for users who run the SD version of CM7, where the image creates a four partitions with the 4th being all of your user data.
Here is the tutorial on how to modify and install the Local Disk drivers:
http://www.getusb.info/usb-hack-turn-a-usb-stick-into-a-hard-drive-or-local-disk/
In theory, if you use a USB to SD adapter, this should work, but it's not working for me. I thought all XP drivers were compatible with Windows 7, but maybe that isn't correct.
Anyone else want to give it a shot?
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What happens if you install a 32-bit Windows XP virtual machine on you 64-bit system. Would that allow you to use XP the drivers?
I don't have an XP .iso handy at the moment to run in VirtualBox, but I'm going to test this on an XP OS and a Windows 7 x86 OS within a day or two.
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I don't have an XP .iso handy at the moment to run in VirtualBox, but I'm going to test this on an XP OS and a Windows 7 x86 OS within a day or two.
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You can download the XP Virtual Machine from the Microsoft web site -- it's free.
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You can download the XP Virtual Machine from the Microsoft web site -- it's free.
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Except I didn't pay Micro$oft the big bucks for Professional or Ultimate. I'm running Home Premium on my desktop which doesn't allow XP Mode. Stupid Windows...
I will check it using another OS shortly.
If you're going to use a virtual machine, then why don't you just use Ubuntu? It will mount everything just fine.
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If you're going to use a virtual machine, then why don't you just use Ubuntu? It will mount everything just fine.
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Because they want a solution which doesn't require dual booting and is immediately available. Unfortunately the crap support for other file systems will continue to be a big problem for them. (EDIT: Or did you mean to run Ubuntu in a virtual machine?)
Running Ubuntu or PC-BSD or any other more FS robust OS in Oracle's VirtualBox (which is free and relatively easy to use) is probably the best solution for many here.
I know all partitions and all file systems mount in Ubuntu, but the point of this is to get multiple partitions to be readable/writable in Windows, since the majority of users run this as their main OS. The idea of running XP in a virtual machine was simply to check and see if the drivers were compatible; the idea was not meant to be a permanent solution.
As for Windows mounting Linux file systems (Ext2 and Ext3 specifically), this would be my next step. I believe the solution does exist. Check out the freeware Ext2IFS and ExtFsd if you're interested. I haven't gotten the chance to try them because I'd like to get multiple Microsoft partitions readable first.
Anyway, after trying a USB drive and a SD card in an MMC reader on both a 32bit Windows 7 Home and XP Home this morning, I have not been successful.
I can confirm that the USB Local Disk drivers are in fact compatible with both of these operating systems, but Windows is still recognizing the drives at Removable Disks instead of Local Disks. I will try to work on it a bit more in a little while.
Total Commander has support for ext bases file systems.
So, can cm7 use an ext sd file system just like fat 32?
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Total Commander has support for ext bases file systems.
So, can cm7 use an ext sd file system just like fat 32?
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I believe so. In fact, the SD card version of CM7 final uses two ext4 file systems, one of them being the partition used for the "internal storage."
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I believe so. In fact, the SD card version of CM7 final uses two ext4 file systems, one of them being the partition used for the "internal storage."
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I'm able to manually mount the sdcard as ext4, however CM7 doesn't recognize the sdcard, and won't mount it for me.
Does anyone know what we need to change to get CM7 to recognize an ext4 sdcard?
Thanks!
Little bit of a thread hijack going on, but that's okay.
Is your vold.fstab mounting the correct partition?
Okay, so I got all the different partitions of my SD card to mount this morning, even an Ext3 file system. I might do my own How-To later for the CM7 users on here and so that it appears using more tags in someone's Google search.
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Okay, so I got all the different partitions of my SD card to mount this morning, even an Ext3 file system. I might do my own How-To later for the CM7 users on here and so that it appears using more tags in someone's Google search.
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Sorry for resurrecting an old thread but I need to know: Did you ever document somewhere how you got this working under Windows 7 64-bit?
I'm in the same boat as you, needing to be able to mount and read an ext2 partition on my Windows 7 64-bit. I've got the necessary drivers that'll let me read ext2 and above but having access to that 2nd partition while the card is in my Windows laptop is where I'm stumbling.
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
In fact, I actually did manage to find the drivers for x64 Win7. Check out post #7 of this thread right here to see the details.
I've been able to load, boot & run the 4.2 release on my Dell Mini 9 from a USB key just fine. It even recognizes my Intel 4965AGN wireless card. All is good ONLY FROM THE USB. Although I have the option to install to HDD, it just won't do it. Every time I try to boot from the HDD it says "Operating System not found". The files appear to be there but in a folder I've tried formatting FAT32, NTFS, EXT3 and all seem to have the same results. Am I missing something or is there a problem with the installer? Anybody else been here yet?
As I stated, everything runs fine from a USB stick, even my wireless and Play Store! Just wish I could figure out how to get everything to the HDD and boot from there. It goes through all the motions like it is installing, leaves what look like the correct files there, just won't work. Go to Reboot and no OS.
Any help would be appreciated.
Install in virtualbox
I guess you need to install work with these x86 releases in virtual format... like using virtualbox
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I guess you need to install work with these x86 releases in virtual format... like using virtualbox
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I managed to install it onto another USB drive. It is a lot easier than sorting out dual booting. The problems I had with setting up the second USB drive was to do with its partition settings such as whether it was a primary partition, active etc.
Yeah, here's an unusual one.
So the HDD in my old laptop died, requiring me to get a new laptop. Lo and behold, however, I had an old laptop that had a good HDD in it and the board was bad. So I want to install Remix onto this HDD, then slap it into my old laptop to play with it.
The HDD right now is in a hard drive reader plugged into my current laptop.
All I want to do is wipe the data off of it, install Remix OS, and slap this hard drive into my old laptop.
Is there an easy way to do this or do I need extra-special partitioning tools? Also, why isn't there just a basic "run the installer and go" version of single-boot Remix?? Why does every installation method require extra steps to create special partitions and bootable USB drives?
Thanks!
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Yeah, here's an unusual one.
So the HDD in my old laptop died, requiring me to get a new laptop. Lo and behold, however, I had an old laptop that had a good HDD in it and the board was bad. So I want to install Remix onto this HDD, then slap it into my old laptop to play with it.
The HDD right now is in a hard drive reader plugged into my current laptop.
All I want to do is wipe the data off of it, install Remix OS, and slap this hard drive into my old laptop.
Is there an easy way to do this or do I need extra-special partitioning tools? Also, why isn't there just a basic "run the installer and go" version of single-boot Remix?? Why does every installation method require extra steps to create special partitions and bootable USB drives?
Thanks!
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If You have Remix OS working on any computer. You could use some HDD cloning imaging to make an image of that hard drive, then clone the HDD to another HDD and it should just work.
I have used Symantec Ghost to create an image of the whole HDD that has Remix OS. Then I have imaged another Laptop with that image and it works fine. However it's advised to do this before You boot Remix OS for the first time. So that it goes as a brand new install, Otherwise the IDs will be identical on both computers including all saved data. Not that it really matters I guess if You want to keep everything as is.
I believe You can also get remix going again on another computer and once it has been installed and it's working. Just replace the system.img and data.img files from a working installation and that should also clone it.
You will need something like Hiren's Boot CD to boot up to say mini Windows XP and then replace the *.img files there in the RemixOS folder once you have copied them to an external HDD or USB Drive from a working installation.
I believe Hiren's Boot CD also has some HDD cloning apps that you can use if you just want to clone the HDD.
... I don't have Remix at all. Hence my question.
I have an empty hard drive taken from an old broken laptop. It is currently in a hard drive reader and I've deleted all files off of it. I want to install Remix to it, then put it in another laptop whose drive went bad. I wasn't only remix on it. I don't understand the procedure to do this or why I apparently need this third party boot software to do this, and why I can't just run the Remix installer on the empty drive and be done. The hard drive is already boot able by virtue of what it is and the fact that the laptop bios already boots from hdd.
Have you tried to use the usb creator for it on a working pc the HDD (external) would be seen as another pen drive I think
I have never tried installing on on a EXT HDD. However i think You can create a USB and then install it to that External HDD. You would need to prepare the HDD, delete all partitions, create an MBR partition with ext4 file system and make it active or it just won't boot from it.
This link might help: https://chubbable.com/remix-os-installation#hdd-single-boot-install