Help!, I can't partition my empty Micro SDHC card!

[bahumbaba]

Hi!

I have a really annoying issue that i've tried to solve the last couple of days.

I've just bought a Kingston 16gb Class10 Micro SDHC memory card for my Samsung Galaxy S phone.

The reason for this was that i wanted to try out the Samsung Galaxy S stalling/lag fix: Samsung Galaxy S stalling/lag fix

In short, it involves splitting my SD card up in two partitions the first as a FAT32 partition for storage and the second as a ext3 or ext4 partition for the phone's program database.

Now, i used Paragon partition Manager 11 to do this, and it went fine with the fix.

Then after some days my phone crashed and it took some re-flashing of firmwares before i was able to revive it.

This occured after i implemented the fix for my phone so i thougt i've did someting wrong, i then decided to try out the ext4 file system on my Micro SDHC card.

And now for the real problem, after i deleted the ext3 and FAT32 partitions in Paragon Partition Manager 10, i get this error messasage when i try to create a new partition:

"The disk already contains four primary partitions. Basic hard disks can contain only four primary partitions, including extended ones."



And it does have a partition, according to Paragon, it's a Primariy unformatted partition, when i then format it and try to create a new partition i get the above error message.

It's as if paragon can't do anything with this SD Card, because if i shut the program down and reopen, it still sees it as a Primary, Unformatted partition.



The only way i've figured out to format it, is to use the official SD Formatter from http://www.sdcard.org/, it then becomes one big FAT partition, which i can store files on, but that's not the reason i bougt it!.

Even after formatting it this way, Paragon still sees it as an Unformatted primary partition and i still gets the annoying error message!.

Even more annoying, i've actually been able to recover the files from the ext3 partition and even see the partition itself, but i am not interested in recovering the files, only to be able to make new partitions on my Micro SDHC card.

So far all software i've tried only recover the files, not repair my SD Card which is my only interest.

Hope someone out there can help me!.

[code_slave]

Considering the level you are operating at :
Throw it away and buy a new one, it will be cheaper in the long run.

[drc]

Or try something that can zero the first sector

[ppumkin]

try using a linux live cd to partition your drive. but yes- you will need to remove all part info first in linux. just google it- some good solutions out there.

[fzabkar]

Can we see the MBR contents with Microsoft's Sector Inspector?
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt.

[paolobacci]

Hi, I googled for the same error as reported by the author and it led me here.
I can´t create an ext partition in gparted nor in amonra recovery tool
My sd card is a sandisk 32gb cl4 and it doesn´t accept the ext2/3/4 partition but accepts fat32 or linux swap
here are the screenshosts I take:



If need anymore info just ask.

[ppumkin]

It seems to some issue with the ext2 being logical or primary. Paragon seems to work first time for allot of people but then just crashes like in your case.
Mixing these two file system may cause some issues. The only way todo do it is using linux. Check mobile phone forums out they have good guides- avoid the paragon ones.

[paolobacci]

But the screens I took were made with lastest ubuntu on a vmware.
I have a nexus one and if I try to create the partition there I get the same problem. It isn´t created.

What forum do you suggest?
thx

[fzabkar]

Can we see a hex dump of sector 0?