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Thanks, Ivan. I'm just going to cheerfully sigh. I just spent past 3-4 hours reading and then installing WM5torage on my device, then went through the Windows XP formatter/partitioner... it was quite simple to create a 1 GB partition @ fat32 -- which is what numerous other guides have said. Then I thought I would want to use the other space, as it IS an 8gig card, so formatted the remaining partition.

Then extracted your Just2Clean zip on my PC, got to the .nbh file. Copied that over to my microSD card, in my phone, to the 1 gig partition (if the .nbh is only 45 MB or so... It took a long time to write that way... whereas when I copy files to my microSD using my card reader, it's fast.

I also have no idea why a gig is what so many guide writers recommended, but whatever). But in that root directory was also a .ini file .... and I don't know anything about this stuff... I'm just trying to make a BULLET-PROOF set of videos that covers every single thing, no mysteries, no ifs this, the real thing. So I video'd this whole process.

But given how slow it was to copy that one file from PC to phone via the USB-to-card scenario, I decided I would try to copy all my data that I had intended to use on that same card (mp3s, videos, tons of cab files, etc) using the card reader.

So I properly ejected the microSD from my phone, inserted this partitioned card into my reader -- and lo and behold I can only see the 1 gig partition... the reader does not see these partitions.

Right before coming to read this, I decided I would start over, and screw the WM5torage -- I would have earlier today if there was a single person pther than you on all of XDA who could have just answered that for me... but so it goes...

So I went back to XP's disk manager tools to try to delete those partitions, and just wipe the 8gig drive clean again and start over, using only the card reader. And whaddaya know, I cannot delete those partitions. With the Windows XP tools I cannot reformat the card. It sees it as a 1 gig card.

I am no fan of the way XDA site culture thinks of people as "warriors" who have to go through all this crap to earn their badges... Like this builds character or something. Papamopps for exmaple berates newbies all the time saying he waited a whole year, reading first, before he ever posted a thread.

A year? really? that's the way to upgrade your phone and USE it in life ?

I just completely disagree with the learning methodology and culture... which is the whole purpose of making BULLET-PROOF videos: so 90% of the traffic XDA gets, from noobs asking the same "Level 101" questions can just be answered so simply by "watch and see".

So excuse me it's not about you -- as said many times you are the most helpful and respectful cook/developer around.

If one person had said "use a smaller microSD card just for flashing only", I would have taken one of my 2gig micro SD cards and partitioned THAT, not my 8 gig card. Again, not you, but searching for 4-5 hours last night, another 3 today and not one person on the entire site has mentioned til now: "use a smaller microSD card just for flashing the rom".

I should just go take a break and come back to this tomorrow otherwise I might break something. As it stands, all the effort to shoot close up videos as well, detailing every single step, is only now going to result in a "HOW NOT TO FLASH A ROM using a micro SD card" :D :eek:

So Ill just ask this: Can anyone in this Herald/Wing forum please tell me if there is an XP utility I can get from CNET, etc, that will enable me to see my 8 gig card, and reformat that back to an 8gig card.

Then I will take a 2gig microSD and partition that so there's just a 200 MB partition, and use that exclusively for flashing a new rom.

gracias.