[HD2 Android NAND Development] NLCandyman:
How to format your SD Card in Windows for use with A2SD

So without using any pmagic/gparted.iso or whatsoever​

Since we have different guides around now about how to format your SD card via a bootable image i thought it might be handy to have a guide about how to format your SD card in Windows :)​

The things you need:

SD Card

Android A2SD+ rom

Paragon Partition Manager DOWNLOAD HERE , Easus DOWNLOAD HERE ( Or any other Partition Software )

In this guide i will use Paragon Partition Manager, but it will probably work 99% the same with other partition software

Step 1:

Format your SD Card as FAT32 ( no Quick Format ) and boot up your phone. ( Android will now put some default files on it.. Don't delete these files

Step 2:

Put the SD card in your PC's cardreader or reboot your phone into MAGLDR and pick option 3. USB MassStg

Open up your partition software ( in this case Paragon Partition manager )

Step 3:

You will notice that you will see your SD card as probably 1 FAT32 Partition.

Click the right mouse button on your SD card's FAT32 partition and click Move/Resize Partition

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Step 4:

Now move the the Partition's Size from right to left until you get the "Unallocated space" you want for your Apps..

If you don't understand what i mean you can do this since it's easier/quicker: In the box "Please specify size of free space after the partition" enter the amount of space (MB) you would like to have for your Apps. ( 1024MB (1GB) should be enough for most users )

IMPORTANT: Make sure you put this in the box that says After the Partition and not Before the partition and then it will look similiar to the image below:

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Step 5:

Now you will notice you will have 1 FAT32 partition and 1 "Unallocated" partition..

Right click on this "Unallocated" partition and click Create Partition

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A new window will open.

In this window you can define what kind of partition you want to create. Make sure it will look similiar to the image below (Size may differ)

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Step 5 Notes:

So what are these options?

Create new partition as: Here you can pick if you want to create a Primary, Extended or Logical partition. In this case we need a Primary partition

Please specify new partition size: Here you can put in the amount of space you want the partition to be. Make sure this is set to the maximum amount. ( in this case 1019MB )

Please select file system for new partition: Here you can pick the file system for the partition. (FAT32/NTFS etc. etc.) In this case we need a 'Linux Ext 2' partition. ( Some roms have problems with Ext 3/Ext 4 partitions )

Step 6:

Now you have to click the button in the menu and your partition(s) will be created.

When this is done you can put back your SD card into your phone ( or quit USB Mass Storage mode in MAGLDR ) and reboot your phone.

From now on you will notice you have a acceptable amount of free space on your phone.

If you install apps to your phone you will notice your phone's storage won't decrease :-)

If your phone's storage does decrease when installing apps just reboot your phone and it should be fine by then

I hope this is clear to everybody and if there any questions just reply and i will reply you back a.s.a.p. :D

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