Thursday 4 April 2013

Partition a SD Card With Mini-Tool Partition Wizard.



Hey Guys,

There are so many people have the necessary to partition the phone or camera SD card, and this Blog introduce the easiest way to partition it with a free third party partition software called Mini-Tool Partition Wizard, which is is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista & Windows 7 & 8. Here below are the steps.
Note: Backup all important data from your SD card to your computer. 
requirements: USB SD Card reader.
Pull SD card from phone, insert into USB SD Card reader. Windows should report new drive and content of the drive should be visible.

Steps to Partition Android SD Card-


1. Download and install Partition Wizard Home Edititon for Windows.













2. Delete old partitions on SD card.



Note: this partition manager QUEUES the operations. So nothing is deleted and changed UNTIL you click "APPLY" and then confirm by clicking "OK".

WARNING!

Make sure you are deleting partition on SD card! (not your hard drive for example)

This step deletes everything on SD card, so backup files first!

Dont be afraid, just read everything and think twice before selecting correct drive.
Do you see three gray icons on the bottom? Under each of them the capacity of each drive is listed, and SD CARD has slightly different icon.
Hard drives on the screenshot have 465.8GB and 74.5GB, and on the bottom, the SD card, with 3.8GB capacity.




3. Create FAT or FAT32 partition select.  "Create As": PRIMARY.
Select "File System:" FAT when you have 2GB or smaller card.
Select "File System:" FAT32 when you have 4GB or greater card.
4. Create ext2 or ext3 partition*.  "Create As": PRIMARY.
Select "File System:" ext2 - for Android
Partition label : ext2





5. Finish.
Finally, click "apply" button on top left corner. Partitions will be created and card will be formatted.