Copying - Expanding partitions on current Rom SD cards

Copying - Expanding partitions on current Rom SD cards I have a Nook Color that has a wonderful N2A card (16gb) and works great...problem is I have about 13 gb used and want to use a new SanDisk 32gb sd card so I have additional space. How can (if possible) I copy the current N2A data & partition to my new 32gb sd card. I don't want to lose anything currently on the N2A card. Love my Nook!! Also I purchased a 16gb Nook tablet for my daughter and made a rom card from your CM7 download to a 32 gb card for her...unfortunately she has the use of only 4 gb on the 32 gb sd card...can I change the partition to her 32gb (+/-) using a partition program. I am reasonably proficient in working with computers, but need some reassurance from an expert as to how I can safely resolve these 2 separate issues. Thanks for any help you can provide...love your forums.

05-02-2012, 10:06 PM (This post was last modified: 05-02-2012 10:09 PM by androidfornook.) Post: #2

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RE: Copying - Expanding partitions on current Rom SD cards Thank you for giving me a least 50% of your business! I guess I have no problem helping you with your N2A card either Did you buy an 8GB download? That would be the only reason you have 4GB of free space. First the N2A card: You can transfer your N2A card to a larger card by first making a backup. Here is the thread that shows you how to do that: http://androidfornook.com/forum/showthre...partitions After you create the backup, you need to "write" the backup to the new card. Directions for that are also in the previous thread. After you write the image to the new card, you need to resize the partition (the 4th one) to get full use of the new storage on your 32GB card and your daughter's card. Here is a paste from a post I made on the B&N Book Clubs forum answering the same question: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ts_hunter wrote: .... I have a 8gb card and I reformatted it so it would show 8gb available. After I write the Team-B-CM7SD-Alpha_final.img image, the SD card shows that it is a 200mb card. Is there a way to make it be 8gb again and still have the image on there? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It shows a 200 MB card because the Windisk32 imaging program creates 4 partitions on the card and the first partition is only 200MB: The first partition is the boot partition which just has a few startup files. This is the only partition that you can see in Nook mode or when the card is in your cardreader, plugged into the PC. The second and third partitions are hidden and contain the Android operating system. Don't even mess with them The fourth partition is your available space to use for downloading and storing files. Since you have an 8GB card and the image you downloaded is created for a 4GB card, you have some unused storage you need to claim: 1. Download a free program called Mini Tool Partition Wizard from download.com and install it. 2. Insert your micro SD into a cardreader and plug it into your PC. 2. When you start the partition program, you will see a couple drives. One will be your hard drive (maybe you have more than one) and one will be your micro SD card. 3. You will notice the micro SD card has 4 partitions, as mentioned already - you are looking for the unallocated space to the right of the 4th partition. That is what you want to claim. 4. Click on the 4th partition to highlight it. Then go to the menu at the top and click "resize". I am doing this from memory, so I might not have the commands exactly right. 5. Click on the up/down arrow in the box to increase the size of partition 4. Max it out and make it as large as you can. Click OK or Save, whatever the option is. 6. Go to the top of the menu and click "APPLY". None of your changes will be committed until you click "apply". 7. After it is complete (wait for a dialogue box to appear saying the actions are complete), close the program and eject your SD card properly by right-clicking on the drive letter in Windows and select "eject". Do not remove the SD card from the PC until Windows says it is safe to do so, otherwise you could corrupt the files on the card. 8. Insert the card into your Nook (power is off!) and turn it on. It should boot right into Android! To boot back into Nook mode, you have to be in Android mode. Press the power button and select "reboot". Have fun with your Android Tablet! Dean END OF B&N POST****************** After you have expanded the partitions on your cards, you should make another backup. This time the backup will include all of the space on your card, so if you ever have to write the image again, the partitions will be correctly sized.      src: http://www.androidfornook.com/forum/thread-226-post-956.html