Step By Step - Partitioning with Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 - windows version

[kaysesoze]

http://kaysesoze.wordpress.com/2009/...on-manager-90/

HOW TO PARTION WITH PARAGON PARTITION MANAGER
**** FORMATING AND PARTITIONING THE SDCARD WILL ERASE ALL INFORMATION ON THE CARD - PLEASE BACK THE CARD UP BEFORE STARTING THIS PROCESS *****
have the sdcard in the card reader or in the phone mounted to the pc !!!!

OPEN PARTITION MANAGER...
CLICK ON PARTITION MANAGER IN THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER..

then click on the line that represents the sdcard, and right click on it, and choose format partition.. name the volume label - fat32
then click format..

computer might hang for a minute or 2, and then a popup will come up and say click GREEN CHECK to apply changes..

click the GREEN CHECK IN THE TOOLBAR AREA..

you will then see another pop up show - apply changes, choose yes, then you will see OVERALL PROGRESS AND GEARS TURNING.. LET IT PROCESS AND TAKE ITS TIME.. DONT HIT CANCEL..

when its done the cancel button at the bottom will change to Close.. click it..
AND THE FIRST STAGE IS DONE...

NOW ITS TIME TO CREATE THE EXT2 PARTITION..

Now on the Left side of the screen click Create partition.. and a screen will now show Create New Partition Wizard... it lets you chose which drive to partition ( make sure you chose the sdcard - it will be the one with the smallest volume/size of the sdcard in gbs.. should be on the bottom )...

HIT NEXT

now a slider will appear where it says new volume....

move the slider with the mouse, and make it how big you want it.. for ext2 partiiton about 500mb to 1gb is plenty... 500mb is good size.. ( size wont be exact so get it close to the size you want..

WHEN DONE CLICK NEXT...

NOW IT GIVES YOU THE OPTION TO FORMAT THE PARTITION...

CLICK THE PARTITION TYPE DROPDOWN MENU AND CHOSE LINUX EXT2... AND GIVE IT A VOLUME LABEL OF ext2.
then click next...

PC WILL PROCESS AND HOURGLASS WILL SHOW WHERE THE MOUSE POINTER IS.. AND THEN A POP UP WILL SHOW - SAYING -
COMPLETING THE CREATE NEW PARTTITION WIZARD..

CLICK FINISH...

THEN IT TAKES YOU BACK TO THE SCREEN SHOWING THE DRIVES, AND WHAT YOU CREATED, AND THE OPTION AT THE TOP WILL SAY - APPLY ... choose apply
THEN IT WILL ASK YOU TO - APPLY PENDING CHANGES AGAIN, choose yes..

NOW YOU WILL SEE THE GEARS WORKING AGAIN.. LET IT RUN TILL IT SAYS complete..
*it will take a few minutes to process.. let it run...

you might get a pop up for the sdcard drive as a open folder on the pc just showing that its done, just go back to paragon and let it finish running...

once complete you will get a pop up saying SYSTEM RESTART IS REQUIRED TO COMPLETE OPERATION.. CHOSE RESTART THE COMPUTER...

You will see a paragon manager screen, that will hang for a almost a minute, and then the bar will fill saying 100 percent complete, press any key to reboot the pc..

AS LONG AS THERE IS NO ERRORS, YOUR DONE..

FORMAT COMPLETE..

PARAGON WILL START UP ON ITS OWN, AND SHOW THE PARTITIONS AS BEING COMPLETE..

**EDIT **
Originally Posted by Androidandy from XDA
I check that the ext2 partition is good by typing busybox df -h in terminal.

[DaYuMu6ft7]

*Sticky*

[kaysesoze]

i just made the steps, as i was formating my 4gig card that I had, since people kept saying that its too hard, or not easy to format. the link at the bottom is the word document with screenshots.. couldnt get the screenshots to save as image..

[Shel]

Thanks! This is EXACTLY what I need, now that I've rooted and installed JF 1.5!

Once this is done, can I simply download an app from the market to move my apps to the memory card? DO the apps still show up on my G1 as if they're stored internally?

Thanks again, excellent job!

[kaysesoze]

Originally Posted by Shel

Thanks! This is EXACTLY what I need, now that I've rooted and installed JF 1.5!

Once this is done, can I simply download an app from the market to move my apps to the memory card? DO the apps still show up on my G1 as if they're stored internally?

Thanks again, excellent job!

that just formats the card, you still have to do the links for apps to sdcard, or run the apps2sd card app...
brb
posting on xda

[Shel]

Yeah, I should have been clearer... when I said "download an app from the market", I was talking about apps2sd.

If I format my card, per your instructions, all I then need to do is download and run apps2sd to move apps to the memory card, correct?

[kaysesoze]

Originally Posted by Shel

Yeah, I should have been clearer... when I said "download an app from the market", I was talking about apps2sd.

If I format my card, per your instructions, all I then need to do is download and run apps2sd to move apps to the memory card, correct?

yeah, once you format it, and run the apps2sd app, any app that you donwload or install from the sdcard ( if u got from another source other than the market ) will auto install to the ext2 portion...
you can flash any rom and have all apps back and running real quick if you have adb on your pc..
just put apps2sd ( if you have a apps2sd compatible rom ) in the android folder and type -
adb install apps2sd.apk
and your done, just click the 2 options on the app, and reboot the phone when it says, and all your apps are there... then just run mybackup or astro to restore your data..

[DrVeronica]

partitioning is a piece of cake!

very good guide though

[kaysesoze]

Originally Posted by DrVeronica

partitioning is a piece of cake!

very good guide though

it is, but some folks have problems with new programs, that can be confusing if you never used it before.. lol..
so i partitioned my extra 4gig sdcard since i was helping someone so i can walk them thru how to do it without any errors at all..

[DrVeronica]

Why go with a 4 gig when ya could have 8 gig