Thread: How to upgrade the internal memory by extending the root filesystem to a memory card
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troubleshootr is offline troubleshootr
2006-04-18 , 00:59
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#104
Ya, it won't let me format it because its not an SD. It fits, just wont format. I also tried to format it via Norton Partition Manager and it just gives me an error...
Ok, try this. I assume you got a dual boot computer with a card reader. Boot into linux, put the card in your reader with the little adapter thingy. Su to root. Check dmesg, card will probably be detected as sda. You probably got a partition as sda1. Unmount any partitions that auto-mounted:

umount /dev/sda1

then open cfdisk:

cfdisk /dev/sda

delete ALL partitions, CFDISK should show all space as free space. Write changed to disk and exit CFDISK.

Force a format of entire device:

mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sda (note the -I that is a capital i)

NOTE: Change sda to whatever dmesg showed you as device name.

Hopefully this will work.