Monday, October 03
Crapware Live Blog, Part 71732
I managed to get the Xperia tablet to move apps to the SD card again. The problem was not the size of the card, or the amount of free space, but the partition table. The Android disk partitioning utility creates disk partitions that are incompatible with Android.
I managed to get the Xperia tablet to move apps to the SD card again. The problem was not the size of the card, or the amount of free space, but the partition table. The Android disk partitioning utility creates disk partitions that are incompatible with Android.
I partitioned it on my Mac (you can't partition SD cards on Windows (because fuck you, that's why) and the Mac Disk Utility doesn't work either, but you can do it from the command line.
Meanwhile, my Dell notebook got the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. And now it doesn't work any more. The Black Screen of Death - where the update kills both your display driver and your network driver.
And of course, updates are mandatory.
It should be straightforward enough to fix once I find the right drivers, work out how the hell you get Windows 10 into safe mode (shift-click the restart button, yeah, very intutitive that), and install them and reboot a few more times.
But seriously, Microsoft, you've bricked two of my Windows 10 systems with your crappy updates already. If you're going to make updates mandatory, they have to work every single time. Otherwise you can just piss off.
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You can totally partition an SD card in Windows, using Disk Management. I just reformatted a 1GB SD into two separate partitions.
Posted by: RickC at Tuesday, October 04 2016 11:40 AM (ITnFO)
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Hmm. Won't do it for me.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 04 2016 12:05 PM (PiXy!)
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Are you using different Windows editions / SKUs?
Posted by: Kurt Duncan at Tuesday, October 04 2016 01:04 PM (QKmzp)
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I'm using Windows 10 Surprise Brick edition.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, October 04 2016 03:30 PM (PiXy!)
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Pixy, obviously you need a different edition. 
Out of curiosity, did you get errors or just not have the options?
There's a command-line tool, diskpart, that you could try and see if it works. I used it recently to clean partitions off a thumb drive that, IIRC, Disk Management couldn't/wouldn't.
Out of curiosity, did you get errors or just not have the options?
There's a command-line tool, diskpart, that you could try and see if it works. I used it recently to clean partitions off a thumb drive that, IIRC, Disk Management couldn't/wouldn't.
Posted by: RickC at Wednesday, October 05 2016 08:06 AM (ECH2/)
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That'll be it; I used Disk Manager, not the command line. That means that Windows and Mac have exactly the same limitation in their disk management UI.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, October 05 2016 09:58 AM (PiXy!)
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Hah. I suppose I should clarify that I was able to split a 1GB SD card into two ~487GB partitions with Disk Management. I used diskpart to redo a flash drive that had been previously used as Windows install media and had something like 6 partitions on it; I needed to roll that back down to one, and Disk Management couldn't handle that drive.
I have no idea why one type of flash media would work with DM and the other wouldn't.
Posted by: RickC at Wednesday, October 05 2016 11:27 AM (ITnFO)
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BTW, Googling found a page on superuser.com where someone claims that "You can't delete a partition while it contains a filesystem that is currently set to be always mounted. Remove the drive letter (From the Change Drive Letter and Paths option) and then you should be able to delete the partition." Although I think the SD card I modified did actually have a drive letter, so who knows.
Posted by: RickC at Wednesday, October 05 2016 11:32 AM (ITnFO)
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Thanks for the info. Maybe it was a partition table problem from formatting it with the Android debugger earlier. There was no error or other indication of a problem, I just couldn't do anything.
I took a quick look online and was told you can't partition an SD card under Windows and assumed this was in fact true.
I took a quick look online and was told you can't partition an SD card under Windows and assumed this was in fact true.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, October 05 2016 02:52 PM (PiXy!)
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