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Root Help with aligning FAT32

arkazain

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Sep 1, 2010
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Right, so I'm following this guide, which was recommended by baadnwz, but I'm having a little trouble, specifically this part:

Aligning FAT32 said:
You will need to perform the following steps in fdisk:
Delete the existing partition
Create a new partition that starts at cylinder 1 and ends at the end of the disk
Mark the partition as a FAT32 (LBA) partition type, which is hex type "0x0C".
Enter expert mode and change the beginning of data to sector 256. (Sector 256 x 512 bytes/sector = 128K (131,072 bytes)
Return from expert mode and write the changes to disk.
Press q to quit at any time while in fdisk before writing your changes if you feel uncomfortable or don't understand what you are doing.
I don't want to provide a step by step here, since it would be too easy to just blindly type it all in and mess something up. Read, learn and understand what you are doing before you jump in! Research fdisk (man fdisk) and get to know the program. It's easy, but it takes a little learning to grasp the concepts. The information above will guide you easily along once you know fdisk.

I can't find any good guides, and I honestly have no idea of what to do, so if anyone can help me, or just point me to a good guide, that would be great!
 
So I should just use Gparted as if this is my first time partitioning my SD card?
What will happen to the old partition?

Deleting partitions will........ delete them! All data on those partitons will be lost so make back ups if you need to.

In Gparted just select the drive your working on, select the partition, select delete. If you have another patition to delete just reeat the step, then go to I think edit and apply, this will perform the selected actions. then select new partition, size, ntfs, fat32 etc. apply again.

Lecter or Hardon or someone who knows their stuff around here has a guide, have a look in some siggies.
 
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Deleting partitions will........ delete them! All data on those partitons will be lost so make back ups if you need to.

In Gparted just select the drive your working on, select the partition, select delete. If you have another patition to delete just reeat the step, then go to I think edit and apply, this will perform the selected actions. then select new partition, size, ntfs, fat32 etc. apply again.

Lecter or Hardon or someone who knows their stuff around here has a guide, have a look in some siggies.
Yeah, it's in my sig.
 
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This is its description:

"GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted."

So basically, this would be GParted in an application instead of a live CD, so this should work right?
 
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