Klona micro-sdkort

The short answer:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/55...oid-smartphone

Kris Baudemprez
April 11, 2013 12:35:59 AM

Here is what worked when I got my son a larger (from 2GB to 32GB microSDHC) memory card for his Android (Samsung Galaxy TXT).
Switched off then phone and took the existing 2GB microSD card out, and mounted it using an SD-adapter into my Windows PC, which added it as drive G: in the system.
Opened a command prompt, and ran following commands:
C:
cd /
md sd-card
cd sd-card
xcopy G:\*.* /S /E /V
Ejected the old microSD, and mounted the new one in the SD adapter, again, as drive G:, and re-opened a new command prompt window, and ran:
C:
cd /
cd sd-card
xcopy *.* G:\ /S /E /V
Ejected the microSD from the computer, and inserted it in the phone, switched on the phone, and all his apps, pictures, movies, TXT messages that where stored on the old microSD worked right away. (Well, some off the apps, started updating themselves, as they were not able to do so on the old-card, as it had ran out completely out of space). But all went flawless.

KBAUD.

I did all of the above and it worked great, but I have to tell the story of how I came to find the right answer.

You’d think cloning a micro SD card would be a simple task, but it posed a challenge even for me, the master of computers.

First of all, a lot of fucking retards out there say you can just copy-paste to get an exact copy of your old micro SD card on your new micro SD card. This is retarded and wrong. The difference between copying and cloning is that with cloning, your phone doesn’t even know it has a new SD card in it. Everything will be just like you left it with your old SD card. All your text messages, game saves, game data, etc. will still be there, and will still work as if you never got a new SD card.

However, if you just copy-paste your old SD card contents onto a new SD card, some stuff will be broken. The technical reason probably has something to do with memory blocks and partitions and shit. Just because the folder structure and file placements look the exact same to you, when you just copy-paste them onto a new SD card, the stuff isn’t in the exact same spot it was before in terms of the memory infrastructure… probably. So everything looks the same to you, but it doesn’t look the same to your phone/computer.

If you just copy-paste your old hard drive onto a new hard drive, and then take out your old hard drive and try to boot up your computer with your new hard drive, it won’t work. Just believe me. Yes, the new hard drive will have your old files on it, but your computer won’t work.

You have to clone your SD card if you want everything to be just like it was, but with the added space of your new SD card. Simply copy-pasting doesn’t cut it if you want a flawless transition between your old SD card and your new one. Yes, simply copy-pasting will copy over all your old photos and music, but your apps won’t know where stuff is and some stuff won’t work right, and apps will have to be reinstalled. So please don’t listen to people who say, “LOL I JUST COPY-PASTED AND IT WORKED FOR ME LOL.”

I had trubbles with trying to find some good cloning software. For Windows, people recommended Roadkil’s Disk Image Program. I tried that but it was saying it was going to overwrite everything on my C drive when I was just trying to put the cloned image of my SD card there before I transferred it to the new SD card.

Fuck this shit, I thought. Too dangerous. One errant click and I break my computer.

Oh well. I bet cloning a disk is easier with Linux.

So I restarted my computer and booted into Linux. I came upon a program called Clonezilla. I downloaded it, installed it, and went to run it, but it was nowhere to be found. “Ohhh… This must be one of those fun ‘command line only’ programs,” I thought. So I opened the command line and typed “sudo clonezilla” or “su clonezilla.” (I can’t remember which.) And I was greeted with the Clonezilla program, looking amazing in all its circa-1993 MS-DOS glory.

So I’ve got three hard drives on this computer, plus the old micro SD card which is plugged in to the computer via a USB adapter. So Clonezilla is trying to list my disks, but of course Linux has to give them fun names like FAHK%#23542343bjk3h2jkl34h2@#$#@#$@ instead of just “C:” or “G:” like Windows does.

So I don’t even know what disks and drives Clonezilla is talking about, and I don’t want to fuck this up, so I go to unmount some of the disks to decrease the risk of fucking them up. Then Linux won’t let me unmount them unless I have root access. I’m quickly losing my patience. I Google how to get root access with Nemo (Linux Mint’s equivalent of Windows explorer) and then I do that. So now I have root access and should be good to go, but now root-access Nemo is not showing me all my drives. You know what? Fuck you. I’m done with this Linux bullshit for now. Going back to Windows now to figure this out.

So I reboot into Windows and Google some more, coming across several retards saying that copy-pasting is good enough, before I finally came upon the answer above. The answer above works. And you still get to feel like a Linux-esque badass when you do it because you get to use the command line.

So that’s my story of how I cloned my phone’s old 32gb micro SD card to a new 64 gb micro SD card.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

It’s good to have some idea what you’re doing when you’re typing shit into the command prompt. It helps you learn stuff when you know stuff. So I’ll explain what the commands in the answer are actually doing.

“C:” – Tells your computer that we’re dealing with your C drive, which is almost always your main hard drive where Windows is installed and where you keep all your shit. The D drive is your DVD drive, and the G drive or something is the drive for when you insert a USB stick or something. The letters are irrelevant. They can be any letter of the alphabet, but Windows gets cranky when you name your main drive anything but “C,” so C is your main drive by default. Typing “C:” just says, “OK, computer. We’re dealing with the C drive now.” If you think in terms of a filing cabinet, the C drive is the big master folder that you keep all your other folders inside. Inside your big master C folder are other subfolders like “Windows” and “Program Files.” And those subfolders have subfolders inside them too!

“cd /” – This command opens up the big master C folder, but doesn’t open up any of the folders inside the big master C folder. “CD” means “change directory (focus),” and “/” means “home.” “Directory” is just old-time computer-speak for what we now call a “folder.” So “cd /” = “change directory focus to home folder,” or “put our focus on the big main C folder, not any of its subfolders.”

“md sd-card” – “Md” means “make directory” or “make a new subfolder.” So “md sd-card” means “Make a new directory (subfolder), and name it ‘sd-card.'” And since we already told the computer to go to our home directory of the C drive, we’re making the new “sd-card” directory/folder as a subfolder of the main C drive folder.

“cd sd-card” – There’s that cd (change directory) command again. So “cd sd-card” says, “Change our directory focus to the directory named sd-card.” If you tried this command before you made the “sd-card” directory first, you’d get an error message because you’d be asking to focus on a folder that didn’t exist yet.

“xcopy G:\*.* /S /E /V” – OK this is a little more complicated. There is also just the plain old “copy” command, but as I pointed out above, copy-pasting just isn’t gonna cut it. We need to eXXXTREEEEEEEEME EXXXXTRA copy our old SD card to the new one. The “xcopy” command copies like the simple “copy” command does, but “xcopy” is more hardcore. The “xcopy” command doesn’t just copy the files and folders. It also copies all the tiny little details (hidden files, system files, etc.) that go along with the files and folders that normally don’t matter, but those little details matter this time because we want an exact clone, not just a copy. So “xcopy G:\” means EXXXXXXTREEEEME copy from the G drive. (G is just the letter Windows assigned to Kris Baudemprez’s micro SD card USB adapter when he plugged it in.) The “*.*” part means “fucking EVERYTHING! COPY EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING!” Files are named things like “Poopsex.doc” and “horsedick.jpg.” So “*.*” means “everything.everything.” (You could also put like, “*.jpg” if you only wanted to copy every jpg file, or “poop.*” if you only wanted to copy files named “poop,” no matter if they’re a doc or a jpg file or whatever. The “*” is a good thing to know with a lot of aspects of computing. The “*” is also really helpful with Google searches. But anyway…) The “/S /E /V” part of the command are further instructions/modifiers for the original “xcopy” command. “/S” means “copy directories and subdirectories, except empty ones,” and “/e” means “copy directories and subdirectories, including empty ones” (yeah I dunno why it’s necessary to give an instruction that directly contradicts the previous instruction) and “/v” means “verbose mode,” as in, “Don’t spare me any information, xcopy. Be verbose, not brief. I want to see it all!”

I’d love to know more about the “/s” and “/e” part, but I’m tired, and we’ve already made a lot of progress. Goodbye for now. I’m going /