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| System Name | Main PC/OldPC/3rd PC |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge/Core i5-3470 Ivy Bridge/Core i3-4330 Haswell |
| Motherboard | ASUS P8Z77-V/ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen1/ASUS H81M2 |
| Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO/Intel Box cooler/Intel Box cooler |
| Memory | 32GB Corsair Vengeance/32GB ADATA/16GB ADATA |
| Video Card(s) | SAPPHIRE R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB/MSI RX 480 8GB/SAPPHIRE R9 390 8GB |
| Storage | 2x1TB ADATA SSDs in RAID0+3 HDDs/2xCrucial 1TB SSDs in RAID0+3 HDDs/Samsung 1TB SSD+8TB+4TB HDDs |
| Display(s) | Philips 274E5QHAB@HDMI + Philips 273EQH@DVI (both 27") |
| Case | Fractal Design Define R4 Titanium |
| Audio Device(s) | Kenwood Mini HiFi system/Microlab speakers/Philips HDMI (main)+LG TV monitor HDMI + Apple headphones |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master Silent ProM 600 W (modular) |
| Mouse | Microsoft Ergonomic Sculpt Desktop 2.0 (combo)@Razer Goliath mousepad (Medium speed) |
| Keyboard | Microsoft Ergonomic Sculpt Desktop 2.0 (combo) |
| Software | Win10 64-bit (Main PC v.1809 RTM Enterprise/2nd PC v.1903 Insider Preview Pro/3rd PC - same as 2nd) |
Using a Xiaomi Mi A1 phone with Android OS 9.0 Pie, internal flash storage being only 64 GB.
To work around the limited storage, currently a 128 GB microSD card is formatted as Internal, i.e. it is sharing storage with the built-in flash memory, allowing lots & lots of extra apps/games to be installed, while leaving space for photos/videos too.
Still, despite having plenty of storage free, it is slowly running out due to adding more photos & videos, and sometimes - more Android games for my 6-year old.
Tried to do this via a USB 3.0 SD card reader on my Windows 10 PC, but it seems Android phone/tablet SD cards formatted as Internal are not formatted to any known Windows OS file system.
I am using a Kingston reader that allows for TWO SD cards to be inserted at once - has one full size SD card slot, plus a microSD slot too.
My Windows 10 PC shows the new 256 GB card fine (it is mostly empty), but prompts to reformat the other, Android phone card. (which I cancel, of course, as it would lose all data i.e. apps/games/etc)
So, the Android phone SD card format is not any of the common FAT32, NTFS, nor exFAT.
Seems to be a customized Linux/Unix file system format, because even on Ubuntu Linux only the new 256 GB card partition shows, the other card seems to have 2 partitions on it, but my Ubuntu Linux cannot show the files on it, and does not mount it as an accessible drive.
So, is this possible at all?
Maybe a raw image format creating from OLD card then restoring that image to NEW card could work?
I will still need to change the NEW card/partition size to use all the 256 GBs though, as if not, the extra space won't be usable.
If this is possible, which approach to best use? Use Windows 10 OS, or Ubuntu Linux/etc?
OR try to do it via phone, skipping any computers?
It seems I am able to connect to the Android phone without taking card out, via WiFi -- I am using Total Commander on the PC, and Software Data Cable app on the phone, but copying from phone to a local drive on the PC is quite slow, and I am not sure even if I copy it all to my PC, how/if I could then copy it back to the NEW 256 GB card?
I am also waiting for a Android OTG USB adapter to come, maybe that could be a viable way too?
To work around the limited storage, currently a 128 GB microSD card is formatted as Internal, i.e. it is sharing storage with the built-in flash memory, allowing lots & lots of extra apps/games to be installed, while leaving space for photos/videos too.
Still, despite having plenty of storage free, it is slowly running out due to adding more photos & videos, and sometimes - more Android games for my 6-year old.
Tried to do this via a USB 3.0 SD card reader on my Windows 10 PC, but it seems Android phone/tablet SD cards formatted as Internal are not formatted to any known Windows OS file system.
I am using a Kingston reader that allows for TWO SD cards to be inserted at once - has one full size SD card slot, plus a microSD slot too.
My Windows 10 PC shows the new 256 GB card fine (it is mostly empty), but prompts to reformat the other, Android phone card. (which I cancel, of course, as it would lose all data i.e. apps/games/etc)
So, the Android phone SD card format is not any of the common FAT32, NTFS, nor exFAT.
Seems to be a customized Linux/Unix file system format, because even on Ubuntu Linux only the new 256 GB card partition shows, the other card seems to have 2 partitions on it, but my Ubuntu Linux cannot show the files on it, and does not mount it as an accessible drive.
So, is this possible at all?
Maybe a raw image format creating from OLD card then restoring that image to NEW card could work?
I will still need to change the NEW card/partition size to use all the 256 GBs though, as if not, the extra space won't be usable.
If this is possible, which approach to best use? Use Windows 10 OS, or Ubuntu Linux/etc?
OR try to do it via phone, skipping any computers?
It seems I am able to connect to the Android phone without taking card out, via WiFi -- I am using Total Commander on the PC, and Software Data Cable app on the phone, but copying from phone to a local drive on the PC is quite slow, and I am not sure even if I copy it all to my PC, how/if I could then copy it back to the NEW 256 GB card?
I am also waiting for a Android OTG USB adapter to come, maybe that could be a viable way too?
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