Need Help: Change/upgrade of Ext. Micro SD Card- Dell Streak 5

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waatavr

Disciple
Hi All,
I want to change/ upgrade my dell
streak 5 extra. micro SD card, need
advice.
Device: Dell Streak 5 : Carrier unlocked
Rooted with gingerbreak and removed
bloatware from dell and carrier
Android 2.2 .2
Baseband version: GAUSB1 A135411 -
US
Kernel Version: 2.6. 32.9- perf
Build : 15881
Recovery: Streakroid Dr. fixit
Current Status: Very Stable with Zeam
Launcher giving good battery backup.
I was using a 4 GB class 6 card as a
Ext. Micro SD Card on my dell streak
5, But now i want to use a
16 or may be a 32 GB Ext. Micro SD
Card.
My questions are:
1. Do i have to do a nandroid restore
for this using new card with backup
nandroid on it. (to do this i
have to take backup of my nandroid
to my PC first and then Back to my
new card, will this mess- up
the MD5 check-sum?)
2. Or it can be simply done by:
a) Formatting new card as Fat 32
Using PC/ XP sp3
b ) Copy -Paste the old card data into
new card.
c) Placing new card with data into
phone and reboot.
3. Or I have to move back the apps
from sd card to phone before
following above steps, and then
again move them back to sd card after
above listed things are done .
Concerns: I have moved a lot of
apps/ games/data onto SD card via
going into
Settings >Applications> Manage
applications>move to sd card. So will
it still work that way.
I am Asking this as once i had took
out the memory card from my streak
and rebooted it , it refuses
to restart and i had to do a factory
reset via recovery to make it work
again.
Note : i cant afford to mess this thing
as now this is my primary phone.
thank- you all for your time
 
Not sure, but I think you should be able to copy the data to the new card and just replace it. Can't say for sure as I haven't moved any data to the SD card on my Streak. And I've not yet changed the SD card either! You could also try moving everything back to the internal memory, switch cards and then move everything back to the new card. That may just be the safest option.
 
#2 can be done. You can copy the data from old sd card into a folder in your pc, then copy that data into new sd card and use it. I always backup my sd card contents in a folder on my pc. So that when I upgrade sd card or replace it, I just copy the backup into my new sd card. Insert it and use. I did not get any problems with doing this. I also tend to download lots of games and data for it. So it would be easier for me to just transfer the contents. I tend to change my phones often.
 
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