Why you need to partition android SD card?
Android is a kind of operating system based on Linux. It is widely used on mobile
devices, like smartphone, tablet, etc. No matter android smartphone or tablet, they
both placed a SD card to store files, music, movies, photos, documents, apps, or
other data. Originally, the SD card is 8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB. The
volume is bigger, the price is higher. Thus, many users use 8GB or 16GB smartphone
or tablet with a cheap price.
However, with time goes by, your android device stored a lot of data, and when you
are trying to install a new app on it, you may receive a warning “insufficient
storage available”. You cannot install the app on your android device successfully.
Because android only limits the installation of new app when we have less than 15MB
of storage remaining. For this situation, you need to partition SD card for
android.
How to partition SD card for android?
If you received the warning “insufficient storage available”, you need to partition
android SD card, like delete partitions so that you can free up space and
install more programs on your device, or increase android internal storage so that
it has enough space to store more data. But how to partition android SD card? In the
next content, you can learn how to partition SD card for android device step by
step.
Things to prepare:
Before you do, you need to extract all data on the SD card in case of data
loss. For this, you can backup the important data to an external storage device
or computer firstly.
Connect the SD card to your computer. You may need a portable card reader to
connect SD card to your computer.
Find a partition manager, here we highly recommend you AOMEI Partition Assistant,
which can help you partition SD card with a few simple clicks.
Detailed steps to partition SD card android:
After all preparations, you can start to partition the SD card of your android
device.
Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional (you can also download AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard
free). All the storage devices will be displayed in the main interface of AOMEI
Partition Assistant. Then, you cam see your SD card here, and use this partition
manager to partition your SD card.
First, you need to wipe your SD card:
Right click the SD card, select Wipe Hard Drive.

Tips: this operation will delete all data on the SD card.
Please make sure that all data had been backed up already.
Then, you can decide how many times to wipe the SD card. Set up the wipe times, and
click OK.

Then, you will back to the main interface, clickApply at the tool
bar to launch the progress.

After the wiping SD card, The SD card becomes unallocated space, and you can
repartition the SD card and create new partition for extending the android internal
storage.
Or, you can delete partition on the SD card:
Right click the partition on the SD card, select Delete Partition.
Select Delete Partition quickly, click OK.
Then, click Apply at the toolbar to submit the operation.
After deleting the partition on the SD card, the whole SD card becomes unallocated
space, too. Then, you can repartition the SD card according to your
requirements.
Then, repartition SD card for android:
You can repartition SD card for android when it becomes unallocated space. Right
click the SD card, select Create Partition.

Here you should create one primary partition with FAT 32 File System, which would be
used as the SD card. You can click Advanced to setup partition
label, choose create primary partition or logical partition, and the size of the
partition.

After settings, click Apply at the toolbar.

Then, you need to create an EXT3 file system partition for increasing internal memory
of android. Right click the unallocated space, select Create
Partition, and it will pop out a window like before.

Here you need to choose EXT3 in the drop down menu of File System.

Then, clickApply at the toolbar.

On a removable device, Windows can only recognize the first primary partition, if
there is no primary partition, the first logical partition will be recognized. The
new created partition will not have a drive letter, and it cannot be recognized by
Windows Explorer. Disconnect the SD card from your computer and plug it into your
android device.
Partition android SD card should be the best way to save internal memory. With the
help of AOMEI Partition Assistant, you can manage the SD card better, so that your
android device can get a better performance. Besides, AOMEI Partition Assistant can
solve a lot of SD card problems, like format
SD card, repair
Micro SD 16GB card only shows 31MB issue, fix SD card
not working in Windows 10, etc. If you are Windows Server users, you can use
the AOMEI Partition Assistant
Server to do the task.