Increase the Size of your SDCard in Android BlueStacks Beta
INCREASE SDCard in BlueStacks Beta – ANDROID APP DEVELOPERS TUTORIAL
GET DATA IMG MAKER from here:
Get Data IMG Maker
Unzip DATA.IMG Maker.zip to your computer, At Desktop for example.
Close Bluestacks beta and kill all HD processes from Task manager.
Go to C:ProgramDataBlueStacksAndroid and rename SDCard.fs to SDCard.ext3.
Make a backup before modifying it.
Now open TopoResize.bat, from the folder “DATA.IMG Maker”
Now Click on find file and navigate to “C:ProgramDataBlueStacksAndroid” and open SDCard.ext3
Don’t forget to check “resize file only no resize2fs”.
You will see the default sdcard size is 2048MB (2 GB). You can drag the resize bar to your desired size and then click “Resize file” and wait the process to finish.
Then quit the TopoResize and go to and navigate to “C:ProgramDataBlueStacksAndroid”. You will notice the size of the sdcard.ext3 has changed but we are not yet done.
Now drag sdcard.ext3 and drop it to “mke2fs.exe” located in DATA.IMG Maker folder and type Y and Enter. wait for it to finish and then rename the SDCard.ext3 to SDCard.fs
Then start you Bluestacks beta Player and it will notify you about a new SDcard. Just click it and format your sd card and that’s it.
TROUBLESHOOTING!!!
This valuable suggestion is from Cynthia stevens who left a comment here. We find it useful to make it part of this tutorial with special thanks to Cynthia.
You should first of all follow everything written to the Tutorial. if you still cannot get your bluestacks player to understand your card has a bigger size it’s because it’s partitioned for 2 gb. You haven’t partitioned the new capacity yet. So it doesn’t see that it’s bigger it only sees what it was pre-programmed to see. The 2 gb. So here’s what you do. You need to download and install 2 more files.
You need osf mount for whatever system either 32 or 64 bit whatever you have. Then get ext2 volume manager and if you need it root explorer.
FOLLOW DIRECTIONS ON WEBSITE ABOVE. WHEN YOU GET TO STEP 7 you should understand now how the process of mounting and unmounting the sdcard.fs drive in osf mount. Click dismount all and exit then click ok.
When you have done all of this… follow the directions for resizing your sdcard.sf in this thread.
After you open toporesize.bat you have to remember that MB are allocated in 1024 kilobyte blocks. Open your calculator and multiply 1024 by however many Gb you want. Then move the slider to the number closest to it because it won’t go exactly to it. Click the sliding bar to the right or lift of the slider it should increase or decrease by 1. Move it to the number you got from multiplying exactly. Then finish the process. When you get to restarting your bluestacks player you notice nothing says you have a new sd card right? Install something like ADWEXlauncher from APTOID. You can do this by installing it on your phone then navigating to your DATA\APP folder in root explorer. Find the launcher app, copy it to your SDCARD and transfer from the phone to pc. MAKE SURE YOU UNCHECK DEBUGGING UNDER DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT SCRAMBLES DATA THATS TRANSFERRED FROM PHONE TO PC!!! Double click the app on your PC and it should install it with bluestacks. In bluestacks you should open adw and check it as your home app. click the menu then click settings and go to storage. You’ll see your sd card is still at 2GB and seemingly filled up when you try to transfer files. Now here’s the trick…quit all processes from bluestacks in task manager, all hd processes too. Open up OSF mount and go to FILE, MOUNT NEW DISK, then you’ll see buttons that have “…” click that and find your SDCARD.FS file. uncheck “READ ONLY DRIVE” and hit ok. You’ll see it pop up under “MY COMPUTER” as a new drive. Right click on it and choose format drive. Make sure your allocation unit size reads default and file system you can’t change so ignore it. Capacity should be what you allocated it for when you resized it. Uncheck quick format. Then hit start. Wait till it’s done then open up OSF Mount again and choose dismount all and exit. Then restart bluestacks. Go to system settings in ADWlauncher and hit storage. It should say unknown or unavailable Pull down your notification bar and it should say something about unknown sdcard. Click it and it should try reformatting it. Hit ok and wait. Now your SDCARD should be what you set it’s capacity at. GOOD LUCK!!!
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1:50 pm
You should first of all follow everything written to a T…
3:13 pm
THANKS CYNTHIA FOR YOUR VALUABLE COMMENT. WE DECIDED TO MAKE IT PART OF TUTORIAL. I HOPE YOU WON’T MIND IT…
1:22 pm
If your settings won’t pop up install adw in your bluestacks then go to settings and check storage. If it still says 2 gb then exit and close all bluestacks processes and all hd the then open osf mount and go to file mount new disk click the dots button then find sdcard.fs and mount it. I then went to computer and right clicked it and chose format. Don’t do the quick format. I make sure you choose default allocation unit size. I hit start it should work after you restart bluestacks might see new SD card and option to reformat. I will update on it after its done.
3:19 pm
MANY THANKS R FOR YOUR HELPFUL CONTRIBUTION TO THIS THREAD…
5:20 pm
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4:42 pm
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6:46 am
I woke up this morning and i wanted to look at my pictures. But when i went to the pictures ALOT of them were missing. I went and checked the trash bin and nothing, i went to my computer and typed in .jpg and still nothing. I really need help! I have no idea what happened to all of my pictures. ): I want to cry! Oh and i also have this thing downloaded called BlueStacks, it’s where you can have apps on your computer, like Instagram and Twitter and Tumblr and yeah. Would that have anything to do with it?
1:32 am
I have installed Bluestacks on my pc: Windows 7 Ultimate
It is easy to download and run android apps using bluestack
We just have to click in the app and it is downloaded and installed
I wanted to know if downloading all these apps would be free?
1:24 am
I want to import the photos which my friends ve sent me from Whatsapp which i run through Bluestacks to PC.
Please help me.
Explain it in detail. How to do it.
Photos from Whatssapp (Bluestacks) to PC.
11:45 pm
Well I want to download BlueStacks but it wont let me it says
“BlueStacks currently doesn’t recognize your graphic card.
It is possible your graphic driver may need to be updated.
Please update them and try installing them again.”
What do i do and what does it mean?
2:47 pm
I had heard something about viewing android apps on a windows pc, and I was wondering do you need to download software for this?
11:39 am
I installed Bluestacks the other day so that I could create an Instagram account without needing my phone with me. I installed the Instagram app in Bluestacks, set up the account and all was fine. I went into the Add/Remove Programs section of the Windows 7 control panel, found Bluestacks and uninstalled it.
However, I STILL have an “Apps” library that the program created: (http://gyazo.com/be5dfefece0053f3cbc0be8c6116152e)
I have gone into all of the C drive and deleted all Bluestacks files and folders, and then emptied the Recycle Bin, but it won’t budge.
Even if I right click on the Apps library and choose delete it comes back the next time I turn on my PC.
How can I get rid of this pest?
10:44 am
I have a Toshiba Satelline C650, I want Whatsapp and Viber on my pc so I want to download Bluestack, then an error pops out saying ‘ Cannot recognize graphic card, please try updating the drivers’. I have an Mobile Intel 4 express series family, and up to date drivers, PLEASE HELP
9:17 am
Ok so i download bluestacks for windows 7 and download instagram in bluestacks and when i want to upload a photo to instagram It won’t show anything except one album and it’s called ASR and it comes with the downloading and when i search for ASR i can’t find it in my computer. So basically all i want is to upload pictures to instagram help !!
7:31 am
I mean can they view it in full, or zoom it? I can’t tell because I’m on bluestacks, not iphone…
thanks!
@com ..how do I know if it’s big, or how can I make it small?? thank you!
5:25 am
Hi guys,
I am trying to install Bluestacks on my windows 7.but from past 2 days after windows ran an update and downloaded automatically after that every time i start my laptop,I am getting Microsoft visual C+++ error which i didn’t understand and have been ignoring it since.Now i wanted to install Bluestacks and then i get this message ” Error 1316.A network error while attempting to read from the file C:WindowsInstaller Asktool bar.msi?? there is no Ask Toolbar visually in any folders and tried revounistaller to clear,even it didn’t detect that.
Please help me to solve this problem.
10:17 pm
I have been trying to download Instagram and other apps for months onto my macbook pro. I just found this option called Bluestacks. It is this program that lets you access hundreds of apps including Instagram and lets you download them onto your mac or pc. I was going to download it but it said it took up 2.39 GB of storage. I am scared that it is too much and will crash my computer. Is it? Also how dependable is Bluestacks? Is this a good and safe option? Any advice or past experiences would be great! Also do you recommend anything else?
8:52 pm
Everytime I try to download BlueStacks it downloads half way and then an error message pops up and says “This application requires atleast 1 GB of physical memory” WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?? how do I fix it? please helpppp !
HOW DO I GET MORE RAM!!
6:52 pm
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12:04 pm
Hi… there
a simple question: How to install games with cache on BlueStacks ?
need your advice… thanks
11:59 am
BlueStacks, I love it.
But, how to install android games with cache ?
My OS is Windows 7
Thanks.
11:55 am
to view .. bluestacks data
press
” WIN KEY + R ”
then type
” %programdata% ”
you should see bluestacks folder
this is for
win 7 only
2:40 pm
no sdcard.fs & data.fs upload files please
6:48 pm
On new BS > create new disk named “sdcard.fs”, size depend on you choice wit ext3.
After open “cmd” and run to edit registry “regedit”.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BlueStacks\Guests\Android\BlockDevice\2\ >path< and replace "SDCard.sparsefs" on end with name "sdcard.fs"
Start BS and hopla, format and working.
12:07 pm
Hey, the sd card and phone memory of my bluestacks automatically filled up. What to do?
1:47 pm
I cant find sdcard.fs alone in the android folder please help me
10:43 pm
i do not find sdcard.fs on my folder “Bluestacks”. I dont have “Bluestacks Android” folder. there is no sd card … what do I do ?
2:55 pm
i installed bluestacs beta today. There is no SDCard.fs file instead SDCard.sparsefs folder. There are two files map and store
12:06 am
I have the same experience. The sdcard.fs file is not present. What to do?
9:03 am
It did worked for me!!! You just have to follow the instructions correctly one-by-one!!! Thank you so much for this one, i resized my bluestacks app player to 100Gb because I had many games i wanted to install with it… God Bless…
3:06 pm
thanks man !! good tut here !!! but i have 1 question !! when i try to install .apk !!! it still pop up INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE !!! any solution for that !!! i’m use bluestack beta1 win 7 OS
8:00 am
There is no android folder in my bluestacks folder…
1:27 pm
after completion it says sd card is not inserted??
4:14 am
How will this work on MAC OS X LION? Anyone help
3:24 pm
I GUESS IT DOES NOT WORK ON MAC. ALTERNATIVELY U CAN INSTALL WINDOWS ON VIRTUAL MACHINE N GET BLUESTACKS ON IT.
11:59 am
Help, please! I’m working under Windows 7 and seems that it doesn’t recognize how to open .bat or .kit files… doen’t work opening them with a text editor or cmd.exe… any help?
10:10 pm
IT SHOULD OPEN BY DOUBLE CLICK. R U TALKING ABOUT TOPORESIZE.BAT? IF IT DOES NOT OPEN BY DOUBLE CLICK, TRY RIGHT CLICK ON IT AND GO TO PROPERTIES THEN GO TO COMPATIBILITY TAB AND CHECK THE BOX “RUN THIS PROGRAM IN COMPATIBILITY MODE FOR” SELECT WINDOWS XP
9:41 pm
I tried that by renaming the SDcard.fs to SDcard.fs.ext3 but toporesize says that the files does not be an ext* filesystem. .__.
10:12 pm
rename SDCard.fs to SDCard.ext3. NOT SDCARD.FS.EXT3
12:20 pm
Hi there:
I completed all the instruction, but I can not replace old SDCard.fs due to it has been opended by “HD-Blackdevice.exe”. However, I can not find the HD-blackdevice.exe from the task manager.
My OS is Windows 7.
Need your advice. Thans
10:13 pm
KILL ALL THE TASKS STARTING WITH “HD-” FROM THE TASK MANAGER
5:10 am
Hola, tengo un problema ya instale el programa de BlueStacks y no me aparece el directorio que muetra la primer imagen espero alguien me pueda ayudar ya que sin eso no puedo hacer el procedimiento completo,
8:04 am
English please…..
7:21 pm
Thanks, I completed it all with no problems, but now when I start BlueStacks at the loading screen the BlueStacks cuts off and won’t let me start it anymore, anyway to get it to load?
9:04 pm
COULD YOU PRECISE YOUR PROBLEM PLEASE? BLUESTACKS SHOULD RUN FINE AFTER INCREASING THE SIZE OF YOUR SD CARD, IF YOU FOLLOWED THE TUTORIAL EXACTLY.
5:23 am
I did all the steps, I had no errors. I open bluestacks, roughly 5 seconds after opening/restarting it, the app-player cuts off, but is still in the taskbar and all that. I know I have enough on my computer, I only put 5 GBs into the SD card, and I have like 450 GB available.
2:49 am
thanks man lot of questions about this here lately