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Ali
Ali

Reputation:

Make device SD Card windows bootable by an android app

It may seem strange, but I wonder is an android app able to make the SD Card inside the device windows bootable? I thought of making the SD bootable and write ultimatebootcd to it. I did it through windows, but it would be so great if android can do it!

Upvotes: 8

Views: 27335

Answers (2)

Recklessly
Recklessly

Reputation: 1

I used Rufus and installed a syslynux on the SdCard from a PC running window 10.then I put the card back into the Moto phone. It's receiving files that I have moved from the internal storage to the card how ever I have not a chance to find out whether they Will open up In the PC or not.

Upvotes: 0

Prof. Falken
Prof. Falken

Reputation: 24867

To make the SD card bootable, you have to modify the boot sector of the card. This can not be done from a standard Android application. If the Android device is rooted, it can almost certainly be done from a native Linux program, or an NDK program.

If the device is not rooted, you can probably not do what you want. As Chris Stratton commented, if the card is already made bootable, you could probably then change for instance what OS is booted up and how.

Say, there is startup code which loads and boots an OS, then you can change the configuration file for the bootloader. A starter: http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_an_Iso_image

Upvotes: 2

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