Partitioned new SD card; now several things missing

[Lord Vader]

Here's the scoop...

My sister just got a new SD card, a 16GB, Class 10 card. She copied the contents of her old card to a PC. Then she inserted her new card into her EVO, and I walked her through partitioning it, which appeared to go fine.

After booting the phone, she noticed several things were missing or not working:

• The Market app itself is totally absent
• Google search is totally absent
• A few other apps she uses are also totally absent
• A search through her entire app list doesn't even show the icon present in the list
• She has Titanium Backup (free version). When she went to that app to try and restore the missing apps, under Market app, Google search, and the other missing apps was listed "no backup," meaning she was unable to restore the app (which is to be expected--can't restore that which was not backed up)
• When we signed in to the Market using her gmail log-in, the missing apps are listed as "installed," even though they're nowhere to be found on her phone. Consequently, we're unable to re-install them again via the Cloud.

My questions are:

1. What could have caused this? The phone seems to be working fine, as do the apps that are present.
2. How can she re-install missing apps when her basic app Market is not even present to re-download and re-install them?
3. What can she do to get Market back so she can at least re-install her missing apps? (Of course, WILL they even "re-install" if they show as "installed"? If that's the case, where the heck are they and how does she get them back?)
4. What "extras" does paid Titanium Backup Pro have over the Titanium Backup free version? It's only six-and-a-half bucks to buy Titanium Backup Pro, but you have to understand, my sister is so cheap it's not even funny. I've been urging her to buy this app ever since I rooted her phone for her 3 months ago, but she has refused. (What she does with her money I'll never know. I mean, she can't afford $6.58 when she's expecting a $4500 tax refund???
   
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[Captain_Throwback]

If the previous card was partitioned, I assume it was using DT or CM a2sd? Because you'd essentially have to do a nandroid from the old card and backup SD-EXT, and then copy that nandroid over to the new card and restore it. Then the apps should be in place. If that's in fact what happened.

 

[Lord Vader]

That's what we tried, but when she attempted to do a nandroid backup w/ SD-ext, she kept getting this error message: "Oops! Something went wrong. Please check the backup logs."

 

[dcharleyultra]

What ROM, kernel and recovery are on your sister's phone?

Swyped from my Evo 4G using Tapatalk

 

[Lord Vader]

It's moot now. I flashed NoLimit's ROM with the anthrax kernel and all is well. In fact, the thing is MUCH faster and peppier than it ever was. She's very happy now.