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ATTN Mac Users that know partitioning, help please?

So i've read many places that using ExtFS and Disk Utility can successfully partition your SD card leaving you with an EXT2 partition. I feel like im 90% there. I choose "2 partitions" from the drop down menu. Select the top box, select "ext 2 filesystem" input 1gb for size. Select 2nd partition and select MS DOS FAT, and it keeps the size as the remaining amount (11.xx) I hit apply, it partitions, shows an extra volume on my desktop for a total of three (fat, ext, and the movie drive avatar came on), however when I unmount my phone, my phone says it cant read/mount SD card and my only option is to reformat it from the phone. Any help please?

joe.kerwin said:
So i've read many places that using ExtFS and Disk Utility can successfully partition your SD card leaving you with an EXT2 partition. I feel like im 90% there. I choose "2 partitions" from the drop down menu. Select the top box, select "ext 2 filesystem" input 1gb for size. Select 2nd partition and select MS DOS FAT, and it keeps the size as the remaining amount (11.xx) I hit apply, it partitions, shows an extra volume on my desktop for a total of three (fat, ext, and the movie drive avatar came on), however when I unmount my phone, my phone says it cant read/mount SD card and my only option is to reformat it from the phone. Any help please?
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mac doesnt play friendly with ext2/3 partitions. best advise is to setup a VM with linux or use something like a bootable GParted disk.
you can install macfuse and read/write ext partitions, but they are unstable on osx and sometimes make your mac kernel panic and you have to reboot.
since ext2/3 work natively in linux, GParted or VM Linux install are the best way to go.

if you need any help PM me.

paragon's extfs works pretty flawless for me on my mac, but i still prefer using bootcamp to reboot into windows 7 and using paragons hd manager for partitioning.

joe.kerwin said:
So i've read many places that using ExtFS and Disk Utility can successfully partition your SD card leaving you with an EXT2 partition. I feel like im 90% there. I choose "2 partitions" from the drop down menu. Select the top box, select "ext 2 filesystem" input 1gb for size. Select 2nd partition and select MS DOS FAT, and it keeps the size as the remaining amount (11.xx) I hit apply, it partitions, shows an extra volume on my desktop for a total of three (fat, ext, and the movie drive avatar came on), however when I unmount my phone, my phone says it cant read/mount SD card and my only option is to reformat it from the phone. Any help please?
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Also, you're doing it backwards. The FAT partition should be #1, EXT should be #2.

Yeah someone corrected me on that already. Still says sd card is damaged and can't mount in the phone. Always gotta reformat... there's gotta be one little thing I'm missing
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do this, format your sd card on your vibrant. after that is completed, take it out of the vibrant.
go here: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
get a Gparted bootable ISO put it on a memory card or usb stick and boot from it. once in you can create all the partitions you need.
i have never been able to partition the SD card with DiskUtility because of the limitations of EXT2/3 on Mac.

[Q] Help w/ SD Format

Howdy, folks. Having a little trouble getting my SD card to format properly so I can take full advantage of the DL DesireZ ROM. I've read the instructions from F-bone, but still confused.
I've been twaddling around with the Gpartd disc, and can create a 1536MB partition, but when I then segment that to 1024, I keep getting shorted 1MB and wind up with a 511MB partition. I also recall when moving things around seeing a message about the MBR being missing, so I recreated it.
Is there any reason why the ext4 partitions must be at the end of free space, rather than at the beginning? Why do I keep having this 1MB segment floating around? Is that for the MBR, and if so, where should I place it?
Also, the capacity on the card is 16GB (the standard HD2 MicroSD card that came with the phone) but it's showing only 14.8-ish Gig. I presume that's because of the difference between the definition of 'gig' at 1000 and the actual 1024 size, and/or slack space consumed by the partitioning and formatting, but if someone could confirm, it would put my mind at ease.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

I followed the previous and for the first time it went smooth and the build rebooted with no bootloop after first boot.
Ignore the bit where it says what your size for fat 32 should be, that's for an 8gb card, just follow everything and you should end up with 13.4 fat32, I think that's what i had anyhow, all space on card used in 3 partitions
reza416 said:
since there are still people asking for more details on how to install and how complicated its to install & set up partitions on sd card, i've went back to F-bone's previous post which helped me install my nand and partition and added a little more details and links to Gparted and Panasonic formatter. thank F-bone for this!!
Ok here it goes - this guide describes the way I do it to install the NAND+3partitions variation.
1) Download v3.3 and extract it on your desktop.
2) Download Panasonic SD Formatter and GPARTED Live CD ISO (google)
Panasonic formatter link=
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html or
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Gparted live cd iso link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/ (120 MB!)
3) Shut down your HD2 and remove the SDCard - place the SDCard in a card reader and BACKUP your files (photos etc).
4) Format the SDCard in your laptop or PC using the Panasonic SD Formatter (Full Format)
Also, I have windows 7 and you can go to my Start/computer/SD card drive, right click and format: file system choose Fat32, allocation size, choose the highest 32kb or 64kb, uncheck quick so its full format. That will also do it and no need to download Panasonic if you prefer the windows tools.
5) Boot GParted Live CD (instructions on Gparted Live )
-the file you downloaded for Gparted live Cd Iso is an image file meaning you should burn it into a cd or a dvd in order to be able to use it. Do that by any program capable of burning image files ( nero is an example of such programs)
-after making the cd/dvd, place the cd/dvd in your cd/dvd drive and restart your computer, instead of loading windows, Gparted will load from the cd/dvd.
-next as you are entering Gparted you’re faced with 4 options, choose GPARTED LIVE(DEFAULT SETTINGS)
-next 4 more choices, choose don’t touch keymap
-next choose language, 33 for English. Type 33 press enter
-next, will ask you which mode, type 0(continue to start x to use gparted automatically) press enter
Now gparted is loaded,
on the main screen I will be your hard drive partitions, don’t touch anything of your pc partitions otherwise, you’ll possible lose your windows/personal file etc… important!!!
-So on top right, click and choose your sd card.
-when it loads you should see your sd card (Fat32 size 7540 Mb), right click, resize/move
- new window opens, type 1536 under free space following ( for example 7540 minus 1536) and press add ( I’ll add a screen shot)
-now you have two partitions, Fat32 size 6004 Mb & Unallocated size 1536 Mb.
-right click on Unallocated, click new(new box opens),set to primary and under file system select Ext4 then press add.
-now you named unallocated to ext4 so you got Fat32 and Ext4
-do the same process, right click on Ext4 click on resize/move, choose 512 under space following (1536-512) press add, now you have Fat32, Ext4(size 1GiB), Unallocated(size 512Mib)
-just like before, right click on Unallocated, New, set to primary under file system choose Ext4 and add.
-MAKE SURE YOU PRESS APPLY or none of these changes will take effect. After gpart will do its process you’ll have 3 partitions!!!
-At this point your SDcard has 3 partitions FAT32, ext4 1024MiB, and ext4 512MiB - EXIT Gparted and boot into Windows again.
6) Go to your desktop where you extracted the rom and open config.txt
7) Change gps_zone to your country's zone (=gr for Greece) - leave the rest of the settings intact for NAND+3partitions SDcard variation of this rom - save file.
8) Before you remove the SDcard from your laptop or PC make a folder Desire_DL and copy ONLY the config file you just saved to Desire_DL folder.
9) Safely remove the SDCard and place it in your HD2.
10) Turn on HD2 and HOLD power key to get into MAGLDR 1.11
11) Choose USB Flasher(option 4) and press phone (Green) key
12) Connect your HD2 to your computer
13) Go to your desktop and from the rom folder you extracted run Install.
14) Wait
15) Wait
16) Wait… it may take a while, since the rom will format ext4 partition(s).
17) Now that HD2 has booted do the basic settings and REBOOT again. DO NOT INSTALL APPS etc etc at this point
18) Now that you have rebooted for 2nd time you can do whatever you want - maybe do a 3rd reboot to see that everything is stable
NOTE: When the rom boots wait for a while before using the phone until various system services load in the background after the SD card is prepared... wait 30-40 seconds
hope this helps...
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bates_1974 said:
I followed the previous and for the first time it went smooth and the build rebooted with no bootloop after first boot.
Ignore the bit where it says what your size for fat 32 should be, that's for an 8gb card, just follow everything and you should end up with 13.4 fat32, I think that's what i had anyhow, all space on card used in 3 partitions
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Thanks for the post, but it didn't answer my questions. I read both Reza's and F-bone's posts and my problem remains - I have a 511MB (not 512) partition when doing it by their instructions.

BillTheCat said:
Thanks for the post, but it didn't answer my questions. I read both Reza's and F-bone's posts and my problem remains - I have a 511MB (not 512) partition when doing it by their instructions.
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makes no differennce, I had a 512 and a 1023

there is a special tool for format SD card in CWR
boot in Magldr
8. AD Recovery
select advanced
and then Partition SD Card.
you can choose basic settings ....
Works for me

croisade said:
there is a special tool for format SD card in CWR
boot in Magldr
8. AD Recovery
select advanced
and then Partition SD Card.
you can choose basic settings ....
Works for me
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That's for your basic apps2sd, some builds like the one we're running you need to use gparted to create one fat32, one 1gb ext4 and another 350mb ext4, CWM doesn't allow you to do that, just one ext3 so whatever size you select.

Wow. Ok, that's strange. Tried it again today and it worked fine. Wierd. Thanks for the input, guys.

[Gparted] Nook Simple Touch resize partitions non-destructive

!! Important: Make a backup of your Nook device first !!
Resize partitions
1. Download Gparted LiveCD
2. Extract onto FAT / FAT32 USB memory stick or burn to CD-ROM
3. If on a USB memory stick, run \utils\win32\makeboot.bat from the memory stick.
Do NOT run makeboot from a hard disk!
4. Boot computer from USB device into Gparted
5. Connect your Nook running Noogie of a Micro USB card (this will make the partitions visible to Gparted).
6. Resize the last partition (nr 8) labelled "data" (= Barnes & Nobles content)
Make sure to move the partition to the far right.
7. Move the next-to-last partition (nr 7) labelled "cache" without resizing it.
8. Extend the next-to-next-to-last partition (nr 6) labelled "nook" (Side loaded content) to fill the gap.
9. Remove USB cord, Micro USB card and boot your Nook.
10. In Settings you can inspect the amount of storage space.
I received errors when the partitions were about to be moved on the disk.
I changed the partitioning resize to field where it says "Align to:" from "MiB" to "Cylinder". After a 2nd attempt and doing each partition individually all worked out well.

For those only with Windows, download Gparted LiveCD iso image and use virtualbox to boot from it. It still worked well.
Edit: I successfully repartitioned two of my Nook Simple Touch using the method above + virtualbox + Gparted LiveCD iso.
Surprisingly, the size of partitions in my two NST were slightly different, suggesting that the physical size and location of partitions don't matter as long as their order and type in the partition table are as expected and the size is big enough to hold files there. I resized and moved the last three partitions as I wanted several times and made sure they work well.
Factory reset, upgrade to 1.2.1 (this seems to require the cache partition to be big enough to hold the firmware update file: something like 128MB worked for me), rooting all worked well with resized partitions. I ended up shrinking the cache partition down to 32MB and the data partition to 128MB, reserving 1.11GB for the side-loaded contents. I'm sure the system partition can also be shrunken, but I didn't go that far.

Why a live cd? Does installing gparted to whatever linux flavor you're using not work?

I don't use linux on my PC... only on hacked router & nas.
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Why a live cd? Does installing gparted to whatever linux flavor you're using not work?
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So dump Noogie on a microsd card run noogie and while noogie's running plug nook into pc? Do you just plutg it in and it does everything auto, or does something in noogie need to be run? Does this work on a nook touch glow?
Sorry to sound so dense but rooted using NookManager.
Edit more to the point it's throwing up an error when trying to move sdb8 around. It shrank fine just won't move. Not sure why. Not getting any useful error messages. Just 'can't have overlapping partitions.'
Odd. I was able to move it twice and get it to behave. Yet do the same n one move and Nothing. Apologies for the rinning Log just. Meh. The rest of the partitions resized in one step. sdb8 was the one that needed two steps.
Aaaand Success. Showing up as having 913MB free as opposed to like 212 or whatever.
Edit: now I'm getting a constant 'low space' warning from nook (understandable.) And installing apps is hit/miss on if they'll actually install. Keeps claiming space issues.
Query. Do apps install to the BnN partition or where?

Good to hear another success story. In my case I squeezed all the way to 1.45GB for the side-loaded contents. boot/rom/system/cache/data partitions are shrunken, and factory partition is busted. I had to use fdisk instead of GPartED to completely recreate the partition table, though.
I think, apps are installed to the data partition (the 8th one) under /data/app. Before being installed it's downloaded to cache partition (the 7th one). In my case I gave 16M for cache and 128M for data. If you are low on the data partition and have some space left on the system partition, you can move apps from /data/app to /system/app.
Goggles2114 said:
So dump Noogie on a microsd card run noogie and while noogie's running plug nook into pc? Do you just plutg it in and it does everything auto, or does something in noogie need to be run? Does this work on a nook touch glow?
Sorry to sound so dense but rooted using NookManager.
Edit more to the point it's throwing up an error when trying to move sdb8 around. It shrank fine just won't move. Not sure why. Not getting any useful error messages. Just 'can't have overlapping partitions.'
Odd. I was able to move it twice and get it to behave. Yet do the same n one move and Nothing. Apologies for the rinning Log just. Meh. The rest of the partitions resized in one step. sdb8 was the one that needed two steps.
Aaaand Success. Showing up as having 913MB free as opposed to like 212 or whatever.
Edit: now I'm getting a constant 'low space' warning from nook (understandable.) And installing apps is hit/miss on if they'll actually install. Keeps claiming space issues.
Query. Do apps install to the BnN partition or where?
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What's the point of doing all this?
You gave a list of instructions, but not the goal they achieve.

L_R_N said:
What's the point of doing all this?
You gave a list of instructions, but not the goal they achieve.
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Which post are you referring to?

Troute said:
Which post are you referring to?
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.c0.'s original post.

His instructions describe how to use gparted to resize the partitions on the NST to make full use of the memory available after you have rooted it. I've used gparted before so maybe they were clearer to me than to others but the thread title was the main clue.

Troute said:
His instructions describe how to use gparted to resize the partitions on the NST to make full use of the memory available after you have rooted it. I've used gparted before so maybe they were clearer to me than to others but the thread title was the main clue.
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I kind of thought that Nook's internal 2GB flash is already sanely formatted (i.e. most space is dedicated to the partition that is mounted at /media). If that is not the case, then that should be noted in the first post. It would also be cool if it said exactly how much space each partition has (I think i saw these partitions back when i've used Noogie to make initial backup of my device, but i don't remember the details), and how much space you would gain, and on which partition (and where it is mounted).

L_R_N said:
I kind of thought that Nook's internal 2GB flash is already sanely formatted (i.e. most space is dedicated to the partition that is mounted at /media). If that is not the case, then that should be noted in the first post. It would also be cool if it said exactly how much space each partition has (I think i saw these partitions back when i've used Noogie to make initial backup of my device, but i don't remember the details), and how much space you would gain, and on which partition (and where it is mounted).
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Thanks! i did the work 880MB for side loaded content now!!!
on one of my NST i had an issue resizing the FAT32 partition and i had to format it to make it work.
Other than that all went ok!
Thanks

How to maximize RAM available for apps
I found this easy to read table here.
I doubt that I will ever download books from B&N. I want to minimize the space for that. I infer that I should minimize partition 8 that gets mounted to \data. Is there a practical / actual minimum for this?
I see that anything I copy in from my PC over USB is going into media. 100MB should be more than I need. I could put in an SD card for this sort of thing if it grows.
My question is, which partition do I want to increase to make the maximum available to apps downloaded from the google marketplace?
If an application requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM, which partition(s) do I need to set >= 512?
New additional question: Upon some further research, I see that you can use sd cards for swapfiles to increase system RAM up to a maximum of 4GB. Does anyone know if it is possible to use this built-in storage for the same purpose?
.c0. said:
!! Important: Make a backup of your Nook device first !!
Resize partitions
1. Download Gparted LiveCD
2. Extract onto FAT / FAT32 USB memory stick or burn to CD-ROM
3. If on a USB memory stick, run \utils\win32\makeboot.bat from the memory stick.
Do NOT run makeboot from a hard disk!
4. Boot computer from USB device into Gparted
5. Connect your Nook running Noogie of a Micro USB card (this will make the partitions visible to Gparted).
6. Resize the last partition (nr 8) labelled "data" (= Barnes & Nobles content)
Make sure to move the partition to the far right.
7. Move the next-to-last partition (nr 7) labelled "cache" without resizing it.
8. Extend the next-to-next-to-last partition (nr 6) labelled "nook" (Side loaded content) to fill the gap.
9. Remove USB cord, Micro USB card and boot your Nook.
10. In Settings you can inspect the amount of storage space.
I received errors when the partitions were about to be moved on the disk.
I changed the partitioning resize to field where it says "Align to:" from "MiB" to "Cylinder". After a 2nd attempt and doing each partition individually all worked out well.
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I have a little (maybe big?) problem. Can't partition with Gparted Live, as gparted scans my /dev/sdb (nook) infinitely. If I plug out my nook, other partitions (in my case: /dev/sda) become visible and ready. Looks like my nook hangs gparted. Tried on 2 different PCs and no effect. Tried different version of Gparted Live (i486 & amd64) - still nothing.
Of course noogie is inside the nook unit, ready and steady. Already made a backup of (non-rooted) device, plus partitions are visible in Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows 7.
What to do in this situation? Is Linux the only safe way to repartition device? Or maybe Minitool would be as effective and safe?
If Linux is the only way to go, how to make nook visible to Gparted?
Please, experts.

DJ Athlon said:
I have a little (maybe big?) problem. Can't partition with Gparted Live, as gparted scans my /dev/sdb (nook) infinitely. If I plug out my nook, other partitions (in my case: /dev/sda) become visible and ready. Looks like my nook hangs gparted. Tried on 2 different PCs and no effect. Tried different version of Gparted Live (i486 & amd64) - still nothing.
Of course noogie is inside the nook unit, ready and steady. Already made a backup of (non-rooted) device, plus partitions are visible in Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows 7.
What to do in this situation? Is Linux the only safe way to repartition device? Or maybe Minitool would be as effective and safe?
If Linux is the only way to go, how to make nook visible to Gparted?
Please, experts.
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If Gparted doesn't work for you, I'd highly recommend Minitool Partiton Wizard - it's what I used to partiton my Nook. Nice, easy UI, too.

Yeah, I often work with Minitool, but is it as safe as Gparted when it comes to nook?

DJ Athlon said:
Yeah, I often work with Minitool, but is it as safe as Gparted when it comes to nook?
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Yeah, it is. Just make sure to make a Noogie backup before repartitoning.

Sorry for bugging you, but can't shrink userdata(ext3). What to do? Delete that partition and re-create it or...?

DJ Athlon said:
Sorry for bugging you, but can't shrink userdata(ext3). What to do? Delete that partition and re-create it or...?
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Yes, delete and recreate is the way to go.

Please, people, help me
Write step to step guide for work with Minitool Partiton Wizard
I want to free the reserved space for B&N books of my NST ver. 1.2.1
The device is already rooted.
I installed Minitool Partiton Wizard on my PC, but after connecting it thru USB cable with my Nook, it only see "official" 240MBs.
Cannot find other around 750 MB reserved storage for B&N books ?
What to do
Explain to me, please

3 Recovery Partitons?

So I just bought a new Lenovo Lynx and I noticed that even though it has a 64GB drive, the C drive is only 48GB. Upon my investigation, I found that there are 3 partitions labeled as "Recovery". The total space adds up to about 9GB. See attachement.
My question is: Can I remove them and if so, what's the best way to do so?

The largest recovery partition has the actual .WIM factory install image. Windows has a separate recovery partition for its own recovery use (when you select advanced boot options). I forget what the 3rd one is for.
You can remove them, but you will have to create your own recovery routine beforehand, because both the Lenovo and Windows recovery routines will fail w/o the partitions present.
Suggest leaving them in place for the first month of use, as if an issue arises that require support, the main troubleshooting step would be to reset to factory install. If that's not available, support will be problematic.
Suggest installing Acronis True Image 2014 free trial, and make a bootable USB from it (the boot image isn't affected by the trialware). Reset your system to factory install. To keep it "virgin," don't start up Windows after the reset.
Use TrueImage USB to back up the restored partition to external USB storage. To verify, restore from the just-made backup copy, and start up Windows. If the backup is good, the restore should be good, and your system should start up properly. (If the restore fails, then do another factory reset using the Lenovo method.) You now have your own factory install backup.
To claim the space, simplest is to delete the two recovery partitions after the main partition, then expand the main partition using Win's Disk Manager. To reclaim the 1GB partition would require a wipe and repartition of the drive.
PS: The 64GB drive is actually 59.6GB (64 / 1.024^3).

So just to be sure, I can install Windows 8.1 Pro from a USB just like any other PC but I have to make sure not to touch the EFI partition?

Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200

bountygiver said:
Don't have to download and install stuffs that you'll only use once. You can just use windows search and look for a way to create a recovery disk. It'll even ask if you want to delete the existing recovery partition at the end.
Sent from my U9200
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Thanks! That made the space usable by creating a new drive from the old recovery partition. When I try to use a partition tool to merge the 2 partitions, they tell me it can't be done. Is the best way to go about this just reinstalling windows and editing the partitions during the installation?

The point of "installing stuff" is not just to extract the recovery image, but also to have your own backup solution. There is a reason the Win8.x image backup is hard to find--because it's deprecated. It's also very limited. Having your own solution avoids the vagaries of Windows quirks. Some OEM recovery also depends on a particular partitioning scheme, and would fail if that scheme has been altered.
Then again, I understand that people don't take data integrity seriously, until after a crash. It's pretty stupid to nuke the recovery partition when prompted, BEFORE VERIFYING that the USB recovery key works. That's why you see the laments of some peeps here, begging for factory images that they FUBAR'ed.

Well, something nasty happened and I couldn't get the tablet to boot. Here are the steps I tried:
Startup Repair
Command Prompt > sfc
PC Refresh
PC Reset
And finally... Created a bootable USB with Windows 8.1 Pro and reinstalled Windows.
I now have only 2 partitions... 1 recovery and one primary.
Thanks everybody for your help.

Want to use your SD card's large partition for storage?

You can access and use the large partition on the micro SD card you normally use for rooting with a simple but very powerful Windows tool called BootICE. *See warning below*
Background: The SD card used for rooting with NookManager is formatted into two partitions -- one very small and one larger. The small 64mb partition is where you put all of your root files, and can be seen on a PC or in a Nook file manager. The large partition is where your backup is stored, and is mostly wasted space. If you don't want to waste a large SD card, or don't have an extra one, you can use this method to make the large partition accessible and use it for everyday storage. Your small partition will be hidden instead. When you want to boot into your root partition you simply use BootICE to switch the "Accessible" setting back again.
INSTRUCTIONS:
*Connect your micro SD card to a Windows PC with an adapter -- NOT through your Nook's USB port.
*Download and open BootICE.exe on your PC.
*Make sure your SD card's drive letter is selected in the drop-down menu. CAREFUL HERE!
*Press "Parts Manage"
*In the Partition Management window select and highlight the large partition (normally the second one down. You can see the capacity in the far right column.)
*At the bottom Press the button labeled "Set Accessible."
*Now Press the "Activate" button. Close the window. (**See note below.)
*When you want to boot into your root partition you simply use BootICE to select the small partition, and push the "Set Accessible" and "Activate" buttons again.
That's it! After refreshing Windows Explorer you will see that your Root Partition is no longer shown and the new larger partition is present. Fill it up and stick it in your Nook.​
Tips: The new partition is probably the same drive letter, but Windows might change it to another one. You also might need to refresh Explorer by logging off or restarting your computer. You might also need to run BootICE as Administrator to avoid any permissions problems. Also try logging on to the Administrator account if you still have permissions problems (Windows 10.)
Tip2: You can use this trick on any removable USB disk, creating and manipulating multiple partitions. The partitions can be formatted and configured in any third-party partition program such as Partition Wizard.
**NOTE: I found that the Accessible partition must also be set as Active in order to boot with the SD card in the slot. Alternately, you can also eject the SD card to boot.
WARNING!!! Be very careful with BootICE! It is an awesome tool BUT most of it's functions can make your computer unbootable, and format your disks with no warning!! Choose your drive letter carefully and double check before making any changes. I take no responsibility for your experiments! :fingers-crossed: