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[Q] Help with partitioning SD Card

Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?

Jeep_Lover said:
Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I use Lexar Bootit ....a free utility...to format and flip the bit that says its a removeable drive, then your windows pc drive management can see and format it as full capacity fat32.

Hey thanks for the tip, unfortunately it won't work. I forgot to mention that I followed this tutorial ..... and updated my driver (saved my original Windows just in case) to a hitachi driver and now I can switch my SD memory card forth "removable" to "logical" and back when needed. Once I get it as a logical drive I was EASEUS to increase the size of partition 4 (SD Card)..but again no dice!!!
Seeing that I am a noob I can't post the link to the tutorial but I'll say it worked like a charm and when I want to go back to the original I just need to "roll back" the driver.

Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.

Taosaur said:
Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.
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Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...

Taosaur...I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running in no time flat. Now the wife wants me to see if I can get bluetooth working.

You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi

votinh said:
You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi
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Yep, I had to do the above the first time I turned on bluetooth, but haven't had any trouble toggling it on and off since then. Just open notifications (that broken-circle-and-arrow button on the status bar) and you have toggles there for Wifi, bluetooth, and a couple other things.

@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?

Jeep_Lover said:
Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...
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Damn! My wife never says "nookie".

votinh said:
@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?
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I haven't done much but read and browse a little since I flashed it, but I haven't noticed any difference from 7.1 RC1, which wasn't really any different from Nightly 102 I had before that. I mostly just flashed this time for the integrated OC/Tweaks kernel, without the video/lag problems that were reported in 132-134.

Thanks for an update, m8

maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?

Dr. Light said:
maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?
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None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.

I used the size agnostic install method with a 16gb PNY calss 4 SD and after all the steps were completed I was showing 13.8gb free for my SD card when I looked at in on the NC. Not believing my eyes I pulled it out and looked at it with EASUS and it showed partition 4 as 13.8gb (utilizing all the cards remaining space). I then downloaded a few things and added a few books for my wife and the space shrank to 13.4gb. As stated above your computer wont show it.
In short have you looked on the NC under "Storage" (I think that is were I found it) and verified you don't have the full capacity already?
Also there is another method I needed to use when I was messing with an earlier version (Nookie) that allowed me to see an SD card as a "Local Device" so windows would let me see all partitions on the hard drive. I can't post a link until I have more posts but email me and I can send you the link if interested.

Taosaur said:
None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.
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thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?

It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
The only way I got Windows to see all the partitions and do anything with them was to change my driver via the "Hitachi fix" If you google Hitachi driver SD card you will find it. I used this site and even though it is long it did exactly as advertised and now I install this driver when I need to format just the partition of an SD card and then "roll back" the driver when I'm done. It tricks windows into thinking it is a local device instead of removable. www/1src/com\forums\showthread.php?t=133718
change / to .
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I can't post a link as I'm still a noob...

Jeep_Lover said:
It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
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S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
Dr. Light said:
thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?
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I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."

Taosaur said:
S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."
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alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
again thanks for your help.

Dr. Light said:
alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
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Yep, verygreen is the author of that thread and image.
Dr. Light said:
and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
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No, in fact you might be able to write the image without messing around in EASEUS at all--I'm just not sure if WinImage (or whatever) would write to the whole card or just one partition. I know if you tried to format it, Windows would only format the boot partition.

New Nook

I received my new nook and updated it to the new software. Then i tried doing a backup via noogie. I got until the rooted forever screen and then got stuck. I couldn't get my mac to make a backup for me. I panic and gave up after awhile and just removed my SD card and reformatted it.
I am going to try to root it via the touchnooter method without doing a backup as I got too scared after my first experience with the noogie.
What I noticed is that when I wrote my SD card with noogie, I only got some space left to put in my books. My SD card is 8gb.
Is it okay to root my Nook and put books using the same SD? or should i partition my SD card into 2 via disk utility, then use 1gb for rooting and then 7gb for my books?
Or can they co-exist together?

JayneT said:
I am going to try to root it via the touchnooter method without doing a backup as I got too scared after my first experience with the noogie.
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You got it backwards, Noogie doesn't do anything to your NST
What you need to know is when your NST tries to boot it will first try to boot from the SD card, then the internal MMC.
Noogie does nothing but interrupt the boot and expose the internal MMC for you so you can replace files in it
For root with Noogie you need to have downloaded a uRamdisk that you'll use to replace the uRamdisk in the /boot partition.
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Or can they co-exist together?
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No, not at all, when you're done using Noogie you should reformat your sdcard so you can use it as NST storage.
-Roger

Do a backup, don't know on mac, but on windows its easy and very usefull if you screw, just read carefully and follow instructions.
If you root with touchnooter there is no need to use the Noogie image, and as Ros stated, you got it wrong.
Just follow instructions on the touchnooter thread, once you finished with the process format the card with sdformatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/eula_mac/)
Good luck.

okay, im officially confused. I am going to root with the touchnooter. But i want to do a backup too.
So i should backup with the noogie image, stop at here: "Mac/Linux:
dd if=/dev/<nook> of=nook_touch_backup.img bs=1M
This will take several minutes, and will create a 2GB file
After it is finished, double check and make sure the file is exactly 1958739968 bytes"
then what should i do from here? take my sd out and reformat it? then go onto the touchnooter?
PS. this was the part i was stuck at. i copied the backup command into my terminal. but my terminal/mac could not read it. Then i panic cos my screen was stuck at rooted forever. How?
Sorry. This is my first time rooting anything.
and i tried

Yes - you have the approach correct now. It is easier if you have extra SD's
Write the Noogie image to the SD
Backup (your nook is not yet rooted)
Take out the SD card - reboot the Nook (power cycle)
Write touchNooter image to the SD card
Follow its instructions and take out the SD card
Reboot the nook (power cycle)
Rooted!
If everything works then
Write the Noogie image to the SD
Boot with it in the Nook
Backup a second time so you have a rooted image.
Take it out and reboot again.
If you want to use the SD in the nook for content then reformat it and all the space will be available.
CV

JayneT said:
PS. this was the part i was stuck at. i copied the backup command into my terminal. but my terminal/mac could not read it. Then i panic cos my screen was stuck at rooted forever. How?
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You should never just copy commands into your shell unless you know what they do
You need to substitute "if=/dev/<nook>" with the correct device path for your Nook. (I.E. if=/dev/sdb)
Boot with Noogie image (rooted forever), plug in usb and do a dmesg in the terminal to see what device name it got, it should be there amongst the last few lines.
And yes, the dd command will take a few minutes.
When it's done you remove the SD card and reboot your Nook.
As said earlier, the Noogie image doesn't do anything to your NST.
If you want to root your NST you need to know what software version you have and choose the appropriate rooting method for it, there are several, but in regards to Google Apps things are still somewhat unreliable when it comes to getting it to work on 1.1.0

Thanks for the help!! Much clearer now about the process. Will try it after my exams next week hopefully nothing goes wrong and the touchnooter will enable google apps to work by then

Hi! im finally rooting my nook now! actually in the process of backing up. but it looks like i'm still unable to do so!
my command is
dd if=/dev/disk3 of=nook_touch_backup.img bs=1M
but it says illegal numeric value. any help/input?

JayneT said:
my command is
dd if=/dev/disk3 of=nook_touch_backup.img bs=1M
but it says illegal numeric value. any help/input?
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Are you using MacOS? check dd --help, maybe the blocksize parameter cannot use M for megabytes. You can try bs=1048576 instead.

for macos you have to use bs=1m not bs=1M that only for linux use

Help Rooting My new nook color 1.4.1

Hello XDA fourms, i have just today bought a nook color. I have been researching rooting it so i can read my manga and comics on it. I have decided to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can. now the problem is i can not understand half the things people say to do to achieve rooting my Nook color. can any one help me or redirect me to an easy place to teach me how to do this?

That's exactly how I started out. You can find instructions on the "[ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards." thread in the "Nook Color Android Development" forum. I'm no Android expert, being more a console Linux & C/Forth kind of guy, but it worked for me.
Since I spent most of my time in stock and only had a few apps I actually used on the card, I ended up rooting the stock nook with a manual nooter to install those apps in the Nook Color stock home page ... but using the SD card install for a month was quite useful in working out whether I wanted to root the stock B&N firmware or install a CM7 firmware instead.

ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...

Tom32090 said:
ok so i tried to make an sd card out of my 4 gb but it didnt work so i decided to reformate it and now it only has 117 mb! wth? im so confused...
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when you write the image to the SD card the partition is 117mbs. windows can only see that partition (there is actually 4 on the card after the image is written) that's why when you hit reformat it reformatted it to 117mbs. boot your nook up into stock form with the SD card in it, then go into your settings and hit "unmount SD card" then hit "reformat". That'll get you back to 4gbs.

ok great! ill try that thank you very much! but now how do i get it rooted?

If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash.
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it: which imager program did you use? did you power the Nook down all the way before rebooting it? Did it hang, or did it fail to boot and start up as a stock Nook Color?
Unless of course I misread you: if you want to root it using a SD card in a way that allows it to also be used as a regular Nook ~ that is, the third party apps show up in what looks like a regular B&N Home page ~ that is a manual noot you want to do. The instructions for doing a manual noot are in the "[NC][1.2][1.3] ManualNooter 4.6.16" thread. However, those are instructions for a 1.2 or 1.3 version. Instead of using the manualnooter file described in the opening post, skip ahead to page 175, and look for GMPOWER's post #1745. The "LINK" downloads a manualnooter file that seems to work for a stock Nook Color 1.4.1 ~ at least, that's the one I've used and now I have what looks like a stock Nook Color, except with Crackle, Crunchyroll, YouTube, OpenIntents and DolphinMini apps showing up on the B&N home pages.

BruceMcF said:
If you "want to root it through a micro sd 4gb card so that if i want to use my nook regularly i can" ... you aren't really rooting the device, you are just making an SD card that will boot up its own system and leave the stock system in the built-in flash alone. Then if the card is pulled out (or replaced with a non-bootable SD card), the bootloader skips the SD card and boots from the internal flash
If you are using a Windows box, as nook711 explained, the regular Windows format will not change existing SD partitions, so it will just format one relatively small partition on the SD card. To reformat back to a single clean SD partition on the Windows side, google for Panasonic SDFormatter.
As far as how to get that card to work as an SD-boot card ~ its hard to say, since you didn't say what went wrong the first time you tried it.
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so what happen on my first try was i used winimage to write the genertic sd card file on to it. i than put update-cm-7.1.0-encore-signed.zip on the card. my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card. i have not tried holding the n button to see if that worked yet. i do have the sd card formatted and i have already formatted the card back to 4 gb. Next i was going to do the same steps but try and hold the n button
update:so i tried the N button but it didnt boot the sd card... i just dont know what im doing wrong!?

if it did not boot from the sdcard then I would suspect that the image did not write to the sdcard correctly. the nook will automatically look at the sdcard boot first.
did you unzip the image file before writing it to the card?
did you write the image as admin in the winimage?
After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"

"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.

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After writing the image to the sdcard remove it from your computer and then plug it back in the computer, if it wrote correctly it should now say "boot"
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it does say "boot" but it still does not work
BruceMcF said:
"my nook was off and i turned it on. it did not boot from the sd card"
It only boots if it is turned on from a powerdown. If it just went to sleep to save the battery, and a quick tap of the power button can wake it up, its not powered down, its only sleeping.
When its awake, hold the power button, wait for the "do you want to turn it off completely" dialog, keep holding the power button, and it will turn off. That is a complete power down. Then put in the bootable SD-card, and hold the power button until it turns on ~ it ought to boot off the card instead of off the Nook internal flash.
Like any Android device, it will take a while to go from the boot screen to the home screen on the first power-up, but you'll see the skaterboy droid in a couple of minutes and know that its grinding through the process of setting up the CM7 system.
And regarding the CM7 update file ~ looking in my PC file system, that's the same CM7 update file I used.
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Yes i did shut it off and than turned it on but is still does not work?

i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get

There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
Edit: the YouTube clip you posted is the first one where I saw advice to use the Panasonic SDFormatter. However, other than that, I mostly followed the xda How-To.
I'd note that even though the the CrashTechDummies YouTube clip is from April, 2011, they are using a HowTo guide for a image that is older than the "size-agnostic" image in the "Size-agnostic" How To guide, so they have to do several things by hand that are handled automatically by the "Size-agnostic" image.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.

BruceMcF said:
There are only three things that come to my mind:
(1) What is the make and class of the microSD card? That's not from personal experience, but it shows up in multiple HowTo guides, both here and on other sites. I used a Kingston Class 4 8gb microSD card, but the preference seems to be for SanDisk Class 4.
(2) A generic image is likely to work best if its written onto a "like new" fully formatted SD card ~ I have seen a few YouTube clips of various rooting efforts where formatting it with the Panasonic SDFormatter Windows executable succeeded after the prior effort had failed.
(3) What is your hardware for writing SD images? USB-port card writers sometimes need to be safe-unmounted with the USB unmount tool before popped out. I've run into that before in a different context.
If its not one of those, then I got nothing, sorry. The part between copying the CM7 file onto the generic image and seeing the CM7 droid skaterboy "just worked" for me.
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ok i reformatted it with Panasonic reformat and i am using a 4 gbsandisk micro sd and it has a 2 with a circle around it

Tom32090 said:
i have also been looking at video on youtube. but every single one tells me something different. so far the one i found that seems to be the closest to what im trying to do is this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4nenR-mNo0 but even so i feel like the more i watch the more confused i get
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there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
* reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
* download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
* download "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
* unzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
* open windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
* select your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
*when finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
* download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
* open up " my computer" on windows
* drag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
* when finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
* insert sdcard into fully powered down nook
* turn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
* when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.

uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files

Tom32090 said:
uh is there any way you could supply some links ? i mean i think i have alot of these things but iv been gathering it from doing reaserch so i justwant to make sure i have the right files
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verygreens image:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12240928&postcount=1
windisk32:
www.askvg.com/win32-disk-imager-write-any-bootable-image-to-usb-drive-in-windows/
7zip:
download.cnet.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html

nook711 said:
there's lots of ways to get to the end result, don't get confused we will help you through the process.
Now that being said:
This was my process
x reformat your SD card again using the stock nook
x download "windisk32 image writer" (easier I think then winimage)
xdownload "verygreens, genenric 1.3image.zip"
xunzip the image.zip to your desktop (using 7zip)
xopen windisk32, click the blue folder and find the image file on your desktop for generic 1.3
xselect your corresponding drive to your sdcard hit write
xwhen finished remove sdcard and reinsert it into computer
x download (cm7.1 or cm7.2)
x open up " my computer" on windows
xdrag "cm7.1 or 7.2" to the corresponding drive for sdcard (should say boot)
xwhen finished right click hit eject when safe to do so remove sdcard
xinsert sdcard into fully powered down nook
xturn nook on (after a few it should go to a little Linux penguin) and install scripts should be running
x when it's done it'll power off
* wait a few minutes and turn the nook on, should boot into cm7 but first you should see the android riding a skateboard.
*while that's working download the gapps file
after you set up cm7 for the first time, shut it down.
* remove sdcard and reinsert it into your computer
* open up "my computer" and drag the gapps file to the sdcard drive
* when finished hit eject and reinsert the card into the nook and while holding the "n" power up the nook (should see the little Linux penguin again)
* when its finished it should power down againbthen just turn it on and set up Google
hope this helps
** again this is just what works for me and I have successfully done several different nook for friends, family and myself.
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Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down

Tom32090 said:
Ok so i have gotten up to the part where it shutdown and i have no restarted it yet. I downloaded the gapps and now i have another question. if i want to open up the memory on the sd card that isnt being used willl it mess anything up? the video talks about using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 5.2 and i just dont want to mess up anything iv already down
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the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook

nook711 said:
the unseen portion of the sdcard in windows will be seen in your nook
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ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?

Tom32090 said:
ok so if i want to put thing on the card how would i do it? would my computer pick up the unused memory?
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you can use the nook as a mass USB storage device. while on the nook plug the cord into your nook and then the USB side into your computer. the computer should pick it up as USB mass storage and show 2 drives, 1 for nook color and the other for sdcard. once connected you can put whatever you want on it.

Can't Boot, Recover, CM FAIL. ModProbe chdir Failure. CWM Recovery Not Working.

I've worked ever so hard trying to configure and get the aesthetics of my cm7 rom up and running and apps in my testing might have triangulated and caused this error, I don't know.
Whenever I try to install a rom, boot into recovery, do a backup-- basically my clockwork is broken. Not broken, it still tries. It just pops this up on the screen:
Populating /dev using udev: done
Initializing random number generator....done
modprobe: chdir (2.6.32.9): No such file or directory
Starting network...
Detected Standard B&N nook layout, emmc first
It appears the SD card is already properly formatted
Skipping format
Mounting /dev/mmcblk1p1 as /boot
Looking for the install images....
Initial Install files not found
Please download it from nook.linuxhacker.ru
and put on first partition of this SD card
the name should start with updatei-cm and end with .zip
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I'm using a recently nightly build of CM7.
I really love how I have it set-up, but if I don't have anyway to ever back it up my results are effortless.
How can I fix this situation without removal of the system. anyone, please?

First of all, have you done a nandroid backup in CWM? If so you can definitely recover.
Second it looks like your boot file is corrupted, always sending you to recover rather than a normal boot. What boot setup are you using?

echoedge said:
I've worked ever so hard trying to configure and get the aesthetics of my cm7 rom up and running and apps in my testing might have triangulated and caused this error, I don't know.
Whenever I try to install a rom, boot into recovery, do a backup-- basically my clockwork is broken. Not broken, it still tries. It just pops this up on the screen:
I'm using a recently nightly build of CM7.
I really love how I have it set-up, but if I don't have anyway to ever back it up my results are effortless.
How can I fix this situation without removal of the system. anyone, please?
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You have installed your ROM to SD. There is no CWM recovery on SD installs. You cannot do a nandroid backup with the SD recovery.
See my post here for an explanation of the difference between emmc installs and SD installs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25354258
However, there is a way to back it up. Keep reading further down in my post.

thank you.
but how do i get access to uAltRam and uAltImg.
Multi SD Mount APP isn't working.
R/W permission difficulties in root explorer..
Using the 4202012 nightly build..
please help,
this shouldn't be too hard, don't let it drive me crazy

echoedge said:
thank you.
but how do i get access to uAltRam and uAltImg.
Multi SD Mount APP isn't working.
R/W permission difficulties in root explorer..
Using the 4202012 nightly build..
please help,
this shouldn't be too hard, don't let it drive me crazy
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Take the card out and put in your PC. It will see the boot partition and you can copy the files there.

leapinlar said:
Take the card out and put in your PC. It will see the boot partition and you can copy the files there.
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Hmm.. somehow I got it doing that. I of course tried that before and only the two partitions were loading. This time I was messing with it and clicking the multi sd mount widget and somehow the boot drive came up and I transferred the files on there.
So now I can do a nandroid backup as usual? Or sense it's an (Alt) instead of a recovery thing must it be different?
I'll try some things in the mean time..

Okay, so I have to boot into recovery and choose alternative and do it manually.
Can't do it with Rom Manager/Rom Tool Kit. Tried and it did the same error as in the OP.
Off to try now.
This is really strange though.
I've been messing with Nooks for a while and always used rom manager and the recovery console just fine.. but i've always ever done dual sd boots.This is my first time really doing a single one.
I'm in the boot menu (encore u-boot menu by j4mm3r), 1.2 port + extras.
It's been at
'Booting. One Moment'..." for at least a minute. Assuming it's frozen itself..
edit: Yeah, the Alt files didn't work.. I reset and pressed the N button, went to alternate and SD card. Nothing.
Reset it and it works as usual, but still no ability to backup..

echoedge said:
Okay, so I have to boot into recovery and choose alternative and do it manually.
Can't do it with Rom Manager/Rom Tool Kit. Tried and it did the same error as in the OP.
Off to try now.
This is really strange though.
I've been messing with Nooks for a while and always used rom manager and the recovery console just fine.. but i've always ever done dual sd boots.This is my first time really doing a single one.
I'm in the boot menu (encore u-boot menu by j4mm3r), 1.2 port + extras.
It's been at
'Booting. One Moment'..." for at least a minute. Assuming it's frozen itself..
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Do not use ROM Manager with the verygreen SD installation. It does not work. Use the boot menu to boot into the alternate. Hold the n key while booting. Choose sd, alt.
Edit: you said two partitions showed up. Did you physically take the card out and insert into a card reader in your PC? It should see just one drive. Make sure those two files are there or it will hang when you choose it in the boot menu. I suspect you put the files on emmc boot since you used that strange program to do it.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

No,
it's something with the multi mount sd app widget.
I hook mini usb to usb.
then hit the widget.
and JUST the boot partition comes up.
It says something about disk F: is not formatted correctly as well.
Just plugging it in without the multi mount app the outward sd card partition and the nook color come up, just those two.
And can't believe I didn't think to take the mini SD out and use an adapter. I'll try it again with that.

You're right I did mess something up with my EMMC.
Before I had it on a stock nook.
Now it goes to the cyanomod thing.
I took the miniSD card out, plugged it in for power and it turned on.
Went to that, had a bunch of force closed issues nothing worked, dry and empty, etc.
Any suggestions?
I'm gonna check out the miniSD card partitions now and try to get something going with that.

echoedge said:
You're right I did mess something up with my EMMC.
Before I had it on a stock nook.
Now it goes to the cyanomod thing.
I took the miniSD card out, plugged it in for power and it turned on.
Went to that, had a bunch of force closed issues nothing worked, dry and empty, etc.
Any suggestions?
I'm gonna check out the miniSD card partitions now and try to get something going with that.
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There are many threads here that will tell you how to restore stock to emmc. Search for them.
But to get the SD working, do what I said. And I would suggest getting rid of that mount program so you don't mess it up again.
Edit: The problem with those mount programs is, if you mount the wrong partition, windows can only read fat partitions and will ask you to format. System and data are ext4 which windows cannot read.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

Thanks a bunch.
In ubuntu once the sd card is inserted all 4 partititions automatically came up so I was able to copy and paste the Alt images.
Am backing up right now
And yeah getting the emmc back to stop np.
One thing i'm confused about.. you're saying one cannot update rom's if booting from an SD card?

also, i assume all in eed to do to make a back-up on my hard drive or usb (so its not just inclusive to the minisd), i can just root browser into mnt/sdcard/clockworkmod/backup and and create a zip of the 2012.5.5.etc.etc.etc. made folder and trnasfer it onto external device? If needed all I would need to do is a transfer back?

echoedge said:
One thing i'm confused about.. you're saying one cannot update rom's if booting from an SD card?
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Yes you can update the ROM. Just not with CWM. You place the update-...zip in the boot partition of the SD and then using the boot menu (hold n during boot) select SD and recovery. The script in the boot partition will install the ROM for you. You need to read the first post in the agnostic image thread. It tells you all this.
On the second question, you can do it that way, but the files are already compressed there so just copy the folder to your PC to archive them.

is it okay to just boot into alternative (power + vol up/down) instead of going through the manual booting with the 'N' on start-up?

echoedge said:
is it okay to just boot into alternative (power + vol up/down) instead of going through the manual booting with the 'N' on start-up?
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Yes. I didn't know you could do it that way. See, you taught me something. LOL. As long as you are getting into the 3.0.2.8 CWM recovery it's OK.
Sent from my NookColor using Tapatalk

How risky is rooting the NST?

I want to root my NST but I'm afraid of bricking it.
I did a search and found this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188595 but there's conflicting evidence as to whether resotration on bricking is possible.
How common is bricking the NST and how easy is it to restore it if rooting fails?

Use nook manager and first backup your nook as an image file to your PC or using your SD card (note you will need a big enough sd card for the backup most people have at least 1gig )
rootings pretty straightforward with nook manager just follow the ON screen instructions
your nook like most androids have a recovery built in an can be activated to restore your nook to its factory state

Just make sure you have a good backup before you get started and its a safe process. Backup with NookManager first and check that the backup is complete. Read through the NookManager thread on how the get the backup off your SD card and how to check if its a good, complete backup. Then you will always be able to restore back to before you rooted so root away.

kmaximax said:
Use nook manager and first backup your nook as an image file to your PC or using your SD card (note you will need a big enough sd card for the backup most people have at least 1gig )
rootings pretty straightforward with nook manager just follow the ON screen instructions
your nook like most androids have a recovery built in an can be activated to restore your nook to its factory state
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Alright I feel reassured.
I found the NookManager thread, it's this one right? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
I guess if I follow all the intructions I'll have nothing to worry about.

cairnarvon said:
Alright I feel reassured.
I found the NookManager thread, it's this one right? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2040351
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Yes, that's it. You'll also want the NTGAppsAttack thread from the same forum as well.
I guess if I follow all the intructions I'll have nothing to worry about.
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It's pretty hard to mess up if you follow the instructions. A few notes from my experience -
Timing is critical after enabling WiFi on a rooted Nook; install something quickly through Google Market, or you'll need to uninstall the automatic update to it before it'll work.
When I restored my Nook back to (registered) stock via Nook Manager in order to update from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1, the B&N registration process complained (presumably because the same device had been re-registered whilst rooted, because I was fiddling). It rebooted and worked the next time.
A backup will be theoretically upto 2GB, if the Nook is full (e.g. of purchased B&N ebooks), but mine were about 200-odd MB (NookManager zero's unused space and compresses the backup with gzip).

cowbutt said:
A backup will be theoretically upto 2GB, if the Nook is full (e.g. of purchased B&N ebooks), but mine were about 200-odd MB (NookManager zero's unused space and compresses the backup with gzip).
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You can validate the backup is complete by opening it with a zip / archiver program like 7-Zip and verifying the uncompressed size is 2 GB+/- (mine shows 1,962,934,272). That gives you two confirmations - the backup is a valid gz file and all the partitions got backed up.

Hmm this is weird.
Having wrote the image of NookManager to my micro SD card, the nook doesn't want to boot with it in it....
If I remove the SD card it boots just fine. If I put in the SD card when it's on it recognises it too.
Have you ever heard of something like this happening?
I'm on 1.2.1.

How did you write the image to the card?

abern isdsdsdsd
Straygecko, I used Win32DiskImager.

cairnarvon said:
Straygecko, I used Win32DiskImager.
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Did you turn your Nook off completely (i.e. by pushing and holding the power button on the back for about 30s) before inserting the SD card, then turn it on with the SD card inserted?
What class is the SD card? Do you have a Class 6 (or slower) card you can use?

cowbutt said:
Did you turn your Nook off completely (i.e. by pushing and holding the power button on the back for about 30s) before inserting the SD card, then turn it on with the SD card inserted?
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Yes.
cowbutt said:
What class is the SD card? Do you have a Class 6 (or slower) card you can use?
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I can't post a link to it I'm afraid and the packaging doesn't say anything about class.

cairnarvon said:
Straygecko, I used Win32DiskImager.
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OK, you say if you boot the device and put the SD card it recognizes it. Try plugging it into you PC card reader or plug your NST into your PC and verify that the NookManager files appear on the SD card. You should see the folders custom, files, hooks, menu and scripts on the card and files like boot.scr, uImage and uRamdisk and some others.
cairnarvon said:
I can't post a link to it I'm afraid and the packaging doesn't say anything about class.
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The packaging and the card itself almost always have the class symbol on them. See the SD association speed class page for examples of the symbols.

straygecko said:
You should see the folders custom, files, hooks, menu and scripts on the card and files like boot.scr, uImage and uRamdisk and some others.
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Yup those are all there.
straygecko said:
The packaging and the card itself almost always have the class symbol on them. See the SD association speed class page for examples of the symbols.
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Ok I checked the micro SD and it looks like it's a class 10...Is this the reason it didn't work?

cairnarvon said:
Ok I checked the micro SD and it looks like it's a class 10...Is this the reason it didn't work?
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Most likely. There have been quite a few reports of problems using class 10 cards.

straygecko said:
Most likely. There have been quite a few reports of problems using class 10 cards.
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From a PM from cairnarvon, I suspect that his SD card is a counterfeit 64GB device. Unlucky!

I managed to make a backup through nook manager.
it is a ~350 MB .gz file.
The uncompressed version is roughly 2GB. So far so good.
I tried to extract the archive and this happens:
Code:
$ gunzip -d backup.full.gz
gzip: backup.full.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: backup.full.gz: invalid compressed data--length error
I tried to search the forum and I found these threads
Not sure if they're relavant though...

cairnarvon said:
I managed to make a backup through nook manager.
it is a ~350 MB .gz file.
The uncompressed version is roughly 2GB. So far so good.
I tried to extract the archive and this happens:
Code:
$ gunzip -d backup.full.gz
gzip: backup.full.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: backup.full.gz: invalid compressed data--length error
I tried to search the forum and I found these threads
Not sure if they're relavant though...
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Is this that same wonky SD card?
Where are you reading backup.full.gz from with gunzip? The SD card via USB Mass Storage mode of the Nook, the SD card via a card reader, or a local copy after previously copying it?
How does the md5 checksum compare with the .md5 file NookManager created?

cowbutt said:
Is this that same wonky SD card?
Where are you reading backup.full.gz from with gunzip? The SD card via USB Mass Storage mode of the Nook, the SD card via a card reader, or a local copy after previously copying it?
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No I bought an authentic one, it has a logo and everything
I copied the file to my local machine and tried to extract it.
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How does the md5 checksum compare with the .md5 file NookManager created?
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I'm not too sure what this means...I know there's a md5 file with the backup but that's about it.
I formatted the partition and tried the backup again but got the same error...

Is backup entirely necessary? Are there any stock backup images on the forum that I could download and use?

cairnarvon said:
No I bought an authentic one, it has a logo and everything
I copied the file to my local machine and tried to extract it.
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OK, what OS? How did you copy the files?
I'm not too sure what this means...I know there's a md5 file with the backup but that's about it.
I formatted the partition and tried the backup again but got the same error...
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just run md5sum on the backup.full.gz. Its output should match the contents of backup.full.gz.md5 (which NookManager generated after completing its backup).
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cairnarvon said:
Is backup entirely necessary?
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I'm of the opinion that it is. With a backup you can always restore it to factory-fresh. The backup also includes some unique details, like the serial number and, I believe, some decryption keys.