no matter how many times i make the sdcard image, my nook refuses to boot off of it. Ive tried with Mac, WIndows, and Ubuntu and all failed. When i pop in the sdcard the nook just boots up normally...please someone help me. Ive been trying to get this to work since the second the first instructions were posted on nook devs
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
hharte said:
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
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that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
Did you make the carding using winimage yet? For me, that was the method that worked the most consistently.
To check it, pop the card in your reader and see if there is a single ~40mb partition named nooter. That pretty much says the card is what it is supposed to be.
Unplug the nook, power it off by holding the power button until it turns off. put the card into the nook, plug it into your computer. In a little time, you should notice it saying about a new device connected, or some complaining about not being able to find the drivers. Let it go for about a minute after that and then remove the card and reboot the nook.
If it still boots normally with the card your just made, try using another card and see if that works. Also, if you have access to a mac, before you make the card with winimage (on the windows machine), use Disk utility to partition the card with 1 partition, free space.
It sounds kinda quirky, but it is how I got it to work.
I had to try 4 different computers before I found one that would work with either Winimage or Cygwin. Just keep trying different things and you'll eventually get it.
I originally tried using the Nook Color itself as the SD card reader, which did not work. Since the only USB card reader I had handy was not SDHC, I went down to a 2GB SD card, and it worked.
Help - Trouble w/Winimage
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
bobdude5 said:
that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
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[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
pokey9000 said:
[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
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did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
My mistake was
Pokey9000 pointed out that I was making a simple mistake that stopped my card from working:
make sure your are writing to the whole disk, not a partition.
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
I was adding the partition number to the end of my device string.
bobdude5 said:
did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
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IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
pokey9000 said:
IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
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i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
bobdude5 said:
i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
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via the laptop SDcard slot, the image doesn't work, and I used a USB SDcard reader, it worked.
+1 request for help
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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drbowden said:
+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
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That's OK!
After doing the winimage the microSD will have a 40MB partition with about 30MB free space and only about 7.5MB of files. It should work!
Finally Successful!
Finally got it done! Now on to loading useful apps and see how the NOOK holds up to work!
So excited to try and...
Grrr. both my sandisk and generic mini card readers suddenly all decide to fail/stop working and only found one of my 2gb sd cards after my move haha...
Murphy's law, such as life is..
-CC
Heya guys, Android n00b, but old time iphoney.
I to am having the same problem. I have been writing sd cards off multiple machines, bought more sd cards, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! tx
Details:
Linux Mint 8 - Main
Windows 7 - tried and no success in results
Nook Color - Running firmware 1.0.1
8GB PNY HC uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
2GB Sandisk uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
1GB Kingston uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
Latest nooter tried - auto-nooter-2.12.18.img - writes sucessfully - shows 2 partitions (NooterFiles,AutoNooter2)
Install notes:
I follow the directions to the letter. I have set up android sdk, and the other files needed from when this first became available. (I know they're not needed at the moment, but giving a history)
The image writes successfully. If I re-insert the card into my pc, then it reads as un-recognized. However, taking a leap of faith I put the card into the powered down NC. Plug in the usb cord, and it reboots just as normal.
Now after it boots. I swipe to open, and it goes into usb mode. Now my computer can see the 2 partitions listed through the nc.
Upon investigation I found that the partitions were not bootable. Aha! So I tried making them bootable. No success.
I'm at a loss, any help/points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Related
I'm receiving the following error when trying to use Win32 disk imager to make a backup copy (read) of my Micro SD card with nookie installed:
"An error occurred when trying to get the devices geometry. Error 8:".
I've done a bit of searching on this but can't find anything. Anybody have any ideas?
Is there a good alternate?
Tom S. said:
I'm receiving the following error when trying to use Win32 disk imager to make a backup copy (read) of my Micro SD card with nookie installed:
"An error occurred when trying to get the devices geometry. Error 8:".
I've done a bit of searching on this but can't find anything. Anybody have any ideas?
Is there a good alternate?
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Man it took me HOURS to figure it out. I had the EXACT SAME problem (when trying to copy the auto-nooter img to my sd card).
I think what finally worked was:
*make SURE you open and run as Administrator (right click on the Disk Imager and select Run as Administrator)
*AND after you've selected the the sd card drive GET OUT OF IT. Click on any other drive or close that explorer window all together.
I hope this helps. I feel your pain.
slugbug2010 said:
Man it took me HOURS to figure it out. I had the EXACT SAME problem (when trying to copy the auto-nooter img to my sd card).
I think what finally worked was:
*make SURE you open and run as Administrator (right click on the Disk Imager and select Run as Administrator)
*AND after you've selected the the sd card drive GET OUT OF IT. Click on any other drive or close that explorer window all together.
I hope this helps. I feel your pain.
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Thanks. I'll give it a try. I'm paranoid now though, as I removed my nookie froyo on SD and I lost all of my applications. I guess I'm supposed to do a save to SD card, right?
Tom S. said:
Thanks. I'll give it a try. I'm paranoid now though, as I removed my nookie froyo on SD and I lost all of my applications. I guess I'm supposed to do a save to SD card, right?
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I think in your original post you are just trying to backup your sd card, right?
I've done that with my NC and my Evo and every time all I do is huck up via usb, open the drive, create a folder in my C drive (Nook, Evo), and then copy, paste. I then transfer most things to an external HD.
So to backup your sd card all you have to do is copy and paste it somewhere else. DON'T wipe it if you have things saved on there that you need to have run off your NC.
The problem with the nookie use is that your card doesn't show up as a mountable drive under windows. You have to use something like dropbox.
Hold on, I hate to admit this, but I mixed up the SD cards when I pulled them out. I have 2; one of which I had a vanilla image of nookie on. The right one (the one I spent hours on), is fine. Doh.
So you are all good and set to go?
if possible use ubuntu for this (you can do it from a live cd)
i had nothing but issues with windows and win32diskimager and burning sd cards (p.s. windows has no good sd card partitioners that im aware of)
dd is the best way to burn the image, and you can use gparted (if installed) to recover the sd after your done (if your like me and burn sd cards like its no body's business (its not))
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So you are all good and set to go?
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Yes. I'm going to transfer this image to my new class 10, and then use this card to put Honeycomb on...
mckooter said:
if possible use ubuntu for this (you can do it from a live cd)
i had nothing but issues with windows and win32diskimager and burning sd cards (p.s. windows has no good sd card partitioners that im aware of)
dd is the best way to burn the image, and you can use gparted (if installed) to recover the sd after your done (if your like me and burn sd cards like its no body's business (its not))
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Under Windows, use EASEUS Partition Manager, currently on version 7.01. Free for home use. You can resize partitions or remove them all to reuse the card for another image or whatever. Also, Win32DiskImager is on 0.2-r23-win32. It will restore or create backups just fine. Both are fine for working with Honeycomb and Froyo images.
Mounting the partitions is another issue. I haven't dabbled in Cygwin, never could get it working right. Best use Ubuntu for that, I've got the Netbook edition of 10.10 dual booting with Win 7 x64, long story.
Homer
New error:
"An error occurred when attempting to read data from handle error 8:"
This is nuts. Windows 7x64, run as admin, not in any folder, antivirus off, and carbonite off (who knows). Ideas?
Oh, it always seems to get to 49%. Plenty of disk space free too.
Nooke Color, have 8gig brand new card, win32 imager won't find auto nooter 2.12.25
Hi all, i have searched some Q&A on Nookdevs, and LaunchPad, and via code.google nooter project hosting while first trying to root via instructions on Techrepub, which are very detailed, and seemed very simple.
I cannot get past the step of writing the file to my card. It's a brand new 8 gb card, and i'm hooking it up to my laptop (which has WIN 7) via a Dynex sd card reader/ writer. The win32 writer software is unzipped ok, and i open it, and it will find the auto nooter file (which i also unzipped ok) which is on the sd card (windows recognizes the reader as drive H, but when i add drive H: from the dropdown selection for the drive, and then click "Write" button, i get a pop up error that the software cannot locate this file. The only real similar issue i've seen while all my searching is the "Error 8" thing which this is not.
*Edit to original; trying this on another PC was all it needed. I guess Dell failed me, haha.
Try a different usb port or sd card reader? Not all of them are the same. Some work reliably and some are terrible...
Reader may be the issue?
I can return the card reader. I think this is the only option since i've gotten nowhere. Too bad best buy only carries one. Anyone suggest a brand name that works?
yes, i've tried the other usb ports. I am trying a different computer today to check.
thanks much.
Tom S. said:
I'm receiving the following error when trying to use Win32 disk imager to make a backup copy (read) of my Micro SD card with nookie installed:
"An error occurred when trying to get the devices geometry. Error 8:".
I've done a bit of searching on this but can't find anything. Anybody have any ideas?
Is there a good alternate?
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Okay I had the same issue... couldn't get diskimager to work. Several people said use ubuntu live cd... didn't want to. So I found a version of DD that works on windows. I've posted very little so can't post links but a google search for "DD for windows" will find it... it's hosted on chrysocome dot net
If you've used unix dd it's simular and it worked for me.
Hope this helps as an alternative!
Quick fix for error #8
Hey guys!
All you need to do is download Panasonic SD Card Formatter 2.0. Do a quick format, and it will work for you.
If you are getting error 8, it is most likely you used the SD card for an image previously and the partitions are goofed on it.
Panasonic SD Card Formatter 2.0 fixes that.
Hope this helps!
I had that same error 8 on Win32 Disk Imager, so I ran the SD formatter as suggested.
It was smart enough to tell me that the card was write protected.
I pulled out the card, and sure enough... DOH!
The card and adapter were brand new, so I never thought of it myself.
The disk imager worked fine with it after I slid that little switch on the adapter.
thank you, run as worked for me.
That Fixed It
I downloaded the following and got similar results.
1st -SDFormatter v. 3.0
2nd-Win32DiskImager (oldest image I could find from launchpad) It worked like a charm.
I also used an old 2 gig microSD from an old cellphone with the 1 gig_clockworks3.0.2.8 image file. I could have used the 2 gig file,however, I wanted to make sure it would fit under my 1.83 gig threshold recognized by windows 7. Go Figure!!!
You guys really saved me on this one. Reading through the forum for about 3 hour straight came in handy.
Hi everyone!
I am brand new here and having trouble with Win32diskimager as well. I get the Error 8 every time I try to lauch the win32diskimager.exe file. (I've even tried the older versions, same thing.)
I tried running the SDformatter as well & that didn't seem to help.
Write protection is off.
I tried all the suggestions I've discovered searching for that error. Any ideas what I am doing wrong???
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Make sure you have the correct device selected
levers said:
I am brand new here and having trouble with Win32diskimager as well. I get the Error 8 every time I try to lauch the win32diskimager.exe file. (I've even tried the older versions, same thing.)
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You probably checked this, but I get this error when I have the wrong device (drive letter) selected for writing. It took me about a half hour searching for answers until I noticed I didn't choose the correct drive where my SD card was inserted. Once you see that, it's obvious, but the obscure error message was deceiving.
Good luck.
Hi I would seriously appreciate any help! I am at a lost after hours of reading.
I had started off with autonooter, and now looking to install CM7. I had been told that I need to have the monster rootingpack. So I'm trying to go from autonooter to CM7.
I had tried to write monster clockwork... and did the 8gb clockwork, says its done but nothing shows up on my sd card. I then proceeded to format my sd card and still no luck.
I then tried to go into Rom manager and reboot into recovery but now there is an error! I'm so frustrated, I don't know what I am suppose to do.
Please let me know if you can offer help! Thanks in advanced.
Difficult to say without more - I assume you are using WinImage (run as adminstrator) to "Restore Virtual Hard Disk on physical drive"? If done correctly, there should only be four files on the drive (at which point, you need to drag and drop the zipped ROM to the drive.
Dumb question - is the flash card an 8 GB flash card?
Wile-E-Coyote said:
Difficult to say without more - I assume you are using WinImage (run as adminstrator) to "Restore Virtual Hard Disk on physical drive"? If done correctly, there should only be four files on the drive (at which point, you need to drag and drop the zipped ROM to the drive.
Dumb question - is the flash card an 8 GB flash card?
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I yeah I used winimage as adminstrator and put the img file on and chose the drive the 8g sd card was on, click write, bar went up and it said done. looked at my sd card and there is absolutely ZERO files on it....
Appreciate asking, any thoughts?
Are you using a card slot that came with your computer? If so go get a true card reader, that may be the issue.
Schulz3 said:
Are you using a card slot that came with your computer? If so go get a true card reader, that may be the issue.
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This is an interesting idea... is this usually an issue? I was putting my microsd card in a SD converter card and putting into a built in SDcard reader in my lenovo.
Is there a way to get my pc to read my sd card from my nook?
tmac4life said:
Hi I would seriously appreciate any help! I am at a lost after hours of reading.
I had started off with autonooter, and now looking to install CM7. I had been told that I need to have the monster rootingpack. So I'm trying to go from autonooter to CM7.
I had tried to write monster clockwork... and did the 8gb clockwork, says its done but nothing shows up on my sd card. I then proceeded to format my sd card and still no luck.
I then tried to go into Rom manager and reboot into recovery but now there is an error! I'm so frustrated, I don't know what I am suppose to do.
Please let me know if you can offer help! Thanks in advanced.
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In order to flash CM7 you need to use the EXT4 Compatiable CWR
Hi,
I am unable to post in the dev forums. hence opening this thread.
I am facing a problem installing sd card bootable CM7.
I am refering to the folowing thread: [ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I do the following:
1. Burn the 9M image (that would unpack into ~130M disk image)
2. Put the downloaded CM nightly build on the sdcard
3. Put the card in the nook color and boot
4. The nook boots to the installation process...penguin image in a corner and starts the process
However, it gets stuck at "Writing superblocks and filesystem accouting information".
I dunno if its stuck or not......because the cursor keeps on blinking.
Its been about 30 minutes and the screen stays in the above status only.
For information, I am using 16gb Kingmax Class 10 microsd card.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.......
acme2ajax said:
Hi,
I am unable to post in the dev forums. hence opening this thread.
I am facing a problem installing sd card bootable CM7.
I am refering to the folowing thread: [ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. with updater: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
I do the following:
1. Burn the 9M image (that would unpack into ~130M disk image)
2. Put the downloaded CM nightly build on the sdcard
3. Put the card in the nook color and boot
4. The nook boots to the installation process...penguin image in a corner and starts the process
However, it gets stuck at "Writing superblocks and filesystem accouting information".
I dunno if its stuck or not......because the cursor keeps on blinking.
Its been about 30 minutes and the screen stays in the above status only.
For information, I am using 16gb Kingmax Class 10 microsd card.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.......
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Ummm... did you unpack the image prior to burning it to your Sdcard?
In addition it is not proven yet to work on 16gig cards, it has only been tested up to 8gig cards.
Edit: Others now have posted that 16gig cards do not work.
And Class 10 cards are known to have issue with Nook.
Search TITLES in this Forum only for "card" for threads on sd cards.
ADude said:
And Class 10 cards are known to have issue with Nook.
Search TITLES in this Forum only for "card" for threads on sd cards.
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Hi Adude...Thanks for the update.
Have a small doubt...
I am able to install and run successfully, the sdcard bootable CM7 bt image...which is for 2gb card.
I, then, expand that partition to the rest of the card.
So is it the size of the card thats the issue?
Can this 'size agnostic' image be modified to write only to 2 or 4 gb and then we can expand the rest. I will like to ask this question to verygreen, but i still have some posts to go till I can paste in dev forums.
Thanks again for the info.......
Bumping an old thread, since I have the exact same problem, and can't post in the proper thread as well.
But I used a 2GB class 2 card( I think, it's a generic card that you get in the bundle when you buy a phone) instead, but got the same message.
Did I harm the card in anyway? Can I use it again for this procedure? Or do I have to reflash it in some way?
BrotherZero said:
Bumping an old thread, since I have the exact same problem, and can't post in the proper thread as well.
But I used a 2GB class 2 card( I think, it's a generic card that you get in the bundle when you buy a phone) instead, but got the same message.
Did I harm the card in anyway? Can I use it again for this procedure? Or do I have to reflash it in some way?
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Generic Class 2 card. You answered your own question, it's probably too slow.
Pity, that's the only card I have lying around.
I'm very new to this so sorry for some very basic questions. But:
1. How do I restore the card to it's original state? I tried the HPUSBFW.EXE file that is in the link above(how to flash a bootable SD guide) but it says that I need admin rights even though I already am admin. Is there any other way to restore the card?
2. I have another generic 2GB from a Sony X10 mini pro, but no idea to try that then? What kind of SD-card should I buy? Since I saw that too fast SD cards have problem as well.
I also can't post in the dev thread and am having issues with this. I'm using an 8gb sandisk class 4 microsd card. I used win32imager to burn the agnostic iso file to the card. Then I clicked exit, unmounted the drive, and plugged it back in. Now the drive shows as a 115mb drive with 107mb free. In gparted it shows as 2 partitions, 1 as 115mb and another as unallocated with the rest of the 8gb. Windows can't see the unallocated one though.
So right now I'm stuck and can't copy the nightly cm7 build onto the drive. Anyone know why it formatted it like this and what I can do to fix it?
Here's an image of what I'm talking about:
107 MB is enough
gmanpie said:
I also can't post in the dev thread and am having issues with this. I'm using an 8gb sandisk class 4 microsd card. I used win32imager to burn the agnostic iso file to the card. Then I clicked exit, unmounted the drive, and plugged it back in. Now the drive shows as a 115mb drive with 107mb free. In gparted it shows as 2 partitions, 1 as 115mb and another as unallocated with the rest of the 8gb. Windows can't see the unallocated one though.
So right now I'm stuck and can't copy the nightly cm7 build onto the drive. Anyone know why it formatted it like this and what I can do to fix it?
Here's an image of what I'm talking about:
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The nightly CM7 -87 file has around 91 MB (here: http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/cm_encore_full-87.zip), so you should have enough space to copy it onto your sd card. Actually, that leaves more than 15 MB available, so I suggest you also put the gapps in your SD card (here: http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip)
About the unallocated space, it will be partitioned by the installer accordingly once you boot the NC with your SD card in it.
Looks like it's working now. I fit the nightly build on there but couldn't fit gapps(144mb). I messed up my froyo install earlier trying to put cm7 on, so I was worried I'd be stuck with a half functional rom for my upcoming 14 hr flight :/
Ok, now for my next question. How do I install it to the emmc? I tried installing it through froyo, but when I deleted the system folder and reset it to factory settings it messed up the froyo install, so now the rom manager doesn't work.
[Edit:] going to try following this thread:
http://fineoils.blogspot.com/2011/04/nookcolor-with-cyanogen-mod-70-emmc.html
What? Gapps is ~5MB only. If you're trying to install with both at the same time verygreen's instructions say that you should flash CM7 and turn on wifi first, prior to flashing gapps.
To install to EMMC you need to burn a CWM SD card, plop the nightly zip on there, boot up with it, then install zip from SD card (select the nightly). Wipe caches/data. Remove CWM card, hit reboot option in CWM menu. You'll need to either have a fresh SD card or reformat the CWM card since CM7 on EMMC requires an SD card in. Instructions for doing this (step by step) are somewhere in General forum by eyeballer.
(Also of note: the info that 16GB cards do not work with this image is no longer true)
Could anybody use a 16Gb sd card so far? I bought one just for the nook and now I found out that its not working - damn! I can't give it back so what? pls help!
Earymgn said:
Could anybody use a 16Gb sd card so far? I bought one just for the nook and now I found out that its not working - damn! I can't give it back so what? pls help!
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I used SanDisk 16Gb and everything worked like a charm.
stud_muffler said:
I used SanDisk 16Gb and everything worked like a charm.
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I did too(both with issues and successfully), the only problem I had with my card is that with the size of cm7 and gapps you ahve to flash them separately, so do cm7 first, put the gapps on the boot partition then reboot into recovery.
if you don't do that you'll run out of space on the boot partition during installation.
I used verygreen's instructions to put CM& on a Sandisk 16 gig class 4. Worked the first time I tried. After CM7 I shut down, put gapps on, then rebooted into recovery.
I think the majority of the problems people are having is NOT READING the part in the verygreen instructions about using Sandisk cards.
Imbroglio said:
I used verygreen's instructions to put CM& on a Sandisk 16 gig class 4. Worked the first time I tried. After CM7 I shut down, put gapps on, then rebooted into recovery.
I think the majority of the problems people are having is NOT READING the part in the verygreen instructions about using Sandisk cards.
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Sandisk is not required.. I've also used Transcend and Kingston. Class 4 and 6 between the three.
What is required is a card that's not crap, or works like crap in the Nook Color. An OS does a lot of small operations or uses a lot of small files, so even if the card is great at mass transfers but sucks at smaller ones, it's going to be a bad experience.
Sandisk is one way to avoid it. So if you're buying one, might as well make it Sandisk. Any others.... if it doesn't work right, try a different card. That easy.
Hey guys, I'm having some problems trying to create a bootable uSD card for my nook and was hoping someone could tell me what the heck I'm doing wrong.
I followed this post in the dev forums for reference:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987735
So, this is exactly what I'm doing:
1. Download 4gb_clockwork-3.0.2.8.rar which is later down in that thread.
2. Extract the file to a .img file.
3. Downloaded and installed WinImage.
4. Launch WinImage and then go to "Disk" then select "Use removable disk E:" (which is my uSD card)
5. In WinImage, open up the .img file downloaded in step 1.
6. Then "Disk" --> Write Disk.
7. Gives me a message that says:
The current image format is not supported by the disk drive E: It will be re resized. Do you want to continue? Click YES and it writes the image to the disk. All the files are there when I look at the disk so I think all is good.
I then put the uSD card in my nook which is off, then plug the usb cable from computer into the nook so it automatically starts. But it doesn't boot from the uSD, just starts normally. When it loads up I can see the uSD card within the nook, and I see all the files that were written to it with WinImage.
What am I doing wrong? Could it be my uSD can't be bootable (my uSD card is about 3-4 years old --SanDisk 4GB MicroSD HC disk and using a USB SanDisk MobileMate SD+ Memory Card reader). My nook is running the latest 1.2.0 firmware.
Any help is appreciated!!!
is your sd card 4gigs or bigger?
luciferii said:
is your sd card 4gigs or bigger?
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It's a 4GB card.
Try using the 2GB image from same post... see if that works... sometimes uSD's report slightly less than standard size.
DizzyDen said:
Try using the 2GB image from same post... see if that works... sometimes uSD's report slightly less than standard size.
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Tried the 2gb image and same thing, just boots into the regular nook OS. I'm starting to think it might be my uSD card?
When I write the image with WinImage, it only takes about 1 second and it's done. Should it really be that fast? I don't get any errors, but I also don't get a confirmation box saying it's done, or anything like that, is that normal?
UPDATE: I just tried a 2GB uSD card I had laying around and that doesn't work either.
virtualkaos said:
5. In WinImage, open up the .img file downloaded in step 1.
6. Then "Disk" --> Write Disk.
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2 options to suggest.
1.) Try using Win32DiskImager instead
2.) Instead of what you did for step 6 try using the "Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive"
- Aerlock
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2.) Instead of what you did for step 6 try using the "Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive"
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Thanks Aerlock, I'll try that utility and see if that helps.
For your 2nd comment, if I go into "Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive", a box pops with nothing in it. Even if I select the checkbox that says use non-removal hard disk(s), nothing is populated in that box to select?
Forgot to add in my last post that the card is a "Class 2" if that makes any difference.
Using Win32DiskImager worked!!!! It boots - yahoo!!!!!!! Thanks so much Aerlock!
virtualkaos said:
Thanks Aerlock, I'll try that utility and see if that helps.
For your 2nd comment, if I go into "Restore Virtual Hard Disk image on physical drive", a box pops with nothing in it. Even if I select the checkbox that says use non-removal hard disk(s), nothing is populated in that box to select?
Forgot to add in my last post that the card is a "Class 2" if that makes any difference.
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Are you using an external reader? Some folks seem to have problems with built-in readers when trying to write images to microSD cards.
Class 2 should be ok, you may have problems with streaming movies/music but for normal operation you should be ok. Class 4 seems to be the sweet spot for booting and running off of microSD. See this post: SD Strange-results - or - How I learned to love CM7
virtualkaos said:
Using Win32DiskImager worked!!!! It boots - yahoo!!!!!!! Thanks so much Aerlock!
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Awesome! Glad I could help!
- Aerlock
I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?
Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?
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I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?
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Which version of win32diskimager?
I find version "RELEASE-0.2-r23" to work best... it still always reads to about 4gig... bit it writes the image correctly.
Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).
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Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).
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Ahhh... as I have disabled profile to prevent the priviledges issue in win7.... I forgot about that requirement.
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Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?
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Yes I ran it on an administrator account. Will have to check the version when I get home.
I had a really old version of the program. Downloaded the current version. It still creates a 4G img file but when I write it back to the new card it's the full 8G image. The contents of the boot partition look correct but the Nook just skips the SD card when booting up.
Next, I'm going to use Easeus to reduce the total used on the card to 4G, image that, write to new card and see what happens.
i have encountered win32image problem before where it fails to write to disk with erorr but when i use earlier version 0.1 it works
Followed these steps and the new card boots correctly:
- Use EASEUS to reduce the last partition so the total used on the card is 4G or less
- Use Win32DiskImager to read old card and write new card
- Use EASEUS to increase the last partition to full size.
Of course this only works if you can do the first step.
As an aside: performance with the new Sandisk card is considerable faster than the old card.
for some reason the new version of windisk imager does not write the image to the card properly for me. i always get corrupt data. i use an older windisk and everything works great. i'm on windows 7 if that makes a difference.