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I just created the required partitions for the hero ROM. How do you install a ROM on the card using windows. Windows does not recognize my card after creating ext/2 and linux swap It is my understanding that windows won't see card after format. Has anyone done this?
Windows should see the Fat32 just fine as long as it is in the order of (1) Fat32 (2) Ext2 (3) linux-swap
My other buddy said he could not get windows to see his card
I'm guessing you either utilized ALL your space on the SDcard for the ext2 partition or you don't have the FAT32 partition as the first one.
According to acronis Fat32 1st ext/2 2nd and linux swap 3rd. Utilitized? My buddy tried it a little bit ago same thing any other ideas?
gtrplr71 said:
I just created the required partitions for the hero ROM. How do you install a ROM on the card using windows. Windows does not recognize my card after creating ext/2 and linux swap It is my understanding that windows won't see card after format. Has anyone done this?
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You don't install the ROM on your card
You need to create the partitions in this order
FAT32, EXT2/3/4, Linux-Swap
You have to have an FAT32 partition to store your ROM updates and other files
Put the ROM on your FAT32, rename to update.zip and flash like any other ROM
AFAIK, all the rest of the setup is automatic (You may have to configure swapper to make the swapfile at /system/sd/swapfile.swp
EDIT:
If its not showing up even if you have it partitioned correctly, right click on my computer and click manage (if you have vista/win7)
doubleclick storage and disk management. find your sd card, right click where it has the name, and click change drive letter/name
give it a drive letter and it should show up
If the card is mounted in your phone you could try rebooting then remounting. Maybe try a card reader if you have one? If all partitions are set up there's no logical reason why it wouldn't mount in windows.
I used a card reader to part. using acronis disk director. the software see's it windows does not I went back deleted all part. and widows still does not see it
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I used a card reader to part. using acronis disk director. the software see's it windows does not I went back deleted all part. and widows still does not see it
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Did you try my steps after the edit...... it should fix it i had the same problem....
you are the MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
something so simple can reak havok!
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something so simple can reak havok!
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ya thats windows for you. I honestly have no idea why does that but its only happened to me when formatting with parted through the terminal in cyans recovery. I find it odd because I thought it was the command line version of Gparted which works fine for me
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.
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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.
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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.
I'm attempting to follow the directions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=998861 to create a customized bootable SD image. One of the steps involves copying some files to the 4th partition of the SD card.
I've attempted to use the NookColorUMS utility (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952456) without success. I was able to download, install, and launch the application. My understanding is that I need to connect the USB cable to the NC and my PC and then choose to mount the 4th partition in the UMS application.. however, as soon as the NC is connected to the PC, I can no longer interact with the NC (it displays the message about transferring files between the devices) until I unplug the USB cable again.
Apparently, the other option is to use the ADB utility, but I don't really understand how that works.. do I have to download the Android SDK to my PC first? If so, I prefer the method above, but I have not had any luck.. thanks in advance.
I used VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Win with Ubuntu 10.0 installed, this lets me see all the partitions if using a usb reader.
Thanks, I'm trying to use this utility if I can, though. Installing a virtualization suite and then Linux on top of it just to be able to see a partition on an SD card is more work than necessary, in my opinion..
I too use NOkk Color UMS....
When I connect to nook, i get the usb storage notification...I do not enable usb storage...
Then...I open nookcolor ums and am able to mount the 4th sd card partition...
Do u turn on the usb storage mode?
I'm honestly not sure why I couldn't get it to work.. I ended up using another method to create the SD image that only has one partition on it, so I was able to copy files to the card without any additional utilities.
I found this to be the simplest and easiest - just drag and drop:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938308
Hi guys. So today I created 300mb ext4 partition on my SD card (8GB) with Partition Wizard. I did everything like it was in tutorial, I've got one ext4, 300mb, 4kb clasters and 7700mb FAT32 card. The thing is. After I did it. My PC don't shows me my SD card in "my computer". When I launch Partition Wizard, the drives are still there, but in my PC there is no SD cards. I set it active and gave it a letter (F, but nothing.
After that I inserted other card to my computer and the same thing. My pc don't recognize any SD card, but it recognizes when I launch Partition Wizard.
Can anyone explain me what the hell is happening and how I solve that please?
Windows Problem
HI there,
The problem is that windows is uncapable of reading or writing to superior filesystems than it's own rubbish and unreliable fat32 and ntfs filesystems.
Download any version of linux that you fancy from Distrowatch.org, burn the cd and boot from it.. You may work with it running from the cd and dont even have to install it..
It will let you use your sd card properly.. Youll also have read/write access to your windows disk and files from any major linux live-cd..
I suggest Mint 11 LXDE 64 bit, it comes with everything you need preinstalled including all codecs and flash player..
Youll notice how rubbish windows is if you give it a try.. Your computer will run much faster even running live from the cd.. When installed, it's even faster again..
Did I mention it can't get viruses?
Have fun and good luck,
CtrlAltDel
Thanks, I myself am linux lover. But I can't use it. There is lot of programs I need and Linux does not support them. For example Adobe progs, 3Ds max.
And the last thing that prevents me from using linux is my GPU, I've got two GPUs (hybrid) Intel and nVidia. So when I install linux, it is only intel that I can use. No drivers for nVidia and optimus hybrid system. =(
Hi Guys,
I followed all of the steps listed by verygreen, however, i've been stuck for hours on this step:
Also push whatever other zip files you want to install to /sdcard too.
(if you don't have operational adb, you can also just turn off the nook at this stage, put zip files to volume named "CM10SDCARD" (not "boot"), then put sdcard back into nook and start it again)
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When I put my microSD card back into the computer, it will only recognize the 1st partition which is "boot". I opened EaseUS and MiniTool and see that there's more than one partition and I do see "CM10SDCARD". Since there's no drive associated with it, it doesn't show up in my in my Windows Explorer. How am I supposed to put the CM10 file on there if I don't have access to the folder? I tried to create another partition manually but it says Windows can only recognize 1 partition so it doesn't do anything.
I tried to adb into the Nook while its in CWM but it doesn't recognize the Nook.
I have the nook hd+ and am using Windows 7.
Thanks...
xluckiix said:
Hi Guys,
I followed all of the steps listed by verygreen, however, i've been stuck for hours on this step:
When I put my microSD card back into the computer, it will only recognize the 1st partition which is "boot". I opened EaseUS and MiniTool and see that there's more than one partition and I do see "CM10SDCARD". Since there's no drive associated with it, it doesn't show up in my in my Windows Explorer. How am I supposed to put the CM10 file on there if I don't have access to the folder? I tried to create another partition manually but it says Windows can only recognize 1 partition so it doesn't do anything.
I tried to adb into the Nook while its in CWM but it doesn't recognize the Nook.
I have the nook hd+ and am using Windows 7.
Thanks...
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Windows can only see the first fat partition which is partition 1. The sdcard partition is partition 5 as you can see with the partitioning software. You need to run Linux or Mac to see more partitions for adding files. Use a Linux vm or a live CD.
Or use ADB like verygreen recommended.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
leapinlar said:
Windows can only see the first fat partition which is partition 1. The sdcard partition is partition 5 as you can see with the partitioning software. You need to run Linux or Mac to see more partitions for adding files. Use a Linux vm or a live CD.
Or use ADB like verygreen recommended.
Sent from my Nook HD+ Running CM10 on SD
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Thanks for the response leapinlar! Unfortunately, i wasn't able to get ADB to recognize my device when in the CWM. I guess i'll have to live CD
I had this same issue.
I resolved it by downloading virtualbox and an unbuntu image (both free) and the ubuntu OS recognized my sd card partitions!