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after rooting, microsd won't resize

So I went through the process of rooting the nook color tonight, and got everything working great.
However...now my 16gb microsd is a 40mb microsd. I'm sure I'm an idiot, and I'm missing something...but how the heck do I talk this thing into being a 16gb card again?
(it's the card I made into the bootable nooter image, in case this isn't coming through clearly)

Here is how I did it.
1.type 'diskpart' in the run prompt
this will bring you to a DOS prompt​2.type 'list disk'
this will list all the volume available​3.type 'select disk #'
in the #, use the number from your SD Card​4.type 'list partition'
it'll probably be partition 1, be just to be sure​5.type 'select partition #'
select the bootable SD Card partition​6.type 'delete partition'
now the 40mb partition is deleted and you can reformat under Disk Management​

that didn't work for me, but it jogged my memory enough to find disk management in windows 7, and delete the partition. Thank you!

I just put my SD card back in the nook. Once there I unmounted it and formated it. got my 4 Gb back. Nice and easy.

devis said:
I just put my SD card back in the nook. Once there I unmounted it and formated it. got my 4 Gb back. Nice and easy.
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same here. seems like the quickest and easiest solution.

devis said:
I just put my SD card back in the nook. Once there I unmounted it and formated it. got my 4 Gb back. Nice and easy.
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I did the same thing.

I tried that, but didn't have success, hence the question and workaround.

If you're using a windows machine try download the official SD Formatter from:
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/
It will wipe out all your partitions and formats the card using 32kb allocation units vs the standard windows 4096 which gives better read/write performance.

this worked for me thanks

[Q] Nookie 0.5.9 .. and My 8 GB Micro SD seems to be 1 GB

Hi,
I've rooter my NookColor, and I'm using Nookie 0.5.9
I'm set french keyboard, lots of things everything is great.
My last (for now problem) is that I "burnt" the nookie 0.5.9 on my 8 GB Micro Sd card and now when I use it, It says it's a 1 GB card and I've go 800 KB left on my card.
Is there a way to resize the partition to get my 8 GB available ?
I tried to find a post about it, but I didn't suceed..
Thanks for your help.

If you're on windows, you can use the free Partition Master software to resize the sdcard partition of your SD card. It worked fine for me and making Nookie use the full 4GB of my card.

Great !
It worked perfectly, very easy to use (just drag the right size of the partition then apply ..
takes less than 2mn and now I've got 6.4 GB free
Thanks

glayourt said:
Hi,
I've rooter my NookColor, and I'm using Nookie 0.5.9
I'm set french keyboard, lots of things everything is great.
My last (for now problem) is that I "burnt" the nookie 0.5.9 on my 8 GB Micro Sd card and now when I use it, It says it's a 1 GB card and I've go 800 KB left on my card.
Is there a way to resize the partition to get my 8 GB available ?
I tried to find a post about it, but I didn't suceed..
Thanks for your help.
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You can also use EAUSUS( just google it, its free to download, you would also use this to get sd back to one partition if you ever wanted to) to resize partition. This is mentioned in a few other threads as well if you had searched a bit

Ahem.. Yep, should have read it closer.

khaytsus said:
All utter nonsense, just boot the Nook Color without the card in it, put the card in, go to Settings, Unmount, Format. As per in the wiki..
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting#Things_to_do_after_you.27ve_rooted_your_NookColor
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You should really read his post isntead of acting all high and mighty. He's using Nookie Froyo. If he did what you suggested it would wipe froyo off his bootable sd card.

khaytsus said:
All utter nonsense, just boot the Nook Color without the card in it, put the card in, go to Settings, Unmount, Format. As per in the wiki..
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting#Things_to_do_after_you.27ve_rooted_your_NookColor
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dont do this. he is referring to fixing your card after you make used it for autonooter. as previous poster said, this will wipe your nookie froyo

Mikroft said:
You should really read his post isntead of acting all high and mighty. He's using Nookie Froyo. If he did what you suggested it would wipe froyo off his bootable sd card.
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Yep, you're right, my bad. There is such a proliferation of nonsense about how to format the SD card after Auto Nooting I missed he was using NF.

Actually, with what you told me it's great, on my Nook, I have 6.4 GB Free..
I downloaded a movie, it worked great, the 6.4 GB are really available.
But I have one problem.. I cannot put files from my pc ...
When I connect the NookColor to my pc with the usb cable and select to "Turn on USB storage", I can see the boot partition but not the 6.4 GB partition
I tried to pout the memory card directly in my pc (not throw the nookColor), and it does the same.
I also tried with the disk manager of windows to try to attribute a drive letter but it doesn't allow it.
Actually this is the partitions on my SD Card:
- Boot ( J: ) 118 MB Fat32 Sane, active
- 149 MB Sane (unkown partition)
- 698 MB Sane (unkown partition)
- 6.44 GB Sane
What are tose 149 and 698 partitions ? Are they necessary ?
How can I activate the 6.44 GB partition to be able to transfer files from my pc ?

Anyway ... Thanks all of you for giving time and sharing your knowledge !

No solution to my remaining problem ?

The img uses up only 1 gb so yo have another partition that holds thes free space. go to settings and mount sd n format

you mean with the nook or with the PC ?
from the nook I can R/W on it
but I cannot see the partition when on the pc (so I cannot transfer files)

From the nook

Anyone get Froyo running on a 16GB card?

Has anyone here actually gotten any form of froyo to work on a 16gb card? I just sprung for a class 10 card and am bummed I can't get it working. I'm getting cylinder errors with the customized nookie Froyo image and can't seem to find the stock ASOP that was up a while ago to try that.

I had 0.5.9 running on a Kingston 16GB Class 10. I'm going to give 0.6.6 a try. I'm starting from scratch on it. I backed the card up with Win32DiskImager just in case.
Homer

Homer_S_xda said:
I had 0.5.9 running on a Kingston 16GB Class 10. I'm going to give 0.6.6 a try. I'm starting from scratch on it. I backed the card up with Win32DiskImager just in case.
Homer
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Can you tell me what you did exactly? Did you run the makepart.sh and formatpart.sh commands?

I did not run those scripts, just used winimage - restore virtual hard disk image.
I don't see why the size of the sd card should matter at all.

I have it running fine on my card. Just used Win32DiskImager (latest version). After using EASEUS Partition software to resize the sdcard, the sd card shows up fine when viewed in the NC itself. However, I am waiting on the SD Card PC mount fix the dev mentioned in his thread.
Using this one: Patriot LX Series Class 10 16GB

computerpro3 said:
Can you tell me what you did exactly? Did you run the makepart.sh and formatpart.sh commands?
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I didn't .sh anything. I assume those are linux commands? I'm using Win 7 x64 and running Win32DiskImager to burn the images. I just burned the card, expanded the SDcard to take up unused space and popped it in my NC. It booted first go and I went to settings/sdcard and it reported free space as 10+GB. I assume that means it's reading the right partition as SDCard.
Homer

Homer_S_xda said:
I didn't .sh anything. I assume those are linux commands? I'm using Win 7 x64 and running Win32DiskImager to burn the images. I just burned the card, expanded the SDcard to take up unused space and popped it in my NC. It booted first go and I went to settings/sdcard and it reported free space as 10+GB. I assume that means it's reading the right partition as SDCard.
Homer
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How did you expand the SD card to take up free space? Did you use EASUS partition manager or something?

NF 0.6.7 is now available for download. I re-wrote it to my SD card and expand the sd card partition just as I did in post #5.

6.7 is not working. It has the same force close problems with the resized partition.

computerpro3 said:
How did you expand the SD card to take up free space? Did you use EASUS partition manager or something?
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I used Win32DiskImager (0.2) to write the card. I used EASEUS Partition Manager to resize the SDcard partition.
Homer

That's exactly what I'm doing.
But how's this for strange:
It WORKS with my OLD Ridata class six 16GB card (1 year old). The exact same brand class 6 16gb cards I bought last week force closes like crazy.
6.7 also confirmed working with a class 4 Patriot 16GB card. What the hell.
Now I have NO idea what's going on. I guess there is some kind of incompatibility with every single ridata 16GB class 6 sd card. Which makes no sense.

Size-agnostic SD Card CM7 gets stuck while installing CM7

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?
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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.

restoring sd card back to original size-HELP

I have spent over an hour reading threads and searching, cannot find what I need.
I have CM7 on eMMC.
How do I get my sd card back to 8gb?
SOVLED

-My Computer-Right click on SD card Drive- Format - Card is now 8 Gigabytes

Had this last night but try formatting the SD card within your nook. I had an SD card with 1 gig image and was having the same problem.

Just to clarify. Use the format options within the nook. Sorry not in front of Nook at the moment.

Larry94 said:
-My Computer-Right click on SD card Drive- Format - Card is now 8 Gigabytes
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Tks, but that did not work

Zhousibo said:
Just to clarify. Use the format options within the nook. Sorry not in front of Nook at the moment.
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I read that on CM7 on eMMC when doing that it formats the boot on the nook not the sd card, so did you do this or just think its the way to do it. THanks

Use this program, the free edition:
EASEUS Partition Manager
Windows can only see the first partition on your card. There are probably 4 partitions left from your emmc install. Plug your microSD card into your computer and launch EASEUS. You should see the driver letter assigned to your microSD card and 3 other unassigned partitions on your card. Right click on each of those partitions and delete them. Then either resize the primary partition Windows can see to the full size of the card, or delete that partition, then create a primary partition on the card that uses the full card size. You should now have your full capacity back.

rog152 said:
I read that on CM7 on eMMC when doing that it formats the boot on the nook not the sd card, so did you do this or just think its the way to do it. THanks
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No, I actually did the format using CM7 on my Nook Color. Bit hazy on the exact details, but if you look at the SD storage section in the Settings you should see the different SD cards and will show which to format. I had used my 8 gig SD card as a 120 meg SD boot with CWM so this SD card kept showing available space of about 120 meg (so I chose this to format).
'Should' be fairly obvious but can understand your hesitation.
FYI, I tried Easues Partition on my Windows 7 64 bit machine but did not recognize. Might be worth trying XP or Linux if you have but I would test the above option (Backup everything if concerned). I had just flashed CM7 to my nook so wasn't too bothered if I lost anything.
I can check when I get home.

rog152 said:
I have spent over an hour reading threads and searching, cannot find what I need.
I have CM7 on eMMC.
How do I get my sd card back to 8gb?
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Windows only sees one primary partition, so you have to use a partition manager to delete the other primary partitions. MiniTool Partition Wizard claims to work in all versions of Windows, I only have 32 bit Vista. Or you could use Linux in a virtual machine such as Vmware, it's free for home use.

Alakar said:
Use this program, the free edition:
EASEUS Partition Manager
Windows can only see the first partition on your card. There are probably 4 partitions left from your emmc install. Plug your microSD card into your computer and launch EASEUS. You should see the driver letter assigned to your microSD card and 3 other unassigned partitions on your card. Right click on each of those partitions and delete them. Then either resize the primary partition Windows can see to the full size of the card, or delete that partition, then create a primary partition on the card that uses the full card size. You should now have your full capacity back.
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Thanks, this worked.

also this link
http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Format_and_partition_your_SD_card_back_to_a_usable_state

I use SD Formatter, works great