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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

Win32 Disk Imager error

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))

slugbug2010 said:
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.

[Q] Problems with SD cards / running Honeycomb

Hey guys, I think this should be a pretty simple question to answer but I can't find anything specific when I search google. I've been having trouble running different builds of Honeycomb on my nookColor: v2, 2a, and honeybunches all would not let me connect to wifi. Everytime it would go to connect, the signal would drop to zero and nothing would happen. Any thoughts on this?
Also, since I only have 2 microSD cards I would use Easeus to delete the partitions on the disks and then use SD formatter to reformat the cards so I could install a new build of Honeycomb to check the wireless. However, the capacity of my 8GB card has gone from ~7.6-7.8GB to 7.46GB when i am trying to format it for the next time. Easeus shows a 7.647GB unallocated partition, but the formatter wants to format it to 7.46GB. I don't understand why it has gone down, and it makes me worry that I unwittingly lost space on my SD card. Have I screwed up my cards, or can I get this mystery space back? Please help!

Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.

just use dd command in linux or osx will erase all the partition, don't need format or erase the card first.if you do so the sd size will not decrease.

RileyGrant said:
Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.
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I'm having issues deleting the partition on the SD. You were successful using the instructions above?

RileyGrant said:
Remove SD card from Nook and boot into stock. Insert SD card, go to settings, Device Info, SD card, unmount sd card, then format sd card. This will/should delete all partitions, format and restore all usable space on the sd card. From here, download and burn the honeycomb image to your sd card. (I recommend ubuntu, dd command. Open terminal, navigate to the directory that contains your nookhoney image. Once there type; "sudo dd if=nookhoney02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M" without the quotes. Note that nookhoney02.img could be nookhoney02a.img or the honeybunches image depending on which you are using and mmcblk0 could be mmcblk1 etc. depending on what the name of your sdcard drive is.) After the image is done writing, power Nook down, insert sd card and boot Nook. Also, the burning process can be done from windows using winimage and what not, the whole ubuntu thing was just my recommendation. Hope this works for you, any more questions, just feel free to ask. Also, I apologize if this is repeat information, just giving the full experience.
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Nevermind I got it to work.
Thanks!

ok so anyone have any ideas about the wifi problem? I have tried 4 different builds of honeycomb and whenever I go to connect to a network, the reception drops to zero and it gets stuck on connecting. IDK whats up. I type in my password and everything but it just doesnt work.

DZ469 said:
ok so anyone have any ideas about the wifi problem? I have tried 4 different builds of honeycomb and whenever I go to connect to a network, the reception drops to zero and it gets stuck on connecting. IDK whats up. I type in my password and everything but it just doesnt work.
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Have you tried turning WiFi off and then on again? This seems to work for me when wifi is acting weird.

by turn off, do you just mean press the wifi button in "Wireless & Networks" or the enable disable buttons in the dev tools? i've tried the first solution to no avail. I guess I could try messing around with the dev tools.
The nook doesnt have to be rooted for me to run this off my SD card right?
EDIT: I just went over to B&N to check if their wifi works. It does, so i don't know what the issue is. Possibly because my university uses 802.1x EAP for their network? The only thing that is fishy is that my nook at stock would connect fine.

DZ469 said:
by turn off, do you just mean press the wifi button in "Wireless & Networks" or the enable disable buttons in the dev tools? i've tried the first solution to no avail. I guess I could try messing around with the dev tools.
The nook doesnt have to be rooted for me to run this off my SD card right?
EDIT: I just went over to B&N to check if their wifi works. It does, so i don't know what the issue is. Possibly because my university uses 802.1x EAP for their network? The only thing that is fishy is that my nook at stock would connect fine.
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Answer to your first question yes turning off and back on in Settings>Wireless.
I know I had mine working on my uni's network which has 802.1x but can't remember if it was stock, Froyo, or HC. Not currently on campus so I can't try it for you.

Google "SD formatter" and download the application. It's free and very easy to use and will format your SD cards.

omega1alpha said:
Google "SD formatter" and download the application. It's free and very easy to use and will format your SD cards.
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That's what I was using, but the size seems to keep getting smaller and smaller. I'm losing about .01GB per format.
EDIT: Okay now the wifi is working in the dorms, and i hate to say this, because it's so humiliating, but I think i was using the wrong password to log into my wireless network. Which is probably why it hung on connecting. Which makes me feel dumb.

DZ469 said:
That's what I was using, but the size seems to keep getting smaller and smaller. I'm losing about .01GB per format.
EDIT: Okay now the wifi is working in the dorms, and i hate to say this, because it's so humiliating, but I think i was using the wrong password to log into my wireless network. Which is probably why it hung on connecting. Which makes me feel dumb.
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Well at least the wifi is working for you.
Have you tried formatting the SD with the Nook itself (assuming you're running off stock ROM?
Settings>Device Info>SD Card> Unmount SD Card>Format SD Card

[Q] Copying bootable SD Card w/ Honeycomb

So I'm a NewB and managed to get DeeperBlue's v4.0 on a 16gb class 2 uSD card and IT WORKS!!! Even beyond that - I got Android market installed and now with Amazon's market (launched today), I've downloaded and installed swiftkey, and a number of other apps not avail in the android market. THis is a perfect device. Now ... I want to make sure I have a backup of my SD card in case something happens, i can quickly stick a new card in and go. (NOTE: - I bricked my laptop/XP in the process which I have since recovered - - - i said I'm newb...). So I dont care to go back through installing Java, Android SDK, etc.. if I can simply image one card onto another. Particuarly since I have several apps with all my configurations and after taking hours to get this all setup - i simply want to create a duplicate uSD. any help would be GREATLY appreciated... THanks in advance. PS... with everyone creating bootable uSDs my guess is there will likely be others interested in doing the same.

1 - Go to Softpedia.org or equivalent and download FREE Win 32 Disk Imager application (for Windows).
2 - Insert MicroSD card into a USB card reader and insert that into PC USB slot.
3 - Start Win32DiskImager, and make sure that the Disk Letter is the one of your MicroSD card (this step is IMPORTANT!)
4 - Type a name and add .img in the field of the program for an image file name. You can also select a folder on your hard disk using the Browse button.
5 - Click ON READ (not write) and your microSD card will be backed up as an .img file.
6 - Exit
7 - Click on "Safely Remove Hardware" and select the disk letter of your USB reader.
8 - Do it all again, except that:
a - use a blank MicroSD card
b - use the Browse button to select the same .img you created earlier
c - use "WRITE" this time (not read) to burn the .img file to the new MicroSD card.
So, nothing else is needed except a PC with a USB slot, a USB MicroSD card reader (often included free with the card), and Windows (you could even use the stock IE to go to softpedia.org).

Thanks for your quick reply! My hope is my newer higher class card will result in faster performance.

claycourtdad said:
Thanks for your quick reply! My hope is my newer higher class card will result in faster performance.
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The best way to format an SD card in Windows is a program called "SDFormatter" which is a free product of the SD card manufacturers association, which is at:
sdcard.org
You can download the latest version, 3.0 there.

Cannot create a bootable uSD card!

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.

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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
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Using Win32DiskImager worked!!!! It boots - yahoo!!!!!!! Thanks so much Aerlock!
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Awesome! Glad I could help!
- Aerlock