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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

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?
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.

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.

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-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

SD card question

I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?

Raydee35 said:
I am sure this has been covered before but I finally made a boot SD for CM7 and while it works pretty good I want to try a class 4 sandisk SD card to see if its any faster. My question is can I just copy everything from my card now to the new card and insert it in my Nook?
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Not using windows explorer. But you can get the free program win32diskimager. It can read your card and write the image to your PC. Then you can write it to your new card.
Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk

uSD Card Size
Hi,
I notice a lot of Rom images say will will work in a 4GB card.
Is there any problems using a larger card, like 8GB?
Thanks.
Everett1954

Yep. Use above method to put your image file on anything up to 32gig card; be sure you are using Sandisk brand, though. Small block read/write speed makes this the Nookers choice.

I just migrated from an 8gb to 16gb Sandisk card last night. I used win32diskimager to make an image of the 8gb card and then wrote that to the 16gb card. I then had to use a combination of Linux GParted and EASEUS partition manager to modify the partition sizes. I wanted to make more space available for apps instead of the 1GB (I upped it to 2GB), and expanded the CM7 partition to fill the remainder of the drive. I booted from the new card and everything seems to be working fine.

[Q] How to transfer all data in a hybrid TF card to a new card

Hi everybody:
Now I have installed hybrid CM10.1 on Nook HD in a 8G TF card. Then I would like to replace it with a new 32G card.
My question is how to transfer all the data, use the extra space and does not broke the system.
Thanks

Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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Thank you! It works.

leapinlar said:
Use win32diskimager to read the 8GB card to a file. The file will be 8GB. Then use win32diskimager to write that file to your new 32GB card. Then use partitioning software like Mini-Tool Partition Wizard to expand the last partition to the full size of the card.
The data on internal memory will remain and be unchanged. You should be able to boot the new SD just like it was the old one. The only difference will be your CM10SDCARD will be much larger.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here

badger60 said:
If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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I had made an empty ".txt" file, then rename it to ".img". It may solve the problem.

badger60 said:
If I use the win32diskimager utility to read my working 8GB MicroSD Class4 card it sees nothing because using read will only accept IMG files. There must be something that I am missing here, so please fill in the missing details.
I was going to post an image I created using Snagit of what I see when I attempt what you suggested, but the forum software won't let me.
I plan on trying a clone operation with GParted from the working 8GB SD card to the 32Gb SDHC card. I will post my results here
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Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

attempt number 25
leapinlar said:
Just type in a name. Like 8GB.img in the box. You do not have to actually create the file first, win32diskimager will create it. Then after it is done reading that write it back to your new card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD
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OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.

badger60 said:
OK. Thanks. I am giving that a shot. I am going to try it on the Sandisk 16GB class 4 card first and then on the Samsung 32 GB class 6 unit. I will post my results here.
The results were negative with theSandisk 16 GB class 4 and Samsung 32GB class 6 HDSC cards. The 32 GB card went into a loop with the appearance of the CWM graphics and back to the initial Nook image. I let it cycle perhaps 10 times. I then tried the 16 GB card and had the same results.
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Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
Since that did not seem to work for you, another option is to make a nandroid backup with your old card to internal memory. You might also want to save your files that you have on CM10SDCARD. Then reburn the new card, let it set itself up, flash CM, the converter and gapps to it. Then before you reboot, restore the backup you made earlier. It should then be set up the same when you reboot. Then restore your CM10SDCARD files.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on Hybrid SD
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I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.0 on Hybrid

badger60 said:
I do appreciate the advice, but it didn't work on either SDHC card.
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What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10 on Hybrid SD

leapinlar said:
What do you mean it didn't work? Where did it fail? During backup, during new SD creation or restore?
Edit: If somewhere along the line of your trying to fix this, you installed a new image to a card and booted with it before you did a nandroid backup of your old card, you wiped out the internal /data for the old card and it is not retrievable. If you did that, you just have to start over.
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I followed your advice exactly. It appeared to work the same way that it did with the working 8GB SDHC card. I still have a nandroid backup of the old card on my PC. It just doesn't work on the two higher capacity SD cards I have. I see that I am going to have to look through the list and find the exact model of a 32 GB card that someone got working. It works fine on the Sandisk 8GB Class 4 card. The two Samsung cards (class 6) of 16 & 32 GB capacity that I own don't work. They are OK for storage use, but trying to install Android on them was a waste of time. I tried so many times. I used your tutorials and others tutorials unsuccessfully. A bum SD card is a bum SD card. I am not exactly a newbie at installing ROMs on devices . I have been doing it on my HTC Desire HD for about a year ever since HTC abandoned us and decided to not give us ICS or Jellybean for our expensive devices. I have Venom DHD on my HTC Desire HD at the moment. I am waiting for my new Samsung Galaxy s4 to arrive this week.