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[Q] Can't create autonooter 3.0 img on sdcard

Need to have better/clearer instructions on the win32diskimager software to write autonooter to sdcard. Things I did:
1. 16gb microsd card in laptop via sd card adapter.
2. dl autonooter 3.0, unzaipped in seperate folder on desktop(124,627kb size img file)
3. dl win32diskimager-RELEASE0.2-r23-win32, unzipped
4. double click Win32DiskImager.exe under the unzipped folder
5. I select the aformentioned autonooter img file and the program automatically selects my sdcard, in my case g:
6. I click "write"
7. I get a Confirm overwrite message "Writing to a physical device can corrupt the device. Are you sure you want to continue?" I click Yes.
8. Write Error message appears- Not enough space on disk.
wha???
I am confident that I am doing something wrong in the whole windiskimager process, as the process was never explained very well. For example, when you go to the page to dl the win32diskimager there are 4 files 2 win32 files and 2 source files. One each for a .2 release and a .1 release. ok...wtf? what do I use? how do I use them etc etc etc.
It just seems to me that this particular step in the process could stand a little more clarification/simplification. just saying.
Thanks.

I had the exact same issue, someone told me that it might have something to do with using a built in SD card reader to your laptop, like I was using. He said that he tried that and an external reader with win32diskimager, and that the external usb reader worked fine.
I was able to work around this by using the method that involved WinImage instead of win32diskimager...I don't have the instructions on me at the moment but if you look around you may be able to find them.

rohit275 said:
I had the exact same issue, someone told me that it might have something to do with using a built in SD card reader to your laptop, like I was using. He said that he tried that and an external reader with win32diskimager, and that the external usb reader worked fine.
I was able to work around this by using the method that involved WinImage instead of win32diskimager...I don't have the instructions on me at the moment but if you look around you may be able to find them.
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Actually you might just want to have both. I've the same thing happen with WinImage and had to use Win32DiskImager. As long as I don't run into both having the error, I'm good

[Q] Yup, I blew it

Hopefully there is hope for me. I've recently discovered the wonderful world of rooting and rooted my nook successfully. After root I loaded ROM Manager and started the process of backing up with the clockworkmod. (I'm very new to rooting so I'm not sure exactly where I went wrong). Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD

can't really help other then say that your nook is fine... just keep looking at all the 'bricking' threads in this forum. there are plenty to choose from.

Try this.
Somewhere in the process I got stuck in a menu loop in clockwork. I trolled the forums and attempted several things including CRW removal and Nook complete restore. I'm not sure I attempted them correctly as I was still in the CRW menu screen. Now, my nook will not even turn on plugged in or otherwise. Any help (and please make it detailed step by step) would be greatly appreciated. I'll keep my eye close to this thread throughout the evening. Thank you in advance for helping out a new rooter. ChipD[/QUOTE]
I had the same issue and this worked for me. next time you flash CWR be sure you do a normal reboot B4 doing a reboot to recovery. just flash this...
CWR-removal-rootsafe I cant attach the URL but google it and it will come up in the second choice. let me know...

Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.

pastorchip said:
Thanks jarussillo. I found the file you refereed to and have it on my computer. Please give me a step by step on how to flash it without being able to see anything on my screen. I don't have any backup, all I have is a formatted sd card. Do I put the unzipped file on the card, or do I unzip the files and drop those on the card? Thanks for being willing to help.
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You will need to burn a CWR SD card, then drop the zip file into the root of the sd card, then Boot off the SD card, (You might have to hold the power button down for 20secs before you will see it boot) then Flash the Zip file from CWR.
Also read this thread. FULLY read it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699

just flash the the CWR to your sd card you can search it on the site.

AWESOME! That article looks like exactly what I needed. I knew it was out there somewhere, I just couldn't find it. THANKS!!!! I'll update (hopefully with success) when I'm done.

Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.

pastorchip said:
Well, no success tonight. I downloaded all the stuff mentioned in the previous article, but the rootpack & the clockwork don't download in a zipped folder (like I even observed in a youtube video). They download as a GZ file. I'm not sure what to do with that because I can't decompress it and send it into the disk imager. What am I missing here? I'll check back in the am, thanks.
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http://www.7-zip.org/
this can decompress pretty much anything, Plus its free and open source

If I remember right that gz file needs to be unpacked so you can get the img file and then write the img with windisk32 to the SD that has cwr on it. But I may be mistaken pretty new to this stuff to
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

What operating system are you using?
Be aware that in the rooting/CWM/ROM world you basically have ROMs and installable zips, you need to be aware of how to handle each.
If windows, you should be using winRAR to unzip image files for flashing to microSD. If the compressed file contains files and folders its most likely an installabe zip thats to be copied to a microSD AS IS and installed using clockwork recovery. If the compressed fiile has an .img file in it, its a ROM and must be burned to a microSD (effectively erasing said microSD) and then inserted into the nook while its off.
For ROMs as described above, uncompress the .img files to your hdd and then use win32disk imager to burn the .img to the microSD using a usb adapter.
Sent from my Nook Color using Tapatalk

pretty much burn CWR onto a uSD card then put a rom onto the uSD card in the .zip format.
put in the uSD card, plug into PC, hold the on button for a while then you'll hear the PC do the "usb device connected" noise, keep holding that power button until it powers on
most problems can be solved by writing any recent CWR onto a uSD card, the great news is that the nook color's boot priority is straight to the uSD which means any problem on the emmc isn't too big as it'll boot to uSD first

good morning all. I'm gonna get this figured out today, I feel it! Muzzy, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Ok, here's where I'm at. I see the endroad (meaning I understand the steps needed for recovery) and have all the tools I need except for a proper CWR file, which seems to be the most important part. The file I downloaded from http://legacyschool.us.to/nookdev/clockwork/0.7/ (took me about half an hour) does not give me a folder with extractable files as seen in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B31y_lyHIA (jump to 45 secs.). Instead it gives me a single gz file that is not compressed. It's not runnable through win 32 diskimager. Putting that file on an sd card and trying to boot my nook with it has no effect.
Edit: Ok, WinZip to the rescue. I was able to extract the file with WinZip and have it cooking in the disk imager now! WOOHOO!
Edit 2: All seems to be installing correctly, fingers crossed...

Getting closer, I had to use the repartition. Now it turns back on and I get the big "n". It's ocupying my entire day, but I'm actually enjoying this. I've learned a lot! Flahing Nookcolor 1.1 now. Hopefully that will finish me off.

She's BACK! Thanks for all the help. I never would have found the right info without people taking the time to point in the right direction. You guys are great!

Dummy Guides for SD Card CM7 on Nook Color

I keep seeing SD card rooting questions. I'm providing a link to some guides that describe in gory detail how to get CM7 up and running on an SD card (for both MAC OSX and PC). These guides are built off of verygreen's size-agnostic SD card thread and he deserves any and all credit. All that I (DrAstro) and DrWho have done is expound on the easy-to-follow steps that he provides from the perspective of trying to teach someone who is only mildly computer literate.
http://clubnook.com/forum/showthread.php?953-Rooting-Instructions
If this helps, go to verygreen's SIZE AGNOSTIC card thread and give him thanks.

I've just copied and pasted directly from Clubnook in case people don't want to link over there. If this is useful for you, comment and I'll keep it updated. If not, just let it fall into the ether...
CM7 - SD Card - Mac Version
INSTALLING CM7 (CyanogenMod 7/Android 2.3) ONTO A MICROSD CARD FOR USE WITH NOOK COLOR
Thanks to DrAstro for the following instructions:
I used the instructions from verygreen (who deserves any and all credit):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1000957
I did nothing other than follow exactly what he said to do and was up and running with full android market access in about 10 minutes (with a 5 minute nap in the middle!). It was literally that easy. I’ve just expanded, in gory detail, on the basic.
Basically, what you are doing here is taking a microSD card, making it so that the nook color can boot from it, putting a new OS on that card (CM7) and then adding the android market. At the end, you will be able to run a more tablet-like experience from your microSD card without doing anything to the internal software that BN put on there. Here are steps, with heavy borrowing from verygreen’s guide. Hopefully you will read and understand what you are doing, so that you can pick and choose which OS zip you want to use.
NOTE: These are mac specific instructions, as that’s what I used!
1) Downloaded the following files and put them on your desktop:
generic-sdcard-v1.2.1.img.gz
(http://nook.handhelds.ru/sdimage/gen...-v1.2.1.img.gz) - This file makes your SD card bootable. This is probably the “hardest” part of the process as you have to “burn” this image to the card, not just “drag and drop”
update-cm-7.1.0-RCO-encore-2.6.32-beta3.1.zip
(http://coachz.inetpro.org/~dalingrin...32-beta3.1.zip) – This is the latest beta version of CM7 that was available at the time I did this! There may be some instability, but they fixed the battery issues with this release so the tradeoff is worth it.
Or get the latest stable version update-cm-7.0.2-encore.zip
(http://tinyurl.com/3vyanhh)
gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip
(http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...Latest_Version) – This was the latest google apps version that was available when I did this. It will give you access to the android market!
2) Get any microSD card that you don't mind trashing the data on. There a LOTS of options out there, but I would HIGHLY SUGGEST getting a SANDISK, CLASS 4, 8 GB or 16 GB card. It is by far the most likely card to work well for you.
Also get a reader for your microSD card. I got one that plugs into my USB port and lets me see my microSD card on my desktop.
3) The first step is to install the .img file to the microSD card. First, you need to double click it on your desktop and let mac osx unzip it for you. It should do this nicely and your resultant file will be:
generic-sdcard-v1.2.1.img (i.e. the .gz at the end will go away)
To install the .img onto the microsd card, put the micro sd card into your card reader. It should pop up on your desktop as a disk. Mine was called “no name”.
To write the image (called burning the .img file to), you need to do the following:
-Find which drive the sd card is mapped to. To do this on mac, you can use the terminal:
how to open the terminal:
a) Go up to the magnifying glass in the top right of your mac.
b) Click on it and search for the word “terminal”. The first thing it finds should be a little black box with the word Terminal.
c) Click on that and a window should open on your desktop. That window should say something like Terminal – bash – 80x24 in the top line and then have a bunch of words, maybe something about Last login: and finally a line that ends in a dollar sign $. Here’s where you will type in your commands.)
Inside of that terminal, after the dollar sign ($) first, type:
cd Desktop
That will take you to your desktop. If you now type
ls
This should show you a list of all the files and folders on your desktop. All the terminal does is let you work with files using text commands rather than a nice graphical interface (i.e. clicking on windows and stuff)
Now that you know a couple basics on “terminals” type this:
diskutil list
This lists all the spaces on your computer where things are stored. You need to unmount the microSD card that you just plugged in. This will allow you to erase the card and put what you want on it. You need to look at this list and figure out which drive# is your microSD card. To the far right, you will see the disk size. Your microSD card should be around that same size as what you bought (for example, I’m using an 8GB card and found the disk that was around 7.5 GB).
Once you know the right disk (mine was disk1, yours may be different) unmount that drive by typing this:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk<#>
(to be explicit, my drive was disk1 so I typed: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk1)
It should say: Unmount of all volumes on disk<#> was successful
Next type:
dd if=generic-sdcard-v1.1.img of=/dev/disk1
Everything needed should copy right over to the card. It took my laptop 140 s.
Now unmount the microSD card, but NOT the same way as what you just did. How? Remember when you connected the microSD card and a folder popped up on your desktop? Right click on that and select “unmount”. Note, it might be the case that the folder was renamed “boot”. If that’s the case, that is the folder to unmount.
After the microSD card disappears from your desktop, remove your microSD card from the laptop and plug it back in. The folder named “boot” should pop up on your desktop. Now the easy part.
Drag and drop the file:
update-cm-7.1.0-RCO-encore-2.6.32-beta3.1.zip or update-cm-7.0.2-encore.zip
Into the “boot” folder. Now right click on the “boot” folder and unmount.
Take out the microSD card and put it into the nook color. Turn the nook color on and it will boot. A little penguin might pop up followed by lots of techie looking things flashing on your screen. That’s fine. Keep an eye open and when its done, the screen will go blank. It should turn itself off, but probably won’t reboot. You need to hold down the power button for around 8 seconds to turn it back on. It will reboot into CM7.
(note: This is updated from prior CM7 installations (i.e. these instructions are specific to installing the CM7 beta). If your unhappy with the performance of the beta, you can install a CM7 version that’s labeled as “stable”. The stable versions occasionally need to be turned off manually (i.e. by holding down the power button for 8 seconds)).
You’re almost there. You should have a homescreen with a few icons. Find the one labeled “settings”. Open this up, go to Wireless & networks, and connect to your wireless network. Now CM7 is ready to go online and you can turn off the nook color and install the Android Market.
You need to turn off the nook color. Take out the microSD card and connect it to your computer again. This time, two folders will pop up. One called “boot” and one called “sdcard” or something similar
This time, drag and drop:
gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip
into the boot folder. Now comes the second hardest part, booting into recovery. The process depends on the version you are installing.
If you are installing the beta version I reference above then put the microSD card into the nook color and boot into CM7. Once you’re in CM7, hold the power button until a menu pops up and choose to “reboot”. Choose to reboot into “recovery” and you should be all set.
If you’re installing one of the “stable” versions, put the microSD card into the nook color and boot to Recovery Mode. In order to do this hold the nook N key and press and hold the power button for ~5-6 seconds. It may take a couple of tries. The screen may turn off a couple times. You may boot into CM7 a couple times. Eventually, with luck on your side, you will successfully boot into “recovery mode” and google apps will be installed. Once you manage to boot into recovery the screen will flash up lots of techie text, similar to when you started CM7. It should go blank when this is done. At this point you can turn it off by holding power for around 8 seconds. Turn it back on, follow the screen instructions and you should be good to go with an android tablet with the full android market, all running from your microSD card!

Setup Wizard stuck?
I actually got this working on the first try a couple weeks ago and it was fantastic!
I was able to play netflix and flash for the first time, and now my dad wants me to do his nook the same way. He has a 16GB sd card though, and the original instructions didn't work on >8gb cards. I can't just image his SD card to my SD card because I couldn't get my google account to de-register etc, so I started from scratch with my card and planned to image to his before configuring any user accounts.
I'm having repeated trouble with my retry attempt though
Basic CM7 install with the generic-sdcard-v1.2.1 and update-cm-7.1.0-RC0-encore-2.6.32-beta3.1 (the ones recommended as of today in the instructions)
I set up wireless access, shut down, and backed up my card at this point.
Copy the current 20110307 gapps to the boot partition, eject, put it back in the nook, boot into recover (I've gotten good at this), it installs, shut down. Back up my card again as I figure this is where I'll want to start the other card.
Back to the Nook, boot up, get past the CyanogenMod scateboard screen, and it goes to "Setup Wizard". This should be for setting up the Google Apps Marketplace account I think, except it's completely black except for grey bar across the top with "Setup Wizard" on it, and the bar across the bottom with menu/back/search/battery indicator etc (these do nothing).
I can press power button and get only two options: shut down the tablet or reboot the tablet. I can rotate the nook and the UI changes orientation. Nothing else does anything as far as I can tell.
Anyone else seen this problem? I've searched, and even tried to post to the dev thread, but I can't due to low post count.
Help! (and thanks in advance!)

*.gz img file not recognizable & not zipped
Hi. I rooted my Nook with Autonooter and love using it. YouTube and all work fine, but I would like to redo with CM7. I have all that I need, except I'm caught with the img file this time round. It has an extension .gz. Win32DiskImager does not recognize it. Some sites say that it needs to be unzipped, but it's not zipped. I hate being stuck before even beginning. I hope that you can explain why I'm having this trouble. TY!

The .gz file is just a compressed .img file.
There are a number of Windows apps that can de-comress the file, for example: 7-Zip
Martyn

Hi Martyn, Thanks again. Now, DiskImager is coming up with an error when I try to write. It says that there is not enough space on the disk. The unzipped img file shows to be 117megs, while my SD card is 16gigs. After I got the error, I chose to format the disk but have the same error. Do you mind to help again?

I saw this suggested: "I did a full format (not quick) and used WinImage to write the SD card instead. Works every time since then," by TL Jester here. I"m just curious why there always seems to be a roadblock.

sGooss said:
Hi Martyn, Thanks again. Now, DiskImager is coming up with an error when I try to write. It says that there is not enough space on the disk. The unzipped img file shows to be 117megs, while my SD card is 16gigs. After I got the error, I chose to format the disk but have the same error. Do you mind to help again?
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I had this same problem, i discovered that it created a partition on the sd card... I had easeus partition master home edition, which i used to resixe the partition and you can see your full 16GB then.

sGooss said:
Hi Martyn, Thanks again. Now, DiskImager is coming up with an error when I try to write. It says that there is not enough space on the disk. The unzipped img file shows to be 117megs, while my SD card is 16gigs. After I got the error, I chose to format the disk but have the same error. Do you mind to help again?
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I had an error message like this too. It turns out it was because I was trying to use the internal card reader in my laptop. I bought an external USB card reader, and it worked fine with the same card.

Originally Posted by sGooss View Post
Hi Martyn, Thanks again. Now, DiskImager is coming up with an error when I try to write. It says that there is not enough space on the disk. The unzipped img file shows to be 117megs, while my SD card is 16gigs. After I got the error, I chose to format the disk but have the same error. Do you mind to help again?
babyfine24 said:
I had this same problem, i discovered that it created a partition on the sd card... I had easeus partition master home edition, which i used to resixe the partition and you can see your full 16GB then.
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Ditto, same problem, same solution. When you write the image to the card it seems to create a default boot partition of 117mg. When I tried to put both the rom and gapps in the boot partition after writing the image, I got that message (but not every time). So I made the boot partition bigger before adding rom and gapps, using Easus. I increased it to 150mg or so, that was plenty.
One time image+rom+gapps barely fit in the boot partition, and while installing I got an error that said not enough space in disc. I redid it, making the partition bigger, and it worked. I think the installation process may temporarily use some of that boot partition space.

Basic Android folder,file structure and names

Okay I'm a newbie wanting to root and uinstall CWR but have been confused after reading several How to's. My S7 came with v2.2 and I received and installed v3.2 on the first day.
I read a post mentioning this link: http://www.androidcentral.com/dell-streak-7-getting-bugfix-update. I "thought" that I followed the simple instructions but maybe not! I downloaded the file, renamed it "update.pkg" and while connected to my PC copied it to the root of my S7.
I put the S7 into recovery mode, selected install update.pkg from sdcard. Now this is where some of the confusion starts. While connected to my PC, nothing is refered to as a sdcard and I don't have one installed.
Okay back to the install. The S7 errors with four lines of text. It's looking for either "update.pkg" or "update.zip" with a file path: /mnt/sdcard/sdcard2/. I forget the exact wording but it's something like Failed or Can't Mount followed by the file path.
This left my S7 only booting to the Dell Logo and unable to connect to my PC beacause it wouldn't boot up. I had to do a factory reset which surprised me going back to v3.2 and not v2.2.
The file path mentioned above appears to show that it was looking for either file in the sdcard2 folder which is inside the sdcard folder. I had and since reinstalled the File Expert app which shows /mnt/sdcard/ and /mnt/sdacrd2/ or sdcard2 as a seperate folder not nested within the sdcard folder. Here again, the term/name "sdcard" is used and I don't have one. Is "sdcard" used to refer to the 16GB of internal memory? I assume so.
I'm not sure now if I would have used File Expert to copy "update.pkg" to the sdcard2 folder that I may have worked or not? On the linked page above, you see that I posted a comment about the problem and there is also another person has a screwed up S7 now too!
EDIT:
Nope, sdcard2 is indeed the optional sdcard slot which is empty and File Expert just errors.

When you boot into recovery and you are at the main menu with all the different options, choose the option to update from "internal" sdcard. The key is "internal" sdcard.
Sorry to not be more specific but I don't have my DS7 handy.
Good luck.

nagahtom said:
When you boot into recovery and you are at the main menu with all the different options, choose the option to update from "internal" sdcard. The key is "internal" sdcard.
Sorry to not be more specific but I don't have my DS7 handy.
Good luck.
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I believe that there was only one option to install the update.pkg from but the point or question is, where is it looking for the file at? It appears that it's looking on the sdcard2 which isn't there!
This makes me wonder now, when a procedure states to put a file on your sdcard, just actually what are they refering to? The internal memory sdcard or an optional plugged in sdcard?

They are referring to the removable sdcard. If you don't have one, I'd suggest picking one up. It doesn't have to be a 32GB or even a 16GB. Then, put the update.pkg file on the root of that SDcard.
The filesystems can be very confusing on the DS7. Try it with a removable SD card and you should have better luck.

nagahtom said:
They are referring to the removable sdcard. If you don't have one, I'd suggest picking one up. It doesn't have to be a 32GB or even a 16GB. Then, put the update.pkg file on the root of that SDcard.
The filesystems can be very confusing on the DS7. Try it with a removable SD card and you should have better luck.
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Yeah, why refer to the internal memory as sdcard?? The procedure for installing this update doesn't mention that an optional sdcard must be used either.
There's another thread where they appeared to have done that and it still failed! I may just wait till Dell puts it out OTA.

I Cant install Chromium OS 0.5 on Raspberry Pi 3

Hi I am so used to installing Retropie and other distros on Raspberry Pi. You get the image and put in win32 and your ready to be written.
Now I want to install Chromium OS to test out V.05
So here's what I am doing. I download the V0.5 for the 16 Gig version.
I used 7 zip extract all to folder when it does that it gives me this.
SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.xz
I then change the extention to SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.img
Write to SD using win 32 and nothing works.
So what am I doing wrong?

Hi, think you need to decompress SamKinison_v0.5_Pi3_16GB.tar.xz file with WinRAR, and then mount the img file to Win32

now when I write the ISO after running WinRaR after mounting my SD card is now write protected and cant access it ((( How can I unwrite protect it? I dont have a button hit.

Try to Reformat your SD card as fat32

It says it's write protected no physical tab is on to make write protected. I was looking at this will step 4 work?
http://www.techcloud7.org/remove-write-protection-sd-card.html

Yes?

It said it was successful then I tried to format it and it said this disk is right protected still.

did you try to delete all of the partitions on the card? and make a new one, and then format it as fat32.

How can you do that if I can't format it?

I went into disk manager and I get this: message and this is a 16 gig card so I feel like I hosed it but all I did was mount it using win32.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKbVdRZkxPWUEwSHM/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKaEQ5Q05raWg1bk0/view?usp=sharing

if its offline you can try diskpart command. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/52129-disk-clean-clean-all-diskpart-command.html

I did exactly what you said and got this. and screen shot of the whole process I did.
DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready.
See the System Event Log for more information.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKN0U3emtLWW5Vbms/view?usp=sharing

Here is the system event log screen shot of the event it asked about too.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxbcZNbmYKFKcEpaOGdPTWhzbk0/view?usp=sharing

have you tried Partition Wizard 7 or a linux computer to delete partitions and make new ones?

chras said:
have you tried Partition Wizard 7 or a linux computer to delete partitions and make new ones?
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I don't know how to use linux to partition it. I have Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on a flash drive for a live flash OS. But if there is a easy guide like before I will try. I never tried partition wizard 7 before either.

Here is a step by step guide for you http://jsmylinux.no-ip.org/hard-drive-management/creating-partitions-with-disk-utility/

Alright with a lot of trying I finally got the card to erase and go back to normal with this format. Then ran the official sd card formatter to get it to work. This method truly works if your sd card says "write protected". Thank you.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1arjgOt9qb4DSTYet1g-8zVxyqP9zTmFyag/view?usp=drivesdk

back to this topic I used Win RaR and extracted the Chromium OS 16 gig here. I get this one file out of the extracted file being 13 gigs its not a image. Should i change the extention to. IMG? Here is a screen shot. I don't want to write protect my SD card again lol
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxbcZNbmYKFKcVNJZmhIaFgwbkU

open it in WinRAR and extract the file. right click and hit "Open With" and then choose WinRAR

Try SDFormatter
http://www.trendy.co.jp/sd/en/p_formatter.html