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Since I've read much about this in different threads (people who couldn't find out how to do it), I thought I could share some light on it in a separate thread...
For starters: DO NOT PARTITION YOUR SD CARD WITH ROM MANAGER!!! This will partition your internal memory, and will brick your phone... To get back to stock please follow this thread.
Okay... First off to the linux users out there. There already exists a very nice tutorial on how to partition a SD card in ubuntu(the steps will be very similar in other distros too). For the ones that want to use gParted, theres an live cd here.
For myself, and all the other windows users, read on
1. Get yourself a copy of "Paragon Hard Disk Manager".
2. Install it through it's instructions.
3. Mount your SD card to your computer, and make sure it's recognized.
4a. Probably the fastest way: Go to "my computer", right click on your SD card, click format, choose FAT32 and format your card.
4b. Launch PHDM, and select "format partition", choose your SD card (next), choose FAT32 (next), "Yes, apply" (next) and your card is beeing formated to FAT 32.
Now your going to make the ext2/3/4 partition.
5. Go back to the main menu of PHDM again.
6. Click "create partition", choose your SD card (next), make the new partition size (I picked 1GB for my ext) and pick ext2/3/4 (next), "Yes, apply..."(next) and your card is partitioned and formated to ext2/3/4.
Good luck
Or if you're like me and have a previous phone with Amon_Ra's recovery. Put the SD card that you're using in the Vibrant into the G1 and load into the Recovery and "partition sd card" and all you'll have to do is set up the size of the partitions. It'll take less than a minute to do this. Far more easier and im sure a lot of people from the Vibrant community were upgraders from the G1.
And partitioning your SD card does what exactly?
Novek said:
Since I've read much about this in different threads (people who couldn't find out how to do it), I thought I could share some light on it in a separate thread...
For starters: DO NOT PARTITION YOUR SD CARD WITH ROM MANAGER!!! This will partition your internal memory, and will brick your phone... To get back to stock please follow this thread.
Okay... First off to the linux users out there. There already exists a very nice tutorial on how to partition a SD card in ubuntu(the steps will be very similar in other distros too).
For myself, and all the other windows users, read on
1. Get yourself a copy of "Paragon Hard Disk Manager".
2. Install it through it's instructions.
3. Mount your SD card to your computer, and make sure it's recognized.
4a. Probably the fastest way: Go to "my computer", right click on your SD card, click format, choose FAT32 and format your card.
4b. Launch PHDM, and select "format partition", choose your SD card (next), choose FAT32 (next), "Yes, apply" (next) and your card is beeing formated to FAT 32.
Now your going to make the ext2/3/4 partition.
5. Go back to the main menu of PHDM again.
6. Click "create partition", choose your SD card (next), make the new partition size and pick ext2/3/4 (next), "Yes, apply..."(next) and your card is partitioned and formated to ext2/3/4.
Good luck
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The operation *apply changes* isn't available in demo mode. It cost 49.00?.........
stepinmyworld said:
The operation *apply changes* isn't available in demo mode. It cost 49.00?.........
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Download a gpartd boot cd and use that. Free, open source, easy.
MRCLrider said:
And partitioning your SD card does what exactly?
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Allows you to use the data/cache to SD mod to speed up some stuff on the phone. For most of us, it has nearly eliminated the lag.
Novek said:
Since I've read much about this in different threads (people who couldn't find out how to do it), I thought I could share some light on it in a separate thread...
For starters: DO NOT PARTITION YOUR SD CARD WITH ROM MANAGER!!! This will partition your internal memory, and will brick your phone... To get back to stock please follow this thread.
Okay... First off to the linux users out there. There already exists a very nice tutorial on how to partition a SD card in ubuntu(the steps will be very similar in other distros too).
For myself, and all the other windows users, read on
1. Get yourself a copy of "Paragon Hard Disk Manager".
2. Install it through it's instructions.
3. Mount your SD card to your computer, and make sure it's recognized.
4a. Probably the fastest way: Go to "my computer", right click on your SD card, click format, choose FAT32 and format your card.
4b. Launch PHDM, and select "format partition", choose your SD card (next), choose FAT32 (next), "Yes, apply" (next) and your card is beeing formated to FAT 32.
Now your going to make the ext2/3/4 partition.
5. Go back to the main menu of PHDM again.
6. Click "create partition", choose your SD card (next), make the new partition size and pick ext2/3/4 (next), "Yes, apply..."(next) and your card is partitioned and formated to ext2/3/4.
Good luck
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ttabbal said:
Download a gpartd boot cd and use that. Free, open source, easy.
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i tried this and its not as easy as you state. The instructions aren't clear either. I have blank CDs, added the file but it also says download something else which wasn't there. Whe you try to open the app from the cd, it doesn't know which program to choose to open it.
Ubuntu comes with a disk utility that is really easy to use.
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stepinmyworld said:
i tried this and its not as easy as you state. The instructions aren't clear either. I have blank CDs, added the file but it also says download something else which wasn't there. Whe you try to open the app from the cd, it doesn't know which program to choose to open it.
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You do know you have to burn it as a CD IMAGE not as a file, right? If you're on Windows, Infrarecord is free and works well. Linux and OSX come with software that can do it. Then you boot from the CD, there isn't a need to open an app, it should launch itself once booted. Then select the SD card and partition. It even formats the partitions for you.
It's not as easy as some, but it's a whole lot easier than fdisk. Free software is generally not going to be as "pretty" as paid stuff. If you want the pretty, pay for Partition Magic, Paragon, whatever, there's a few options out there.
+1 for gparted boot cd
It has saved me several times when I've screwed up my hackintosh installs.
Paragon is saying it cant format my sdcard....
LovellKid said:
Paragon is saying it cant format my sdcard....
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Do you have the paid version or the demo? To format you'll have to have the paid one...
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Updated first post with link to gParted live cd...
Paid version (Thx Utorrent), but so just to clarify, so do I go straight from Fat32--> to Ext4 option? Or do I have to choose ext2, then create another partition (ext3), then ext4?
stepinmyworld said:
i tried this and its not as easy as you state. The instructions aren't clear either. I have blank CDs, added the file but it also says download something else which wasn't there. Whe you try to open the app from the cd, it doesn't know which program to choose to open it.
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You have to boot this cd once you burn it. Be careful not to partition your PC's hard drive
LovellKid said:
Paid version (Thx Utorrent), but so just to clarify, so do I go straight from Fat32--> to Ext4 option? Or do I have to choose ext2, then create another partition (ext3), then ext4?
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You can go straight from having the whole SD in FAT32 to partition your card to ext4
Sumner info on how to do this with a mac would be nice. Or even via the command line from a rooted vibrant.
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Arr MiHardies said:
Sumner info on how to do this with a mac would be nice. Or even via the command line from a rooted vibrant.
Sent from my Vibrant using the XDA app.
Typos, incorrect words, gibberish, and other nonsense brought to you courtesy of Swype.
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I have no experience with macOSX so I can't help you out there... If someone writes a guide here I'll update the OP, but I believe that you can use gParted Live cd with mac's too...
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i spent the better of the night trying to format my card. sandisk 16gb class 2.
i fire up PHDM after formatting the card through my computer. i keep getting an error message when i go through the create partition wizard saying that my external sd card has four different partitions including an extended one, which doesnt make sense because i just formatted it. ill attach a picture when i wake up.
i then tried to use paragon partition manager. my sd card shows up. yay. i proceed to create two primary partitions: 13.6gb fat32 and 1.5gb ext3. everything goes good. now, when i unmount my sd card, the phone then says that the external sd card is corrupted and that i need to reformat. reformatting takes me back to square one. 14.8gb fat32. i tried letting the phone format the memory card and then use ppm to do just a 1.5gb ext3 and success. it worked. i installed deodexed rom and saw that my boot time was 2-3 min as compared to the general 10-12 min i was reading about. downloaded quadrant and registered a beautiful 897. i also went to go put back all my files onto my memory card and it asks me to reformat the card. square one again.
last resort i used gparted. tried using 13.6gb fat32 and 1.5gb ext3 and gparted gives me an error saying it cannot complete it. i dont remember exactly the error because im not too familiar with linux.
if anyone has any ideas or alternatives that ive missed, please chime in.
EDIT: i tried using two different memory cards and they didnt work as well. there has to be something im either missing or doing wrong. =(
Can't believe none of you guys have a previous Android phone with Amon_Ra installed. It practically makes partitoning a SD card a joke.
Fellow rookie to rookie step by step guide
This is my first Android phone and really my first experience with “programming.” I am using a Windows 7 PC, a rooted phone and a 16GB class 2 external SD card. Here is my step by step guide to partition your external SD card (That is the one that has/had Avatar on it) using free software:
1. Download and install the ISO recorder from alex fineman. Just Google “alex fineman iso recorder.” If you don’t have his program you will not be able to burn ”gparted live” as an image to a CD which is the next step
2. Google “gparted live” and select the sourceforge site. Next select “To install GParted Live on CD, download the .iso file and burn it as an image to a CD.”
3. I tried the most recent stable version but it would not load so I ended up using the most recent “Testing release” which worked on my Windows 7 PC
4. Download the gparted-live-0.6.2-2.zip which will now have an ISO extension since you downloaded and installed the ISO recorder in step 1
5. Open the gparted-live and follow instructions to burn a disc image
6. Connect you phone and enable USB mass storage (I used my work BB rather than the Vibrant in case I messed things up. Others have recommended an old phone)
7. Start your PC with the gparted-live disc in and get ready to hit the “esc” key to get into boot up. Select “boot from cd”, “gparted live default setting”, “don’t touch keymap”, 33 (for English), and “0”. You should now get the gparted-live interface and there should be two devices connected. Your PC and the phone with its external SD card
8. Delete the existing SD card partitions but make double sure you are on the phone and not your PC before you do this. Next, create the primary, fat 32 partition and leave no more than 2 GB of space for the next partition. Create a primary, ext3 partition and select accept to create the new partitions. That is it. Exit gparted and reboot your computer without the disc
I did the repartitioning so I could apply the custom ROM from anomalous3 over in the development section. I would highly recommend his ROM as a next step in your development as the phone is incredibly fast after installing it. As I said, I am a 100% rookie but the phone is now blazing fast (over 1,400 from low 800 on Quadrant. I really have no idea what it means but the difference is fantastic). Best of luck to my fellow rookies/noobs/nbs/newbies
no matter how many times i make the sdcard image, my nook refuses to boot off of it. Ive tried with Mac, WIndows, and Ubuntu and all failed. When i pop in the sdcard the nook just boots up normally...please someone help me. Ive been trying to get this to work since the second the first instructions were posted on nook devs
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
hharte said:
I had this problem as well. I ended up using a different USB MicroSD card reader and it worked. Try using a different MicroSD card, usually ones less than 2GB are safest, as they are not SDHC, and thus are compatible with more SD card readers...
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that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
Did you make the carding using winimage yet? For me, that was the method that worked the most consistently.
To check it, pop the card in your reader and see if there is a single ~40mb partition named nooter. That pretty much says the card is what it is supposed to be.
Unplug the nook, power it off by holding the power button until it turns off. put the card into the nook, plug it into your computer. In a little time, you should notice it saying about a new device connected, or some complaining about not being able to find the drivers. Let it go for about a minute after that and then remove the card and reboot the nook.
If it still boots normally with the card your just made, try using another card and see if that works. Also, if you have access to a mac, before you make the card with winimage (on the windows machine), use Disk utility to partition the card with 1 partition, free space.
It sounds kinda quirky, but it is how I got it to work.
I had to try 4 different computers before I found one that would work with either Winimage or Cygwin. Just keep trying different things and you'll eventually get it.
I originally tried using the Nook Color itself as the SD card reader, which did not work. Since the only USB card reader I had handy was not SDHC, I went down to a 2GB SD card, and it worked.
Help - Trouble w/Winimage
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
bobdude5 said:
that might explain it lol..i've been using the 16gb that came with my galaxy s and using my phone as the sdreader
has one had success flashing the image through their phones or the nook itself?
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[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
pokey9000 said:
[mbm] initially had trouble as well since he was using his Nook as a card reader. Generally only dedicated card readers will reliably work. I'll go add that to the wiki page.
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did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
My mistake was
Pokey9000 pointed out that I was making a simple mistake that stopped my card from working:
make sure your are writing to the whole disk, not a partition.
of = /dev/disk# (good)
of = /dev/disk#p# (bad)
I was adding the partition number to the end of my device string.
bobdude5 said:
did he end up using a card reader or did he get it to work?
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IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
pokey9000 said:
IIRC he switched to his laptop's SD reader with an adapter and got it working.
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i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
bobdude5 said:
i just tried a 2gb sdcard..didnt work.. so its the reader. I hope a usb adapter will work
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via the laptop SDcard slot, the image doesn't work, and I used a USB SDcard reader, it worked.
+1 request for help
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
docfreed said:
I'm using 64bit Vista and can open Winimage but when I try to install the 40Mb img file to the SD Card, all I get on the card is four files totaling about 11 Mb.
Could someone please post instruction for making an uSD image of Nooter 0.2
Thanks in advance
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drbowden said:
+1 - despite searching and multiple efforts, I still am unable to get a useful microSD card to root the NC
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That's OK!
After doing the winimage the microSD will have a 40MB partition with about 30MB free space and only about 7.5MB of files. It should work!
Finally Successful!
Finally got it done! Now on to loading useful apps and see how the NOOK holds up to work!
So excited to try and...
Grrr. both my sandisk and generic mini card readers suddenly all decide to fail/stop working and only found one of my 2gb sd cards after my move haha...
Murphy's law, such as life is..
-CC
Heya guys, Android n00b, but old time iphoney.
I to am having the same problem. I have been writing sd cards off multiple machines, bought more sd cards, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! tx
Details:
Linux Mint 8 - Main
Windows 7 - tried and no success in results
Nook Color - Running firmware 1.0.1
8GB PNY HC uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
2GB Sandisk uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
1GB Kingston uSD - image written sucessfully - Failed to boot in NC
Latest nooter tried - auto-nooter-2.12.18.img - writes sucessfully - shows 2 partitions (NooterFiles,AutoNooter2)
Install notes:
I follow the directions to the letter. I have set up android sdk, and the other files needed from when this first became available. (I know they're not needed at the moment, but giving a history)
The image writes successfully. If I re-insert the card into my pc, then it reads as un-recognized. However, taking a leap of faith I put the card into the powered down NC. Plug in the usb cord, and it reboots just as normal.
Now after it boots. I swipe to open, and it goes into usb mode. Now my computer can see the 2 partitions listed through the nc.
Upon investigation I found that the partitions were not bootable. Aha! So I tried making them bootable. No success.
I'm at a loss, any help/points in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
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.
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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On your Nook I believe you can go to Settings, Device Info, Mount the SD card if it's not mounted and then format it. It'll erase it and you'll have a blank SD card. If you're going to put a different image on the card I don't know if you even need to bother formatting, but I' not sure about that stuff.
does the nook format work differently than a computer format? because i burned a 128meg image onto an 8gig card and now even a computer format won't get the whole 8gigs back... just the 128 megs. it's like it's got invisible partitions on it or something.
Partition
Try EASEUS Partition Manager to change the partition size/format card.
byproxy said:
so i either don't fully understand how images work in the SDCard itself (not on the nook), or i did something wrong and don't know how to fix the card, but at any rate, i managed to burn a 128meg image onto my 8gig sd card, didn't like the image, and now can't figure out how to get the card back to a regular 8gig card!
would love some direction. tried to search but must not be using right keywords.
didn't see any kind of format or clear option in the winimg program we're using.
thanks!
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byproxy... here is the easy way...
1) Go and download "EASEUS Partition Master 7.0.1 Home Edition" --- just google it (the home edition is free and downloadable)
2) Put your microSD card into a card reader and plug into your computer
3) install EASEUS onto your computer and run the app
4) Once app is started, located your microSD card amongst the list of drives listed
5) select each one of the partitions on the SD card, and delete them individually
6) Once all partitions are deleted, make sure that you are still selecting the microSD card, and select the option to create partition (it may just say create)
7) Make sure you select FAT 32
8) Then select FORMAT
9) Lastly, click on APPLY and it will do all the things above. So in short you select all the actions that you want... and only in step 9 will it execute all those actions.
Please make sure that any changes you make are to the SD card and not any of your other drives. Last thing I would want is for you to accidentally format your Computer, NAS, or your non-SD card. =)
Enjoy...
sweet. exactly what i was looking for. thanks gents!!!
hvuong2 said:
byproxy... here is the easy way...
Enjoy...
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OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
...worst case there's a low level SD card formatter from Panasonic (IIRC might be Toshiba) that will do a complete low level format and has recovered uSDs for people using them with Nintendo DS dev carts...
A Google search should turn it up, or a thread on a DS site which might have a link to it. It'll be a little windows program...
(I believe that windows and most devices just do sort of a quick format of the uSD, and so can't recover from some problems like re-partitioning of the card... so monkeying around with a partition editor and assigning the card to be one big partition then re-fromatting under windows or some other device MIGHT work as well...)
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oops, I see post #5 has the re-partitioning solution as well... another way to do it would be to backup an image of the card BEFORE burning something like autonooter on it then restore that original image to card once finished with whatever you were trying out... it's what I did when I tried autonooter w/my old 128MB card, in linux in my case a
dd if=/path/to/sd/card of=./somefilename
dd if=./autonooter.img of=/path/to/sd/card
then later
dd if=./somefilename of=/path/to/sd/card
sd card path under linux is likely to be /dev/memc<device ref characters?>
You should also be able to do this under windows with the utility recommended for windows users to use with the autonooter image, as I'm guessing that it's just a GUI wrapper and a windows compiled version of the dd utility...
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Varying opinions
BarryR1 said:
OK, but isn't it easier just to do it in the Nook or am I missing something here?
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Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
hvuong2 said:
Some believe that there are issues with formatting on Nook... depending which ROM you are running. The surefire and safe way, is to do it from a PC.
Nook should format, but may not partition correctly.
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No, the Nook will format the *device* and not a partition, so it always works. But you don't want to do it if you've installed NC or HC to eMMC.
If you're using Stock rooted, just boot without the card in the device, put it in, format. Done.
Or if you're on a real os just format the device... mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX
I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?
Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?
azj said:
I'd like to copy the contents on my CM7 on an 8G Transcend uSD card to a Sandisk 8G card using Win32DiskImager on my Win 7 64 bit laptop. I've verified with EASUS that the Transcend is using the full 8G but when I create an image file it's only 4G. If I to write that to the Sandisk the process finishes almost immediately and writes nothing to the card. I've rebooted and tried several different external card readers with the same result. I have successfully used these to create 8G backup images previously so am stumped why the process isn't working this time. Suggestions?
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Which version of win32diskimager?
I find version "RELEASE-0.2-r23" to work best... it still always reads to about 4gig... bit it writes the image correctly.
Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).
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Definitely make sure you're running with elevated priviledges (administrator). These disk imaging programs have the annoying habit of providing very little feedback when they fail due to an accounts rights issue. Took me a long time to figure this out when I first tried to install Phiremod and then again a month later when I decided to try an OC kernel (by this time I'd forgotten about the problem).
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Ahhh... as I have disabled profile to prevent the priviledges issue in win7.... I forgot about that requirement.
Jimbo67 said:
Are you running Win32DiskImager as "Administrator"?
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Yes I ran it on an administrator account. Will have to check the version when I get home.
I had a really old version of the program. Downloaded the current version. It still creates a 4G img file but when I write it back to the new card it's the full 8G image. The contents of the boot partition look correct but the Nook just skips the SD card when booting up.
Next, I'm going to use Easeus to reduce the total used on the card to 4G, image that, write to new card and see what happens.
i have encountered win32image problem before where it fails to write to disk with erorr but when i use earlier version 0.1 it works
Followed these steps and the new card boots correctly:
- Use EASEUS to reduce the last partition so the total used on the card is 4G or less
- Use Win32DiskImager to read old card and write new card
- Use EASEUS to increase the last partition to full size.
Of course this only works if you can do the first step.
As an aside: performance with the new Sandisk card is considerable faster than the old card.
for some reason the new version of windisk imager does not write the image to the card properly for me. i always get corrupt data. i use an older windisk and everything works great. i'm on windows 7 if that makes a difference.