I'm having multiple problems connecting my NC to my Win7 PC via USB, particularly from stock 1.2. Every time I connect, Windows attempts to install device drivers, and is successful only half the time, at most. If it successfully mounts the NC as USB storage, it may or may not also mount the SD card (again, maybe half the time).
I also boot CM7 from an SD card using verygreen's size-agnostic image. From there, the connection has been 100% reliable--turn on USB tethering, and both the system and storage partitions get mounted as USB storage.
HOWEVER, plugging in the NC from either OS frequently causes a really odd problem with my external HDD: both the drive and the uppermost layer of the file structure will still be listed in Computer, but click any of those folders and they show as empty. The HDD is also "in use" if I attempt a safe eject, but unplugging the USB and plugging it back in solves the problem.
Are other people running 64-bit Windows 7 having these problems? Any idea what could be causing my PC to get 'confused' about the HDD?
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These facts may seem obvious, but not only was I unable to locate them when I needed them, I also received a lot of misinformation.
You can write a bootable image to an SD in your Nook via USB. With a stock NC booted up, fully awake and the screen unlocked, just plug in the USB.
The NC will read the boot partition of a bootable SD card (for instance, a CM7 card prepared using verygreen's method). In my case, it would not read a card inserted while the stock OS was running, but if you remove the card, reboot, and insert the card before the stock OS finishes loading (for instance, on the blinding white "Nook Color" splash screen), it will load up the boot partition as if it were SD storage. You can then mount the SD boot partition over USB and drop in new ROMs or update files from your PC.
NC OR SD NOT SHOWING UP IN WINDOWS?
If only the NC shows up and not the SD, eject, disconnect, and try again.
If Windows does not properly install the drivers, go to Device Manager through the Control Panel (or right-click My Computer and go to Properties), find the USB Mass Storage Device marked by a yellow triangle and exclamation point, right click it and "uninstall." Then, in the Actions menu of Device Manager, "Scan for new hardware."
Rinse and repeat both methods as necessary until both the NC and the SD appear as separate USB drives.
I've had tremendous trouble getting Win7 x64 to recognize the NC, especially running the stock OS, but these steps eventually resolve it.
I've recently returned my Nook Color back to 1.0.1 stock but have been unable to update to 1.2 because both my desktop and laptop, the first running XP and the second running Win 7, don't recognize my Nook in the right way.
With XP, two removable drives will show up in My Computer but they are not useable. If I try to open them, I get, "Please insert a disc into the drive" type of error. I don't have an SD card in the Nook so I don't know why I get two drives to begin with.
In Win 7, nothing appears in Computer. However, in both instances, the a Nook screen appears stating that it's now okay to transfer files between the Nook and my PC.
My goal is to sideload the 1.2 update. B and N hasn't sent out an update signal to my Nook via wireless even when I've had it on for several hours.
What can I do?
Download NookColorUMS and install it to NC. it will allow you to mount different partitions of the SD card, which should then be readable at least on the XP machine. IIRC partition 1 is the boot, partition 4 is for your media files.
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just make sure you eject before unplugging your NC
This morning when I plug my droid4 into the computer and set the connection to USB Mass Storage only the microsd card is readable from my computer. The internal storage shows up but isn't accessible.
The files are readable from the phone when it isn't mounted to the computer, it's just the computer that can't see them. This was working fine last week.
Any thoughts?
I would check the drivers and make sure it hasnt errored out in the device manager. may need reloaded.
Okay, so I think that I just really, completely screwed up my touchpad. Here are my symptoms. I can boot into android but I cannot connect to the sd card. Says sd card damaged. I tried the terminal and potential fixes that I found. Nothing. I can boot into recovery but nothing happens, the big USB appears but nothing ever happens. I cannot boot into Webos. Says Erasing and never stops. I can boot into CWM but nothing I do there seems to make a difference. I cannot connect to my laptop (windows 7) no matter what I've tried. although, my computer does recognize that I am connected to something but it does not recognize it. I tried downloading drivers but i cannot get it to recognize the touchpad. Tried Webos doctor but it doesn't see the sd card so it doesn't even start doing the recovery. I tried doing wireless file transfer but I have no storage because the sd card will not mount. I pretty much tried everything that I saw online, except for the linux stuff. Has anyone experienced this and actually got around it? I am really bummed but I know that it's my fault.
I am not sure what caused it but a few mistakes that were possibly the cause would be that I formatted the sdcard through CWM without doing a backup. and at some point i disconnected the touchpad without unmounting. I think that it started after I disconnected. Any help will be very welcome.
When I connect my 4s (EU) to my PC, it detects the SD card (128GB Kingston or 64GB, both tried exFat and FAT32 formatted), but when opening the contents, it says there's nothing on it, while it has over 40 gb of data on it...!
What's going on? The card is up to spec!?!
The phone's own memory is shown correctly and I can access all maps. The SD card however is detected, but not accessible.
The only files I can see are the ones I copy from PC to phone's sd card over USB connection. But I want to copy photos and videos from phone to PC.....
I already tried uninstalling the Alcatel Idol 4s driver, and reconnected to get this phone mounted again, and the result is the same.
Anyone have this too? Fix?
PS: I've tried FAT32 formatting as well as ExFAT, both cases the PC detects the card, even tells me how much space is available, but shows NO contents and tells me the map is EMPTY!?!?!
Do you try usb debugging? Is ur phone locked when you connect it to pc?