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Root nook color /install cm7/ fix wifi issue with dlink

How to root your brand new Nook Color - For Noobs on windows - I'm sure this will all work from Mac too, but I do not have one so I don't know
-I know there are plenty of threads our there for this - but I figured I would compile my journey to root so that anyone slightly confused with the process of rooting, starting over and re-flashing stock nook, using root explorer is all in one area.
First things First - Without the Cyanogenmod team, everyone who has a hand in this at XDA, Dalingrin's overclock, everyone who compiled the files for recovery, Clockworkmod team, iomonster, everyone! This wouldn't be possible. Drop by their websites and buy them a beer or two.
Secondly - I am not responsible for any damage at all, if you don't follow simple instruction then too bad for you. Also, none of the above mentioned folks are responsible for any damage to your Nook Color (NC).
NOW FOR ROOT!!!
go to http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting and follow the instructions. Download the appropriate autonooter for your software version. (this can be checked on the nook by going to settings, device info, about nook)
Follow the helpful people at NookDevs instructions and thank them for their help!
After you achieve root you should see Market app in your extras tab in the Original Nook Software, This is good, if you don't go back and try again. Now pull out your card(dont forget to unmount and format) , and turn off your nook .
Let's Begin With CM7
First you will need to make yourself a bootable clockworkmod (CWM) to run your installation from -
download winimage for your PC - http://www.winimage.com/download.htm and install the appropriate file (obviously x86 for 32 bit PC, and x64 for 64 bit)
install it!
next download 7-Zip to extract the files!!! http://www.7-zip.org/
when installed go to tools/options/ and make sure tar is checked and gz is checked. You might as well select all!
Next download bootable clockwork image http://tsunade.net/nookdev/clockwork/0.1-ext4/
I used the 1GB one on my 8GB class 4 card. It burns faster and works just fine!
Burning Process!
First insure that your already formatted card is formatted by formatting again! woot for the word format! Next-
On a computer open win image
click ok!
plug in your microSD card
click on Disk tab
go down to restore virtual Hard Disk Image
Select your microSD
find the place you saved the image after extracting through 7zip (I saved to Desktop)
Click OK and it should start burning
after five minutes or so the image will be written to the microSD card
Now to install CM7!!!!!!!!!! Drop by their page if you want and donate some beer money!!!!
Download these files!
http://mirror.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore&type=nightly (CM7 Encore ZIP - Get the latest one)
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps (google apps file!!!!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925451] (Dalingrins!!!!! OVERCLOCK - even if you don't need this, you WANT THIS (my attempt at a jedi mind trick) just do it).
download the zip files and put them on that 1GB cwm bootable SD card you made!!, and copy the the zip files to the ROOT of the sd card i.e just drag and drop them into the sd card.
Now safely remove and plug the card in to the nook color
it will boot up into CWM - go to this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151 and start at the installing section number 2!!! Thanks Faceman66 Only follow the install section and first boot section up until 2 if you have a DLINK router!!!! this is very important!!!! Once your done with the installation again, make sure to format the microSD card, do not use cyanogen it will mess everythin up, format it through your computer.
Dlink router connection issue!
The wifi in cyanogen just scans and disconnects constantly without connecting. Skip all of the first boot process like signing in to google, etc. Just get into the main screen of your new ROM. Connect it via USB to computer and "turn on USB storage" in the drop down notification bar.
Now preferably purchase the Root Explorer App on your phone or on your computer (you wont be able to access the nook color CM7 market yet. If you find it by other means I dont want to hear about it. if you download on your phone, download astro file manager as well, open astro file manager and click menu, tools, application backup. Find root explorer, back it up, pull it off your phone to the computer by searching the SD card for the "backups folder" and then drag and drop it onto your nook SD card. Use CM7 file explorer, find the APK and then install. Now using root explorer go to
/system/etc/wifi/ and find the tiwlan.ini file, at the top of the screen youll notice a button that says Mount R/W, click it. now press and hold on tiwlan.ini and open in text editor. go down about half way to find WifiAdhoc = 1 or something to that affect.
WiFiAdhoc is set to 1 on the cm7 builds but if you need change it to 0 for wpa/wpa2 will work.
Once that is set to 0, reboot, and connect to your internets.
WHAT IF I MESSED EVERYTHING UP AND MY NOOK COLOR IS BRICKED! IMPOSSIBLE! just follow these instructions!!!! Thanks to HittingSmoke over at addictive tips
This guide is broken and bricks the Nook. The problem is, it tells you to format /boot when you should NOT format boot.
If you have the black screen because of following this guide, here’s how to fix it:
Format your SD card and re burn that 1GB cwm image (It worked perfect for Me)
Next, download:
http://www.etoile-laconnex.com/nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip
and
http://www.multiupload.com/VEJFMO05BV
Copy them both to the SD card that you made with winImager.
Put in the SD card and hold the power button until it boots into recovery again.
Under Mounts and Storage, format /boot, /system, /data and /cache
Using the “Install zip from sdcard” option, flash “repartition-boot-with-stock.zip” THEN “nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip”
Take out the SD, reboot and you’ll be back to a working stock Nook.
After that, follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151
and/or go to the top to try again.
Note: Do NOT use your Nook to format the SD card after installing CM7. There’s a bug and it will format /boot instead, returning you to the black screen problem and you’ll have to repeat the process. This is TRUE WITH PHONES AND THE NOOK COLOR
Thanks again to everyone's contribution - I do not own the rights to any of this and am not the original finder/creator/designer of any of these tips and tricks.

Sorry you feel that way about Mac users. I will get the information from somewhere else.

Simply one of the best tutorials out there. So many of the custom roms overlook the documentation.

I am stuck on the boot logo ( the part where the android is being scribbled in directly after i plugged in the nook cable after first loading the sd card with winimage. It never goes past halfway on the scribble animation, and i am wondering if I may have done something wrong. Please reply.

You may need to go through the steps again to get it to work, it shouldnt hurt anything to do. Also try to write a different winimage and a different size download. If you have bigger than a 1gb card, i recommend getting the 1gb image file

first post on nook forum just order one after reading for 2 weeks about development cant wait to get it and use this guide to root it...
I'm guessing when you say format sd card your means fat 32 correct? Also once done with everything do you suggest to parition sd card to allow a2sd or data2ext? Our use titanium back up when updating rom...

I actually dont usually use titanium back up but if you want to partition and use titanium backup, cm 7 will defenitely support it. Format in fat 32 definitely. Luckily now CM7 has fixed the D-Link issue so you should be good on text editing and the whole process should be expedited alot with how hard Cyanogenmod team has worked to make a pretty flawless copy of CM7 for Encore (Nook Color). Im running CM7.02 and it is fast, sleek and sexy!
v/r
Drew

I tried this on my nook color and when it booted it showed the default nook icon with the adobe copyright warning, for a second, then it showed a cyanogen mod logo for a second then a screen that said install failed reboot to try again. I thing that some part of the nook android is still there and is messing up the CM install. Any ideas?

candreasen said:
I tried this on my nook color and when it booted it showed the default nook icon with the adobe copyright warning, for a second, then it showed a cyanogen mod logo for a second then a screen that said install failed reboot to try again. I thing that some part of the nook android is still there and is messing up the CM install. Any ideas?
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First, what version is your Nook Color? These are outdated steps and files. Second, this is rooting (gaining superuser access and installing apps) and not installing CM7 or a custom rom. Can you tell us what exactly you did so we can try and help out more?

It is the BNRV200. I believe it had the latest BN firmware because I got it about 2 weeks ago.
drewbacca said:
Now to install CM7!!!!!!!!!!
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This seems to say otherwise about the installing CM7.

candreasen said:
It is the BNRV200. I believe it had the latest BN firmware because I got it about 2 weeks ago.
This seems to say otherwise about the installing CM7.
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If you're installing CM7, go here and read about the new partition guide since you probably have the new partition on yours.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1030227
If you're rooting, go here. (You can also re-partition, go back to stock then root.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054027

Question on verygreen's [ROM][CM7] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer

I'm a noob with not enough privilages to post over in the developer's forum, so posting here.
I've successfully imaged and booted to CM7 using verygreen's project:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
Next step was to try adding/installing gapps and using recover. I've tried a few different times doing a few different things, but all end up rebooting (with SD in the NC) to the original boot of the NC, as if out of the box. I get the hand going over to the android and having to "Set Language" and wifi.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong and it looks like others got it to work.
Any help?

Have you actually booted into CM7? The nook boots first to the SD card, so if you can't boot now into CM7 that means that something has changed on the SD card. In other words, on boot the nook looks for something useful (like a bootable OS) on the card and if it can't find it boots to internal (original B&N OS).
So, do a normal power up and see if you boot into CM7 on the sd card. If so, see below about booting in recovery (once you've added the google files). If not, something's amiss with the image on the card.
YOu may be having a problem booting into recovery -- this is pretty common. It can be tricky timing the release of the buttons. Follow the directions on verygreen's post carefully. Push the N button first, then power, count off about 6 seconds and make sure that you see the message before releasing. Took me a few tries to get the recovery screen instead of booting normally.
I can tell you that I've done this a few times and it does indeed work. The only tricky part is timing to button thing when booting into recovery.

Yep, I did boot into CM7... The wallpaper changed and there were new icons, of which I can't remember at the moment.
I know what you are saying about entering recovery mode... I think I got that set. I can see when entering recovery mode, as the penquin icon is shown and then all the messages come up, including expanding the zip files.
My problem is getting the gapps included. I've tried just copying over the gapps zip file and do recovery with that. I've tried copying both the CM7 nightly and the gapps zips and do recovery. I also noticed the instructions:
•Get u-boot.zip file from attachment in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=153
•Unpack the u-boot.bin file and put it onto parttion 1 of the SD card instead of the one there.
•Rename file named uRecImage on the first partition to uRecImg (doh!)
•Get this uRamdisk file, rename it to uRecRam and then put the result to the 1st partition on the uSD card instead of the file with the same name there
I've also done that... still boots to as if it is a brand new, out of the box Nook. I take it that means the SD is messed up. So I'm doing something wrong in how to get the gapps on.

Sounds like the easiest way for you is to start over.
Re-image your card with verygreen's 1.1 from the beginning of his post.
Then download the version of CM7 you want (verygreen's or rc4 or whatever)
add this .zip to the sd card, download gapps and also add this to the sd card.
Insert into nook and boot.
You have to put these zips on the sd card BEFORE you boot into CM7 the first time. This is why you have to re-image.
This is what I did and everything worked great. Skip the gapps login until you have wifi setup of course and everything should be fine.

Yup, sounds like danbutter has it right. I know how frustrating this is, but it really is worth it.
You may have problems prepping your SD card to re-image because of partitioning. One way to start with a really clean slate is to download Paragon Partition Manager (the free addition) and totally wipe all the existing partitions. Windows disk manager won't do it.

robedney said:
You may have problems prepping your SD card to re-image because of partitioning. One way to start with a really clean slate is to download Paragon Partition Manager (the free addition) and totally wipe all the existing partitions. Windows disk manager won't do it.
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I don't know exactly what it is with this, but I have never had this issue and I have re flashed a couple sd cards many many times playing with this and all I have ever done was select the new image and write it to the card.
Is this something to do with certain card readers or what?
I'm using a five year old HP laptop and its built in card reader.
Just curious

[Q] Updating to the latest nightly on CM7 SD installation?

So I'm booting from a SD card into CM7 7.0.2 currently. I'm using a custom boot file so I can choose to hold down the home screen button if I want to boot into the stock 1.2 OS instead.
I only have this single 2gb SD card to use atm. What would be the proper process to update to the nightly 69 build from here? I need to make sure that when I update, my current SD card is in there and that's where the install is saved to. I had an issue prior where I booted with an alternate SD card (which I no longer have) and it installed to the eMMC. That wasn't fun as I had to do a complete restore.
Thanks!

I am booting from an SD card.
To update, I put the uSD card in the PC and then just copy the new build zip file to the uSD card.
Then I put the card in the Nook, press the N + power button and when I see the "Touch the Future of Reading", count to 4 and release the buttons. Don't count to slow. I noticed one time the TTFOR disappeared and it booted into the Nook software. I just shut it down and did it again.
The Nook will automatically see the new zip file, expand it and load the new build. Once done, it will delete the zip file from the uSD card.
I noticed the newer builds automatically reboot the unit but if yours doesn't, it will stop at "Flushing Cache" and sit there. Leave it alone until the screen goes dark (a couple of minutes) and then reboot it (N + power button). You should get the Android. and about a minute later the CM7 spinning logo.
You are updated. And you don't lose any apps or data either!
If you are overclocking, I would set it back to 800MHz before you do this as a precaution.
Finally, there is an easy way to add overclocking to a new build. You just need the overclock zip file, the new build and WinRAR 3.80. Let me know if you want that info.

Well that worked as you said, thanks! I did have one problem but I fixed it myself. As I mentioned, I have a modified boot file which loads the Nook OS if I hold the N button. So trying to get into recovery or have the CM7 noticed the .zip file by holding Power+N didn't work. Luckily I still had the original u-boot.bin file and was able to copy it back onto the SD card and then I was able to get the update installed.
As to the OC, I assume I'd just put it back on the same way I did with the original.

I've read your post, and a few others but I'm either not understanding (my money is on this one!!!!) or missing a step.
I'm running Nook Color Stock 1.2 on emmc and CM 7 on the SD card.
I've tried using ROM Manager as well as copying the latest nightly to the /boot partition of the SD card.
If I boot into recovery and update the zip from the SD, I always end up over-writing the emmc of the nook, losing stock and all my apps, instead of the CD card being updated.
What am I doing wrong?? Would like to upgrade to the latest nightly. But I don't want to screw up stock (hate having to restore and redownload all the apps every time).
Thanks
No matter what I do, I always end up over-writing the emmc instead of updated the SD card.

phoenix1972 said:
I've read your post, and a few others but I'm either not understanding (my money is on this one!!!!) or missing a step.
I'm running Nook Color Stock 1.2 on emmc and CM 7 on the SD card.
I've tried using ROM Manager as well as copying the latest nightly to the /boot partition of the SD card.
If I boot into recovery and update the zip from the SD, I always end up over-writing the emmc of the nook, losing stock and all my apps, instead of the CD card being updated.
What am I doing wrong?? Would like to upgrade to the latest nightly. But I don't want to screw up stock (hate having to restore and redownload all the apps every time).
Thanks
No matter what I do, I always end up over-writing the emmc instead of updated the SD card.
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All you have to do is put the update zip on the boot part' of the sd card and boot up the sd install like normal and it'll see the zip and automatically flash it for you.

I've tried using ROM Manager as well as copying the latest nightly to the /boot partition of the SD card.
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If you're booting CM7 off uSD, you can forget about the "ROM Manager".

phoenix1972 said:
I've read your post, and a few others but I'm either not understanding (my money is on this one!!!!) or missing a step.
I'm running Nook Color Stock 1.2 on emmc and CM 7 on the SD card.
I've tried using ROM Manager as well as copying the latest nightly to the /boot partition of the SD card.
If I boot into recovery and update the zip from the SD, I always end up over-writing the emmc of the nook, losing stock and all my apps, instead of the CD card being updated.
What am I doing wrong?? Would like to upgrade to the latest nightly. But I don't want to screw up stock (hate having to restore and redownload all the apps every time).
Thanks
No matter what I do, I always end up over-writing the emmc instead of updated the SD card.
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You are probably using the install zip option. You do not do this. You just put the zip on the boot partition, boot into recovery and the reboot. DO NOT flash anything.
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Let me try to clarify... when they are saying boot into recovery... they aren NOT meaning Clockwork Recovery... they mean using the boot menu (press "n" button when you see the Cyaonogen logo) and selectin boot from SD card and Recovery. That is the SASD rocovery (install) mode and will install the update zip file from the root of the boot partition.

Thanks for clarifying DizzyDen!!! That's the part that I was screwing up
Like I just screwed up the Stock again...but that's alright...live and learn
Updating the latest right now...then I'll be putting stock back on emmc
Thanks again for the clarification

Updating to the latest nightly on CM7 SD installation?
I'm a newbie so please have some patience. I'm trying to do the same thing, update my cm_encore_full-159.zip to cm_encore_full-177.zip. I boot from a microsd card to Android. When I install it I pushed a button during the early boot process and went to a menu. Changed "boot device" from "emmc" to "SD" and "Normal" to "Alternative". When I turn on the Nook Color after it installs, I do nothing and it boots to Android but if I put a button it goes to the menu where I push the volume down button 3 times and I boot to the stock Nook Color. So, if I copy the cm_encore_full-177.zip to my microsd card, go to the menu, change the "emmc" to "SD" and "Normal" to "Alternative, this should update my 159 to 177 without losing any apps, email, etc.? Thanks

themofoman said:
I'm a newbie so please have some patience. I'm trying to do the same thing, update my cm_encore_full-159.zip to cm_encore_full-177.zip. I boot from a microsd card to Android. When I install it I pushed a button during the early boot process and went to a menu. Changed "boot device" from "emmc" to "SD" and "Normal" to "Alternative". When I turn on the Nook Color after it installs, I do nothing and it boots to Android but if I put a button it goes to the menu where I push the volume down button 3 times and I boot to the stock Nook Color. So, if I copy the cm_encore_full-177.zip to my microsd card, go to the menu, change the "emmc" to "SD" and "Normal" to "Alternative, this should update my 159 to 177 without losing any apps, email, etc.? Thanks
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1. in bold text above... select "Recovery" not Alternative...
2. you either move the SD to your computer to put the update on the boot partition of the SD or you have to mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 to a directory (I created /sdcard/boot for this) and push the update to the BOOT partition.

Nook Color How to Update to CM7 Nighthly
Good Day,
What a fantastic website! I am new to the forum. Could you please answer the questions or provide a link to the answers?
1. What utility and procedure would I follow to back up the stock Nook Color partitions in ROM to include the stock Nook Color apps I have installed?
2. What utility and procedure would I follow to back up the apps I have purchased from the Android Market place for CM7 running off the SD card?
3. I have update-cm-7.0.0-encore-signed.zip installed. I want to update to cm_encore_full-177.zip. Do I use win32image to "burn" the new nightly to the SD card? Or, do I drag and drop the new
nightly to the SD card? If yes, on which directory (folder) on the SD card do I place the new nightly build?
Thank you!
atl10spro

Try my best to help.
1. I don't deal with stock, so can't help here.
2. I never intend to run any backup when booting off uSD, can't help.
3. Assuming you're booting off uSD, then just copy the new .zip file (do not rename, do not unzip) into the boot partition (root folder) of the card. Insert it into the NC, boot it into Recovery. When it's in recovery mode, it'll fully automatically do the update then deletes the .zip file, you don't have to do anything, just wait until it shuts itself down then you power it up.

I am running the following - CM7 - nightly build 08022011 on SD - Dalingrin's OC kernel 2.6.32.9 @ 1200MHz NOOKcolor
I am trying to update to a newer nightly build. I have the file downloaded on the SD card but can't get it to update.
Where does the file have to go?
I tried to reboot into recovery mode and that didn't do anything.
Any help would be great.
***I must have been sleepy yesterday as I got it to work now....

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[Q] Can't get 1.4.1 upgrade to work

I always end up with little green android next to a triangle with an exclamation point in it. CMR reports: failed to verify whole-file signature. signature verification failed. installation aborted.
I have re-downloaded the file 6 times, attempted the process at least 10 times.
Contacted B&N chat support and they could not help, finally suggesting I take the NC to one of their stores. The NC is pure stock. I run CM7 from an sd card.
Any ideas??

I also run cm7 from sd, and what I found out when 1.3 came out is that some form of CWR was written to my EMMC...which prevented the update to the stock os.
I found this video, did it all, and everything worked great, i now am running 1.4.1 perfectly; and cm7 still runs off sd...woot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlGSBtWbKY
Hope it works for you!
Yoke
ps. After you restore, just plug in your usb cable and drop 1.4 to the root directory, let it sleep, and it should update right away...

It appears there are some remnants of CWM left on mine as mentioned above.
I have a hearing impairment problem and am unable to follow the sound on the video. Does anyone have the instructions written down? i would really appreciate if you would post it.

I'll try....
Goto the video link above, and below the video in the text describing it, you will see 4 links to files you will need. Click on each one, and save them to a known location.
Basically, you need to create a Bootable SD card that has just the Clockwork files on it.
You use the 7-zip program to extract the Clockwork Recovery file.
Insert microSD card to your computer...
Then run the Win32DiskImager program..using the browse button (...), point it to your extracted Clockwork Recovery file, make sure your SD card is the destination..Click 'write'...it will take 5-15minutes to finish.
When that is finished, you can close Win32DiskImager, then open your SD card and drag the Nook Color Restore File you downloaded earlier onto the SD Card.
Now that you have CWR and the Restore file on your SD...put it into your powered off Nook Color and power on! The screen should say "loading" with two skulls on each side...this is CWR.
From the main menu...scroll down to "mounts and storage". You use the Vol +\- keys for this..the "N" button is the 'select' button.
Scroll to "Format System" and select...scroll to "yes" and select..
Scroll to "Format Data" and select..select "yes"
Scroll to "format Cache"..ect...
Scroll to "format boot"...After boot, it will freeze up (normal) just press and hold power till it shuts down, then press and hold power again to reboot....
Scroll to "install zip from SD card" and select ...
scroll to "choose zip from sd card" and select...your recovery zip should be listed...select it...
After it runs through the update, remove the SD card, go back to main menu and select Reboot (the Power button is used as a 'back' button)
It should boot up into Stock, run through registration, then hook it up via the USB cable to your computer and drop the new 1.4.1 file on it...let it sleep, and boom..you should be good to go.
Hope this helps..
Yoke

Thank You so much! All is well now.

Glad I could help....
I certainly don't have a lot of experience, and searching this forum can be daunting with all of the fragmented threads. Maybe this thread will help some others too.
Yoke

worked like a charm, thanks!
Az

Just want to make sure I have all the info. My Nook has 1.2 on it and I want to upgrade to 1.4. I have been booting off of a SD that has [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 on it. I can't install 1.4 now because CWR seems to be getting in the way. To fix this, I need wipe the Nook and install the software on it again using the above information? This will take the Nook back to a stock install 1.0.1. I then can update the Nook software to 1.4.1. I will then need to setup my Nook again as if it was new and redownload all of the Books, Apps, Mag, ect... that I had been using?
If this is the case, is there a chance on losing old books, ect... if they are no longer available from BN? Can I back up this information before starting this process?
Once I'm back up and running this my old stuff redownloaded and updated to 1.4.1 I can then put my old CM7 SD card back in and boot off of it and everything should work?
One last question, I only have a 32GB microSD card and there is not an option for a 32GB download of the CWR. Do I need to go by a different one to be able to do this or can I make my 32GB one work somehow? Thanks.

The size of the image should not matter... I would try the smallest (1 GB) version. The rest of the SD card will just sit empty. This way the image is written much faster .
ROM Updating only needs around 70 MB (for CM7.1), so 1 GB is plenty.

[Q][NookHD+] Anyway to install CWM emmc while CyanogenMod is running?

Solved, topic can be deleted.
Left the nook to charge for a bit, then backed up the files, formatted the SD card, and tried again and the card started booting.
One of the two seems to have fixed it.
After trying (and failing) to update CyanogenMod through the menu (Nook rebooted into stock recovery mode, and told me there was an error), I've been unable to boot from external SD card. I had a 4GB MicroSD that would boot 9 out of 10 times, which is untouched since I last used it, and either the Nook will not turn on (no Nook screen into Cyanogen loading), or the Cyanogen loading screen will freeze and reboot.
Is there a way to install CWM while CM is running?
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