[Q] Problem with Touchpad usb mounting - TouchPad Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Here is my problem:
Friend of mine bought a dual boot touchpad and it worked until it updated webos to 3.0.5.
Now when I went to work on it (I'm new to doing installs on touchpad, just installed CM7 on mine and it went flawlessly), I knew the update just knocked out moboot.
Well I went though the paces, and hooked the touchpad to the computer, selected usb drive in WebOS, and windows says format the device, which I did not.
I just then downloaded moboot though WebOS and used XX Commander to make the directory and move the file to the directory.
The rest of the steps worked fine, novacom worked fine, touchpad recognized the cminstall directory, and it now boots up to CM9 fine again.
At first CM9 would not recognize it when I hooked it up, looked online again, and fixed the options and the computer recognizes the touchpad as a usb storage device when CM9 is running.
But when I boot into WebOS, it still will not recognize the USB Drive as a useable drive.
What I read online so far was either I re-install the whole thing, or nothing. My friend does not want me to do that. But what doesn't make sense to me is novacom with ACME recognized the usb drive directory, CM9 recognizes it, XX Commander in WebOS recognized it, but WebOS does not, so it really doesn't sound like a partition problem like most of the things I read says, more like a mount problem, but I can be wrong. Is there anything I can do besides just a flat out re-install of everything?
Its a 16gb Touchpad with CM9 Version 9.0.0-RC0-Touchpad-alpha0.5

Just to clear some of the stuff up. What you mean is that under WebOS when you attach the TouchPad to your computer ... WebOS doesn't give you the option to attach the TouchPad as a USB Drive however when the TouchPad is booted into CyanogenMod 9 you are able to attach the TouchPad as a USB drive?
I'd still go with the wipe everything out and then redo everything option which your friend discourages. By wipe everything I mean running ACMEUninstaller to remove Android then running a factory reset within WebOS. If that doesn't work then running WebOS Doctor.
If your friend is afraid of losing what's on the storage drive of the TouchPad, then just copy what he wants off to a computer while in CyanogenMod. If he doesn't want the apps on Android getting messed up then use Titanium Backup to backup the apps and their associated data. If its the WebOS apps then, I'm not really too much in the knowledge on that subject. However you can see if this site can help you out.
http://www.webosnation.com/backup
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Sorry I wasn't clear on that. I hook the Touchpad up to the computer when the touchpad is in WebOS. The Touchpad gives the option to select USB Drive. I click on that option, then on my computer a windows pops up saying "You need to format the disk drive J: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?" In CM9, when I hook the tablet up to the computer now, it will show up as a usb drive, showing the folder that webos should be showing when hooked up to the computer.
I'm guessing I will have to convince to reinstall it then. Thanks for the reply!

I see ... try following the steps in the last post from this WebOS Nation forum thread.
http://forums.webosnation.com/hp-touchpad/312465-windows-cant-read-usb-drive-2.html
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Thanks!
Thanks @Bharakrama that totally solved my problem of not being able to use my TP as a USB target!

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[Q] Touchpad won't mount usb storage anymore

So, i installed CM9, and... well, i can't mount USB mode anymore on Android, WebOS, with power+vol. up or with Clockmod...
Windows and Mac OSX says that storage is damaged and needs a format (But i can turn on the device and load Webos or Android)
So, what can i do?
Thank you guys.
Ok, i'm doing webos doctor 3.0.5
This tools is great... lol.
Go to Clockworkmod to format sdcard, this will delete all of your data
Then you can mount and install CM09
My touchpad did the same exact thing. Called HP to have it exchanged, as I also have the cracks in the case. My touchpad however, would not recognize the OEM charger within webos, connect novacom/novaterm when in bootloader mode, or connect usb in any scenario.
Hope you have better luck than me.
i solved the problem thanks to the doctor. So i reinstalled webos with doctor 3.0.5, did ACMEUninstaller and then erase data safely on webos.
i had the same problem and i found the usb cable is stuffed,i connected my samsung cable and everything working fine again.the charger works fine with samsung cable.

[Q] TouchPad Will Not Appear As USB disk on Mac Lion

Hi.
Hoping somebody can help me with this. I have a perfectly working HP TouchPad with webOS on it (3.0.5) but since I updated to 3.0.5 it will not mount as a USB drive on Mac OS X or Windows. It will appear in disk utility but I get the message to "Initialise... " the disk as it is not recognised as a valid formatted drive.
(Note webOS runs fine on it)
When I try mounting it in Windows 7 the same thing happens - I can see it in Device Manager but not as a USB drive.
I tried formatting it as FAT32 from within Windows 7 but then when I boot into webOS it says that it has to reinstall apps. In this situation even the inbuilt email application disappears from within webOS.
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I just installed JCSullins' September ROM; despite mounting on both OSX and Windows 8 partitions, and trying on my other computer, it won't mount as a USB drive on the computer for me to transfer information
Otherwise, I'm using Sullins' , Gapps, and CWM Recovery package
I'm sure its something simple and stupid, but it's not really immediately apparent on the interwebs. I couldn't find a recent FAQ either. Any hints?
felixdd said:
I just installed JCSullins' September ROM; despite mounting on both OSX and Windows 8 partitions, and trying on my other computer, it won't mount as a USB drive on the computer for me to transfer information
Otherwise, I'm using Sullins' , Gapps, and CWM Recovery package
I'm sure its something simple and stupid, but it's not really immediately apparent on the interwebs. I couldn't find a recent FAQ either. Any hints?
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I don't even remember the last time I mounted my TouchPad to my computer. I always use FTP to transfer files back and forth over WiFi. When I did though, I remember having to go into recovery and mount USB from there. Or boot into webOS and mount it. I think mounting it in Android is buggy or something from what I remember.
jsgraphicart said:
I don't even remember the last time I mounted my TouchPad to my computer. I always use FTP to transfer files back and forth over WiFi. When I did though, I remember having to go into recovery and mount USB from there. Or boot into webOS and mount it. I think mounting it in Android is buggy or something from what I remember.
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The last time I did this was CM9 (I think?) days, before data/media builds, and I had no problems mounting Android volumes then
felixdd said:
The last time I did this was CM9 (I think?) days, before data/media builds, and I had no problems mounting Android volumes then
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Well sorry. I don't mount my Tablet. Use FTP. It's fast and no cables.
felixdd said:
I just installed JCSullins' September ROM; despite mounting on both OSX and Windows 8 partitions, and trying on my other computer, it won't mount as a USB drive on the computer for me to transfer information
Otherwise, I'm using Sullins' , Gapps, and CWM Recovery package
I'm sure its something simple and stupid, but it's not really immediately apparent on the interwebs. I couldn't find a recent FAQ either. Any hints?
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I've had this problem a couple of times, after enabling Developer options (10 taps on build in About Tablet at the bottom of settings) remove the ticks from USB debugging. It's appears to have worked for me but I'm not saying that this is the answer.
All the best, let me know how you get on.
I figured it out.
OSX doesn't support MTP. The volumes won't even show up on Disk Utility
The popup I was getting was just indication that OSX recognizes something plugged into the USB port; however, since there's no support for MTP, it won't mount the partition it contains.
It probably wasn't popping up on VMware is because it won't even mount on OSX, and therefore won't load onto VM.
I downloaded Android File Transfer and all is well.

How to find back the lost memory space after uninstalling CM9 & reflashing webos3.05?

How to find back the lost memory space after uninstalling CM9 & reflashing webos3.05?
I just wanted to upgrade the cm9 on my touchpad 16GB to cm11. What I did is:
1. Uninstall cm9 using ACMEUninstaller.
2. Reflash the device using webos doctor 3.05.
After writing to the device for a while (with a chip shown on the screen), webos doctor said "Unable to reset the device". I manually reset the device, and it did start the webos nicely. But when I check the device information, I found the available memory is only 2.9GB! I installed cm9 one or two years ago with ClockworkMod, but I did nothing to uninstall it after removing cm9. Is that the reason some memory got lost? Can I find it back? Any input will be appreciated.:cyclops:
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solofrain said:
I just wanted to upgrade the cm9 on my touchpad 16GB to cm11. What I did is:
1. Uninstall cm9 using ACMEUninstaller.
2. Reflash the device using webos doctor 3.05.
After writing to the device for a while (with a chip shown on the screen), webos doctor said "Unable to reset the device". I manually reset the device, and it did start the webos nicely. But when I check the device information, I found the available memory is only 2.9GB! I installed cm9 one or two years ago with ClockworkMod, but I did nothing to uninstall it after removing cm9. Is that the reason some memory got lost? Can I find it back? Any input will be appreciated.:cyclops:
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You're trying to install a data media build, explanation and info in my thread below
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I have a 32GB Touchpad that I put CM10 4.1.2 on, in CWM, i must mount the usb storige to have my 895 MO wich have the cminstall on it, the other storage won't appear.
boot webOS stuck at the begining,'' i had a problem upgrading the CM so i lost all data including webos.
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