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Is possible to restore the partition inside the Nook?

I tried to root my nook touch with both methods in this forum, but now I have the device locked on the screen "rooted forever."
before rooting my nook I made a backup copy, which is coming of 1,962,934,272 bytes, also the backup files and folders are written in strange symbols, there are no letters.
Then I formatted the sdcard and also the internal memory to the nook, and now when I connect to the pc nothing happens, everything stopped, all dead! (on windows)
I also tried with the image "nookrestore.img" but nothing.
When I insert the memory with an image loaded with win32imager I hold down the power button, the screen refresh and then nothing happens, no microsd does not turn off either.
How can I reflash the internal memory of the nook?
Please help me, I would not throw it after about 1 week!
I used an 8GB Class 4 microSD card and a reader.

matteodica said:
I tried to root my nook touch with both methods in this forum, but now I have the device locked on the screen "rooted forever."
before rooting my nook I made a backup copy, which is coming of 1,962,934,272 bytes, also the backup files and folders are written in strange symbols, there are no letters.
Then I formatted the sdcard and also the internal memory to the nook, and now when I connect to the pc nothing happens, everything stopped, all dead! (on windows)
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Go figure, you removed everything, including loader
matteodica said:
I also tried with the image "nookrestore.img" but nothing.
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It's not possible to trigger factory restore when you erased the loader, boot and restore image..
matteodica said:
When I insert the memory with an image loaded with win32imager I hold down the power button, the screen refresh and then nothing happens, no microsd does not turn off either.
How can I reflash the internal memory of the nook?
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Write Noogie.img to a SD card and boot your NST with that.
Then use the instructions found here to write your backup back to the NST (second half of the post)
Read and understand that post before continuing, then make sure you have the correct tools (MiniTool Partition Wizard & Roadkil's free DiskImager)
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matteodica said:
before rooting my nook I made a backup copy, which is coming of 1,962,934,272 bytes, also the backup files and folders are written in strange symbols, there are no letters.
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uh-oh .. I missed this part!
What method did you use to backup your NST?
For the above method to work your backup needs to be a image created with DiskImager. If you used some other method you're most likely hosed!

Hello, thanks for the help.
I did follow up jokala's tutorial and I used Roadkil's DiskImage 1.6.
I restored the backup on the memory nook properly, always with Roadkil's DiskImage 1.6, now when I connect the device to my PC (Windows 7 64bit) I can see a partition with "miniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition", the file system is "fat32 "Capacity = 1.83gb, used = 1.62 gb 214.31 mb = unused, type = primary, status = active, but the name of the partition is" k! € ° Å ¡Ã Â ³ aS {"
Is normal to have this label? and fat32 partition?
ps.
apparently with Windows 7 64-bit there is a bug that prevents the writing of 'file.img on usb device, error 5 sector 0 and I solved with this program

matteodica said:
Hello, thanks for the help.
I did follow up jokala's tutorial and I used Roadkil's DiskImage 1.6.
I restored the backup on the memory nook properly, always with Roadkil's DiskImage 1.6, now when I connect the device to my PC (Windows 7 64bit) I can see a partition with "miniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition", the file system is "fat32 "Capacity = 1.83gb, used = 1.62 gb 214.31 mb = unused, type = primary, status = active, but the name of the partition is" k! € ° Å ¡Ã Â ³ aS {"
Is normal to have this label? and fat32 partition?
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No, you should see 7 partitions.
Again, how did you make your backup?
matteodica said:
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apparently with Windows 7 64-bit there is a bug that prevents the writing of 'file.img on usb device, error 5 sector 0 and I solved with this program
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This has to be old info, both my laptops are Win7 64bit and I've had no problems with using DiskImager to write to the NST with them.

ros87 said:
Again, how did you make your backup?
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I formatted the microSD format, the image I wrote "noogie.img on microSD with" win32diskimager "rather than" DiskImage 1.6 ", because I could not write on the memory cards for the problem that I wrote in my previous post (" error # 5 ") and then placed in the nook, I connected the device to the PC and turned it on.
I've seen "rooted forever" on the screen of the computer nook and I created the file "backup.img" with "DiskImage 1.6".
This is the procedure I did, maybe I was wrong to use two different programs?
I'm reading that i can rebuild the partition table, and can be modified to have more storage space link.
I'm thinking of this solution, recreate the partitions and copy files and folders manually by an original copy of the operating system of the Nook, but I do not know what are the data that must be unique.
What are the data that I need to recover?

Moved to General, didn't seem development related.

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Ok I was able to solve the problem, with the help of the indispensable Ros87, who reconstructed the image of my backups corrupted, without him I threw my nook.
summary:
In practice I have formatted the partition of the nook and my backup was corrupted, so when the device connected to the PC with the microsd "Noogie" nothing happened.
Solution:
I opened the nook (it is very easy to open it) and I disconnected the battery to make sure it was off, then I connected to the PC a couple of hours to charge the battery is discharged during the night of all, I do not know but because the day after my nook had completely drained the battery!
just connected to the PC (Windows 7 64bit) I have heard the typical sound that windows makes when you connect an external device, but I did not see the device in the Device / storage devices, but with "MiniTool Partition wizard" I saw the partition of the nook, so I deleted (with "MiniTool Partition Wizard") and followed the guide to restore the backup image on windows, in the end it was fine!
I'm happy!

matteodica said:
Ok I was able to solve the problem, with the help of the indispensable Ros87, who reconstructed the image of my backups corrupted, without him I threw my nook.
summary:
In practice I have formatted the partition of the nook and my backup was corrupted, so when the device connected to the PC with the microsd "Noogie" nothing happened.
Solution:
I opened the nook (it is very easy to open it) and I disconnected the battery to make sure it was off, then I connected to the PC a couple of hours to charge the battery is discharged during the night of all, I do not know but because the day after my nook had completely drained the battery!
just connected to the PC (Windows 7 64bit) I have heard the typical sound that windows makes when you connect an external device, but I did not see the device in the Device / storage devices, but with "MiniTool Partition wizard" I saw the partition of the nook, so I deleted (with "MiniTool Partition Wizard") and followed the guide to restore the backup image on windows, in the end it was fine!
I'm happy!
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Where the heck is the thanks button :X

Stuck on Rooted Forever, NST not recoginsed by PC

Decided to try a rooted NST again so I backed up my non-rooted image using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15115162&postcount=2.
Didn't like the rooted experience so I tried to restore using the instructions above, got as far as deleting all of the partitions. When I tried to restore the image using Win32diskimager I realised that my Win7 laptop was no longer reading the nook. I've tried other PCs but I've not had any look in getting any of them to recognise the NST.
So my NST is now stuck on Rooted Forever and is not recogised by my computer so I can't restore my backup. Any help would be appreciated.

Tried plugging it in to the laptop this morning and pressing the Power and n button together. The Rooted Forever went away, so the screen is now blank and the light that was previously showing only green turned to orange.
Continuous pressing of the Power button causes the light to turn green, screen to flash, then turn back orange. NST still not being recognised by the laptop however. Help?

I'm unclear on exactly what you did.
In any case, there is almost no reason to ever delete partitions on anything.
Put noogie on an SD. Insert SD. Boot. Connect on USB.
Use Win32DiskImager to write your backup onto the Nook.
Remove SD. Boot.

Thanks for your reply. I deleted the partitions because of
To restore your backup:
(Boot Nook with the noogie sd)
Run Partition Wizard and delete all partitions on your Nook. Careful in disk selection here, wiping the wrong drive could be catastrophic! This is required, because DiskImager won't write to a partitioned drive.
Okay I tried what you said. I'm seeing Removable Disk in My Computer but clicking it gives me Please insert a disk into Removable Disk. Win32diskimager is showing no devices.

Win32diskimager doesn't care at all what partitions are on your device.
It writes physical data onto a device.
How is it that the Window (File) Explorer is showing a drive letter and W32DI can't see it?
Is the Nook showing "Rooted Forever"?
I believe noogie does two mounts but the second one is inactive.
Check your desktop for all drive letters. Use "Disk Management".

Yes nook is showing Rooted Forever.
In Disk Management, I'm seeing 'Disk 1 Removable 1.83 Online' and it shows 1.83 Unallocated. And 'Disk 2 Removable (F No Media'. (F is the letter drive I'm seeing in Windows File Explorer.

Well, that's your problem, deleting the partitions stops Windows from recognizing it enough to give it a letter.
In disk management see if you can assign it a drive letter (on Disk1)
If you can't, do a quick format in disk management.
It doesn't matter what kind or how as long as you can assign a drive letter when you are done.

Yes, that was exactly the problem. Restored backup and it's up and running now.
Thanks for all the help, now I know what not to do lol.

[Q] External SD card problems

I have spent over 8 hours yesterday researching, reading posts, trying to partition my SD card for an A500 with:
1. 2 Partitions
2. FAT32
3. Primary
I don't have an andriod phone so it is not an option to format it by connecting the phone to the computer. I have rooted my tablet and installed Titanium backup, android assistant, superuser and link2sd. The problem that I am having is the tablet is not recognizing either the first or second partition because it does not have a drive letter. When I assisgn it a drive letter and set up all the specs listed above and click apply, the program tells me it has successfully completed but then immediately replaces the second primary partition drive letter with an *. From my hours of reading yesterday I understand that my computer does not recognize a second primary partition so therefore replaces the drive letter with an *. I have tried mini tool partition wizard and easeus and both produce the same results. PLEASE HELP. Thanks in advance

i'm fairly sure your card MUST be formatted using android....
u could try SDformatter but it didnt work for me,
not sure if it can be done thru linux, maybe someone who knows more about these things can advise you
what is it you are trying to achieve with the 2 partitions - there maybe other options available to you

[Q] I deleted partitions and my nook got "bricked"

I'm so desperate because I deleted the partitions from my nook with these instructions :
---you can google it and the first link it is--->> "how-to-backup-and-restore-nook-glow-and-nook-simple-touch"
So... I think my backup wasn't well written :S or something like that.
When I deleted the partitions, EVERYTHING went to hell... My nook is actually freeze, my computer doesn't recognize it at all when I plug the cable. My nook just turn the tiny light on, what means it is charging.
---------->Now, my doubt is: is there any hope to my case? how can I fix it? )= how can i make my lap recognizes the nook reader?
Is there any backup file to write on a sd card?
I press the button to turn it on but anything happens.
I've tried nookmanager(this one couldn't make a restore backup nor factory.zip) and the "alpha format touch" (this one tells there's a lack o "log", and a few more files.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

So if you followed those directions you should have ended up with a file on your desktop about 1.9 gigabytes, right?
(If you have a DVD burner, burn that to a DVD, it will make me feel better.)
Why, oh, why do people delete partitions?
You still have the SD card with the Noogie on it, right?
That will still boot up saying "Rooted Forever"?
Now use WinImage (or whatever you used) to write the image back to the Nook.

Renate NST said:
So if you followed those directions you should have ended up with a file on your desktop about 1.9 gigabytes, right?
(If you have a DVD burner, burn that to a DVD, it will make me feel better.)
Why, oh, why do people delete partitions?
You still have the SD card with the Noogie on it, right?
That will still boot up saying "Rooted Forever"?
Now use WinImage (or whatever you used) to write the image back to the Nook.
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YES, I hvae the noogie in my sdcard
I also have my file with 1.8gb but i've tried to write it on the sd card but I don't know what happened, it seems like the file was empty :S because when I put the sd card into the nook and try to turn it on the screen still says:" Rooted for ever", even if I press the button a few seconds (maybe 30 seconds)
If I try to open the 1.8gb file with winimage, there's something like the image
it takes more?

You don't write your 1.9 GB file to an SD card, you write it to the Nook internal memory.
With the Nook booted up on the SD card with Noogie, connect USB and use your utility to copy the 1.9 GB to the Nook.
What you showed in your snapshot does not look promising.
You might have done the backup after the Nook was trashed or else corrupted the backup.
Be careful with that 1.9 GB file, you do not want to lose it.

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Thank you for your advice.
Maybe you are right: I didn't create the backup img. as it should be.
Now, i'm wondering if there anybody who wants to share a backup image from a "good" nook and mail it me.
Do you know someone ? T___T Please!!, I'd really appreciate it!

You really don't want to use an image from another device as are there are device specific things on the image. Slow down and don't be in a hurry to find another image yet. You might not be in as bad of shape as you think. 1.8GB is the right size for a backup so you may be OK. As Renate said - DON'T LOSE IT.
Now a couple of things. You said you wrote the image to the SD card and rebooted the device with the SD card in the device. As Renate pointed out this isn't how you restore. And once you finish restoring you reboot without the SD card in the device - if you've got a Noogie card in the device it will always boot the Rooted Forever.
I question whether the WinImage screen shot you posted is actually from your backup. With the size partitions its showing a 1.8GB image file seems quite a bit on the small side. In any event it can't hurt at this point to try a proper restore to the Nook and see if it works. Have you followed the instructions on the page you poitned to to restore your backup:
3. Plug your Nook into your computer with the USB cable.
4. ... instructions on deleting partitions... You already did this, no need to do it again
5. To restore, open Roadkil’s DiskImage software. Use the “Write Image” tab this time and select the Nook Drive from the drop-down list. Select the source file, the backup image you created earlier, and hit start to restore.
6. When the restore is finished, you can disconnect your Nook from the computer and remove the noogie microSD card and reboot.
Try it and report back.

Actually I realy want a nook backup, another backup ( I think there's not another worst thing than this one =s ), because I've tried lots of times the steps you have described and dont work. Actualy my pc doesn't recognize when I plug the nook in.
**When I do the step #5 my nook doesn't response, just appears the well known image: "rooted for ever", but does not turn on, even if I press the button for a long time**
Please, I think I really need another backup image )=
Well, I hope your advice.

Cannot access NOOK folder (the internal memory)

Hello everyone,
newbee here!
Well before I go on I want to tell you that I searched all over the thread but didn't find similar problem. Anyway if there was please send me a link to see how can I solve my problem.
I have a NSTG which was rooted before I had bought it. How it was rooted and which ROM version it was I do not know. One week ago when I opened it to continue reading a book it booted and started the registering proccess. I realized that something wrong has happened to it. The registering process failed and I followed instructions from this link to restore it to factory state.
Now I have stock ROM 1.1.5 but I'm looking forward to root it. I came across the ROM 1337 and I want to use it for the rooting proccess.
First I have to manually update it to 1.2.1 (following the instructions from B&N site) and then to root it but my current problem is that I cannot access the internal NOOK folder from my computer.
I did the restore proccess two times because I thought I did something wrong but with the same results. I even had a chat session with B&N support clerk and he assured me that I should be able to access the internal NOOK folder from my PC. Don't worry I didn't tell him I had a rooted Nook. So now I cannot copy the .zip file to the internal memory and manually invoke the update procedure. When I insert an SD card into the reader I can access it but not the internal memory.
I remember I could do this before the problem appeared. Anyway in My Computer in Windows 7 64-bit I can see the SD card and another drive. When I try to open that other drive I get a message "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk F:"
I tried to insert my reader in another computer but the problem remains.
I'm posting a picture of the partitions:
So some help would be much appreciated!

I guess I have posted in the wrong section.
Please, Mod,
move my previous post to the "Help thread"

/system/etc/vold tells the UMS what to mount
It should mount /media and /sdcard as two disks.
You should be able to see this as two disks in your desktop file explorer.
Does /media even exist?