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Got a new HD. How to restore to Factory.

Hi.
Got my Shift back from service after almost 2 month of waiting. (HDD died)
They havent installed the HDD with the factory recovery partition, as they where waiting for the SW from HTC.
So i just ordered it back as is.
Can somebody explain how to setup the correct partitions as they are by default.
Either with Fdisk or any other program on HirensBootDisk or by using Slax as i already have these at hand.
I'm quite unsure what values to put in, what to set active and what not.
I have a copy of the Vista recovery from deadnex, so ill put that on later.
Thanks
Ps. the HDD came with some weird partition sizes??

Same query if replace the HDD how to restore the factory recovery partition

Could someone please answer the following :
C: 36,25GB, Primary Partition, Active, NTFS (what is your exact size in MB??)
D: 3GB, Primary Partition, FAT 32 (What is your exact size in MB??)
What is your setup from factory?

if u dont mean the hidden one with " d:", i just have one partition
c: ntfs 36.774.174.720 Bytes 34,2 GB Saying File explorer
Device manager: 35072 MB

Hi nobody.
Yes i mean the hidden recovery partition with d:

memory problem

I have my nook rooted through my memory card. When I check how much internal storage I have on it through the nook it shows only 900 mb. It shows the same when I have it hooked to my computer. I know its supposed to have 5 gigs. I havent downloaded anything so I dont know where all the 4 + gigs went. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Can anyone please help?

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Can anyone please help?
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Barnes & Noble repartitioned the newest Nook Colors. If you had done even a hint of research before starting yet another thread you would know that.....which is why no one answered you last night when you asked this question....C'mon man this isn't customer service, do a search before you post.

How bout I did research and everything that i've seen has said that 5 gigs should show not 900 mb. The nook has 8 gigs. 3 are used for the os/repair and 5 for downloading things.

Nope, you are wrong.
New models made in May or refurb units as of May are partitioned for 1 GB of space.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13772065&postcount=4

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083506
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1080445
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077321

Thats bs. When I bought it I was told there were 5 gigs for storage of files from my computer. Lokks like im sending this back. Thanks. Sorry bout the tude before.

No worries...I didn't mean to jump on you either. Just gets frustrating seeing new posts with the same old questions. Makes it tough to stay on top of the most current stuff and gets a little frustrating.

YeA i had searched but everything that came back said 5 gigs. Based on my reading of the threads that were posted theres no way to reparation the nook?

thegameksk said:
YeA i had searched but everything that came back said 5 gigs. Based on my reading of the threads that were posted theres no way to reparation the nook?
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It's being worked on by many, but as of yet has not been solved. Conventional methods have come up empty. I'm quite sure we're getting closer to a solution though.

I was doing some research and came across this:
Here's how to convert a new NC (or one where you don't care about anything in /data and /media that won't be automatically restored by B&N) with only a 1GB /media space, back to one with with 5GB media space:
Boot a rooted Android system in the external SD card slot:
Access the rooted OS command line prompt, using either ConnectBot or ADB.
Fire up "busybox fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0"
Delete partition #8 (the /media partition).
Note the size of partition #7 (the cache partition), and delete it as well.
Delete partition #6 (the /data partition).
Recreate partition #6 (the /data partition), to the size you want (say 1GB).
Recreate partition #7 (the /cache partition), to the size noted in step #5.
Recreate partition #8 (the /media partition), to occupy the remainder of the space.
Remove the SDcard and reboot.
When the NC boots its native system, it will recreate (just like a factory reset), the contents of the resized partitions. Yes, you will have to reregister. Of course, the same process, but with a different number in step #7, can give you more app space.
This is easily scriptable as well, and I fully expect such scripts.
Do you think this could work? I dont know enough about modding to try it. lol

[Q] how do i put 2 partitions on my sd card

I have scoured and tried to no avail, so I called my mom and told her I was special (as per your awesome noob video), or possibly illiterate. I rooted my nc last week via the instructions I found here (TY!!) it works so great that my memory is full, so I downloaded apps2sd and link2sd and neither will let me transfer to my 16gb PNY sdhc, link2sd says it needs 2 primary partitions, I downloaded easeus, paragon partition manager, and sdk manager, none will let me create a new partition, I can delete, and create 1 partition only, I have tried through windows disk manager as well. I am running Vista 32bit, also have a laptop with XP SP2. Sorry if this question is stupid, any help is greatly appreciated!!

You have to shrink the partition already on there and then make another from the unused space.
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ok I went back to windows disk management and shrink is greyed out, so I tried paragon and got this message when I tried to resize:
Basic MBR Hard Disk 1 (Lexar RW047SDHC Reader USB Device) - Removable
Wizard could not find any adjacent partitions to work with on this hard drive. Note, hard drive must contain at least a pair of partitions that are located next to each other (two primary and/or two logical) to perform resize between.
Thank You Again!

Try using Easeus.
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I just checked EaseUs and it seems to work. You can re-size the existing to a smaller one and then create a new one with what is left over.

Most definitely helpful. Thanks!
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Sorry it took so long to get back,
Thank you for your replies, are you using the free version of easeus? on mine I have the re-size option for my hard drive but when i select the sd card it disappears

I think you have to right click the partition to see all the options. Is that what you are doing?
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I just tried right clicking and still no resize for my sd, I can (copy partition, change label, change drive letter, check-hide-format-explore partition, and view properties). I'm wondering if I perhaps messed up the sd card, it seems to be functional I can add/retrieve data from it and speed up my system. maybe the wrong file system? it is fat32 and says it has a 14.91 GB capacity. I'm generally pretty good with technology, rooting my nook was a breeze, but this is starting to make me feel pretty dumb!

Hmm, backup your sd card onto your pc abd then format the card in the nook and try again. Also make sure you are running easeus as admin.
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well looks like I'm about 50% there! using mini-tool partition wizard I managed to shrink the original partition down to 6.99 GB, but it wouldn't allow me to add another, it said I had to delete the first partition if I wanted to create multiple partitions, so I did but then when I tried to create the new partitions there was no option to create multiples so I ended up right where I started, so once again I shrank the partition and opened easeus and it keeps telling me I've successfully created the 2nd partitions but is still showing up as unallocated space and my nook wants to format it, won't let me do anything else with it, so I let it and tried again, but still nothing. Is it possible this cannot be done with a 16 GB card? I didn't think size really mattered with this kind of thing it should still be the same operation as a smaller card right?

Do you know of a program like link2sd or app2sd, that doesn't require a 2nd partition? I'm starting to think this is an unfixable user error!

[Gparted] Nook Simple Touch resize partitions non-destructive

!! Important: Make a backup of your Nook device first !!
Resize partitions
1. Download Gparted LiveCD
2. Extract onto FAT / FAT32 USB memory stick or burn to CD-ROM
3. If on a USB memory stick, run \utils\win32\makeboot.bat from the memory stick.
Do NOT run makeboot from a hard disk!
4. Boot computer from USB device into Gparted
5. Connect your Nook running Noogie of a Micro USB card (this will make the partitions visible to Gparted).
6. Resize the last partition (nr 8) labelled "data" (= Barnes & Nobles content)
Make sure to move the partition to the far right.
7. Move the next-to-last partition (nr 7) labelled "cache" without resizing it.
8. Extend the next-to-next-to-last partition (nr 6) labelled "nook" (Side loaded content) to fill the gap.
9. Remove USB cord, Micro USB card and boot your Nook.
10. In Settings you can inspect the amount of storage space.
I received errors when the partitions were about to be moved on the disk.
I changed the partitioning resize to field where it says "Align to:" from "MiB" to "Cylinder". After a 2nd attempt and doing each partition individually all worked out well.

For those only with Windows, download Gparted LiveCD iso image and use virtualbox to boot from it. It still worked well.
Edit: I successfully repartitioned two of my Nook Simple Touch using the method above + virtualbox + Gparted LiveCD iso.
Surprisingly, the size of partitions in my two NST were slightly different, suggesting that the physical size and location of partitions don't matter as long as their order and type in the partition table are as expected and the size is big enough to hold files there. I resized and moved the last three partitions as I wanted several times and made sure they work well.
Factory reset, upgrade to 1.2.1 (this seems to require the cache partition to be big enough to hold the firmware update file: something like 128MB worked for me), rooting all worked well with resized partitions. I ended up shrinking the cache partition down to 32MB and the data partition to 128MB, reserving 1.11GB for the side-loaded contents. I'm sure the system partition can also be shrunken, but I didn't go that far.

Why a live cd? Does installing gparted to whatever linux flavor you're using not work?

I don't use linux on my PC... only on hacked router & nas.
Goggles2114 said:
Why a live cd? Does installing gparted to whatever linux flavor you're using not work?
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So dump Noogie on a microsd card run noogie and while noogie's running plug nook into pc? Do you just plutg it in and it does everything auto, or does something in noogie need to be run? Does this work on a nook touch glow?
Sorry to sound so dense but rooted using NookManager.
Edit more to the point it's throwing up an error when trying to move sdb8 around. It shrank fine just won't move. Not sure why. Not getting any useful error messages. Just 'can't have overlapping partitions.'
Odd. I was able to move it twice and get it to behave. Yet do the same n one move and Nothing. Apologies for the rinning Log just. Meh. The rest of the partitions resized in one step. sdb8 was the one that needed two steps.
Aaaand Success. Showing up as having 913MB free as opposed to like 212 or whatever.
Edit: now I'm getting a constant 'low space' warning from nook (understandable.) And installing apps is hit/miss on if they'll actually install. Keeps claiming space issues.
Query. Do apps install to the BnN partition or where?

Good to hear another success story. In my case I squeezed all the way to 1.45GB for the side-loaded contents. boot/rom/system/cache/data partitions are shrunken, and factory partition is busted. I had to use fdisk instead of GPartED to completely recreate the partition table, though.
I think, apps are installed to the data partition (the 8th one) under /data/app. Before being installed it's downloaded to cache partition (the 7th one). In my case I gave 16M for cache and 128M for data. If you are low on the data partition and have some space left on the system partition, you can move apps from /data/app to /system/app.
Goggles2114 said:
So dump Noogie on a microsd card run noogie and while noogie's running plug nook into pc? Do you just plutg it in and it does everything auto, or does something in noogie need to be run? Does this work on a nook touch glow?
Sorry to sound so dense but rooted using NookManager.
Edit more to the point it's throwing up an error when trying to move sdb8 around. It shrank fine just won't move. Not sure why. Not getting any useful error messages. Just 'can't have overlapping partitions.'
Odd. I was able to move it twice and get it to behave. Yet do the same n one move and Nothing. Apologies for the rinning Log just. Meh. The rest of the partitions resized in one step. sdb8 was the one that needed two steps.
Aaaand Success. Showing up as having 913MB free as opposed to like 212 or whatever.
Edit: now I'm getting a constant 'low space' warning from nook (understandable.) And installing apps is hit/miss on if they'll actually install. Keeps claiming space issues.
Query. Do apps install to the BnN partition or where?
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What's the point of doing all this?
You gave a list of instructions, but not the goal they achieve.

L_R_N said:
What's the point of doing all this?
You gave a list of instructions, but not the goal they achieve.
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Which post are you referring to?

Troute said:
Which post are you referring to?
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.c0.'s original post.

His instructions describe how to use gparted to resize the partitions on the NST to make full use of the memory available after you have rooted it. I've used gparted before so maybe they were clearer to me than to others but the thread title was the main clue.

Troute said:
His instructions describe how to use gparted to resize the partitions on the NST to make full use of the memory available after you have rooted it. I've used gparted before so maybe they were clearer to me than to others but the thread title was the main clue.
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I kind of thought that Nook's internal 2GB flash is already sanely formatted (i.e. most space is dedicated to the partition that is mounted at /media). If that is not the case, then that should be noted in the first post. It would also be cool if it said exactly how much space each partition has (I think i saw these partitions back when i've used Noogie to make initial backup of my device, but i don't remember the details), and how much space you would gain, and on which partition (and where it is mounted).

L_R_N said:
I kind of thought that Nook's internal 2GB flash is already sanely formatted (i.e. most space is dedicated to the partition that is mounted at /media). If that is not the case, then that should be noted in the first post. It would also be cool if it said exactly how much space each partition has (I think i saw these partitions back when i've used Noogie to make initial backup of my device, but i don't remember the details), and how much space you would gain, and on which partition (and where it is mounted).
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Thanks! i did the work 880MB for side loaded content now!!!
on one of my NST i had an issue resizing the FAT32 partition and i had to format it to make it work.
Other than that all went ok!
Thanks

How to maximize RAM available for apps
I found this easy to read table here.
I doubt that I will ever download books from B&N. I want to minimize the space for that. I infer that I should minimize partition 8 that gets mounted to \data. Is there a practical / actual minimum for this?
I see that anything I copy in from my PC over USB is going into media. 100MB should be more than I need. I could put in an SD card for this sort of thing if it grows.
My question is, which partition do I want to increase to make the maximum available to apps downloaded from the google marketplace?
If an application requires a minimum of 512 MB of RAM, which partition(s) do I need to set >= 512?
New additional question: Upon some further research, I see that you can use sd cards for swapfiles to increase system RAM up to a maximum of 4GB. Does anyone know if it is possible to use this built-in storage for the same purpose?
.c0. said:
!! Important: Make a backup of your Nook device first !!
Resize partitions
1. Download Gparted LiveCD
2. Extract onto FAT / FAT32 USB memory stick or burn to CD-ROM
3. If on a USB memory stick, run \utils\win32\makeboot.bat from the memory stick.
Do NOT run makeboot from a hard disk!
4. Boot computer from USB device into Gparted
5. Connect your Nook running Noogie of a Micro USB card (this will make the partitions visible to Gparted).
6. Resize the last partition (nr 8) labelled "data" (= Barnes & Nobles content)
Make sure to move the partition to the far right.
7. Move the next-to-last partition (nr 7) labelled "cache" without resizing it.
8. Extend the next-to-next-to-last partition (nr 6) labelled "nook" (Side loaded content) to fill the gap.
9. Remove USB cord, Micro USB card and boot your Nook.
10. In Settings you can inspect the amount of storage space.
I received errors when the partitions were about to be moved on the disk.
I changed the partitioning resize to field where it says "Align to:" from "MiB" to "Cylinder". After a 2nd attempt and doing each partition individually all worked out well.
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I have a little (maybe big?) problem. Can't partition with Gparted Live, as gparted scans my /dev/sdb (nook) infinitely. If I plug out my nook, other partitions (in my case: /dev/sda) become visible and ready. Looks like my nook hangs gparted. Tried on 2 different PCs and no effect. Tried different version of Gparted Live (i486 & amd64) - still nothing.
Of course noogie is inside the nook unit, ready and steady. Already made a backup of (non-rooted) device, plus partitions are visible in Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows 7.
What to do in this situation? Is Linux the only safe way to repartition device? Or maybe Minitool would be as effective and safe?
If Linux is the only way to go, how to make nook visible to Gparted?
Please, experts.

DJ Athlon said:
I have a little (maybe big?) problem. Can't partition with Gparted Live, as gparted scans my /dev/sdb (nook) infinitely. If I plug out my nook, other partitions (in my case: /dev/sda) become visible and ready. Looks like my nook hangs gparted. Tried on 2 different PCs and no effect. Tried different version of Gparted Live (i486 & amd64) - still nothing.
Of course noogie is inside the nook unit, ready and steady. Already made a backup of (non-rooted) device, plus partitions are visible in Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows 7.
What to do in this situation? Is Linux the only safe way to repartition device? Or maybe Minitool would be as effective and safe?
If Linux is the only way to go, how to make nook visible to Gparted?
Please, experts.
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If Gparted doesn't work for you, I'd highly recommend Minitool Partiton Wizard - it's what I used to partiton my Nook. Nice, easy UI, too.

Yeah, I often work with Minitool, but is it as safe as Gparted when it comes to nook?

DJ Athlon said:
Yeah, I often work with Minitool, but is it as safe as Gparted when it comes to nook?
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Yeah, it is. Just make sure to make a Noogie backup before repartitoning.

Sorry for bugging you, but can't shrink userdata(ext3). What to do? Delete that partition and re-create it or...?

DJ Athlon said:
Sorry for bugging you, but can't shrink userdata(ext3). What to do? Delete that partition and re-create it or...?
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Yes, delete and recreate is the way to go.

Please, people, help me
Write step to step guide for work with Minitool Partiton Wizard
I want to free the reserved space for B&N books of my NST ver. 1.2.1
The device is already rooted.
I installed Minitool Partiton Wizard on my PC, but after connecting it thru USB cable with my Nook, it only see "official" 240MBs.
Cannot find other around 750 MB reserved storage for B&N books ?
What to do
Explain to me, please

Partitioning HDD on Multi-OS system.

Well, I have the Cube i10 Android/Windows Tablet. Nice thing, except maybe the space for the Android OS being a bit too small.
I managed to upgrade my Windows 10 to 10586 and with seperate language pack, it back in my language.
Now i looked around the internet, if I could change the predefined space for either System. (It is possible to increase the partition size of the Andorid OS, but it requires a re-flashing, which I don't neccessarily want. In windows disc-management i saw all the partitions given for android etc, but did not dare to touch something as it was shown in RAW-format. Now i installed a "real" partitioning program (Paragon Partition Manager 15) and it shows me the "real" informations.
Total disk: 28.9 gb (which sums up to ~32gb advertised)
- then a lot of small (5x 16 and 3x 64 and 1x 32mb) GTP partitions, no label, all hidden (i expect these to be android Dalvik, recovery and cache partitions)
- then 4x Linux ext4 partitions (16mb, partially full, 1gb, hardly full, 256mb, half full another almost full 1gb partition) don't know what these are, also all hidden
- then a 3GB Linux ext4 partition (which surely represents the ROM from the Android part, with exact taken/free space data from android)
- then - my problem - a 128mb GPT-Volume, which i can't move
- then the 22.7gb Windows Partition (is resizeable)
- and last, a 450mb hidden backup/windows recovery partition
my problem is, that i can't move the 128mb GPT-Volume. So even if i can split ~2-3gb off the Windows partition, it stays after the GPT volume but it has to be before that to be merged with the android 3gb to make it bigger. I read around that you can delete the GPT-partitions, but don't want to risk it. I "could" merge my 3gb Linux partition with any of the 4 other partitions, but as all of those are not empty, i expect them to be some system recovery backup or whatever. Any information?

I'm afraid that you have to do repartitioning with android flasher and then reinstall Windows too.
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sad, i was afraid that it would be able by editing the partition.tbl file in the rom. Well then i have to stay with the few space i got.