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[Nook Color General] boldred:
"MyNookColor" & "SDCard have disappeared from WinXP Explorer

I've spent the last several weeks trying different configurations for my nookcolor and I especially liked the stock/cm7/cm9 on my SanDisk 32Gb micro card. I upgraded to b&n 1.4.1. At that point, the "NookColor" and "SDCard" disappeared from my Windows XP explorer whenever I tried to side-load media into the NookColor internal 5gb storage.

So, I reformatted the card and set the stock back to B&N 1.2 only (no cm7/cm9) but the 5Gb internal storage ("MyNookColor" & "SDCard") still doesn't appear in Windows XP explorer, so I cannot side load media into the NookColor 5Gb internal storage.

The only reason I want to use the NookColor 1.2 5Gb internal storage is to use the nook reader for some reference books. The other ereaders on the market are pretty bad compared to B&N. So, is there a way that I can make the NC 1.2 5Gb internal storage accessible to the NookColor reader now and when I reinstall cm7/cm9?

Or is this situation one that everyone accepts (the disappearance of the NC 5Gb internal storage)?

This is an outstanding forum.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It sounds like you are triple booting with stock on emmc and CM7 and CM9 on SD. If you are not it really does not matter. It depends on which system you have booted to as to how the media shows up. If you are booted to CM9, the media shows up as "Nook Color" in Windows Explorer toward the bottom of the left pane. It should have EMMC and SDCARD under it. That is called MTP and only CM9 uses it. If you are on CM7, two drives with drive letters show in WE. One is EMMC and one is SDCARD. It's been a while since have used stock, but I seem to remember it is the same as CM7. Triple booting works well and both emmc and sdcard should show in Windows in all systems.
[Nook Color General] boldred:
Thank you very much for your reply! Yes, initially, I was dual-booting from NC stock to CM7. Then I decided to see what the fuss about CM9 was all about and that blew me away! Man! Exceptional! I want to get back to that configuration as soon as I can access the internal 5Gb on the NookColor so that I can store my reference books there and use the NC B&N reader for those. As it is, the NookColor shows up in XP Pro Device Manager as two entries under Disk drives "B&N Ebook Disk USB Device"; and, in XP explorer, the are listed as two "Removable Disk (drive letter here:)".

The first's properties are listed as "Type: Removable Disk; File system: RAW"; and the second's properties are: "Type: Removable Disk; File system: Unknown".

Thus, I can't sideload media into the NookColor using the USB cable and my PC.

I'd sure appreciate a clue. Thanks!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
With CM7, two "removable disks" always show up in Windows XP under Explorer after plugging in the cable. But, until they are activated by CM7, they are non-functional. By activated, I mean there is a screen that pops up in CM7 that has a button that says "Turn on USB storage". Until that button is pressed, the drives in Windows do nothing. After pressing, the "removable drive" label is replaced with emmc and sdcard. Pressing the button unmounts those drives in CM7 and mounts them in Windows. I believe B&N is the same way. Like I said, it's been a long time since I used stock, but I seem to remember you had to go to settings somewhere in B&N to activate the drives in Windows. Until then the drives in Windows are non-functional.

Edit: With CM9, everything is automatic. You just plug in and they show and work. If you rebuild your CM9 SD and boot to that, the EMMC media folder should show up in Windows (along with your sdcard) when you plug in the cable. Download your stuff (books, etc.) there and then reboot back to stock and your stuff will be there.
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
I noticed that the image for CWM is 1GB, does this mean I have to use a 1GB SD Card? I just purchased a refurbished nook color on eBay from B&N is there a way to tell If I received the updated partition version if the nook doesn't come in its original box?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can burn that image to any size card as long as it's at least 1GB or larger. You can size it back to its native size after you have finished installing CM. Just look at the size of the media partition in stock. If 1GB (new) or 5GB (old). I would say chances are since it has been refurbished, it is probably the new partition.
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
I have an original Nook Color. (bought first month it came out) anyways ... over the past year and 1/2 or so ? I been running all CM's 7 and 9 ... MIUI's whatever.

Last week I tried eyeballers method as stated. I screwed it up big time. My fault 100% not his. Long story short I had to re-write my boot partition via adb (YUK)

but finally after 20+ working hours, I got stock 1.0.1 running now on my emmc.

Can I just start over now from the top of eyeballers OP or do I need to re-root or update from 1.0.1 to something else ?.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You should be able to just start from the top.
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Start from the top, but I'm not sure why it took your 20 hrs to fix it.. You could just flash the stock zip that I linked in my epilogue and it would have restored.. Just for future reference :)
[Nook Color General] Thibor69:
Hello eyeballer -

Well the thing is for some reason no matter what I did I could not get it to boot from sdcard for CWM to activate. It would just skip to emmc (uSD) and look for boot partition there which was completely screwed up. Not sure how I managed that. I don't know, maybe you are correct, and I sure will try again now : )

Ill post my results.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
When I go through settings I see device storage is 5 gb this means I have the old partition right?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
I am having trouble burning the image to my sd card. I have a 2gb sd card and Running windows 7 32bit using win 32 disc imager it tells me there isn't enough space on the disk... What am i doing wrong?
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Are you using an internal sdcard reader on a laptop? Sometimes they don't work and give you that error, try an external usb reader.
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
Everything worked perfectly thanks for all your help I now am running cm7! Quick question now that I have flashed cwm how do i boot into it to flas other roms?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Use the boot menu. Hold n while booting until the boot menu comes up. The select emmc and recovery and finish the boot. Or you can use ROM Manager to boot into it.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
Thank for your help!!! Have you tried CM9 how are the current nightlies?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, look at my signature. It is pretty mature now with few bugs (non-opengl version, that is). But still not as 'snappy' as CM7.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bp_:
Nees some help. I followed the instructions in the first thread twice now. Trying to install CM9 emmc. I get through all the file installs, factory reset, reboot and get the loading indication, the screen flashes, then goes black and nothing else happens. Any ideas of what I can do?

I am trying to start from scratch after having run CM7 for a long time on this nook.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Try flashing an older (pre-3/10) nightly and immediately reflash the new cm9 without wiping anything or rebooting in between.
[Nook Color General] bp_:
Nice. You are awesome. Worked! Thanks!
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
I was trying to flash a cm9 rom and when it booted up the setup wizard kept crashing. so i tried flashing a new build. no matter what i do it keeps booting into cwm i even tried flashing the original cm7 rom that i started with and it keeps booting into cwm what should i do?
[Nook Color General] bp_:
Did you wipe the cache and the Davlik cache?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Look at this post. I was trying to help him and he came up with this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=23864432
[Nook Color General] yourbuddypal:
Thank you for the wonderful and easy to follow guide. I just picked up a nook color because it was cheap and decided to use this method to install on the EMMC vs the SD card install that I did for my GF's nook last fall. The EMMC feels a little snappier to me with CM 7.2.

I had 2 small hiccups. The first, my SD card is not compatible with the nook when running cm7. Its weird, i was able to install everything fine, but the card is just not recognized by the device now that its up and running. I am not surprised though, because I had to use a different card for the last install so I wasn't expecting much.

The other issue I had - when going to the android market, apps would not install. I did a factory reset from the settings and used a different google account. After doing so, its working fine!

Thanks again!
[Nook Color General] Theteflondon:
Has anyone else had this issue? My nook seems to detect tripple the amount of wifi spots than my ipad or laptop. Because of this immense amount of options it seems my connection to my own is unstable. Alot of the time it says my access point is not in range and when i scan for it it wont even show up on the list. I have tried messing with router settings to fix this (like changing the channel of the router) and it seems to work for a day then the same thing happens. However the laptop and ipad never have an issue. What could be my problem? To make matters worse I live in a neighborhood of multifamily homes and apartment buildings so the amount of routers on my list here is well over 20...
[Nook Color General] robertoluz:
Status Bar

Have followed the instructions a couple of times, but have a problem where there is no status Bar present.... what to do??
[Nook Color General] Aldo101t:
does the nook have to be rooted before this procedure or does this aquire root, thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It does not need to be rooted before this procedure and is rooted when all is complete.
[Nook Color General] lepa71:
I'm running Dualboot Mirage CM7 / ICS CM9 Image for SDcard by racks11479 and I'm ready to fully move roms on NC itself.

My question is:

Can I just use rom manager to flash CWR to NC and then install one of the roms?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, by booting to CWM recovery after it is installed. Don't try to do it from ROM Manager on the SD. See my last tip here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=25354258

Edit: But wait, you are running racks SD so he may have CWM recovery on the SD. If he does, just go for it. Use ROM Manager.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] lepa71:
Can you explain why not to try to install CWM recovery from ROM manager? I looked at your thread and it's exactly what I want to install recovery to emmc.

Also, is there a way to migrate configured ROM from SD card to emmc?

Thanks
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can use ROM Manager to install CWM. I was worried about installing the ROM itself via ROM Manager. But I think rack's SD setup puts CWM on his SD so you could do it. You may have to manually boot to CWM Recovery on emmc to finish the install, but I think it would work.

If you are putting exactly the same system on emmc that you had on SD, I think you might get away with using Titanium Backup to back up everything, including system data and then once you get reinstalled and TB reinstalled on the new system, restore everything with TB. You might need to copy the TB backup files to PC first and then back to your new media SD that you use for emmc.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bluewhite79:
Feel like a Noob again.

Folks, I've had my NC from almost the beginning. Since I got my Nexus back in December, I have not really touched my Nook at all. And I haven't kept up with what to do with respect to getting my Nook up-to-date with the latest nightlies for CM9.

What I am running: CM7.1 on emmc with Dal's OC kernal. I have CWM updated to the latest (3.2.0.1). I assume that the touchscreen CWM does not work for us yet.

What I would like to do: update to the latest CM9 nightlies from here:

http://android.sphsolutions.net/Encore/Nightlies/CM9/

Questions:

1. Can I install the latest nightlies to emmc? I'm a bit confused, as it looks like it may be SD card only.

2. Is there a kernel that needs flashed in addition to the nightlies?

3. After wiping data/factory reset, can I just install the nightly and gapps overtop CM7.1

4. Anything else I should be aware of? flashing the telephony zip??

Thanks so much for the help!
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
You can flash those nightlies directly to emmc using the CWM you have. But the touchscreen version does work for us if you want to install.it.

The kernel comes with it. It is already overclocked for you.

You do not even need to factory reset. Most folks do fine just flashing directly over CM7. If you run into problems, just factory reset later. You do need to flash the latest gapps. Do not use the ones at the site you got the nightly. Get them at goo.im/gapps.

Telephony zip is the only other thing you need.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bluewhite79:
thanks so much! flashing now!
[Nook Color General] rayden25:
Thanks for the guide. I just bought a NC with the intention of flashing CM7. The thing was 1 hour old and I followed this guide; it worked perfect! THANKS!:D
[Nook Color General] candyeve:
ever since ive rooted to cm9, i am unable to access the files in my sd card. Previously in cm7 there was a folder icon, can someone please tell me where I am missing something?

Thanks

Candy
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
CM7 included a program named 'File Manager' which allowed you to browse your files like Windows Explorer does in Windows. CM9 does not include that program. You have to use third party programs like Astro File Manager or Root Explorer.

Sent from my NookColor running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] candyeve:
also,

ive tried to read through the 71 pages...but I couldn't find the answer

When watching you tube I cannot seem to watch any HQ vids...is there some fix for this?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
This is problem with CM9. Has to do with lack of hardware video acceleration.
[Nook Color General] nando99:
Ok... so I'm having a weird problem... I think... after I write the img to the sdcard I can't move files to the sdcard... it becomes inaccessible... i'm using a 1gb card and I've tried on both internal and external sdcard readers...

any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance...
[Nook Color General] DizzyDen:
which img are you writing?

Typically... write the img appropriate for you uSD and you're good to go... or write the smallest img file and then use minitool Partition Wizard or Easus Partition Manager to extend the partition to the full uSD.
[Nook Color General] nando99:
i'm using w32... i've used the 3.2.0.1 img on http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager and I've tried the 1gb_clockwork-3.2.0.1-eyeballer.img

after i write the image, i safely eject the card, disconnect the sdcard reader and reconnect the reader and insert the sdcard and right away it asks me if i want to format the sdcard...

i cant add any files to the sdcard after i write any of the imgs
[Nook Color General] zaptoons:
Just wanted to say thanks to the OP. I bought a Nook Color recently as a present for my niece. I used the guide in the first post to install CM7 and it worked perfectly. Now this thing is a very nice tablet for the money! Running very smooth with CM7.
[Nook Color General] ndwgs:
anybody having problem with techerrata host?

:confused:
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Yes, a lot of people are complaining. Look at eyeballer's thread for CM9. Works fine for me, but others complain.

Sent from my NookColor running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
AFAIK techerrata should be fine. Goo has been having issues and the admins are aware.
[Nook Color General] GarretSidzaka:
thank you :sobs: thank you

this f***ing worked. the manual noot wasnt working at all. my wife wont murder me not thank you i owe you my life
[Nook Color General] Nick N:
I get a forced close on the Welcome screen if I do not flash gapps again after the wipe data/factory reset. I would update the OP to include that step... I just got done modding 4 Nooks using your method + the extra gapps flash.
[Nook Color General] Doamorgue:
great work
[Nook Color General] fullur:
Just saying thanks

Just wanted to say thanks for the guide. I had an earlier build of the fattire CM9 running on my Nook Color. Installed it several months ago. Went to update to a newer build thinking I knew what I was doing. Read your guide and noticed my mistake: I was not wiping data after installing the ROM. So thank you very much.
[Nook Color General] Edo526:
still won't boot from SD

i followed steps given by the other guy, tried with 3 separate card readers, still doesn't boot

i know it boots from sd cards because Ive dual booted into CM7, anything i can do?
[Nook Color General] monkor:
Yeah I'm having the same problem. One of my nooks roots and boots the SD card, the other one doesn't. It's kind of annoying but I'm going to keep troubleshooting it until I figure it out...I'll keep you updated
[Nook Color General] Edo526:
my nook CAN but it wont for some reason, i've been dual booting until i could find the proper root method for 1.4.2

but this one just wont boot from my sd, im using a sandisk 32gb class 10 and a sandisk 16gb class 4, both dont work, ive tried 3 different card readers and the built in one from my computer, nothing

right now im writing it while its plugged into my droid x and i just plugged the droid with usb to my computer, ill definitely let you know if it works/doesnt
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
See my response to you on the other thread. Wrong device. You are running a Nook Tablet.
[Nook Color General] KaliS-Pugilist:
im having the same problem, i bought my nook, factory refurbished and im trying this method to get CM7. i put the image on the card and the other three files as well...but it wont boot. is there another way to get CWM on my nook color, then just flash the other files?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Usually if it won't boot, it means the image file is not burned properly to the SD card. You can read it on your pc, but the Nook Color will not boot from it unless the format is just right. Pay attention to eyeballer's advice in the first post about running the burning program in administrator mode and using an external usb card reader instead of any built in reader.
[Nook Color General] KaliS-Pugilist:
ok, im starting over. here are the steps that im doing:

1) formatting the microsd card using my mini usb card reader (just want to make sure it is clean. using FAT32 format)

2) i downloaded the 1gb cwm image, checked the md5, then extracted it to my hard drive (windows was able to do it so i didnt use another program).

- the extracted image is about 921mb

3) opened wimimage to burn to the sdcard (running as administrator)

- selected disk, then "use removable disk H"

4) i selected disk again, then "write"

- a dialogue appears stating "the current image format is not supported by the disk drive H:. it will be resized. disk isn't empty, all data will be lost. do you want to continue" I hit yes.

- a "resize image dialoque" dialogue appears, it gives a quick status, then closes.

- i look on the sdcard and it has 4 files on it

5) I place my downloaded gapps, cwm-flashable, and CM72 files on the same sdcard. close screens and eject card.

6) turned off the nook, placed the card into it, powered on to boot into CWM (held button at least 20 seconds) and nothing.....
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
OK, two things.

First, in the last step you say you hold the power button for 20 seconds. That is turning it off. Just push for a few seconds and watch for a tiny flash. Then let the button go. It should boot, either into the CWM card or at least into stock. If it boots into stock, it means you do not have the card right yet.

Second, if it is booting into stock, try re-burning the image to the card using win32diskimager instead of winimage. Sometimes I have found winimage to be overly complicated for new users. I think the problem with it is people choose "write disk" when they should be choosing "Restore Virtual Hard Disk Image on Physical Drive" under the disk menu.
[Nook Color General] bdcrim:
I responded in the Development Thread, did not know if you saw that. I had the same issue and was reminded when I first rooted my nook a year and a half ago that the root sd card was placed in the nook and I had to attach the charging cable to my computer and allow it to auto boot without using the power button. I have had to do the same thing with a CWM card as well. You may try that. Be patient, it may take awhile for the computer to pick up the nook if it works.
[Nook Color General] KaliS-Pugilist:
I'm trying winimage with your advice and the image burn is taking much longer and appears to be actually burning. hopefully this was my problem the entire time....

---------- Post added at 04:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:35 PM ----------

worked, im in CWM now, doing a backup and about to start flashing...things look very normal now...thanks again! :D
[Nook Color General] Lakland:
I follow this on every step, to install into the emmc, no error messages. But, I now have a CWM boot loop. I use the files on this post [ROM][CM7.2] MiRaGe - KANG build of CyanogenMod and the nook never boot.

Any one can point me to the right direction?

thank you!
[Nook Color General] dragonguy1:
Just wanted to thank eyeballer et all for this work. I flashed this from deeperblues HC and the difference is huge!!! Very Smooth and responsive. Definitely a daily driver IMO. Thank you all!
[Nook Color General] eyeballer:
Slight update to the guide to include the option of using TWRP instead of CWM.

Shameless self-promotion at it's finest :)
[Nook Color General] dragonguy1:
Quick question and apologies if it's been asked before. I noticed that cm9 settings allow me to set the processor clock to 1200 Mhz. Does this settings have the same effect natively as opposed to flashing a custom kernel?

Thank you
[Nook Color General] MISRy:
I'm not sure I'm clear what the question is but if you are asking if the clock setting is "sticky" after flashing the kernel, yes. The overclock will remain after the ROM has been flashed.
[Nook Color General] dragonguy1:
On the first pages of this thread some people mentioned that they had to flash daligrins kernel in order to overclock past the 900 MHz CM9 a allowed. Are there any other performance/stability advantages to flashing daligrins kernel other than the ability to reach 1.2 Ghz clock speed now that CM9 allows this speed natively? Maybe they were talking about CM7?

Thank you MISRy
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Those are very old posts. You do not need to use dalingrin's OC kernel for any current CM rom now. The features are already built into the rom. It can be used on some versions of stock.
[Nook Color General] ilprofesionale:
Guys,

I am having trouble trying to update to 7.2. My strategy:

1. I dloaded stable 1.2, renamed it to ubdate-blablabla...

2. flashed clockwork mod recovery

3. went to rom manager to install from sd card

4. when trying flash but via rom manager, I just get this screen (see picture), and the nook shuts down. That last line there that was cut off says "preparing to shut down"... When I boot it up again, I am still at 7.1. Please help....
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Your screenshot indicates that you have an SD install. You are in the wrong thread for SD installs. Also you do not use rom manager to flash roms on SD installs. You take the card out of your nook and put in your PC. Then copy the zip (renamed to update-...zip). Then put the card back into the nook and boot to the boot menu using the n key while powering up. Select SD and recovery and finish booting. It should go to the penguin and text and install the zip.