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[Nook Color General] merkurmaniac:
Thanks so very much for this thread. I got my refurb nook color yesterday, and was all ready to go. Had my sd card made and everything. I spent tons of time trying out all manner of installs, none was working. Most ended up in a do-loop, either the google gears turning, or the MIUI world turning, then restarting.

It was suuuuuper frustrating, till I found your thread. I am so glad. It made perfect sense, since it seemed to run into problems at the same point of the install, whether it be cyanomod, phiremod, or the MIUI. I repartioned using your scripts, and literally 5 minutes later, I am setting my time zone.

My wife has been buggin me for an e-reader or an I-pad. I am not an apple guy, so the nook color hack fit my personality. I might buy one for my daughter next.

Thanks a ton, you made my day !

Richard
[Nook Color General] reebz:
Can the re partitioning be done while the NC is rooted, with MN, or should it be done with a clean slate?
[Nook Color General] sym1:
Sticky sticky

:D May we please get a Sticky on the OP.

Very useful stuff.

Sticky plese :D
[Nook Color General] les02jen17:
Hey! I have a problem that I believe you'll be able to help me out. I recently posted it here. Feel free to check it out if you have time.

Basically, I'm looking for a Partition Scheme file that would give me 3GB for /data & 3GB for /media or 4GB for /data & 2GB for /media.

I just have three choices based on your OP. I find that 2GB for data is not enough and 5 for data being too much. I'm hoping there's a partition file that's somewhere in between like what I've described. I really hope you can help me out. :)
[Nook Color General] Ostrich Egg:
This is awesome. That's all. :D
[Nook Color General] story:
Works!

Thanks
[Nook Color General] Manik24:
I did all these steps for 5+GB "/data", 1GB "/media" partitioning.. however I am only seeing 1GB of available storage in device info under settings.

where can I actually check if my /data partition has 5+ GB now ?

Also, please advise if I should go with the B&N v1.1 "old" 1GB "/data", 5+GB "/media" partitioning. I wish to boot CM7 from my SD card and stock ROM from my Nook color internal memory.

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] votinh:
Go to Settings -> Storage.

a. Internal storage? (this is your /data storage)

b. Additional storage? (this is your /emmc storage)
[Nook Color General] cakessi:
Stuck on Reformatting...

How long should it take to reformat /data?

Nook has been stuck on "Reformatting /data (0p6)" for about 20 minutes...is this normal? I know it says to be patient but the progress bar has not moved from about half way.

Nook was stock 1.2 trying to revert to original data 1gb/media 5gb.

Please help!
[Nook Color General] akenis:
Did my son's yesterday, took about 5 mins altogether. Tricky to reboot back to clockwork for format... hold power button for a while to shutdown.
[Nook Color General] cakessi:
Something went wrong...

When CWR stalled on reformatting data I had no choice but to shut it down and reboot. I ran the reformat again and it looked like it worked. Got the nook to reboot and it started up just fine. When I started to go through the registration process it would either freeze or reboot randomly. I got through the registration process after several attempts but when I tried to open up the settings to see if it worked it froze again. I have tried to restore to stock by 8 failed reboots and flashing stock 1.2 but now CWR doesn't seem to want to work properly. It stalls when formatting now. I think my partitions are totally screwed up.

Any advice Dean or anybody?
[Nook Color General] akenis:
I'd start from scratch with a formatted sd card and new downloads. Maybe something was corrupted?

1. Format sd card

2. Img 1gb cwm

3. Download stock partitions and reformat zips

4. Boot from sd card

5. Repartition zip

6. Reboot back to cwm IMPORTANT... I did this by holding power button in till shutdown, then starting from sd.

7. Reformat zip

8. Stock files zip

Maybe try checking md5 sums...
[Nook Color General] ponyboy82:
Just want to say thanks to the OP and the sources. I kept running into the 1GB /data limit with too many apps and finally saw this thread. I did the 2GB/4GB option yesterday and it worked flawlessly. (I tried to sneak by w/o doing the reformatting, but of course that didn't work. Thankfully, I was able to do that and restore my CWM backup afterwards, and it all went smoothly.)
[Nook Color General] cakessi:
Thanks akenis...

...I was up till 2:30 am getting it working and set up (CM7.1). This was actually for my Dad who dropped and broke his last Nook. I did not see your post until this morning but good advice though. I think I may have put both the 1gb data and the 5gb data zips with the reformat zip on the sd card when I did the first flash. I only flashed the 1 gb data and the reformat though so it really doesn't work if you have both on the sd card. Also, make sure you force a shutdown by holding power after flashing the repartition...do not reboot "system" in cwr. Word to the wise...follow the OP EXACTLY. That being said it still didn't work even after I tried to just have one of the repartition files on the sd card and redownloading the files and reimaging my sd card. I had to go back and use a 3.0.2.8 based clockwork card and that did the trick. I am not telling anybody else to try that...unless they are in my situation. I am sure that the 3.2.0.1 based card is the way to go to flash this correctly the first time.
[Nook Color General] ponyboy82:
Interesting that you mention that.... I had CWM installed on both emmc and the sd card I was using (I kept it as a backup for CWM and forgot to ever reformat it later). CWM on my sd is 3.0.2.8 and that is the one I used to do the partition resizing (accidentally). I didn't realize it at first, but all went well for me.
[Nook Color General] cakessi:
Curious...what partition scheme were you coming from and which one were you switching to?
[Nook Color General] nkaushik:
First of all let me thank you all for such a fanatastic work. Many thanks!!

I have bought nook only after looking through XDA site :)

I was going through all the posts, and got a doubt -

For new NOOK color partition scheme -

2 GB - system/ROM

5 GB - data

1 GB - user data/media

If I put CM7 on internal memory ( which I want to ) -

a) will the CM7 be installed to 5GB partition and will store the app data there too?

b) will the CM7 be installed to 2 GB ROM partition, and 5 GB partition will hold app data ?

thanks a lot in advance !!
[Nook Color General] votinh:
I would strongly think that b) is the case.
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
Indeed it is B. The rom installs to the 2gb partition, apps to the 5gb partition and you can store user data to the 1gb partition. User data on that partition is only accessible via a file explorer. In other words, if you put photos there, they will not be viewable through gallery etc.
[Nook Color General] nkaushik:
Thanks. was about to ask why I can't see the data on 1 Gb user partition, but you mentioned it already.

But if we can't use that 1 GB ( and not even able to mount while hooking to computer) what is the us of that. just wondering .

Thanks !! :)
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
I usually keep movies there and open them with a file manager. The reason the rom doesn't recognize that partition is that it's basically a phone rom and most phones don't have built in storage, so by default the rom looks for user data on the SD card not the internal memory.
[Nook Color General] pharpe:
What are the pros and cons of each partitioning scheme? I've read a lot about how to set up but not much on advantages of one over another. Sorry if it's been already discussed.
[Nook Color General] votinh:
That 1GB of /media you're talking about, yes, you can access it, you can use it. It's there for us to use. And yes, CM7 able to see it, access it, use it.

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Let's just focus on the /data spaces.

1. 1GB /data. If you intend to install less than 1GB of apps for the rest of your NC life, then this is your option

2. If later on, you want to install 100s of apps that take up 1.5GB, then option 1 is out of the game, simply 'cuz it's NOT enough space to hold apps. And if 1.5GB of apps are all you intend to run, then option 2, 1.96GB /data is your choice.

3. If somehow you want to install more apps, more games that over 2GB of data, then option 3 is the only choice.
[Nook Color General] ffgf:
Hi i have a nook color and i don't know what partitio scheme i have now, if i connect the nook to PC y i see a 5GB drive on it, so what is my actual partition scheme?

"old" 1GB "/data", 5+GB "/media" partitioning

"new" 5+GB "/data", 1GB "/media" partitioning

thanks
[Nook Color General] hockeyfamily737:
You have the old partitions.
[Nook Color General] MLIGN:
Help

I think I have the new version of Nook.

When I first turned it on it said 1GB Available storage. I did everything to use my 8GB SD card for Clockwork Mod. I read the new Nooks were having trouble formating data and this would help. So I flashed the custom partition in post 1.

Now I want to unroot and go to stock so I downloaded Nook version 1.0.1 and flashed it. It says I have now, 5.23GB of available storage. I tried to flash the original one 1GB but when I do it says 0GB available. Do any of yall know how to fix this?

Thanks.
[Nook Color General] howoods:
Ok first off. Great guide. I thought I had followed it exactly however I must have did something wrong. I have an 8gb card in it. In Titanium Backup and in settings..storage it is showing 7.94gb internal eMMC, 3.99gb sd.

What's odd is that when I first checked, it was the other way around. I thought cool it worked. Installed Phiremod 7.1. Everything was and still is working. I installed TB to backup my apps and that is when I noticed that the storage had moved.

Can I move it back or do I have to do the entire process over again. And if I do it again do I need to return to stock first.

P.S. I used [GUIDE] Install CM7.1 + Clockworkmod to EMMC - ALL NOOKS! (Updated:10/11/11) for rom install.

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
[Nook Color General] howoods:
Anybody?
[Nook Color General] magicland:
Figured I'd add this, as it might help someone. I was going to ask how you go about backing up your data partition before reformatting, but figured by the time I got a reply, I'd have already done it, so....

Please note, there may be better/safer/faster/easier ways to do this, this is what I did:

For those of you NOT familiar with all the features of Clockwork Mod, on the main menu you'll find an option "Backup/Restore". Selecting "Backup" from the next menu will back up your Boot, System and Data partitions to your SD card. I was using a 2GB card, and it apparently had enough space. YMMV.

Once that's done, go ahead and repartition and reformat your Nook Color. After reformatting, go back to CWM's main menu, and select "Restore". Originally, when I'd tested this feature, it gave me the option to select which partition I wanted to restore. However, after reformatting, for some reason it just decided to restore all of them. Might have registered two clicks instead of one, I don't know, and I'm not going to do it again to find out.

There didn't seem to be any issues with it restoring them all (other than taking longer), when I was done, I swapped in my standard SD card and rebooted the Nook Color.

After a longer while than usual (long enough that I was beginning to wonder if it was boot-looping), it booted up.

EVERYTHING is functioning like it was before I repartitioned (other than having a LOT more room for data). Didn't need to reregister a single app. Gmail, Market, YouTube, all good. YMMV...
[Nook Color General] Allegra13:
Hi! I run CM 7.1 from a SD card bought on the internet (not a savvy person, I'm afraid :o). For me, the 6 GB of Nook's internal memory are entirely lost since I'm not from the States and I cannot purchase anything from B&N store. It would be absolutely fabulous if I could do this repartitioning thing and gain access to additional space, but I'm not very confident that I may be able to do it!

Before anything else, I would like to know:

- I guess that NC original stock -I'm running the latest 1.4.1 version - will not be affected in the process? Is it compatible with the Clockwork Recovery??

- the SD card (N2A) that I currently use to boot CM 7 will not be affected either if I use a different/new card for repartitioning?

- is there a tutorial video on YouTube showing me how to do it?

I would highly appreciate any help on that:)!
[Nook Color General] mr72:
hotwoods, I think you probably at one point had this enabled: Settings -> CyanogenMod Settings -> Application Settings -> Use internal storage.

This will reverse the /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/emmc on the NC.
[Nook Color General] greyorm:
How does one go about doing this if they are running CM7 (MiRaGe) from the SD-card? (With the standard unmodified 1.3 software on the device itself.) Or is there another way to access the 5GB of space on the Nook itself from CM7?
[Nook Color General] Allegra13:
Big, huge, enormous "Thank you"! It works like magic, no flaws!!! And I'm not a savvy person...
[Nook Color General] bretzke:
OK, I have an orig NC (1GB data/5GB media) on rooted stock and have run out of room for apps/games. The two options I see is the 1.96G or 5G data partition. I'm leaning to the 5 as I'll think 1.96 won't be enough. There was an early message that said the CWM backup will not backup/restore 2G and above data. That looked like version 3.0.2.8.

Can someone verify this is still the case? Does 3.1.X (or another newer version) allow for larger data backups or are we stuck with <2GB in data? Would a workaround using the 5GB data partition be to use CWM for system back up and Titanium for backing up apps? Just finding a way to use the 5G data partition but still have a backup plan...too many flashes to not have a backup solution!

Thanks!!!

Dave
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
CWM 3.2.0.1 now backs up the larger /data, so make it any size you want.
[Nook Color General] bretzke:
Perfect, thank you! :D

UPDATE: Everything ran fine and without any trouble. I'm at 5 for /data and loving life! Thanks again for the scripts and guide.

Dave
[Nook Color General] midium:
Quick question.

I've already installed CWM on my Nook device and also installed CM7.1 and I'm in the original situation, so 1GB / 5GB.

If I would like now to swap them? Do I need then to completely reinstall the CM7.1 or should it work anyway?

Please note that my CM is not installed on SD card but directly on device (EMMC I suppose :p not understand this completely till now)

Cheers,

Matteo
[Nook Color General] iakovl:
how risk free is this process?

right not i use CM7.2 from emmc and 4G SD card (need bigger one)

and i want to move to CM9 (or dual boot from emmc, possible?) so i want to repartition it and have more data space
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Be sure you back up with CWM before you do anything, just in case. It is generally safe. But if you want to dual boot, I would be careful about using any scheme other than 1data/5media. Last I messed with dual boot, the first thing it does is resize media smaller to make room for the two new partitions for the second /system and /data. If you made media anything other than 5g, the setup software might not work right.

An alternative to dual boot is to use a large SD (I use a 16g) and put CM9 on the SD and have CM7 on emmc. I modified the vold.fstab file on emmc so that CM7 uses the same media partition (4) on the SD as CM9. That way I never have to switch SD cards. I just use the boot menu to choose which system I want.
[Nook Color General] iakovl:
OK... once again (i'm paranoid)

i have 5/1 right now and i think 2/4 is the best option (am i wrong?)

1. download "custom 1.96GB "/data", 4+GB "/media"" -> put on SD

2. download "reformatData-v1.zip" -> put on sd

3. backup current rom (CM7.2) with CWM on SD

4. install zip 1 (custom.zip)

5. reboot CWM

6. install zip 2 (reformat.zip)

7. restore CWM backup

am i right ?

also.. is there a link to explain on how to "dual boot" a rom from emmc (GB 7.2) and sd (ICS) (or the other way around)
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
That looks right to me.

If I understand you right, you want to know the links for installing CM9 on SD (and leaving emmc as it is). FYI, that is not called dual booting. Dual booting is when you put both systems on emmc.

The basic instructions for SD installations are in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12240928

Follow the instructions but substitute CM9 for CM7. Also there is an updated image file that works better with CM9 to replace the one listed in the instruction post. You can get it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21388345

In that post, scroll down to the section about SD installs and there is a link to the updated image file.

Once you have it set up, you can choose which system you want to boot by holding the "n" key while it is booting until the boot menu comes up. Then you can select between emmc and SD. (Also I posted a little more information about the boot menu for SD installs here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21689389)

I use the SD install for my CM9 and have CM7 on emmc and I love it. Works great.
[Nook Color General] nook711:
Can you elaborate on this a little more? I'm sorry I am new at this.

I am currently running ics on my emmc and cm7 on sdcard, but instead of having 2 different music folders it would be sweet to set up both systems to work out of 1 folder.
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
When booted into emmc, use root explorer (or any root file manager) and go to the etc folder. In there will be a file named vold.fstab. Set the folder to R/W and edit the file. There should be a line that says "sdcard auto" in it somewhere. Edit this to "sdcard 4". Save and reboot. You will have the same media folder for both systems.
[Nook Color General] nook711:
Sweet, I got it! Thank you very much!
[Nook Color General] bretzke:
I went to the 5GB data option a few weeks back and all seemed fine. All looks fine, shows I have tons of space. Yesterday I started getting errors from Market saying I'm out of space and I cannot update nor install anything, though I'm not even up to 2 GB on data.

Any thoughts why this happening? Does Market know how much room I have w/out attempting a download? I checked build.prop, but see no memory line or anything that would trigger an out of space error.

Thanks for any assistance.

Dave
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I'm not sure what market is measuring, but I know it uses /cache to temporarily store the file before installing. They do not get erased when done and they pile up after several market installs. It's only 350MB so it's possible that it's full. You might might try clearing cache with recovery. It may not help but it won't hurt anything.
[Nook Color General] Redneckhightech:
Trying to restore, getting nowhere

Hello, Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I am having issues and have read alot of different things and tried alot of different things, with no luck.

I attempted to root my new to me, nook color. I tried to put CM7 on it following instructions I found. it kept giving me errors. I tried to restore but the restore I did was gone. I am attempting to go back to stock so I can make it work again.

I cant post the link I was using

to restore it. I keep getting errors formatting data. and I cannot get it to even come on anymore. for a bit it was coming to the barnes and noble bootscreen, then stuck in a boot loop. Now, it wont even turn on unless I have the SD card in it with the Clockwork mod on it. It told me the battery was dead, so I left it charge for an hour and it wont still turn on by itself. As soon as I put the SD card in the slot and plug it into the computer, it comes on and boots to recovery.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chris
[Nook Color General] bretzke:
Thanks for the suggestion. I cleared the cache, but still Market will not attempt any downloads (including updates) due to 'Insufficient Space'. Amazon will allow me to download/update apps.

Any other thoughts?

Dave
[Nook Color General] mateorod:
Wrong thread, sorry
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
Did you clear cache or dalvik-cache? Use root explorer to look at /cache/downloads to see how much is there. But Amazon lets you install so maybe cache is ok. Try going to settings and applications and clear data for market. No other ideas.

Sent from my Nook Color running ICS and Tapatalk
[Nook Color General] bretzke:
I cleared the /cache not dalvik. Confirmed with Root Explorer, no dice with clearing the Market cache.

Thanks for trying.

Dave
[Nook Color General] glassr:
Based on my reading, it seems that 5gb internal storage and 1gb emmc (new partition) is best for using the Nook Color as originally intended by B&N (store more B&N books than old partition). Can anyone confirm this?
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
I'm not sure it's for storing more books as much as more and larger apps. They are encouraging you to buy more apps. But it may be for both. I'm not sure where B&N stored the native nook books for its reader (I believe it was still emmc media, but not positive.) Obviously B&N thinks it is best.
[Nook Color General] deboyz1014:
I have an older version of the Nook running latest Kang 3302012 build and it ran great, however I'm running a bit low on room so I went ahead and download the two zips (2/5).

1. Put 2/5 & reformat onto micro SD card (non bootable version)

2. Rebooted into CWM

3. Backup

4. Flash 2/5 > reboot CWM

5. Flash Reformat

6. Did Restore

After system rebooted, one thing I noticed right away is that my multipictured live wall paper were not loading. I went into app settings, clear cache, and redo all the settings and still no good. Other problem is that Market now crashed constantly, even after I clear cache from it. I rebooted into CWM, clear out cache/dalvik cache/fix permission/rebooted and still same problem. At that point, I just went ahead and do a Titanium Backup, rebooted into CWM and did a clear cache/dalvik, format system/data/cache, flash ROM and gapps, restored all my apps and then it worked fine again. Just putting down my experience in case someone else encounter same issue.
[Nook Color General] ravip_27:
Hey Guys

Need some help here as my nook is no more booting. I followed the instruction to repartition. Did these two steps

Boot into ClockworkRecovery with the above SDcard inserted in the Nook Color.

Install the repartition package from the SDcard, to repartition /data (0p6), /cache (0p7), and /media (0p8).

Mandatory REBOOT into ClockworkRecovery.

However once I did reboot into ClockworkRecovery initally my nook booted with the cynaogen boot figure but then it shutdown and now it does not even boot. I tried pressing power + N button but still it does not boot. Any suggestion how to recover it

Thanks for the help.

---------- Post added at 05:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:45 PM ----------

Updating my own message.

Was able to resolve it by leaving the nook for 5 minutes and then booting with an old bootable microSD card and then swapping it with the data card with the repartition card in it.
[Nook Color General] cyberblue:
excellent info

thanks for the guide, it got me out of boot-loop issue between flashing CM7 and stock
[Nook Color General] nordemoniac:
How do I go the other way? I have an original Nook Color which is now 2GB data / 4GB system. How do I get 5GB/1GB as the new ones? (I'm going back to stock).

Edit:

I followed your guide more closely, and used this: To use B&N v1.2 "new" 5+GB "/data", 1GB "/media" partitioning: http://www.mailpen.com/download/repa...5GBdata-v1.zip

The problem now; I have "0 out of 0 " available space... After I repartitioned, I did a 8xfail boot reset (I thought this was a good thing to do?) and then I did a "Erase & Deregister Device".

Still I have "0.00B free of 0.00B" it should be 1GB right?