[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] NYLimited:
Excellent start! Before long you shall be looking back at this, smiling.

The next question you have to answer is if you wish to install all to NAND or place your apps and data on an SD Card. If you have an EU HD2 the SD card method is strongly recommended. I have the larger (1 GB) US version but prefer to use the SD Card method for a number of reasons (we can cover those another time if you wish).

I have not used the Toolkit myself but one would think it would run OK on XP..

Having said that, try this - should be relatively quick and painless (I hope):

Download

dafexe_399.zip - 5.17 MB

to your PC and unzip it into an empty folder of your choice.

If you wish to use install option #2 (DataOnExt, placing only your boot, recovery and system partition on the device itself (NAND) use the setup as is. See notes on partitioning your SD Card before attempting to install the ROM! If you wish to install everything to NAND you must modify the file called FLASH.CFG which you shall find in the folder you extracted the zip file to - reduce the size of the system partition (the fourth line in the cfg file) to something like:

system ya 200M

I suggest setting it to 200M (200 MB) to start but you may have to redo this and make it larger if your device has bad blocks. A large system partition will, in turn, make for a smaller data partition - as a result you may be limited on the number of apps and data you can have on the device. This is why I personally prefer install option 2, placing the data partition on an SD card.

Once ready, boot your device to MAGLDR

Select USB Flasher from the MAGLDR menu (you can replace steps 3 & 4 with entering the tri color boot loader, if you wish)

Connect your device to the PC via USB

Make sure you are in the folder you created in step 1 and run DAF.EXE on your PC. This will partition your device according to the specifications in FLASH.CFG and also install ClockworkMod Recovery v5.x into the recovery partition.

If you decided on install option 2 - DataOnEXT - make sure your SD card is correctly partitioned before going on from here! You must have a FAT32 partition and an EXT4 partition (in that order), both set as PRIMARY. The EXT4 partition should be at least 1 GB, you can make it bigger if you have a larger card. If you need more info on partitioning and setting up the card please

read post # 3

in this thread.

Copy the ROM of your choice to the FAT32 partition of your SD card.

Reboot your device while holding the END key to enter the MAGLDR menu.

Select menu option # 8 - AD Recovery. This will load Clockworkmod Recovery you flashed in step 6.

Select install from ZIP menu option and locate the ROM zip file you placed on the SD card earlier.

After the device reboots you should be running the new ROM. Now, you may still experience some problems - such as bootloops or getting stuck at the logo screen if you made the system partition too small for your device or if you have too many bad blocks on your device and you selected install option # 1. In this case you will have to return to step 2 and increase the system partition size and do it all again.

Does any of this help thus far?