[Nook Color General] drewbacca:
How to root your brand new Nook Color - For Noobs on windows - I'm sure this will all work from Mac too, but I do not have one so I don't know

-I know there are plenty of threads our there for this - but I figured I would compile my journey to root so that anyone slightly confused with the process of rooting, starting over and re-flashing stock nook, using root explorer is all in one area.

First things First - Without the Cyanogenmod team, everyone who has a hand in this at XDA, Dalingrin's overclock, everyone who compiled the files for recovery, Clockworkmod team, iomonster, everyone! This wouldn't be possible. Drop by their websites and buy them a beer or two.

Secondly - I am not responsible for any damage at all, if you don't follow simple instruction then too bad for you. Also, none of the above mentioned folks are responsible for any damage to your Nook Color (NC).

NOW FOR ROOT!!!

go to http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting and follow the instructions. Download the appropriate autonooter for your software version. (this can be checked on the nook by going to settings, device info, about nook)

Follow the helpful people at NookDevs instructions and thank them for their help!

After you achieve root you should see Market app in your extras tab in the Original Nook Software, This is good, if you don't go back and try again. Now pull out your card(dont forget to unmount and format) , and turn off your nook .

Let's Begin With CM7

First you will need to make yourself a bootable clockworkmod (CWM) to run your installation from -

download winimage for your PC - http://www.winimage.com/download.htm and install the appropriate file (obviously x86 for 32 bit PC, and x64 for 64 bit)

install it!

next download 7-Zip to extract the files!!! http://www.7-zip.org/

when installed go to tools/options/ and make sure tar is checked and gz is checked. You might as well select all!

Next download bootable clockwork image http://tsunade.net/nookdev/clockwork/0.1-ext4/

I used the 1GB one on my 8GB class 4 card. It burns faster and works just fine!

Burning Process!

First insure that your already formatted card is formatted by formatting again! woot for the word format! Next-

On a computer open win image

click ok!

plug in your microSD card

click on Disk tab

go down to restore virtual Hard Disk Image

Select your microSD

find the place you saved the image after extracting through 7zip (I saved to Desktop)

Click OK and it should start burning

after five minutes or so the image will be written to the microSD card

Now to install CM7!!!!!!!!!! Drop by their page if you want and donate some beer money!!!!

Download these files!

http://mirror.cyanogenmod.com/?device=encore&type=nightly (CM7 Encore ZIP - Get the latest one)

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps (google apps file!!!!)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925451] (Dalingrins!!!!! OVERCLOCK - even if you don't need this, you WANT THIS (my attempt at a jedi mind trick) just do it).

download the zip files and put them on that 1GB cwm bootable SD card you made!!, and copy the the zip files to the ROOT of the sd card i.e just drag and drop them into the sd card.

Now safely remove and plug the card in to the nook color

it will boot up into CWM - go to this page http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151 and start at the installing section number 2!!! Thanks Faceman66 Only follow the install section and first boot section up until 2 if you have a DLINK router!!!! this is very important!!!! Once your done with the installation again, make sure to format the microSD card, do not use cyanogen it will mess everythin up, format it through your computer.

Dlink router connection issue!

The wifi in cyanogen just scans and disconnects constantly without connecting. Skip all of the first boot process like signing in to google, etc. Just get into the main screen of your new ROM. Connect it via USB to computer and "turn on USB storage" in the drop down notification bar.

Now preferably purchase the Root Explorer App on your phone or on your computer (you wont be able to access the nook color CM7 market yet. If you find it by other means I dont want to hear about it. if you download on your phone, download astro file manager as well, open astro file manager and click menu, tools, application backup. Find root explorer, back it up, pull it off your phone to the computer by searching the SD card for the "backups folder" and then drag and drop it onto your nook SD card. Use CM7 file explorer, find the APK and then install. Now using root explorer go to

/system/etc/wifi/ and find the tiwlan.ini file, at the top of the screen youll notice a button that says Mount R/W, click it. now press and hold on tiwlan.ini and open in text editor. go down about half way to find WifiAdhoc = 1 or something to that affect.

WiFiAdhoc is set to 1 on the cm7 builds but if you need change it to 0 for wpa/wpa2 will work.

Once that is set to 0, reboot, and connect to your internets.

WHAT IF I MESSED EVERYTHING UP AND MY NOOK COLOR IS BRICKED! IMPOSSIBLE! just follow these instructions!!!! Thanks to HittingSmoke over at addictive tips

This guide is broken and bricks the Nook. The problem is, it tells you to format /boot when you should NOT format boot.

If you have the black screen because of following this guide, here’s how to fix it:

Format your SD card and re burn that 1GB cwm image (It worked perfect for Me)

Next, download:

http://www.etoile-laconnex.com/nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip

and

http://www.multiupload.com/VEJFMO05BV

Copy them both to the SD card that you made with winImager.

Put in the SD card and hold the power button until it boots into recovery again.

Under Mounts and Storage, format /boot, /system, /data and /cache

Using the “Install zip from sdcard” option, flash “repartition-boot-with-stock.zip” THEN “nook-complete-restore-1.0.1.zip”

Take out the SD, reboot and you’ll be back to a working stock Nook.

After that, follow this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11535969&postcount=151

and/or go to the top to try again.

Note: Do NOT use your Nook to format the SD card after installing CM7. There’s a bug and it will format /boot instead, returning you to the black screen problem and you’ll have to repeat the process. This is TRUE WITH PHONES AND THE NOOK COLOR

Thanks again to everyone's contribution - I do not own the rights to any of this and am not the original finder/creator/designer of any of these tips and tricks.