[Q] Nook without storage space. Help!?[Solved]

GrandMama · 09:10 PM

[Q] Nook without storage space. Help!?[Solved]

Hi,

I have a problem that hopefully can be easily fixed. Heeeelp!

After rooting with SalsichaNooter3 , unrooting, re-rooting. Well, basically trying everything (for fun), I’m ending with a Nook that have no storage space available. At one point, my Nook was connected to the same PC where I was doing a Wi32Image with SalsichaNooter to the SDCard. The image might have been written to the Nook instead of the SDCard (here I’m not sure). The Nook would not boot, so after different manipulation, I can now boot the Nook with original recovery firmware 1.0.0 but there is no storage available. I can download from B&N shop, read, do all of what is expected from this device but the NOOK folder doesn't appear when connected to the PC. If I look at ‘Available storage’ in the settings menu, I get ‘0. 00B free of 0.00B’

I tried ‘erase, reset Nook’ from the menu, also the recovery with the power-left,right bottom buttons. I tried with n2T-Recovery 0.1 and 0.2. All seems to properly do their job but the storage partition still doesn’t seem to be available.
I suspect that the ‘boot’, ‘rom’ and ‘firmware’ partition are proper since I can boot, register and use the device so I tried with Partition Wizard to adjust the ‘*:NOOK’ and ‘*:userdata’ partition (formatting, change ID, etc), without success.

I don’t have a valid backup – I did my original backup using the drive ref. instead of the physical disk (I know, I should have read more - sniff).

Below is the screen shoot of Partition Wizard. Does anyone have an idea? Have none left. Maybe replacing the NOOK partition from a valid image using Partition Wizard would work but I don’t have access to such image.

Thanks.

GrandMama · 07:45 PM

For those interrested in my solution.

Inspired by this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...php?p=16818990

I recreated the image partitions under linux with dd and sfdisk and repopulate the boot, factory, rom and empty name partition with my broken backup.
Write image to Nook using Noogie and RoadKill Disk Image.
Did a factory restore with power+2 lower side button method to be on safe side.

Seems to work nicely with extra space for sideloading (used the same space assigments as describe in the above thread).

Now, my recovered 1.0.0 version doesn't seems to apply the updates - but that's another story.

Cheers,
GM

I was able to update my Nook touch to 1.1 by resizing the partition. Seems that the system needs more space in the ./factory area (I think) to apply an update. The resizing modification specified in the above didn't left enough space.

Thanks.