Loading My Content On Rooted Nook Color?

[J2W2]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been answered. I searched through a number of posts and never found an exact answer.

I'm a complete newbie to all things droid. I just got a nook color and rooted it to dual-boot with CM 7.1 on a 32gb SD. I've played around with it a little and downloaded a few apps, but now I'd like to download some of my content (music, movies, books) to it.

I've tried plugging the USB cable into my PC (Windows 7 Home Premium). The PC did not recognize it when it was booted into CM, but it did when it was booted as a normal nook. It assigned drive letters to the nook and to the SD card. The problem is, the nook only shows 1gb free, which I believe is all B&N lets you use for personal content, and the SD card is only showing 118mb free out of 148mb. I followed the crashtechdummies video to set up the SD card, and assigned all of the free space to the last (FAT32) partition.

So, any ideas on how I access my many missing gigabytes on the SD card? And is there any particular file structure and/or software I need to use to add my music, movies and books?

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[patruns]

Download EaseUs Partition Manager to your PC (free) and examine the card with it. You may find unallocated space. If so, you can drag the partition in front of it to recover the space.

 

[J2W2]

Hi patruns,

I did use EaseUs to move all the unused space to the fourth (FAT32) partition when I set the card up. It showed something like 27gb or so. The image that I used on the SD card was designed to fit on a 2gb card. This all resides in the first (FAT32) partition. I believe the 148mb that I'm seeing is what this partition had left unused.

I've continued to research this issue, and I've seen posts mentioning software such as Root Explorer and ES File Explorer. Do I need to use something like that on my PC to access the second FAT32 partition on my card?

Thanks again for the help!

 

[patruns]

If your card is set up correctly, I would boot into CM7 and go to the market and install DropBox. Then, go to their website and install the PC version. Set up a DropBox shared folder on your PC and drag your files into it. Boot up the Nook and launch DropBox and they should download to the Nook.

 

[MISRy]

You had a blue dot on the end of your Nook's box. That designates that your unit has a later partition scheme wherein it is partitioned 5G for applications and 1G for data, rather counter intuitively. Search for blue dot Nook.

Windows only "see's" the first or bootable partition on the card. Locate that and make it the only partition on the card resizing as appropriate with Easeus.

Dropbox is good for smaller files but I've found Samba to be more to my liking for larger, video primarily, files. Luck.

 

[J2W2]

I'd read about Dropbox and Samba, and watched a YouTube video on using Dropbox. However, my understanding is that loading content over Wi-Fi is really slow (especially movies), which is why I was hoping to be able to tether my nook and load it that way.

MISRy, EaseUs doesn't let me expand the first partition (the slider bar for it is already at the far right). I can only expand the last one. Again, I believe this has to do with the dual-boot card image that I set up the SD with.

No blue dot on my box, but the unit I got is a refirb from B&N, so I assume it has their latest partitioning scheme. I'd read somewhere that I could take it in to our local B&N and they can repartition it to give me more user space but I haven't pursued that. I'm thinking the 32gb SD will be plenty if I can just access it.

Thanks for your help!

 

[MISRy]

It could very well be the dual boot thing, I'm more familiar with eMMC loads. Good luck with taking it to B&N, l've heard the opposite. There are many threads addressing the issue if your device is rooted. Keep in mind when manipulating partitions all information on the partitions being worked on will probably be lost. Backup is your friend.

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[patruns]

Yes, B&N has been known to repartition when requested and since you are dual booting from a card, taking the card out and then going to B&N should not be an issue. Nonetheless, that does not appear to have anything to do with your issue. As I understand it you are looking for more space on the card or at least a way to get to it. Is there some reason you are trying to do this by plugging your Nook into a PC? Do you not see the available space when you put the card in a card reader and plug it into your PC? If not, can you perhaps post a screen shot of what EaseUs Partition Manager shows when the card is in a card reader?

 

[AnimeMania]

This might help, someone created a USB Driver that might allow your computer to recognize
when your Nook Color is attached.

[SCRIPT] Nook Color USB Drivers and ADB Setup (WinXP&7) - xda-developers

Also, when in android, watch the bottom of the screen, you might have to slide up the bottom
line text to reveal a button for connecting to the computer.

 

[Ferbat69]

Thanks Animemania. That driver seems like what is needed. Only one thing worries me: on the 16 line of the program the name Android is misspelled as Andriod. Could that render the whole thing non working? Do we have to copy the program as is shown?
I'll wait until clarification before I try it. Again, thanks a lot. Ferbat69