Creating a backup of my Android For Nook card

Creating a backup of my Android For Nook card

02-25-2012, 03:00 PM (This post was last modified: 03-03-2012 07:42 AM by androidfornook.) Post: #1

gbolando Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: Feb 2012 Reputation: 0 Thanks: 0 Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)

Creating a backup of my Android For Nook card I just bought an AndroidforNook SD card. It works great! How can I make a backup to my PC?

02-25-2012, 08:16 PM (This post was last modified: 07-25-2012 10:24 PM by androidfornook.) Post: #2

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RE: Creating a backup (02-25-2012 03:00 PM)gbolando Wrote:  I just bought an AndroidforNook SD card. It works great! How can I make a backup to my PC? Glad you are enjoying your Android tablet! Backing up is easy and is a good idea, in case something happens to your card. I also have an online file sharing site where I store the images for customers who cannot back up their own. Anyway, to back up your card, you need: 1) a Windows PC 2) a cardreader 3) your AndroidForNook card 4) Windisk32 Imaging program Directions: Go to this website Windisk32 Imager File Download and download the "win32diskimager-binary.zip" file. I use the maddog release (r23) because it creates smaller backup files. Download a version of your choosing and extract it to a folder anywhere on your computer (I use the downloads folder). Open the extracted file folder and double-click on the Windisk32Imager file. This is what you should see: Put your AndroidForNook card in a cardreader and stick it in the USB or cardreader slot (depends on what type of adapter you have). You want to "read" the files on your AndroidFor Nook card to an image on your PC: Using the image above as an example, Click on the blue folder and browse to a location on your PC where you want to store the backup. In this example, I selected my Documents folder. You will be prompted to type in a filename. Call it whatever you want, but I called mine "androidfornook". Make sure the file type is .img extension. Click "Save". Your screen will return to the main program window. Click the down arrow and select the drive letter that your card reader is. In my case, it is drive letter J: and the program automatically detected it for me. Next Click "Read". It will start reading the files on your card and backing them up into an image file that you named (in my case, "androidfornook.img"). That is it! Make sure you properly eject your AndroidForNook card before you remove it from your PC. Always do this, never remove the card without ejecting it. I have Windows7, so in the bottom right corner, I click on the up arrow, then select the little USB Plug with the green check mark, then click on the drive letter J: (see pic). Earlier versions of windows, you can use File Explorer and right click on the drive letter (J: for me), then select "eject". Now if you ever want to restore your image to your card (maybe you messed something up and it won't boot - the most common reason is removing your card with the power on your Nook still or removing it from your PC without "ejecting" it), the process is very similar. Look at the image below: Click on the blue folder and find the backup file. In my case it is in the C:\backups folder and is called "androidfornook.img". Click on the down arrow and select the drive letter that your card reader is. In my case it is J: (the program automatically detected it). Click the "write" button. WARNING: This will over-write anything on your SD card! Do NOT press the "write" button when you are MAKING a backup, only when you are restoring it. Easy stuff. Have fun.

03-31-2012, 02:19 PM Post: #3

ps56k Junior Member Posts: 9 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 0 Thanks: 0 Given 0 thank(s) in 0 post(s)

RE: Creating a backup of my Android For Nook card tnx for this basic tutorial - Is the entire uSD card read/written - ie, all the partitions - or only one ? Is the image of the entire uSD area - ie, even the blank/empty areas.... or just the used data ? Lastly - how big is the resulting image file ?

03-31-2012, 08:41 PM Post: #4

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RE: Creating a backup of my Android For Nook card (03-31-2012 02:19 PM)ps56k Wrote:  tnx for this basic tutorial - Is the entire uSD card read/written - ie, all the partitions - or only one ? Is the image of the entire uSD area - ie, even the blank/empty areas.... or just the used data ? Lastly - how big is the resulting image file ? Don't quote me (actually, when you reply it does quote me ) but when you use the imaging program, it completely overwrites anything on yourur card, so the entire card is written to. Depending on which version of Windisk Imager you use, it appears to write differently. For example, the version I have posted on my file share sites is version r.22 It is fairly old compared to the latest release, but it creates only 4GB image files, no matter what size card you have created the image from. The newer versions of the program will create an image the exact same size as the card you own. So, by deduction it would appear the older version either does some type of compression, or skips empty data blocks when it is reading your card, or both. The newer versions read/write empty spaces. I have not had any problems using the older version and prefer to use it to conserve hard drive space. If anyone determines that it causes problems, I would definitely stop using it, but so far so good. You can further reduce the size of the image file by using WinZip. For the Tablet images, it reduces the 4GB image file to about 130MB! That makes it very easy to upload and download from the fileshare site. The Nook color images are a little larger (300-400MB). The Phiremod images will only Zip to about 2GB - not sure why. Hope this answers your questions.    src: http://androidfornook.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=39&highlight=partitions