Drive letter Fix - Windows and Calibre
Hiya,
It looks like everyone who has softrooted to the latest version has this issue. It has to do with the disk drive assignment in the firmware of the softroot. They have assigned the internal drive as drive 0, external as drive 1. Windows will assign the drives in order, making the internal the main drive and confusing Calibre.
You can force Windows to assign the drives in the correct order using Disk Management. Make sure you plug in your Nook and can see both drives before starting this.
Go to Control Panel - > Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. Using the side tree select Disk Management (its under Storage, if your tree is collapsed)
There will be a text listing of your connected drives at the top, with a graphical listing of each drive below. Right click on the nook (internal) drive and select Change Drive letters and paths - then click on the change button again to get to the drive letter selection box.
Pick an open drive letter that has at least one free drive letter higher ex: Pick drive I: if you have Drive H: available to you. Save and do the same thing with your internal drive, making sure you assign it to a drive letter one higher than your nook internal drive.
Once you do this, Windows will remember the drive letter assignments, and will not switch them even after disconnecting and reconnecting your Nook. Calibre will see and read the your Nook correctly after the switch.
caveat: I am on Windows XP, SP3. Hopefully this holds true for Vista and Win7, but your mileage may vary.
Scoopa
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