Thread: Kobo SD card problem
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Old 03-20-2011, 03:22 PM   #14
carlb
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Originally Posted by nerys View Post
Its harder to find now but in the early days IT WAS possible to find NON SDHC 4gb SD cards. I have 4 of them (my tapwave zodiac's can read them so I got a bunch)

Did I read that right it has a MSD card inside? can I change that to something larger (say 2gb)
The microSD card which comes with the Kobo wi-fi is 2Gb; it contains two Linux partitions for the Kobo firmware and the "factory reset" recovery image, leaving about 1Gb for your actual books.

As such, replacing it with another identical 2Gb microSD card would accomplish nothing.

Any upgrade path would therefore be microSDHC (using Linux 'dd' to make a bitwise-identical copy of everything which was on the old card and 'parted' to resize the FAT32 partition to use the rest of the new, larger card).

Even then, as the Kobo design is rather flimsy, there is some risk of damaging the device by taking it apart to swap the microSD card and then reassembling it after the upgrade.
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