[sadievan]

Originally Posted by taosaur

You may want to pay closer attention to jhempel's avatar

If N2A looks more attractive than making a card yourself, you're probably not too interested in either of those questions, but I'll offer answers, in reverse order:

2) Software problems can prevent your NC from booting. If there's nothing wrong with hardware, the NC will still look for bootable media in the SD slot when you power it on. A hardware fault preventing the NC from booting would be quite rare.

Gotcha. Thanks.

1) You can put an Android utility called ClockworkMod Recovery on a SD card using a program like WinImage. You can then put update packages such as CM7 or the stock firmware on the card and have ClockworkMod deliver them to the device.

If you want to explore how to make your own card, I broke down the most popular method, verygreen's size-agnostic SD (SASD), very step-by-step here: http://taosaur.blogspot.com/2011/09/...m-sd-nook.html The tools you'll use may be unfamiliar, but the whole thing's less complex than baking brownies.

Actually what I was asking was what program he used to make a backup of the bootable card. I think I didn't word it too well. I have Acronis True Image and also DVDFab that I think uses WinImage (not sure will have to check my other computer). Was wondering if either of those would work to backup the N2A card should I decide to go that route.

Thanks for the link. Will bookmark it in case I decide to try to do it myself. Just don't know if I want to be bothered.

Thanks,
Carol

Edited: Looked at your blog. Got confused with the CyanogenMod 7 ROM file to download. You say, update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-encore-signed.zip or any of the nightly test releases numbered 86 or higher, but the link says 17x.