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Originally Posted by Spode

Thanks for the explanation. What I still don't understand, even if the internal card is a 2gb microSD, since the image is almost 2gb, how can anything be left over for personal downloads? The Kobo Wifi is always advertised as having a full Gigabyte for storing books. Where is that storage space coming from? This isn't an urgent issue obviously. I'm just curious.

The image is a bit image of the entire uSD card. It doesn't care if the space is empty or used, all the bits are copied. That is one of the reasons why the image compress so well.

Originally Posted by Spode

I haven't burned a new image yet. Waiting for an eReader so I can connect to my computer. One thing I did do is hook my n289 to my computer to see if I could overstore the image directly onto the internal microSD. I got the message that there wasn't sufficient space on the card to continue. However, I could overstore a truncated image if I chose to. The math just doesn't add up. A standard 2gb internal card should have fully accommodated the 1.9 (or thereabouts) image.

As mentioned in a previous message, the USB connection only exposes the FAT32 partition on the uSD card. The other partitions are not accessible over the USB connection. You will need to open up the WiFi, extract the uSD card and connect it to your computer to see the entire card. DO NOT FORMAT the card if prompted when you connect it to a Windows system. The tools used by quite a few under Windows are mentioned elsewhere but for completeness:

For creating an image from a SD card:
VConsole USB Image creator

For writing an image to a SD card:
VConsole USB Image writer

For resizing partitions after moving to a larger SD card:
MiniTool Partition Wizard Free edition

Information on opening up the Kobo WiFi to get at the uSD card:
Kobo_WiFi_Hacking

Originally Posted by Spode

Many of you may not find this confusing. I'm baffled. Something's going on that is beyond my penetration. None of this is important. I'd like to figure this out purely for personal gratification. Don't need an answer, would simply like one.

Good luck, Grasshopper!

And yes, I do consider this fairly simple -- the advantage of more years playing with electronics and computers than I care to think about.