Thread: Calibre not seeing Kobo in Windows 10 Preview builds
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Old 08-05-2016, 03:12 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by enigmedark View Post
Hello to everyone, i found a real solution to this problem, but if you follow this steps you are going to lose all files on your e-reader, so if you donīt have a backup of your books, donīt do this. Donīt need open your kobo all is for software.

First of nothing, i donīt very good with english (i speak spanish), so please donīt kill me for my redaction.

I discover this steps for myself, triying and triying.

1.Download this program and install
http://www.minitool.com/partition-ma...zard-home.html
Itīs a free version.

2.Conect your Kobo to your computer and open the program.

3.You are going to see all disks and devices on your computer, select your kobo (You can see the size to be sure).

4.Right click and select "Format". In the options put a name (or not) and change File system to FAT32 (Donīt select any other!). After that, click on Apply (on top-left).

5.Wait a little. When the process finish your computer now can recognize the device, but donīt move any file yet!

6. Disconect your kobo and turned off.

7. Turned on, you are going to see the first configuration, configure your device (Wifi, time, account...)

8. Thats all! now you have your device like new, you can add your books from computer without problems.

NOTE: If you do a Factory Reset in the future, you need to do this steps again, beacause Kobo devices reformatted the internal storage and for that reason the computer donīt recognize.

Well, thats all, if you see other people with same problem, please share this solution.
Yes, as Windows 10AU is asking to format the drive, that should work. Though, I would have thought just letting Windows do the format, so long as it is FAT32, would work.

It begs the question of why it has started failing in the first place. The factory reset formats the user partition with:

Code:
mkfs.vfat -n KOBOeReader /dev/mmcblk0p3 && sync && sync
Unless the version of mkdosfs on the recoveryfs partition is producing an invalid partition, this should be OK. And of course, why has the Windows FAT32 driver only just decided it was a problem?
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