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frostschutz · 08-10-2016, 08:37 AM

@grahamch: You have very strange bytes at the end of this thing, no clue where that came from. [Well, it shouldn't matter in the first place, but...]

Since I already made it, I attach the Win10 EXE version of fatpatch (it will probably require 64bit Windows but that's what everyone has nowadays - right?).

This is a console program, you have to run it in Command Prompt with administrator permissions (search Command Prompt, right click, run as administrator, cd C:\Users\You\Downloads (or wherever you saved the file), fatpatch E: or fatpatch PhysicalDrive2 [if Win10 didn't give it a drive letter]. You can find the drive number in the disk management.

This program will ask for confirmation before doing anything. It should display "Found FAT32 in sector 0 LABEL KOBOeReader", then you got the right one and can confirm with YES in capital letters. Otherwise, don't confirm.

It didn't damage things for me but I can't guarantee it will do anything for you. Use at your own risk.

As for all the other issues, I don't know what's going on anymore. I give up... sorry folks.

~~~ Removed the fatpatch hack since Windows has released an update that resolved this issue. ~~~

08-10-2016, 08:37 AM	#172
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	@grahamch: You have very strange bytes at the end of this thing, no clue where that came from. [Well, it shouldn't matter in the first place, but...] Since I already made it, I attach the Win10 EXE version of fatpatch (it will probably require 64bit Windows but that's what everyone has nowadays - right?). This is a console program, you have to run it in Command Prompt with administrator permissions (search Command Prompt, right click, run as administrator, cd C:\Users\You\Downloads (or wherever you saved the file), fatpatch E: or fatpatch PhysicalDrive2 [if Win10 didn't give it a drive letter]. You can find the drive number in the disk management. This program will ask for confirmation before doing anything. It should display "Found FAT32 in sector 0 LABEL KOBOeReader", then you got the right one and can confirm with YES in capital letters. Otherwise, don't confirm. It didn't damage things for me but I can't guarantee it will do anything for you. Use at your own risk. As for all the other issues, I don't know what's going on anymore. I give up... sorry folks. ~~~ Removed the fatpatch hack since Windows has released an update that resolved this issue. ~~~ Last edited by frostschutz; 08-24-2016 at 05:04 AM.