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Old 01-13-2017, 05:59 PM   #2376
polygonica
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Originally Posted by knc1 View Post
It is the last item on my list, failing eMMC.

If you have a Linux (or MacOSx) pc, you can access the raw storage device, zero the first 16 sectors, reboot, and the system will re-build the user storage area.
There are directions here, probably indexed by the sticky 'master index' post.

But you had better be sure to have backed up everything you have on user storage first.
And if you have to do that now, expect to get files with errors.

Re-installing will probably not do much good -
The update system does not verify what it writes.

Also, we have a utility script here that DOES do write, read-back, verify -
Which you really must use now to transfer the Amazon update file to user storage -
Really bad things will happen if you try to run an update image file from failing storage.
Will try that next week. Thanks for the help.

Also, nothing important is on user storage. Just my one-line fix to Front Light Master which I've noted down already.

Last edited by polygonica; 01-13-2017 at 06:02 PM.
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