Thread: Nia I need a Kobo Nia SD image
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Old 05-22-2023, 04:29 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by mu88 View Post
Thank you for the image, @DNSB! I quickly tried writing it to the SD card with both Win32DiskImager and the tool you mentioned: both report that the image is larger than the SD card and trying it anyway fails after approximately one minute. Do I have to reformat the SD card somehow?
I would suggest picking up a 16GB µSD card and trying the image on that. The image was created on a Nia with a 16GB card though only 8GB was actually used which is why 7Zip shows that 8GB empty block.

The number of times people have had issues with writing to the original µSD card is why I suggest using a new µSD to write the image to.

For my part, I've had good luck using the Flash Drive Image Creator & Flash Drive Image Writer. I've also tried Balena Etcher a couple of times with success. One issue is that with several of the software disk image packages I've tried is that they do not copy blank space. Kobo uses the blank space between the start of storage and the start of the first partition for several purposed and it does need to be copied.

You may also want to check the SD Associations SD Memory Card Formatter which has saved me on a couple of occasions from cards that were faulty or counterfeit.
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