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Originally Posted by ascherjim
Gratified to hear from you, in both forums, on this matter. I have been struggling with this in a variety of way late at night and early in the morning.
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Well, I figured your 3 posts on the exact same topic deserved a reply in both of the separate forums that the posts occurred in. That way you would know as soon as possible that you could recover successfully.
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Originally Posted by ascherjim
I'll begin with a brief digression (or query): What "OpenInkpot instructions to restore the factory software" are you referring to. I have just gone into the OI site and can't find anything except how to install Open Inkpot itself -- nothing about "restoring" factory software.
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Originally Posted by OpenInkpot Installation Instructions
Hanlin v3 and v3ext ¶
BEWARE: Updating to the this version will cause your internal storage for the books to be reformatted, so backup first! The format may take up to 10 minutes during the first boot, so be patient. Reverting back to the original firmware will require reformatting the partition back — just attach the device to PC after reflashing, and format disk to FAT.
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It was also mentioned in this forum a few days ago that the live version would also format the internal storage as jffs2, so the recovery from that would also require reformatting the BeBook internal storage. The ticket concerning the live version formatting the internal storage was identified as ticket #550. It looks like that ticket has been recently closed, so possibly it is no longer an issue?
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Originally Posted by ascherjim
Anyway, I have a number of times on both my BeBooks reformatted the main memory (drive L on my XP) using the Panasonic reformatting application you have recommended in one of the forums in the past.
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That is correct, I have recommended the SD card formatting utility provided at sdcard.org for formatting SD cards, and I still do. It may even be adequate for formatting the BeBook internal storage, but the Windows XP formatting utility proved adequate in recovering from the jffs2 format. It is really slow over a USB1.1 connection but it did get the job done.
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Originally Posted by ascherjim
I've done a FULL reformatting, all the bells and whistles. Afterward, I've variously left the BoBook firmware in place that was on the device before reformatting, and also reinstalling the firmware after reformatting. I've in all cases copied a title into the main memory, but the BeBook firmware doesn't recognize it in any instance.
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I can not explain that because that is not what happens when I tried it in response to your postings. I was curious enough to waste about 20 minutes on recreating the situation, but everything works fine for a whole folder full of books. The folder and the books appeared correctly in the BeBook firmware after I formatted the internal storage FAT16 and copied the folder full of books.
I have OpenInkpot reinstalled on my BeBook now, and it is working fine again.