Sage Curious Question

[m_pluto]

So I was looking at my Sage on my computer (I have a Mac laptop) and I had a thought, what would happen if I completely wiped and reformatted the e-reader as if it were an external drive?

I'd imagine one of two things would happen, one it would turn into a oversized thumb drive with a screen, or two (I'm not sure how likely this is) it would be fine and once I would reboot it, it would go through set-up process.

Anyone have any thoughts? Or has anyone done this?

[rashkae]

It will be fine. The actual software partition is not accessible to the computer. (On devices with removable Internal SD Card, you can remove the sd card to wipe it., then you would have to get an image from forum members to fix the device.)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by m_pluto

So I was looking at my Sage on my computer (I have a Mac laptop) and I had a thought, what would happen if I completely wiped and reformatted the e-reader as if it were an external drive?

I'd imagine one of two things would happen, one it would turn into a oversized thumb drive with a screen, or two (I'm not sure how likely this is) it would be fine and once I would reboot it, it would go through set-up process.

Anyone have any thoughts? Or has anyone done this?

Enough people have done this. Once you eject the Kobo, it will notice the exposed over USB partition has been wiped and will go into setup. If you reformatted the data partition using a format that the Kobo ereader did not understand, you would need a factory reset which would reformat the data partition and then go into setup.

To get more detailed, a Kobo ereader has a system partition, a recovery partition (used in a factory reset) and a data partition. The only partition you can access over a USB connection is the data partition. So no matter what you do to that partition, the other 2 partitions will not be affected and should permit recovery from abject stupidity.