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In this article you can find instructions on how to recover files from a damaged disk. For all of us that have been in a such a situation, it was a nightmare and we realized that the simple job of always keeping a recent copy of our critical files to another media is the most important lesson that we must always have in our minds and the most important action to always perform. Popup about card needing to be formatted.Īfter the 3.0.0 update, the issue seems to have disappeared and I can swap in any of the cards without issue.When your hard drive with all your important data is damaged, then all your data becomes unavailable and you cannot access them anymore. Format went okay, copied books back, ejected and disconnected. At one point, I used the SD Card Formatter to format the external card while it was in the Kobo. After dismissing the error message, the ebooks on the card were accessible. On power cycle, I would get an error about not being able to read the card. I didn't see any issues with the internal uSD card but for the short while I was on the 2.10.0 firmware, I found that my Aura HD was very fussy as to which uSD card I used in the external slot. I am starting to think it is smarter than I thought and is messing with my head. So I powered on using the increasingly familiar reset procedure, put it to sleep and the real cover showed up again and I was able to power on normally. The last time it went to sleep it did not get around to displaying the real cover.
#You need to format the disk in before you can use it windows
So far my Aura HD has always turned on and/or connect, and even when I was getting the message to please format my card to FAT32 it would display the home screen and I could open the books on the card (all of my books are on the card) with no further problems until next time it woke up grumpy.īTW this isn't a Windows message it is a message displayed on the Kobo screen and pressing X or OK would let the reader continue on it's normal way. In 3.0.0 I still have that and when the home screen displays it first display a cover with two outline boxes and the title in the center, then the real covers show up. I have to push the power button at least 3 times to even get it to turn on.Īlso since 2.10 I have been getting a pseudo cover displayed before the real one for about 10 seconds when going to sleep. Then I let it go to sleep and 1/2 hour later it reset when turning it on. I changed books and it started normally several times, so I thought maybe a book related problem although the book worked on my 2.8.1 mini. (I did not get a file dirty error/must scan error) Luckily it is a very fast reset taking only about 30 seconds. I connected to calibre and it went away only to be replaced with a reset every time I powered on. I kept getting this message every time I opened my reader after updating to 3.0.0. I have already posted on this in another thread (yesterday?) Well I am lucky in that I seem to get all of the undocumented features. Kobo Desktop can't connect to the device either.Īny advise will be highly appreciated.
#You need to format the disk in before you can use it Pc
I already did the pinhole reset (no joy), then restored to factory configuration (and after the resore I was able to see the ereader main memory when connected to the PC until it again auto updated the FW and then the main memory became inaccessible in Windows Explorer). I would not be too worried about this besides the fact that I can't sideload fonts now and Calibre can't read Kobo database (which I assume is located in main memory). Meanwhile the device seems to work fine otherwise - it recognizes ebooks I write to microSD card, I can read books, search Kobo online offerings, etc. The main memory of the device is presented as an unformatted drive and can't be accessed. before you can use it" and I can only see the microSD card content in Windows Explorer. Since then every time I connect it to the computer via USB cable my PC displays "You need to format disk. After getting access to the Internet Kobo updated itself to FW version 2.10.0. Then I inserted a 32GB microSD card and set Kobo up with acces to my Wi-Fi. When I connected it to my computer after unpacking the computer recognized the device and I could see the KOBO file structure in Windows Explorer just fine.
#You need to format the disk in before you can use it install
I thought it was - See post #25 of this thread, but then I made a mistake connecting to Wi-Fi to install a dictionary and the error is back again.
