[Q] Really stuck on adb for nook color on windows 8 - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi I'm really stuck on getting adb to connect to my nook color first gen.
I'm on windows 8 and I followed instructions to disable driver verification and it's still not installing the driver for the nook. It says driver is not for the device.
I've tried modifying the google .inf file to add the Hardware Id's of the nook, I've tried using the usb_driver.zip from developers.nook...etc .
I've tried the simple nookcolor-easyADB.exe, which only does the same thing with the .inf and usb_driver.zip files.
I'm lost, I don't know if windows 8 just messes with me on the driver being unverified, or if I'm installing to the wrong place, but I've "updated" the driver, after uninstalling, after disconnecting and reconnecting.
I tried every single thing on the device managers list that had a driver associated with the nook.
This nook doesn't come with a setting to enable development.
I tried downloading the adbWireless app, but the nook says it's not "from the nook store", I'm so frustrated, can anyone help me?

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First things first...
This nook doesn't come with a setting to enable development.
I tried downloading the adbWireless app, but the nook says it's not "from the nook store", I'm so frustrated, can anyone help me?
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It sounds like you are on stock firmware and not rooted, so you are going to need to check out one of the other threads for that. But as far as getting ADB going with Windows 8? I got you covered. I've now done this on two Windows 8 machines so I feel confident that it works. All of the following was done on a fresh install of the Android SDK by installing Android Studio with all default options.
1) The first step is to disable driver signature enforcement on Windows 8, which is the cause of all this devilry. Follow the instructions on this link: Disabling Signed Driver Enforcement on Windows 8
2) Download and extract the attached adb_usb.zip file and extract it. Take the adb_usb.ini file inside and drop it in your .android directory. If my Windows username is cabbieBot, then I find it here: C:\Users\cabbieBot\.android
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Alternatively, you can just make this file yourself by opening up notepad, typing 0x2080 into it, clicking save, change dropdown from .txt to All Files, and save it as adb_usb.ini
3) Open Device Manager and plug in your NC. You will see NookColor under "Other Devices" with a yellow exclamation mark.
4) Download/extract the attached NookColorADBInstall.zip file.
5) Open Device Manager in Windows 8 You will see "NookColor" under "Other Devices" with the exclamation mark. Right-click on it and click "Update Driver". From here on out its all about just going through the right process of menus and dialogs.
6) Click whats in the red box: "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
7) Just leave it on "Show All Devices" and click Next.
8) IMPORTANT STEP! Click "Have Disk"
9) Click "Browse"
10) Navigate to where you extracted the NookColorADBInstall zip and you'll select the "usbdrivers" folder inside.
11) Without restarting Windows with the driver signature check we'd hit a dead-end here but we good. Click "Next".
12) Tell the dialog to eff off and click "Yes"
13) Click "Install this driver software anyway".
14) DING DING DING! If you have your NC hooked in, you should now see it prompting you to accept the computer's RSA certificate which means your computer and nook are gloriously flirting, so lets check it out to be sure.
15) Navigate to where ADB lives, which on a default installation will be at C:\Users\cabbieBot\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\platform-tools. Hold SHIFT and RIGHT-CLICK in the folder to select "Open Command Window Here"
type:
adb kill-server
then....
adb start-server
then...
adb devices
When you see your device's serial number pop up, you are certifiably done. I decided I wanted to learn to build CM from source and the trusty old NookColor is a handy device to play on, then I ran into the same issues that the OP found with Windows 8. If you are worried about the driver signature check being disabled, just reboot your computer because it doesn't survive a reboot. Hope this is useful to someone else even though dear old Encore is downright ancient at this point.