Fixing a Kobo Original Wifi

I had a kobo Wifi (n289) that started:

1. Not showing any files suddenly (No books found)
2. Constantly showing "updating" forever
3. Bootlooping (to taste)

I did not like this new behavior.

Here's how I fixed it:

1. Fiddle around with hard resets or whatever  (This will not help, but you can try it if you want).
2. Crack open the kobo.
3. Take the SD card off the back and put it into a reader.
4. Put reader into ubuntu PC. If you don't have linux, oh well.
5. Open Gparted.
6. Gparted will show three partitions on the sd: a 270mb one, a 530 mb one, and a third huge one.
7. run sudo dd if=/dev/(sdcardpartitionone) of=image.img and  sudo dd if=/dev/(sdcardpartitiontwo) of=image2.img to make a backup (optional)
8. Delete the 270mb partition in gparted.
9. Run fsck on the 530mb partition and accept everything it wants.
10. ???
11. Profit!