Gaming SD card switch

[macia10]

Hi,
I'd like to repleace my old sd card with a new bigger one. Unfortunatelly I have zelda dlc on the old one and when I've copied everything from the old one to the new one console said that data is corruoted and I need to re download it. Is there any way to switch my sd without losing my data and updating my console? I have only dlc there saves are still on the console.

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[smileyhead]

Hi,
I'd like to repleace my old sd card with a new bigger one. Unfortunatelly I have zelda dlc on the old one and when I've copied everything from the old one to the new one console said that data is corruoted and I need to re download it. Is there any way to switch my sd without losing my data and updating my console? I have only dlc there saves are still on the console.

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I don't have a Switch, so I don't know if it's possible, but it was on Wii U, so I'll suggest it anyway.

Try copying all your data from your old SD to the internal memory, then to the new SD.
If it doesn't fit at once, copy as much data to the internal memory, then the new card as you can, then swap back to the old card, and repeat until everything's on the new one.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

You may be able to just copy paste the entire SD from the old to the new from a pc. That's how it worked on 3ds, probably the same for switch.

 

[smileyhead]

You may be able to just copy paste the entire SD from the old to the new from a pc. That's how it worked on 3ds, probably the same for switch.

...did you even read the FP?

 

[TheCyberQuake]

...did you even read the FP?

I'm assuming nintendo wouldn't lock the contents of sd to only that SD, so it was probably a bad copy. There may be hidden folders or files that didn't get copied over because they don't show up by default in windows.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I don't have a Switch, so I don't know if it's possible, but it was on Wii U, so I'll suggest it anyway.

Try copying all your data from your old SD to the internal memory, then to the new SD.
If it doesn't fit at once, copy as much data to the internal memory, then the new card as you can, then swap back to the old card, and repeat until everything's on the new one.

There's no way to copy data between internal memory and SD right now AFAIK.

 

[smileyhead]

There's no way to copy data between internal memory and SD right now AFAIK.

Well, shit.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Well, shit.

At least it's possible to redownload the games on the new SD. Save data is stored in internal memory so that won't be lost.

 

[macia10]

I'm assuming nintendo wouldn't lock the contents of sd to only that SD, so it was probably a bad copy. There may be hidden folders or files that didn't get copied over because they don't show up by default in windows.

Tried few times and always the same. Seems that they do lock it somehow to maybe sd serial number or something So I'm assuming that I'm stuck with old sd if I want to play zelda and stay on 3.0

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[HaloEliteLegend]

No form of data transfer that I'm aware of right now. I'm assuming such a feature will come later. If you tried using your PC to copy/paste files, then there might be hidden files your PC didn't pick up that are required, and hence the corrupted data.

 

[TheCyberQuake]

Tried few times and always the same. Seems that they do lock it somehow to maybe sd serial number or something So I'm assuming that I'm stuck with old sd if I want to play zelda and stay on 3.0

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You could try using disk cloning software. That would make a perfect copy of the old SD to the new one.