SD Card swap with hidden partition tutorial?

[RAD047]

Hi guys,

I have an hard modded switch with a 256GB sd card. I got a new 1tb sd card and wanted to upgrade. I simply copied over the files but android (Lineage OS) wouldn't run anymore it would just hang at the boot screen.

I tried looking into using a partition manager to clone the card but that didn't work.

Can someone run me through what to do to get all my stuff including the hidden partition to the new sd card?

Thanks.

PS. the image shows the partitions in my sd cards if that helps. My switch was setup with a file based partition but I didn't do it myself. Was done by modder who installed my nx chip

 

[Alxandr13]

Are you really making a 1:1 clone of the WHOLE old card to the new one?

I'm not into NS modding, but for personal experience, when exchanging/upgrading faulty/smaller storage for new/bigger ones, OSes need to be mirrored using propper tools (SW like "Macrium Reflect" when use a PC is an option) and, only after checking if the ghost/clone is working fine, we extend the common/usable partition if it's allowed in that specific case - RAID storage by example used to be kept as they are until a propper backup of the cluster turns possible and all the table could be rewriten from scratch, allocating maximum cappacity.

Anyway... again: i'm not a Switch modder, but asked cause you mention "simply copied over the files", which really shouldn't work in a matter of an OS (which Android is) and, despite both drives being FAT32, your SS shows one massive storage in MBR while the other with various lesser hidden partitions, is GPT.

So, my not-expert-in-this-specific-matter guess for you is to see if the device keep working with the old storage and, if yes, try using a clone software to mirror your 250 SD into the 1T one. If everything goes well and the new card boot your system as the the previous was doing, then you can try expanding its partition to fill the space available (maybe you could face some issues there too due to, in the graphic at least, the bigger partition of the smaller card being set before the other system ones, but lets let this issue for later if it really turns to be an issue).