Hacking Question Can I clone hidden emunand

[yusuo]

There's a few posts about moving old emunand to hidden emunand but I can't see anything about moving hidden emunand to new sd.

The story being is I think the sd card I'm using is on its way out, its a 64gb card and I want to move all contents to a new 64gb.

How would I go about doing this in a way that SX OS would recognise, could I just ghost the sd with win32diskimager or something similar, or would the switch look for the sd identifier number and if so, how can I go about moving

 

[mrdude]

Yes, you can just use win32diskimager to image the microsd card - then write the dump to a new card.

 

[GraFfiX420]

Since the cards are the same size, imaging from one to the other should work.

 

[yusuo]

Since the cards are the same size, imaging from one to the other should work.

It's backing up now and I'll write it tonight, just thinking as they're different brands they might not be byte for byte identical but we shall see, I've had issues with that before with (supposed) same capacity hdd

 

[GraFfiX420]

It's backing up now and I'll write it tonight, just thinking as they're different brands they might not be byte for byte identical but we shall see, I've had issues with that before with (supposed) same capacity hdd

If that's the case you can always follow the tutorial I wrote for moving emunand, it works for moving from sd to sd.

 

[yusuo]

If that's the case you can always follow the tutorial I wrote for moving emunand, it works for moving from sd to sd.

Awesome ill try the simple route first, then we'll give your way ago if that fails, thanks

 

[mrdude]

It's backing up now and I'll write it tonight, just thinking as they're different brands they might not be byte for byte identical but we shall see, I've had issues with that before with (supposed) same capacity hdd

They will be byte for byte identical.

I think you're getting confused with the number of pages/bytes that the sd card has that is usable. If both cards are the same size, they will have the same amount of bytes that can be read/written to. When you clone a disk - you're cloning the information read from byte 0 to byte 0, byte 1 to byte 1 - etc.
You would on get errors if some of the memory card space was unreadable/unwritable.

 

[BigJoeCool76]

Hmmm... when I upgraded to 128 gb from 32gb, I just formatted the new card then copied all the files over. Didn't realize I was supposed to take extra steps. Maybe that's why my Retroarch is trippin.