Hacking Sky3DS DiskWriter Woes

[Alt][F4] · Jun 24, 2015

porchemasi said:
Found the issue, it was the damn cheap ass chinese micro SD-USB card reader that came with the flashcard. I used a real SD-CARD reader and all my 32GB kingston and ADATA CARDS WORKED AFTER THAT.

whats a real sd-card reader? lol i think i have the cheapo one too, tried kingston and lexar mSD cards no luck..

porchemasi · Jun 24, 2015

[Alt][F4] said:
whats a real sd-card reader? lol i think i have the cheapo one too, tried kingston and lexar mSD cards no luck..

I used my blackberry with the microSD in it, tethered to PC via USB. Used latest diskwriter available and it flashed 10+ games super fast and no issue. I also used a USB 3.0 Kingston SD USB stick with no issues.

K3wld3wd · Aug 22, 2016

thaddius said:
I have a Sky3DS coming in the mail and I thought I'd get a head start and write some games to a 16GB MicroSD. The card works fine on other devices, but it's not working with this utility for some reason.

I'm using Windows 7 and .NET 4.5.1 is installed. DiskWriter is running in Admin. Even tried it with the Win XP SP3 compatibility setting as well.

At the bottom of the DiskWriter window it tells me that the SD card's total free memory is -24 Mb. Any attempt to add files to the card results in a 'not enough space' warning, even though the card is empty.

I've re/formatted multiple times using Window's disk manager, SDFormatter, and the Diskwriter's Format option and still nothing.

Any tips?

Actually, went through all of these replies and the only thing people have offered as help is "try a different SD card"... worthless

I bet you would like to actually FIX your SD card that was made seriously inoperable instead?... priceless

Step 1: First of all run Windows command line and type diskpart in the command prompt. Windows will ask you for Administrator permissions to run the tool.

Step 2: Run list disk command to find your USB flash disk’s number. It should be the same as disk’s number in Computer Management tool.

Step 3: Type select disk <disk number> command, e.g. select disk 1.

Step 4: Type clean command to cleanup all of the volumes and partitions.

Step 5: Type create partition primary

Step 6: Type exit

Step 7: Use your windows PC to format the SD card which will now be reformatted to it's original full size.

Foxi4 · Aug 22, 2016

K3wld3wd said:
Actually, went through all of these replies and the only thing people have offered as help is "try a different SD card"... worthless

I bet you would like to actually FIX your SD card that was made seriously inoperable instead?... priceless

Step 1: First of all run Windows command line and type diskpart in the command prompt. Windows will ask you for Administrator permissions to run the tool.

Step 2: Run list disk command to find your USB flash disk’s number. It should be the same as disk’s number in Computer Management tool.

Step 3: Type select disk <disk number> command, e.g. select disk 1.

Step 4: Type clean command to cleanup all of the volumes and partitions.

Step 5: Type create partition primary

Step 6: Type exit

Step 7: Use your windows PC to format the SD card which will now be reformatted to it's original full size.

Why not use the Disk Manager GUI to do the same thing in a few clicks? Besides, SDFormater already has a size adjustment option and it rarely fails.

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