GuiFormatWhat program is recommended to format large SD cards into fat32?
This is a known issue of SX OS and as far as I can tell they are already working on it.Ok, I have reformatted to fat32, copied all my files back over.
I had to split some of my XCI files to fit onto onto the card now, which is fine.
The issue I have now is, the split files now show a white box in the SX menu instead of the normal picture of the game.
Anyone else have this/know how to fix please?
This was all done on windows 10.
Why 32k option ?GuiFormat
Make sure to choose the 32k option when formatting it and since that tool is a bit of a diva, close all other applications while using it.
Why 32k option ?
You actually get a bit of a performance boost with 64K cluster, but I can't guarantee that it plays nicely with all homebrew.Because it's the recommended allocation size
Welcome to the bright side of life.I've been on multiple versions using exFAT and I've had my shit corrupt about 5 times already. Finally stopped being lazy and converted to FAT32, no issues since.
You shouldn't quote him and waste his precious time although I agree on the fact that someone should write a very good explanation which should be featured on gbatemp's frontpage for a few days and stickied to the Switch forum.@m4xw so do you know what's causing exfat corruption? If you explained this before, could you point me there?
Just wondering if there is anything at all that can be done by users, or maybe there's a way to do file writes in HB, which can prevent or minimize the risk of corruption with exfat.
Create a folder on your PC desktop called "temp".So if I want to format my exfat card, what do I have to do with my currently installed games on the SD card? Do I need to install them all again since I won't be able to paste back the Nintendo folder cause it is bigger than 4 GB?
Create a folder on your PC desktop called "temp".
Copy everything from your SD root into that folder.
Format to FAT32.
Copy everything from "temp" back to your SD root.
Simple as that.
Edit: Installed games are always automatically separated into chunks smaller than 4 GB, even on exFAT so don't worry.
You shouldn't quote him and waste his precious time although I agree on the fact that someone should write a very good explanation which should be featured on gbatemp's frontpage for a few days and stickied to the Switch forum.
However: No it's Ninty's driver that is causing the sh*t to happen. Unless someone (SciresM?) writes a whole new filesystem driver for exFAT (and why in the world would he even think about wasting his time for that if FAT32 works perfectly and has no real downside) this won't change.
well we dont have a splitter for the Switch OS directly so you need a PC and not everybody want to be split NSPs or XCIs
btw SD Cards can be restored with CHKDSK
oh really but not everybody dumps his games self...Explain to me how a splitter would be useful on the switch itself. What is it supposed to split? If you're on exFAT, it's pointless. On FAT32, the files are already split.
Before you say "game dumps" - gcdumptool can output split XCIs and NSPs which can be renamed and archive bit'd in NXShell, so that's only an issue if you're a filthy pirate.
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at worked everytime with my one...Best case, you end up with missing files or corrupted files in LOST.DIR. Worst case, chkdisk fails and moves corrupted entries to LOST.DIR. Sometimes exfat-fuse's fsck can save it when chkdisk can't but I've had the switch irreparably corrupt exFAT before such that a format was required.