Hardware Help with partitioning

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hello,

I’ve been trying to hack my switch for the last 2 days now. Once I finally got the homebrew and everything on, I realised that my sysnand was sharing the same storage as the emunand. So back to the drawing board I had to do it all again and then realised that the emunand can only be around 29GB. So I made a partition on minitool wizard for 29GB and both of the partitions were formatted in fat32.

I put it into the switch and it didn’t recognise the partition and asked to create one with the hekate partitioning instead. I have had issues with the hekate partitioning before because it doesn’t format them in fat32 so when I try to enter cfw it says “failed to run sept”.

Either way I cleared all the partitions yet again and this time just loaded into hekate and let it make the partition itself. After waiting to no surprise I get the same “failed to run sept” error because the partition is not fat32. I don’t know how to do this properly, can someone help? No matter what I do something always goes wrong.

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

Format your card to FAT32 if it is on exFAT, base on this line "failed to run sept” error because the partition is not fat32." Hekate should be able to make an emunand partition for you.

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
Format your card to FAT32 if it is on exFAT, base on this line "failed to run sept” error because the partition is not fat32." Hekate should be able to make an emunand partition for you.

Yeah that’s what I’ve been trying, I used hekate to make the partition, and it didn’t load sept because hekate didn’t format it to fat32. But, when I use minitool wizard on pc to partition the SD card to fat32, I can load into CFW but then it shares the same storage as my sysnand. Is there not another way to do it?

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

If you can't format your card with hekate you might want to check it with SD card checking tool like H2testw first.

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
If you can't format your card with hekate you might want to check it with SD card checking tool like H2testw first.

Alright I’ll do that. It is a pretty new SD card and it’s 256GB sandisk so I assume it should be okay. Also just a quick question, when you get the EmuNAND set up you only get access to one partition and it has an EmuMMC folder on it. Let’s say you wanted to install tinfoil, where would you put the folder? Because the accessible partition only shows bootloader and EmuMMC. Do you put install files in the root of the accessible drive?

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

Beastycraft said:
Alright I’ll do that. It is a pretty new SD card and it’s 256GB sandisk so I assume it should be okay. Also just a quick question, when you get the EmuNAND set up you only get access to one partition and it has an EmuMMC folder on it. Let’s say you wanted to install tinfoil, where would you put the folder? Because the accessible partition only shows bootloader and EmuMMC. Do you put install files in the root of the accessible drive?

Tinfoil files go into the switch folder, emunand use the Emunintendo folder, and the sysnand use nintendo folder so technically they are seperated, also the sysnand 32GB storage is on the emmc not the SD card, emunand is.

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
Tinfoil files go into the switch folder, emunand use the Emunintendo folder, and the sysnand use nintendo folder so technically they are seperated, also the sysnand 32GB storage is on the emmc not the SD card, emunand is.

Alrighty, I’m going to try and use the tool you told me about and then try partitioning then and hopefully running cfw. I’ll let you know. Thanks for the help. ^

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
Tinfoil files go into the switch folder, emunand use the Emunintendo folder, and the sysnand use nintendo folder so technically they are seperated, also the sysnand 32GB storage is on the emmc not the SD card, emunand is.

Another thing, just to double check, how big can you make an EmuNAND? Because I have the 256GB Sandisk Micro SD, I should be able to have more than 30GB correct?

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

Beastycraft said:
Another thing, just to double check, how big can you make an EmuNAND? Because I have the 256GB Sandisk Micro SD, I should be able to have more than 30GB correct?

By default it is the 32GB which real size is about 29GB. You can try resizing the emunand but Im not sure if it would boot or not,
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-resize-your-emunand-mmc.587024/

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
By default it is the 32GB which real size is about 29GB. You can try resizing the emunand but Im not sure if it would boot or not,
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-resize-your-emunand-mmc.587024/

Alright thank you

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
By default it is the 32GB which real size is about 29GB. You can try resizing the emunand but Im not sure if it would boot or not,
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-resize-your-emunand-mmc.587024/

Alright thank you

Hayato213 said:
By default it is the 32GB which real size is about 29GB. You can try resizing the emunand but Im not sure if it would boot or not,
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-resize-your-emunand-mmc.587024/

okay so I’ve managed to set up the emunand now thank you. I just wanted to check, can I use the micro SD card for storage on the emuNand? Because the sysnand has separate “system memory” to the emunand but is the micro sd card shared between the sysnand and emunand? Or separate as well

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

Beastycraft said:
Alright thank you

okay so I’ve managed to set up the emunand now thank you. I just wanted to check, can I use the micro SD card for storage on the emuNand? Because the sysnand has separate “system memory” to the emunand but is the micro sd card shared between the sysnand and emunand? Or separate as well

Games you installed go into seperate folders but stuffs you drop on the SD card are shared by the sysnand and emunand, you can access homebrew stuffs from both NAND. If you don't play online then you don't need an emunand, if you don't use the emulated 32GB internal storage.

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
Games you installed go into seperate folders but stuffs you drop on the SD card are shared by the sysnand and emunand, you can access homebrew stuffs from both NAND. If you don't play online then you don't need an emunand, if you don't use the emulated 32GB internal storage.

Oh alright, so if I download homebrew software onto the micro SD card, but I only use it while in the EmuNAND, then it is safe? Even though it is shared between the SysNAND.

Hayato213 · Jul 30, 2021

Beastycraft said:
Oh alright, so if I download homebrew software onto the micro SD card, but I only use it while in the EmuNAND, then it is safe? Even though it is shared between the SysNAND.

It is fine as long you don't run pirated game on your Sysnand if you intend to use that for online game play.

Beastycraft · Jul 30, 2021

Hayato213 said:
It is fine as long you don't run pirated game on your Sysnand if you intend to use that for online game play.

Alright thank you! Your help is really appreciated.

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