Hardware Weird problem

Maybeyes1

Member
OP
Newcomer
Joined
Apr 8, 2022
Messages
24
Trophies
0
Age
22
Location
Calafornia
XP
116
Country
United States
Hi, so as a pirater, a 32GB sd card is not enough. So I have a 512GB card, but when I transfer my 32GB sd card data to the 512 and turn it on, it shows "micro sd is corrupt"! Help will be appreciated :)
 

Badablek

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2006
Messages
515
Trophies
1
Age
43
XP
2,908
Country
France
hello,

use h2testw to check your microSD card. If it was really cheaper than any other, then you have (probably) been scammed with a fake card (16 or 32GB reprogrammed to appear as a 512GB).
you MUST do a FULL test, so everything on it will be wiped and it will take a long time to verify. But it's the only way to check if real or fake.


Upgrading a microSD card on Switch is just a matter of copy/pasting from old to new (except if a partition emuMMC was made). It can't turn bad, except with fake card.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Hayato213

Badablek

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2006
Messages
515
Trophies
1
Age
43
XP
2,908
Country
France
when you said "I tried fitting super smash bros (16GB file) and worked", what do you mean exactly ? you have put the game, then checked its hashes (SHA1, MD5) to make sure it's good ? You can put anything you want on a fake card...except that at the moment where you exceed the real size of the storage, you will start to overwrite the file(s), and corrupt it, one by one (and OS will report everything is good, because it can't detect fake cards...if the declared size is 512GB, it thinks it can write 512GB, as simple as that).


ps : the brand of the microSD card does not matter at all...everything can be copied, cloned, imitated. You must check it with h2testw. fitting a lot of games is NOT a way to test it, except if you check EVERY HASH of every file you put in it (exactly what h2testw does...automatically)...but if you want to lose your time, do it yourself, no problem :blush:
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
    Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty: good night