Hardware Changing from exfat to fat32

[sbga420]

Ive had corruption issues on exfat and now I want to switch to fat32. Can I just make an image of my SD card and restore it after I format so I wont have to reinstall everything?

 

[PHiLiPZ]

No, the image wojld be exfat. You won’t be even able to just copy the contents since exfat will likely contain files with size bigger than 4GB.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Ive had corruption issues on exfat and now I want to switch to fat32. Can I just make an image of my SD card and restore it after I format so I wont have to reinstall everything?

If you don't have emuNAND (as hidden partition) just copy all the files over to your PC, format and copy them back. If you make an image that image will be in the exFAT format. If you have emuNAND as hidden partition just make sure you format only the main partition. EASEUS Partition Master will let you select just the one partition and won't touch anything else and I'm not sure about guiformat or minitool.

 

[PHiLiPZ]

...just copy all the files over to your PC, format and copy them back.

Nice, short, easy to follow ... and useless. Unless all the files are smaller than 4GB he won’t be able to copy them to fat32 partition!

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Nice, short, easy to follow ... and useless. Unless all the files are smaller than 4GB he won’t be able to copy them to fat32 partition!

The files are smaller than 4GB. None of the files the Switch makes are larger than that. Unless he has some nsps still on there (which nsps will have to be installed over USB or network if they're larger than 4GB) or movies or PS2 ISOs or something, everything should fit just fine.