cloning microsd card to a bigger stick

[spiderman1234]

cloning microsd card to a bigger stick so I have 256gb running out of room i think I can clone with most image making programs ease us etc but then there be remaining room not formated can I clone to keep my installed games and then parttation the remaining space to linux?

 

[Hayato213]

If you don't have a hidden partition emunand, you can copy and paste, if you have a hidden partition emunand, you have to convert it to file base to move it to new card.

 

[petspeed]

It's also possible to backup partition based emummc and restore it on the new card using Hekate

 

[impeeza]

cloning microsd card to a bigger stick so I have 256gb running out of room i think I can clone with most image making programs ease us etc but then there be remaining room not formated can I clone to keep my installed games and then parttation the remaining space to linux?

There are several scenarios:

• You don't have a EmuNAND.
• You have one or more Hidden partitions for your EmuNAND.
• You only have a file-based EmuNAND.

First at all format your new card to FAT32 with 32K cluster size, you can use «guiformat-x64.Exe» (http://ridgecrop.co.uk/) or better you copy only Hekate to your new card and use NYX to re-partition and format your new card, this method is the recommended by SciresM, if you currently have raw partitions you can re-create it (them) on the wizard.

If you don't have EmuNAND or only have file-based EmuNAND as stated by @Hayato213 you simply copy the files from the old SD Card and there is all.

If you have one or more Raw Partition based EmuNAND(s) you need to recreate them on the new card, you can use something like MiniTool Partition Wizard or better Hekate's Nyx. Then, copy all the files on the normal partition from old card to new card, then you need to copy the RAW data from the origin card to new one. for that you can:

Use Hekate backup/restore function, but you need to put the old card, boot Nyx, backup your current RAW (you need 23 GB free) then copy the files from the old card to new card, boot hekate on the new card and restore the partition.

Also you can use dd on *nix OS, if you use Windows you can use EmuTool (https://gbatemp.net/threads/emutool...r-sd-switch-emu-type-on-sxos-and-more.550756/) (https://github.com/TheyKilledKenny/Emutool/releases) with that tool you read the original RAW partition and save as files on your HD, even you can use that files as new set of file-based EmuNAND, or if you like restore that set of files to the new card.