Hardware Homebrew Got some problems with my SD card, I need some help

[AaronFerb]

Yesterday I tried installing SNES9X on my 3ds, I've put the .Cia in my Cias folder and put it back in my 3ds, but when I turned my 3ds on, my games and apps were not there anymore, and neither were my save files.
Then I put my sd card back on my pc and it was like this, I don't know what happened, I tried formatting after I couldn't find any solution online, and is still like this, what should I do to fix this problem?

 

[Hayato213]

Looks like your wipe your data if you only got a Nintendo 3DS folder.

 

[Kwyjor]

It's a good thing you put "I need some help" in your subject line, because otherwise people would just assume you were posting about problems with your SD card for funsies.

Then I put my sd card back on my pc and it was like this, I don't know what happened, I tried formatting after I couldn't find any solution online, and is still like this

I'm not sure what you think the picture is supposed to show, because every Nintendo 3DS folder is going to look like that. Are you suggesting it looked differently before? Does Windows report your SD card as mostly empty? What did you use to format the card? If you were trying to retrieve your data, why did you format your card?!

 

[AaronFerb]

It's a good thing you put "I need some help" in your subject line, because otherwise people would just assume you were posting about problems with your SD card for funsies.


I'm not sure what you think the picture is supposed to show, because every Nintendo 3DS folder is going to look like that. Are you suggesting it looked differently before? Does Windows report your SD card as mostly empty? What did you use to format the card? If you were trying to retrieve your data, why did you format your card?!

It had the basic folders like
3ds
Cias
Fbi
gm9

but now it's just this

Post automatically merged: Apr 14, 2023

Looks like your wipe your data if you only got a Nintendo 3DS folder.

How can I start everything from scratch? What should I do?

Post automatically merged: Apr 14, 2023

Guys my SD card is dead, it's not even opening on windows anymore
I'll be buying a new one and installing homebrew again

 

[nfoert]

It had the basic folders like
3ds
Cias
Fbi
gm9

Just go back a folder. That long scramble of numbers and letters is your console's ID0. That folder is inside the Nintendo 3DS folder.
The file structure usually looks like this:

SD CARD
    - 3ds
    - cias
    - fbi
    - gm9
    - Nintendo 3DS
        - (ID0 (This is the long scramble of characters you see))

    - (etc.)

Do you no longer have the '3ds' 'cias' 'fbi' folders ect? Please post a screenshot of the root of your SD card.

EDIT: Formatting your card means that you clear all data off of your SD card. You're going to have to start over now. Any saves and homebrew are gone. If you were following 3dshacks and hacked your console recently it should be able to boot without the SD card.

 

[Kwyjor]

but now it's just this

As per the other post, you are clearly showing a picture of the inside of the Nintendo 3DS folder and not the root of the SD card.

Guys my SD card is dead, it's not even opening on windows anymore

Sometimes people have been able to use testdisk or Easeus to recover SD cards that aren't readable in Windows, but if you also formatted the card, it might be much too late for that.

Anyway, just follow https://3ds.guide/restoring-updating-cfw to start over with a new card.

 

[AaronFerb]

As per the other post, you are clearly showing a picture of the inside of the Nintendo 3DS folder and not the root of the SD card.


Sometimes people have been able to use testdisk or Easeus to recover SD cards that aren't readable in Windows, but if you also formatted the card, it might be much too late for that.

Anyway, just follow https://3ds.guide/restoring-updating-cfw to start over with a new card.

Thank you, I'll be following the guide when the new SD Card arrives, it might be tomorrow

Just go back a folder. That long scramble of numbers and letters is your console's ID0. That folder is inside the Nintendo 3DS folder.
The file structure usually looks like this:

SD CARD
    - 3ds
    - cias
    - fbi
    - gm9
    - Nintendo 3DS
        - (ID0 (This is the long scramble of characters you see))

    - (etc.)

Do you no longer have the '3ds' 'cias' 'fbi' folders ect? Please post a screenshot of the root of your SD card.

EDIT: Formatting your card means that you clear all data off of your SD card. You're going to have to start over now. Any saves and homebrew are gone. If you were following 3dshacks and hacked your console recently it should be able to boot without the SD card.

It just had the "nintendo 3ds" folder, everything else got deleted (even before I formated the SD card)

 

[nfoert]

It just had the "nintendo 3ds" folder, everything else got deleted (even before I formated the SD card)

Weird. That's just what the SD card looks like before installing cfw. Did you maybe get a new SD card for installing cfw and mixed up the old a new one or something? Anyway, good luck getting it back up and running.

 

[AaronFerb]

Weird. That's just what the SD card looks like before installing cfw. Did you maybe get a new SD card for installing cfw and mixed up the old a new one or something? Anyway, good luck getting it back up and running.

Not really, I just had this SD card haha, I think I did something that corrupted all the files

Post automatically merged: Apr 15, 2023

Update, I bought a new SD card and is working fine now, it was really my sdCard that was corrupted, I lost my saves but that's fine I guess

As per the other post, you are clearly showing a picture of the inside of the Nintendo 3DS folder and not the root of the SD card.


Sometimes people have been able to use testdisk or Easeus to recover SD cards that aren't readable in Windows, but if you also formatted the card, it might be much too late for that.

Anyway, just follow https://3ds.guide/restoring-updating-cfw to start over with a new card.

Followed this guide in the new SD card it worked, thank you for the help