Hacking How to access your Switch's eMMC or microSD card as an USB disk on your PC

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This is what I needed. Is there any way that the eMMC can be started as USB by just starting the Payload without MicroSD needs?
 

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I already made the process and I left a message for you privately. Anyway, the HacDiskMount program keeps closing when I try to open the physical unit. Although in Disk Manager Windows 10 I see all the drives. I will try to use another program like the one mentioned above to have such.

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I see that it works here, but when running HacDiskMount as Admin, clicking Open Physical Drive it crashes.

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Ohh it's working now, ignore me!

I see that the only difference is that the state of the user who has the problem says offline, and that of rajkosto says Online.
 

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An error occurs in Device Manager that says "Disabled (The disk is offline because it has a signature collision with another disk that is connected)
 

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I REALLY hope people have a full backup of their eMMC before doing this, or at least it is read-only, and mounted under Linux only. Otherwise I can see this being a cocktail for disaster. Windows does not natively respect Linux file permissions, and third party FS drivers have been known to corrupt them.

Besides that, this is a really great / useful payload.
 
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Is there a downloadlink for the payload? I couldn't find it on the website.

EDIT: found it, I had to delete my browser cache.
 
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This is still the best way to do it in my opinion:

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Costs a whopping $4 with free shipping from Odroid on Amazon.

NO, those don't work. Don't tell people to buy things when you havent verified them yourself.
ODROID uses 17x2 pins with a completely different pinout from the Switches 15x2 pins, which is why i had to make my own:
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NO, those don't work. Don't tell people to buy things when you havent verified them yourself.
ODROID uses 17x2 pins with a completely different pinout from the Switches 15x2 pins, which is why i had to make my own:
https://images.sshnuke.net/2018-05-05_01-56-10_LBlWvJjP7.jpg
https://images.sshnuke.net/2018-05-05_01-56-45_cIMb6vAE8.jpg


some reliable link of what do we have to buy?

and congratulations and thanks for sharing this, I think a lot of people were looking for it. Now it's the part of being able to load from there things like xci or nca if you do that you'll be the first to make history of the big ones
 
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There's nothing to buy for the Switch, even if i posted the gerbers for the pcbs you would need to fabricate min 10 of them and the connectors are also expensive and a pain to solder on properly
just use the UMS modes, let the switch do all the work.
 
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I managed to make a backup of the partitions like RawNand.bin using the HxD text editor. To do this I had to run it in administrator mode to detect the units. It took approximately 2:25:00 (Two and a half hours approximately).

I also have a tool called WinHex, with which it detects all partitions of the Nintendo Switch eMMC. It allows to duplicate physical units in others perfectly. It would be useful to mount a unit with HacDiskMount and duplicate that Unit with the corresponding partition of the Nintendo Switch. I have not done it, I hope that @rajkosto tells me if you can write to the eMMC without damaging the Partitions.
 

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