How to move from a defective SD card to a new one (AutoRCM, without emunand)?

[Fien]

The microSD card of my modded Switch ("unpatched", AutoRCM enabled) suddenly turned into something very slow after not playing it for about 2 months. The Kingston card is less then a year old and was bought from a good shop.

Hekate doesn't mention it's in 1-bit mode and I tried a 32GB card from my camera in the Switch and that one is fast in the Hekate benchmark. So I suppose the problem isn't in the Switch and the card slot is good.

Now I'll need to move everything to a new card. Because the old card is so slow, I cannot save the whole 100GB of data. Instead I tried copying everything except the games (:\Nintendo\Content) and nand-backup to a new card, but that doesn't work. Hekate does start, but after booting CFW it says the SD card is unreadable and needs formatting. It's already in FAT32.

I didn't had emunand so I suppose my save files are in the internal memory instead of the SD card?

How can I go to a situation of a working SD card and keep my save files? The games itself doesn't need to be saved, I can reinstall them using Goldleaf.


The slow/defective card:

Good card from my camera just for testing:

 

[BigOnYa]

You can try backing up all files from sd card to a pc, then reformat card, then copy the files back to sd card. I have seen alot of people have problems with Kingston cards though over the years. I'd recommend getting Sandisk.

 

[Fien]

I cannot backup the whole card, because it's so slow now that the PC says it will take more than 30 hours.

That's why I want to use a new card and just reinstall the games.

 

[BigOnYa]

Just put new files on it then, from they're githubs- Atmosphere, Hekate , sigpatches/sys-patch.

 

[Fien]

Ah, that works I installed one game and it works too and the saves are still there.

So tomorrow I'll trade in the defective card for guarantee or buy a new one.

But why does it only work with fresh copies of Atmosphere and Hekate? If I copy the folders from the old card the Switch always says the card is unreadable. But works fine with fresh copies.

 

[BigOnYa]

Ah, that works I installed one game and it works too and the saves are still there.

So tomorrow I'll trade in the defective card for guarantee or buy a new one.

But why does it only work with fresh copies of Atmosphere and Hekate? If I copy the folders from the old card the Switch always says the card is unreadable. But works fine with fresh copies.

Probably just didn't have all the files needed, think there is some in the contents folder you need.

 

[Fien]

You can try backing up all files from sd card to a pc, then reformat card, then copy the files back to sd card. I have seen alot of people have problems with Kingston cards though over the years. I'd recommend getting Sandisk.

Now I reformatted the card because I know I didn't need it anymore. But, then it is fast again after formatting

I think I can't return it for waranty now because it has it's normal speed back Why was it turning slow before? Does not using it for months makes it slow?

 

[BigOnYa]

Not sure but possible. At least you have it working now. Saves are stored on the switch itself, but yea games you will have reinstall. Good luck and have fun!

 

[Mojoswagger1980]

The microSD card of my modded Switch ("unpatched", AutoRCM enabled) suddenly turned into something very slow after not playing it for about 2 months. The Kingston card is less then a year old and was bought from a good shop.

Hekate doesn't mention it's in 1-bit mode and I tried a 32GB card from my camera in the Switch and that one is fast in the Hekate benchmark. So I suppose the problem isn't in the Switch and the card slot is good.

Now I'll need to move everything to a new card. Because the old card is so slow, I cannot save the whole 100GB of data. Instead I tried copying everything except the games (:\Nintendo\Content) and nand-backup to a new card, but that doesn't work. Hekate does start, but after booting CFW it says the SD card is unreadable and needs formatting. It's already in FAT32.

I didn't had emunand so I suppose my save files are in the internal memory instead of the SD card?

How can I go to a situation of a working SD card and keep my save files? The games itself doesn't need to be saved, I can reinstall them using Goldleaf.


The slow/defective card:

Good card from my camera just for testing:

Just get a new card and start over . Take that one out, allow the device to show no sdcard and go from there . Get a Scandisk if at possible .