I need to move to a bigger SD card. What are the steps?

By rustyshakelford, Jan 12, 2020 665 4 0

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    Hi everyone. Here is my previous thread https://gbatemp.net/threads/just-bo...lder-triforce-edition-3ds-and-have-so.524611/

    I have a 32GB SD card that I want to upgrade for my nephew. He currently has the 8GB still. How do I go about doing this? It's not as simple as copy and pasting the 8GB SD card to the new 32GB card right? If there is a vid you can point me to or if it's better to just post simple instructions here that would be fine. I will be seeing him tomorrow so I will have his 3DS then.

    According to this vid, it is as simple as copying everything from the old card to the new one


    Is that accurate?
     
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    It's as simple as copying and pasting the old SD card to the new SD card but make sure the new SD card is formatted as fat32
     
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    I haven't been doing too much 3DS stuff lately, but what I did was: used Easus, cloned my 32gb MSD to a 64gb and then expanded the storage. I guess there are better options, but I was scared of using other methods (did the dangerous OTP-less hax and didn't want to roll the dice.)

    I'm pretty sure you m i g h t be able to corpus/pasata the files, if your computer has the space.
     
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    i just copy and pasted from one card to my computer then to the other card. make sure it's fat32 has
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    Oh wow. That's good news! Thanks for the quick replies. I could have swore that I was told I needed to put a new ticket or something on the new SD card but so glad it's just a copy and paste. I will make sure to format it right.

    **EDIT** Everything worked. Thanks.
     
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