1. When you boot the system holding Select, what happens?
2. Do you have the latest Luma3DS boot.firm on your SD card?
3. Have you tried performing a CTRTransfer?

 

is luma even installed is the question i have im not familar with this

 

i found my 3ds and the sd card was entirely bland and the system refused to boot i resorted togother the latest version of b9s and luma i could find to get to that error screen since i couldnt think of anything else and some guides on the site said to do this

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at first it was kicking out errors such as invalid launcher etc but now its just kicking out failure to mount ctrnand im not entirely certain what happened to the data saved on the system and the sd card but the card was blank my main priority was getting the 3ds past the black screen of death

 

currently inprogress will give results in the morning

 

im more or less curious now what could have caused the sdcard to be wiped does the 3ds format everything when its reset ?

 

If done properly, tickets and whatnot can be preserved during a CTRTransfer.

 

@matthewsmith, before you use CTRTransfer,

1. copy everything off the card onto a computer
   
2. reformat it in FAT32 + 32 KB cluster size (Windows File Explorer -or- guiformat if bigger than 32 GB)
   
3. full Write + Verify the empty card with H2testw

Data disappearing out of the blue would mean dying or fake SD card.

CTRTransfer done with a bad card can lead to further bricking.

 

Except for obvious looking fakes or counterfeits, judging the brand is not enough to go by these days.

For example, there are a lot of knockoff Sandisk and Samsung found on eBay that are very convincing when compared to the authentic versions.

Counterfeits are not limited to those two brands, but they're the most popular. Even popular online (ex, Amazon) and physical stores can be spiked with fake goods mixed in with the real stuff.

 

tried to transfer and it came back with /dbs/ticket.db error cannot open destination file its spiting out cannont open errors for carts and more after that

 

1. Backup your currently bricked SysNAND (for safety).
   
   • GodMode9 Usage - Creating a NAND Backup
2. Attempt firmware repair with CTRTransfer (Type D9).