Hacking Restore NAND from partitions?

[harmbasi]

Hi everyone,

First question, what firmware introduced the exFat format for the Switch?

Second, how to I restore my NAND, I currently have it in 14 partitions. I can't restore from hekate as it requires exFat with the single rawnand.bin file or the restore from partitions looks for the individual sections stored within the bin.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[magico29]

Hi everyone,

First question, what firmware introduced the exFat format for the Switch?

Second, how to I restore my NAND, I currently have it in 14 partitions. I can't restore from hekate as it requires exFat with the single rawnand.bin file or the restore from partitions looks for the individual sections stored within the bin.

Any help would be appreciated.

you need boot0,boot1,gp partitions.you dont really need rawnand.
use hekate 3.2 and retore boot 0 and boot 1 and then gp partitions.once finish reboot as normal.
create a folder in root of your sd card
BACKUP/RESTORE/PARTITIONS
INSIDE BACKUP PLACE BOOT0 AND BOOT1
INSIDE PARTITIONS PLACE BCPKG2-1 AND ETC
DO NOT PLACE THE RAWNAND
doesnt matter if sd card is formatted to fat32 or exfat it works either ways.

 

[magico29]

Hi everyone,

First question, what firmware introduced the exFat format for the Switch?

Second, how to I restore my NAND, I currently have it in 14 partitions. I can't restore from hekate as it requires exFat with the single rawnand.bin file or the restore from partitions looks for the individual sections stored within the bin.

Any help would be appreciated.

you need boot0,boot1,gp partitions.you dont really need rawnand.
use hekate 3.2 and retore boot 0 and boot 1 and then gp partitions.once finish reboot as normal.
create a folder in root of your sd card
BACKUP/RESTORE/PARTITIONS
INSIDE BACKUP PLACE BOOT0 AND BOOT1
INSIDE PARTITIONS PLACE BCPKG2-1 AND ETC
DO NOT PLACE THE RAWNAND

 

[harmbasi]

you need boot0,boot1,gp partitions.you dont really need rawnand.
use hekate 3.2 and retore boot 0 and boot 1 and then gp partitions.once finish reboot as normal.
create a folder in root of your sd card
BACKUP/RESTORE/PARTITIONS
INSIDE BACKUP PLACE BOOT0 AND BOOT1
INSIDE PARTITIONS PLACE BCPKG2-1 AND ETC
DO NOT PLACE THE RAWNAND
doesnt matter if sd card is formatted to fat32 or exfat it works either ways.

How do i get the GP partitions? Those are the files within the bin?

 

[Yeabuddy]

What's wrong with restoring the NAND?

 

[magico29]

What's wrong with restoring the NAND?

there is nothing wrong,he can restore the rawnand if he wish but i dont think so he really need to.

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How do i get the GP partitions? Those are the files within the bin?

you suppose restore gp partitions,boot and rawnand baby b4 any process just in case switch get semi or brick.
To prevent any issues, start with "DUMP eMMC SYS" its only 2.6 GB and will take less than 6 minutes to dump. Once done, dump "DUMP eMMC BOOT" You can use them as a fallback to un-break/fix the console if anything went wrong. These two dumps are a MUST to have, even if you wasn't planing on dump your whole NAND
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-...tch-console-on-any-ofw-without-update.505182/

 

[Yeabuddy]

there is nothing wrong,he can restore the rawnand if he wish but i dont think so he really need to.

Ah ok. What does restoring the NAND do?

 

[magico29]

restore any semi,brick or mess in your switch.

 

[wurstpistole]

I'd rather just dump the raw NAND once in a while, and fresh backups after system updates.
Someone over in the PozzNX recovery thread said that restoring PRODINFO (what this payload bricked) didn't help, another user said raw NAND restore helped, so... Yeah.

Ah ok. What does restoring the NAND do?

The RAW NAND backup is basically a snapshot of your console at the moment you took that backup. Restoring it will revert the state of your console back to that point, including Installed Games, Savegames etc. on the user side, but also all the partitions that the Switch has, that malicious payloads can destroy.

Trust me, I learned it the hard way.

 

[magico29]

I'd rather just dump the raw NAND once in a while, and fresh backups after system updates.
Someone over in the PozzNX recovery thread said that restoring PRODINFO (what this payload bricked) didn't help, another user said raw NAND restore helped, so... Yeah.

rawnand is too big,he can use but make no sense,but he has no options.looks like he didnt backup boot and gp partitions.i did restore my console 8 times with boot and gp partitions.
i do have rawnand backup but i didnt need it.

 

[wurstpistole]

rawnand is too big,he can use but make no sense,but he has no options.looks like he didnt backup boot and gp partitions.i did restore my console 8 times with boot and gp partitions.
i do have rawnand backup but i didnt need it.

Yeah that was more generally spoken. I mean generally, the only thing you really need is PRODINFO and PRODINFOF as well as your biskeys. You can then build a full system firmware with ChoiDujour.

 

[harmbasi]

rawnand is too big,he can use but make no sense,but he has no options.looks like he didnt backup boot and gp partitions.i did restore my console 8 times with boot and gp partitions.
i do have rawnand backup but i didnt need it.

I backed up my boot but not system. Doing it now. I want to wipe my switch (all the games installed). Will restoring NAND do that?

 

[magico29]

I backed up my boot but not system. Doing it now. I want to wipe my switch (all the games installed). Will restoring NAND do that?

your games are in the sd card? or internal storage?
internal? yes
sd card? no

 

[harmbasi]

your games are in the sd card? or internal storage?
internal? yes
sd card? no

Thanks for your help. I think I've got it now.

 

[magico29]

Thanks for your help. I think I've got it now.

anytime baby. i hope you can fix it.

 

[fikatr]

Hijacking this thread to ask a question.I have both boot0/1 dump and a raw nand dump i messed with sx os and installed some nsps can i just restore boot0/1 and play online or do i need to restore the raw nand one?

 

[wurstpistole]

Hijacking this thread to ask a question.I have both boot0/1 dump and a raw nand dump i messed with sx os and installed some nsps can i just restore boot0/1 and play online or do i need to restore the raw nand one?

boot0/1 has nothing to do with what you have installed on your console.

I backed up my boot but not system. Doing it now. I want to wipe my switch (all the games installed). Will restoring NAND do that?

if you made the NAND backup before doing anything/installing anything on that console, then yes. Otherwise it'll just revert back to the state where you made the backup.

 

[fikatr]

boot0/1 has nothing to do with what you have installed on your console.

if you made the NAND backup before doing anything/installing anything on that console, then yes. Otherwise it'll just revert back to the state where you made the backup.

I made a backup before messing with sx so im probably fine, can't wait for emunand so i can play games online again

 

[magico29]

I made a backup before messing with sx so im probably fine, can't wait for emunand so i can play games online again

yes yes keep dreaming on it!! you already know that baby.

 

[magico29]

I made a backup before messing with sx so im probably fine, can't wait for emunand so i can play games online again

yes yes keep dreaming on it!! you already know that baby.

 

[harmbasi]

I think I bricked my switch. It only loads the logo, then a black screen. I've tried restoring the GP partitions. Nothing. How do I do a full rawnand restore?

 

[magico29]

I think I bricked my switch. It only loads the logo, then a black screen. I've tried restoring the GP partitions. Nothing. How do I do a full rawnand restore?

same way,use hekate 3.2
go to restore and choose to restore rawnand
make sure your sd card is exfat formatted b4 copy and paste the rawnand.
restore rawnand using hekate 3.2 exfat only.