Warning!

By following this tutorial you will format your SD card, deleting everything that is saved on it.
Make sure to backup the contents of your SD card beforehand.
Also formatting the wrong drive (PC drive) will mess things up big time.
Make very sure that you know which drive is you SD Card!

This is not a comprehensive emuMMC tutorial, i'm pretty much just covering the partition setup.

* connect your SD card to your PC

* press WIN+R and type in diskmgmt.msc then hit OK

* locate your SD Card and delete all partitions on that disk (should only be 1 partition)

* right click on the SD card and select "New Simple Volume". click next untill you can define the size of the volume.

* Take the suggested numer and subtract 29828. use the resulting number as the size for the volume and create it.
You will end up with one partition at the beginning and unallocated space at the end.

* right click the unallocated space and select "New Simple Volume" click next, leave the suggested size, next, next, select "Do not format this volume", next, finish.

* now we have our 2 partitions, but we still need to format our first partition to FAT32 using guiformat

* right click the guiformat exe and select start as administrator (not sure if necessary)

* under "Drive" select the first partition we just created (use Drive letter for orientation), select 32768 allocation size, quick format checked and hit start.

* DONE

Place all your atmosphere/hekate/NYX files onto the first partition, as this partition will be your regular SD card. The second partition will become your emuMMC.
Boot into Hekate5.0/NYX select emuMMC > Create emuMMC > SD Partition > Continue

 

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If you didn't set up a partition, it is unlikely you'd be able to establish a partition based emuMMC with hekate, unless that manages it now--which I don't think is the case. You might want to check your SD card in the emuMMC directory to check for a file based backup of the NAND. The emummc.ini should also give more information.

I have checked the emummc.ini file and because I do not under the information and would like help I'm going to post it here

this is what it shows on for both switches:

[emummc]
enabled=1
sector=0x3e9d800
path=emuMMC/RAW1
id=0x0000
nintendo_path=emuMMC/RAW1/Nintendo

as I said before there is like 20gb worth of data that is not present on the sd when I insert it into my PC, and it doesn't show up on my sysnand either. I have also concluded that none of my emummc setups went to the 31GB partitions I made on either of them. So it's safe to assume that perhaps I need to redo my emummc so that it's installed into the partitions I made for them at the least.

Update: okay so I've read from github that hekate/nyx has an issue detecting secondary sd card partitions and can only create partition based emummc from the same partition that you used to boot hekate/nyx into. Running the setup again from hekate/nyx will only overwrite your current sysnand over your existing emunand. The workaround in my own terms according to what I've read on GitHub is that you have to set the partition for emummc as the primary partition using third party software (I used minitool partition manager) and the other partition/s as logical. Set up your emummc then change your first partition back to primary and install a second emummc if you wish.


I still don't understand how hekate creates a partition based emunand, partition data doesn't show or takes up space on my SD but the config files are there, and after trying to create two emunands the migrate emummc function just seems to copy the config files from the second partition and merge it with the first one. With the space for either emummc nowhere to be found.

@tabzer wait were you telling me that I shouldn't even be attempting to manage my emunand partitions on hekate at all? if hekate isn't used to manage it then what is being used then?

I'm only sharing what I have learned to help others and to get feedback

@tabzer I also really liked the multiboot setup that I read up on from an older thread, but due to my lack of know-how I've always wanted to find an easier way to get it done. I just want to get a stocknand/cfw emummc/android/Linux setup