EDIT: The emuNAND Tool has been updated and now works again!

Since right now the emuNAND Tool doesn't work, I've come up with a workaround:

Programs you will need:

• USB Image Tool
• EaseUS Partition Master

Both these programs are free.

PLEASE NOTE: Doing the following method will make a 1:1 copy of the source SD card and put it on the target SD card. It will transfer everything, not just emuNAND.

How to:

1. Plug the source SD card into your PC, this is the card that you want to transfer emuNAND from.
2. Run USB Image Tool
3. Click on the SD card and then "Backup"
4. Remove the source SD Card and replace it with the target SD Card.
5. Click on the new SD card, locate the backup image and then "Restore"
6. Run EaseUS Partition Master and click on "EaseUS Partition Master Free"
7. Right click on the SD card's partition with data on it, it should be in between two Unallocated partitions and choose "Resize/Move Partition"
8. Click on the MIDDLE PARTITION, the one that has the data on it and expand it TO THE RIGHT (VERY IMPORTANT)
9. Click OK
10. Click Apply on the top left, then OK
11. Done!

Important Information:
Currently with Gateway 3.1.0 there's a (visual?)bug with higher capacity microSD cards. When running emuNAND it doesn't show the "GW3D" in settings, before the version number telling you if you're in emuNAND or not, because of this its very risky to update emuNAND.
With my guide you can use a 4gb microSD card (where the visual bug doesn't happen) to format emuNAND, update to the latest firmware and transfer it onto a higher capacity microSD card.

Don't panic! - When the transfer is complete and you run the updated emuNAND on your new 3ds it still wont show the "GW3D" prefix before the version number. It'll just say 9.5.0-22E or something along those lines.

Any questions, feel free to ask

 

[Lis]

Can someone give me an updated instructions to transfer everything from an 4gb to 32 gb sd card. Im using rxtools with a few games in the emunand installed. thanks

 

[dm00z]

Can someone give me an updated instructions to transfer everything from an 4gb to 32 gb sd card. Im using rxtools with a few games in the emunand installed. thanks

You can use this:

@MrTurtle @NX.Pkmn2
I hope this can help you a little bit:

Spoiler: Picture

Original Reddit Post

or this:

To everyone who is having trouble with EaseUS makes your partition unreadable, you can try restoring the image again with USB Image Tool, then resize the data partition with Paragon Partition Manager instead. The free version works fine.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/eshop.html

Sorry for not being clear, you must click the Partition Manager Free button on the left, not the Resize Partitions in the middle.
View attachment 43084
There should be a disk which sort of look like this:
View attachment 43086
Right click on the middle partition, select Move/resize Partition, then resize the partition to the max by dragging the partition to the right (alternatively you can click on the big down arrow button on the Volume size line, then drag it all the way to the right).
Click Yes, then click Apply near top left. It should take around 2 or 3 minutes for the operation to be completed.

 

[Zahid]

Will this let me transfer menuhax,my emulators and my custom themes onto a new SD card?

 

[John256145]

Am I the only one who got a "You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it." error? I can explore the drive in EaseUS Partition Master, but not in Windows. The 3DS won't recognize it either.

 

[John256145]

Am I the only one who got a "You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it." error? I can explore the drive in EaseUS Partition Master, but not in Windows. The 3DS won't recognize it either.

Sorry for not being clear, you must click the Partition Manager Free button on the left, not the Resize Partitions in the middle.
View attachment 43084
There should be a disk which sort of look like this:
View attachment 43086
Right click on the middle partition, select Move/resize Partition, then resize the partition to the max by dragging the partition to the right (alternatively you can click on the big down arrow button on the Volume size line, then drag it all the way to the right).
Click Yes, then click Apply near top left. It should take around 2 or 3 minutes for the operation to be completed.

Oh, would you look at that...

This actually solved my problem! If anyone else got the error, try that ↑

 

[NadiaVanessa14]

I can't access the EmuNand after expanding the partition. It only gave me a black screen after clicking Luma in Menuhax.
Plss help masters

Edit : Works with 2 partition manager to format the EMUNAND9SD partition and copy everything from the backup.

 

[Ecko3351]

Will be trying this on my 256gb when it gets here. Hopefully it works.

 

[SmugNipa]

Can someone post a picture of what the partiton's should look like? I'm a bit confused.

 

[FrozenPhoenix]

Stop using this guide, this was a temporary guide for when emunand tool didnt work and there was no substitute to use (this was made 1 year and 7 months ago), there is no reason to use this unless it doesnt detect your emunand in the SD card.
If you need to extract/inject a emunand with a pc, use Multi emunand creator its pretty easy to use and you dont have install some shady program to modify the partitions and stuff.

Link: https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-3ds-multi-emunand-creator.381603/

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

Didn't work for me. It has a drive letter but it's telling me I need to format it. The 3DS doesn't recognize it, either. Followed the directions exactly.

 

[MO35AB]

in my case i don't have the partition for emunand, please help :'(

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

in my case i don't have the partition for emunand, please help :'(

See below, this worked perfectly for me.

Stop using this guide, this was a temporary guide for when emunand tool didnt work and there was no substitute to use (this was made 1 year and 7 months ago), there is no reason to use this unless it doesnt detect your emunand in the SD card.
If you need to extract/inject a emunand with a pc, use Multi emunand creator its pretty easy to use and you dont have install some shady program to modify the partitions and stuff.

Link: https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-3ds-multi-emunand-creator.381603/

 

[MO35AB]

See below, this worked perfectly for me.

thanks bro !!

i wanna move from that 2gb sd card , to a newer 16gb card.

just tell me , in my case , what option should i use ?

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

thanks bro !!

i wanna move from that 2gb sd card , to a newer 16gb card.

just tell me , in my case , what option should i use ?

The one I linked to. Extract your NAND and back up the loose files from the 2 GB card, then format the 16 GB one, and inject the NAND, then copy over your loose files. Time-consuming, but straightforward.

 

[BARNWEY]

EDIT: The emuNAND Tool has been updated and now works again!

Since right now the emuNAND Tool doesn't work, I've come up with a workaround:

Programs you will need:

• USB Image Tool
• EaseUS Partition Master

Both these programs are free.

PLEASE NOTE: Doing the following method will make a 1:1 copy of the source SD card and put it on the target SD card. It will transfer everything, not just emuNAND.

How to:

1. Plug the source SD card into your PC, this is the card that you want to transfer emuNAND from.
2. Run USB Image Tool
3. Click on the SD card and then "Backup"
4. Remove the source SD Card and replace it with the target SD Card.
5. Click on the new SD card, locate the backup image and then "Restore"
6. Run EaseUS Partition Master and click on "EaseUS Partition Master Free"
7. Right click on the SD card's partition with data on it, it should be in between two Unallocated partitions and choose "Resize/Move Partition"
8. Click on the MIDDLE PARTITION, the one that has the data on it and expand it TO THE RIGHT (VERY IMPORTANT)
9. Click OK
10. Click Apply on the top left, then OK
11. Done!

Important Information:
Currently with Gateway 3.1.0 there's a (visual?)bug with higher capacity microSD cards. When running emuNAND it doesn't show the "GW3D" in settings, before the version number telling you if you're in emuNAND or not, because of this its very risky to update emuNAND.
With my guide you can use a 4gb microSD card (where the visual bug doesn't happen) to format emuNAND, update to the latest firmware and transfer it onto a higher capacity microSD card.

Don't panic! - When the transfer is complete and you run the updated emuNAND on your new 3ds it still wont show the "GW3D" prefix before the version number. It'll just say 9.5.0-22E or something along those lines.

Any questions, feel free to ask

You can also
1. Make a backup of all your SD files and folders and your Emunand
2. Drag all files and payloads for Emunand9 to your new SD
3. Open Emunand9, and eject the old SD from inside payload
4. Insert new SD (w/ payloads)
5. Format the SD with an Emunand
6. Turn off 3ds
7. Drag all the information off the old SD onto the new SD (don't forget the Emunand backup)
8. Restore Emunand backup
9. Boot

This is an older method that I've also tested before (back in menuhax days...) Only use if the method above doesn't want to work for you.
P.S. This method takes longer, but is guaranteed to work...

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

You can also
1. Make a backup of all your SD files and folders and your Emunand
2. Drag all files and payloads for Emunand9 to your new SD
3. Open Emunand9, and eject the old SD from inside payload
4. Insert new SD (w/ payloads)
5. Format the SD with an Emunand
6. Turn off 3ds
7. Drag all the information off the old SD onto the new SD (don't forget the Emunand backup)
8. Restore Emunand backup
9. Boot

This is an older method that I've also tested before (back in menuhax days...) Only use if the method above doesn't want to work for you.
P.S. This method takes longer, but is guaranteed to work...

That's pretty much how I did it. Lengthy process but much more reliable and simpler.

 

[BARNWEY]

That's pretty much how I did it. Lengthy process but much more reliable and simpler.

I completely agree, even though most of the lengthiness is just waiting for everything to transfer, so I just watch TV or go on Youtube while I wait...

 

[testing123]

Regarding SD cards:

I hacked a 3ds using an SD card. It works fine.

Do I HAVE to leave that one in the system or can I substitute a different one? The reason I want to is because the SD card in the 3ds is larger and I could use it for other things and I have a smaller one I could put back in.

 

[BARNWEY]

Regarding SD cards:

I hacked a 3ds using an SD card. It works fine.

Do I HAVE to leave that one in the system or can I substitute a different one? The reason I want to is because the SD card in the 3ds is larger and I could use it for other things and I have a smaller one I could put back in.

You can substitute it depending on what you're using, but it's generally easier to use one SD.

 

[BlueFox gui]

im doind this but after restore the backup the pc ask to format the SD and ease partition don't have the option Middle partition