Upgrade SD card in old gateway based 3DS

[nine0nine]

I have had this on my to-do list for almost 4 years (having asked for similar info in 2018 according to search results) and I am finally getting round to doing it. Basically, I have a 3DS XL which I never updated to Luma etc, with a 32GB SD card in the 3DS SD slot storing all the ROMs and the gateway card being redundant except for triggering the profile exploit. I've got a blank 64GB card and I want to simply switch that for the 32GB one without messing about with the hack.

I tried just copying the data from the 32GB card to the 64GB one, but it didn't work, so I presume there's more to it but I wasn't able to find answers via google.

 

[Kwyjor]

I don't know what you Googled, but https://gbatemp.net/threads/gateway-gw3d-11-10-b9s-and-cfw.550040/ is right there.

Does your SD card use an emuNAND? If so, you will have to back up your old emuNAND and restore it on your new SD card.
https://www.reddit.com/r/3dshacks/wiki/faq#wiki_how_do_i_move_files_to_a_new_sd_card_properly.3F

 

[nine0nine]

the second link is exactly what I was looking for, cheers

 

[nine0nine]

dunno how useful this info is to anyone, but I ended up cloning my 32G SD card to the 64G one using windows software, then extending the main partition to access the 32G of additional space.

 

[lone_wolf323]

dunno how useful this info is to anyone, but I ended up cloning my 32G SD card to the 64G one using windows software, then extending the main partition to access the 32G of additional space.

sounds like a headache of extra work from a simple copy and paste. And a FAT32 32kbs format with something like guiformat.

 

[Kwyjor]

sounds like a headache of extra work from a simple copy and paste.

As noted above, if there is an emuNAND, then that is the one case where it is not a simple copy and paste.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

the second link is exactly what I was looking for, cheers

You will want to follow this to get rid of your emuNAND
https://3ds.hacks.guide/move-emunand