Convert 4gb Memory Card To 8gb Software Update

UPDATE 15th January 2015: I’ve updated this guide again to cover transferring data to a New 3DS here. Please use this link here from now on:.A while back I put together for migrating all your 3DS games and files from one SD card to another. It’s one of my most popular articles, and somehow (thanks to you lot for recommending it) it has become the de-facto way of doing it.Nintendo’s published method, incidentally, mostly works, but some stuff sometimes doesn’t make the transfer, or does but is inaccessible.

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My method transfers and retains access to the lot.The time has come to update this guide to include something helpful regarding SDXC cards. Nintendo only officially support SD HC cards of up to 32GB in capacity, but in fact SD XC cards work too. The main incompatibility is not with the cards themselves, but with the partition format SDXC cards use – by default, exFAT, or sometimes NTFS. Neither of these can be read by a 3DS.Thankfully, 64GB and 128GB SDXC cards can still be formatted to 3DS-usable FAT32 format. Unfortunately, Windows 7 has made this difficult to do by not including the option on the standard disk formatting utility.So, if you want to use a larger than 32GB card, then follow these steps carefully before transferring your 3DS data.

Prepare the card. There are many ways to format a card, but the method I used involved using the free version of. Download that and install it. Other formatters will probably work – just use the same settings from step 4 below. Put your new SDXC card in your PC’s card reader, and open MiniTool, choosing Partition Wizard.

Choose your card in the list of drives (be VERY careful you choose the right one!) and delete the partition using the Delete button on the toolbar. Now Create a new partition in the freed space. Make sure you choose these options: “Create As: Primary”, “File System: FAT32” and “Cluster Size: 32kb”. You’ll also want to set a drive letter otherwise it won’t show up in Windows for when you want to copy stuff to it!. Click “OK” to accept these settings, and then Apply (on the toolbar) to actually commit the deed to the card. When it’s done, that’s it!

Your card should now be readable by your 3DS. Go ahead – turn your 3DS off, swap your old card for the new one, and check. You may be told your 3DS is initialising the card – that’s fine.

If the Data Management – 3DS Software section shows an obscene number of free blocks, you’re sorted.Now to transfer the data Transferring the dataThis bit is exactly the same as when transferring from standard SD/SDHC cards. Mount your old card on your computer.

Create a folder on your computer and copy EVERYTHING from the card to it. While it’s doing that, put your new card in your 3DS and turn the 3DS on.

It’ll initialise the card for you. You’ve already done this if you’ve followed the “Prepare the card” guide above!. When both these have finished, mount the new card in your computer. Open the folder you made on your computer, and copy everything to the root of the new card. If you’re asked to overwrite folders, or merge folders, say “yes”. When the copying has finished, you’re almost there.

Next, on the new card, open the folder called “Nintendo 3DS”. Inside there will be folder with a huge string of letters and numbers for the name – open that. Inside that folder will be two folders with long random names. One of these is the folder tied to your old card, the other is the one tied to your new card. Simply copy the contents (not the folder itself) of the old one (it’ll be the one with the larger filesize) into the other one – merging and overwriting again if necessary. Once you’ve confirmed everything is working, you can delete the old folder to make some space.

Put the new card back in your 3DS, reboot it if necessary, and you’re away! Excellent instructions on a topic that vexes many Windows users on formatting a 64 GB or greater card to fat32. One thing should be noticed is that it can take quite a while to do the file movements if you have a mostly full 32 GB card and moving to a larger 64 GB card or larger since you copy and paste 3 times, Once from old card to computer, second from computer to new card, third from old folder inside card to new folder inside card.I wonder if just swapping the file names would eliminate that last step?Anyway I just got a second 3DS, with it being the 3DS XL version.

I just hope that the file transfer to the newer machine won’t result in having to redownload all of my games and simply swapping in a card with the games on it will work. Theoretically, yes. Not sure how to actually merge title information from two profiles (you could probably find information with google), or how to merge backups effectively, but moving backups from one profile to another is kinda easy (as I learned recently, when I had to transfer them due to a glitch). So, assuming that all of the profiles were made on the same system (or any system that its data was moved to by System Transfer), but on different cards, and you’re transferring between profiles via PCFirst, follow these three steps:1) Back up your SD card to your hard drive, in an easy-to-find location, without actually modifying any of the files or folders in the “Nintendo 3DS” folder.2) Make sure your SD is backed up. If not, return to step 1.3) If you skipped steps 1 and 2, punch yourself in the face and return to step 1.Yes, backing up is really that important.

You’re going to have to muck about with the 3DS’ SD card file system AND some of the system data, after all.Backups are stored in the folder “Nintendo 3DSbackup”, where ID0 and ID1 are the 16-byte hexadecimal folder names (the two-layers-deep gibberish ones that hold your actual stuff). The save-data backup database is in one or more of the files in “Nintendo 3DSextdata0000”, but I’m not sure which folder 00000210 is for System Settings extra data for North American systems; note that if you have a Japanese system the folder is “00000200”, and if you have a European system the folder is “00000220”. So, to transfer your backups from one profile to another, you copy the contents of the “backup” folder into the new profile’s “backup” folder, and then overwrite the new profile’s “00000210” folder with the one from the old profile.

This should let you see your backups on the new card, I believe.Now, I’m not sure if this will work for transferring backups from one system to a different system, or if it’ll work if you do a system format and try to restore backups. I’m also not sure if it’s possible to merge backup folders from two different profiles into a single one, although there MIGHT be a way to do so (assuming that the backups are all for different games, AND you have a total of 30 backups or less). If you put a new card in your 3DS (or move all the data off of one card, format it, and put it in the 3DS), let it make a profile, and then immediately turn the system off, you might be able to copy the backups from one old profile onto the new one, then rename the backup folders from the other old profile to continue where the first profile’s left off see below, then copy them onto it as well. Then, put the card into the system, and access the save-data backup tool in the settings menu.

Hopefully, since there’s no backup database, it’ll just check the folders themselves and create the database from scratch. Note that I’m not sure whether or not this would work. If you have two saves for the same game, I’m not sure what it’ll do. There is a possibility that this could cause damage to your system. You have been warned.Note that backups are numbered in zero-indexed hexadecimal, so instead of being 001 to 030, the folder names are: 000, 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, 009, 00a, 00b, 00c, 00d, 00e, 00f, 010, 011, 012, 013, 014, 015, 016, 017, 018, 019, 01a, 01b, 01c, 01d. Inside the individual backup folders, there’s a folder with the game’s ID code, and the save file is inside it.So if you’re just working with multiple profiles for the same system, it SHOULD be safe to move the backups from one profile to the other.

Anything other than that could very easily be dangerous, so be careful. Awesome guide!I did not want to install some unneeded “bloated software suite” just to partition a SD card, so I first tried Disk Management, but as you said it does not allow you to format as FAT32. (I am using Windows Seven Pro SP1 btw) Then I bit into the sour apple and tried the diskpart program. I carefully read through the commands and workings of it to be sure not to break my system. But I forgot to turn on the QUICK command, to get a fast partition, so I had to wait around an hour for my 64 GB card to be formated.When it was done the diskpart program responded with an error message telling me that the volume was too big!

Could it not at least have told be that before it started the format process! After some more research it turns out that the diskpart utility is from the Windows 2000/XP days and for some unknown reason it does not allow you to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB. Windows 98 apparently does but my guess is that not that many people have a machine with that OS around anymore.I read a little more about partition programs on a site where I trust the people are tech-savvy and saw MiniTool Partition Wizard getting recommended there as well and decided that it must be a good program. So now I am downloading it and would recommend anyone else with a card larger than 32 GB to do the same, unless you already have a non-Microsoft partition program installed on your system.Thanks for the guide Dekay! To people trying to upgrade to a 64gb Micro sdxc card: I had a lot of trouble transferring 25gb of data to the micro sdxc card and kept getting corrupt file errors. I found the solution by deleting most of my larger games and backing up the save data.

Then I did the file transfer at about 3gb and never ran into the errors. You then have to redownload all your games from the eshop. Its successful so far, but for me it was very important to not have any transfer errors. Even if you “retry” a certain corrupt file and the transfer goes fine, I found it never quite worked right unless the transfer went completely smooth. Hi, great article, a good help.It would be great if you have any advice on how to solve my current 3DS transfer nightmare which I am experiencing right now. It is quite complex, but i’ll try my best to explain it.So, I had a standard 3DS, and have had it for 4 years nearly.

Lots of data; Streetpasses, Friends lists, Downloadable games and saved data was stored on it with an 8GB SDHC card.I was invited to the New 3DS Ambassador program, and subsequently purchased one. I done a system transfer from my OLD 3ds to my NEW one. (So from the 8GB Standard SDHC to the Micro 4GB SDHC).

At first some of the data was missing, but, I followed your step 1 tutorial and managed to get all of my data onto an 8GB Micro SD which I had spare. So everything was working. I then backed up ALL of the data onto my PC.I started to have trouble with the 3D effect on my NEW 3DS and, it turns out it was faulty. So I had to send it back for replacement. And I requested them to transfer everything over to my new, new 3ds. However, they ignored my request and gave me a refund instead. They did however, unlink my NNID.So, I then purchased a New, New 3ds and linked my NNID to it.

Convert 4gb Memory Card To 8gb Software Updates

I then expected to be able to recover my old files which I had backed up on my PC by copying them back to my SD card. But, nothing seemed to show up on my New New 3DS.My 3DS shows that there is something on there because some blocks are being used, but it will not show or read the data. I fiddled about with the files to try to fix the issue and at one point it showed the data but was all corrupted I don’t think the source data itself it corrupted because it all shows on the computer fine, but I believe it could be that the New 3DS is having trouble recognising the data on the SD card because of the file arrangement.When I load the folder on my PC, it shows 2 gibberish files above the one which says private. The first one has one file inside it and the other has 2.Any help at all would be amazing! 4 Years worth of data is on the line!!! I think, unfortunately, you might be out of luck. I don’t think you can migrate data to a new 3DS that way – even with the same NNID.You could try putting a blank SD card in your new 3DS, initialising it, then transferring the data from your backup onto it into the new folders created by the initialisation.

If that doesn’t work, I don’t think there’s any hope unless Nintendo can suggest something.I had the same thing on my old Wii when it was replaced by Nintendo. All my games could be redownloaded, but my saves were gone forever – including my Animal Crossing one 🙁. Make sure what ever your using to read the card can read sdxc cards. Even a computer with an sdxc card slot won’t read it right if it is older than the sdxc format.

If it’s a micro make sure the adapter your using actually say sdxc on it. I bought a 128gb card from China and it wouldn’t work. I thought because it was a cheap $16 card. Then I bought a $100 sandisk card and it worked because the included reader was the right capacity. So just to check I stuck the China card in the new reader and it worked perfectly. So, I bought a 128GB Sandisk Micro SD from best buy for my New 3DS. I formatted the SD card to be NTFS (because I misread some directions), put it in my New 3DS and saw that it worked.

All the games worked just fine with no problems other than slightly longer load times. However, I had used my old laptop with a built in SD port to format it, and because it was Vista I only got about 21.3GB out of it. So I found a SD USB Flash drive, put it on my window’s 7, and format it again to FAT32 and also got all 128GB (which is really about 119GB). So when I tried to put my save files back onto that SD card via the USB device for whatever reason I keep getting this error: “Cannot read from the source file or disk”I get this error no matter which OS I use (Vista, 7, or Mac), and I have done this so much that it has actually corrupted two micro SD cards. I am currently on my 3rd one. I formatted it to FAT32, but went back to 21.3GB via the built in SD port on my laptop. It is transferring now, VERY slowly (about.4GB in the past hour and a half out of 17.8GB), but it appears to be working.

I also followed this method precisely (after my little NTFS mess up).So has anyone else had this issue with a 128GB SD card? Are my save files just corrupt? Or am I missing something here? I am starting to think maybe the USB SD Flash drive was wonky. Because using the built in USB slot seems to be working, but I can’t utilize all the memory on that OS. I’ve followed the official steps and complete the transfer through a PC. But when I put my new micro SD card into the handheld, no games show up!

My NNID has bee successfully transferred to the new system, but the games and saves are gone! And I’m not the only who who have the similar problems:There was only one thing that could’ve gone wrong.Before the transfer, I took out the original 4g micro sd card out and installed my new 32 g micro sd card. Then during the last steps of the transfer, there’s a question on the new system asking whether I have used other micro sd card and I said noI still have my old SD card at hand, untouched. Is there a way to find back my savings? (I know I can redownload the games) Thanks!! Put the empty micro in the new ds. It will say creating management file.

Go to the section in the blog above and follow steps 6 and 7. Make sure you follow these steps closely. If you have to, look into the folder described above BEFORE transferring the old data on the card. Write down the last four numbers and letters. Then follow the steps described above.

Take the CONTENTS of the folder NOT written down and transfer it into the one you wrote down. I hope this helps you. If not, I’m at a loss.

It still didn’t work But later i first copied the data from the original sd card to my 32g-micro, and then copied the file names of the other micro (that one that new 3dsxl includes with itself) to my own micro. Then the miracle happens and the save data are back in the data management (I think it’s called “Extra data”) but the games are not showing.To test it, I inserted Person Q whose map data was kept in the sd card and the maps are back. Does this mean, if I re-download the digital games, the save data will be automatically applied to them? I’m very confused on what to do so Im gonna completely restart. I formatted the new sd card so it’s all good but on all other articles it says you should only have 2 folders Nintendo 3ds and DCIM but the old sd card also had a folder called “private” when I opened the nintendo 3ds file the first time I merged there was two folders with random numbers and when you open the 1st one there’s 3 folders with random text and numbers and when you open the second one there’s 1 folder with random text and numbers. So I tried but it stayed empty all the games and such still weren’t showing up so I really need some help ^^”.

Hey, I am hijacking this post hoping to get some resolution. I actually followed this guide to move my games and save data from my original 4gb card to my new sandisk 64 gb card, but it’s not working.I use the Nintendo 3DS Transfer option to move all my files to my PC first, and created a backup folder with all my games and data. Your best bet would’ve been to copy the files from your original sd card to the new one once it was formatted.Currently the system transfer option preps the data to be sent to a different 3ds in tandem with it that becomes associated with those games etc preventing the first 3ds from using everything that would now be on the 2nd 3ds.You may or may not be able to log into the store on your 3ds using your same account and download your games, use the newer sd card and don’t copy the stuff you backed up onto it beforehand. Personally I haven’t messed with backing up just your game saves, but you may be able to take the saves from your backed up files and use them. IMO read up on savefiles if you get this far.