Very well done Mr. Dweeb! I personally use Balena Etcher and two sd card readers to make it even simpler, but this way works great too 😊 Always nice to have options!
@@TechDweebWhen you open it up, the third option down on the left is "Clone". If I didn't use it to burn all of my Linux OS's I wouldn't have known it could do it either, lol. It's weird how when looking for cloning software, Etcher doesn't even come up. It's a slow cloner, but it works.
Thanks for getting me started! Wanted to add a simple process for those Mac users :) 1. Mount the original MicroSD on your Mac. 2. Open Terminal. 3. Run: sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 of=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd bs=1m && sync && sync (replace "username" with your username; this will copy the entire structure to your desktop in a DD file). 4. Eject the original MicroSD. 5. Swap MicroSD cards and mount the one you wish to copy things over to. 6. Using Terminal, run: diskutil list. 7. Identify which drive your MicroSD is (usually, it's the bottom one listed). 8. In Terminal, run: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will unmount the desired MicroSD card). 9. Run: sudo newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will format the desired MicroSD card). 10. Run: sudo dd if=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m (replace "username" with your username; this will transfer the file to the desired MicroSD card). 11. Once complete, eject the new MicroSD card. 12. Plug into Anbernic system and enjoy! NOTE: this entire process will take time because you're dealing with ≈ 60+ GB transferring at typically slower speeds (≈ 30 MB/s to 100 MB/s). Be patient and use Control T as a command to check how things are going! Good to Know Commands - diskutil list = mounted disks recognized by system - Control + C = Cancel Command - Control + T = Status Check
I have a brand new R36S and also it also goes with a crappy no-name stock rom SD card. I really want to clone the rom to a better SD card but I only have a Macbook Air. I did a bunch of research on Google and I found your instruction is the simplest and it worked perfectly. Now I can comfortably play Pokemon without the fear of losing save game due to SD card failure. Thank you so much, you're the best!
Great video! You have a such a brilliant way of making seemingly dull hardware processes, both funny and engaging... Now I want to back up an SD card 😂
I am such a Todd. I don't know how many times I had to shove the adapter into the USB-A hole and pull it out..and in and out..in the beginning...SETTING UP MY HANDHELD. 🤣❤️ Thanks TD as always🌟 Love
Thanks for the tutorial, but I just have two questions: What is with all of the pushing and shoving, can't we all just get along? Will this same process work if I want to clone myself and my alpaca?
Great video, my first retro console is on its way, I’ve been trying to prep and get ready to transfer everything to a new sd card. This by far is the most simple no bs and straightforward video I have found. Thank you sir!!
@@wizzrobe4998 just realized your not techdweeb. lol usually don’t get any replies on my comments. Haha the only thing different from the video was I had no partitions. Just selected the drive for my usb, saved it as an img, then wrote it to the new sd.
Nice! What would also be awesome is a video demonstrating how to sync your game saves between devices. Using stuff like SyncThing and/or cloud storage software to do so. So non-wifi devices may not be able to benefit.
Hey TechDweeb Awesome tutorial! Short and Sweet! Any chance you could do one explaining how to Erease an Image on A Micro SD Card so that it can be Repurposed for newer Image! ?Thanks I appreciate you TechDweeb!
You are awesome! I love my R36S for on the go and I really wanted to back up my 2 SSD's that came with the device and this worked perfectly. Thank you, Thank you and yeah Thank you!
previous data only 42gb (in 64 microsd size). after the process, image file result in 61gb. so i cannot load image file in new microsd with 58gb free space (in 64gb microsd size). Do you have solution? thank you
@@wizzrobe4998 I have not done this process myself yet, but from prior experience with disk images, if you have, for example, a 64GB source card and create a disk image, then write that image to a 128GB card (as seen in this video) the write process only creates a partition the same size as the source image. That leaves about half the card unallocated and thus unused. BBFL is asking to see how to make the partition larger to use all of the extra space.
I'm a tech dweeb and I just ordered a Retroid Pocket 2S and half of the fun is setting up a new device. I make every single one a little different and I love doing it
Very helpful video. Would this work for cloning an android phone's microsd? I got LOTS of games/roms and don't want to lose anything, but want to upgrade!
Hi! Before watching this I tried copy/pasting the files instead of writing the .img file. Should I format the inoperable SD card and then write the .img file onto the card? Will formatting the inoperable SD card mess anything up? Thank you!
hey there how are u,,. irecently flashed my new sd card with akros for my r36s it booted up fine but now i want to add the games from the stock os sd to my new sd card..how do i go about doing that
Thank You!!!🔥 It would be VERY kind of you to do a small series of short and fundamental basic (but important) tips that keeps things simple (like this one)☺️👍
Windows wasn't detecting the SD with Surwish Onion OS that comes with the LITNXT MM+ but I solve it by using PartitionWizard to assign the drive a letter then Win32 DiskImager finally detected it, maybe make an updated tutorial Dweeb? Anyway I hope this helps in case someone else is have the same problem.
@@electromagics Ok I also have a Anbernic RG 40XXH and the SD that came with it couldn't be read, so what I did with that one was I downloaded DiskInternals Linux reader (the free version) and that one could see the SD but couldn't clone it (probably a paid version feature) so I had to manually copy each folder to my SSD and then I moved each folder to the new SD card with the KNULLI network transfer (wich was really slow compared to other methods but it worked!) I hope this works for you.
Problem. Say we clone the img file onto a larger SD card, say from a 128gb to 512, it ends up being messed up, what do you do to take advantage of all the data that is held in your new drive?
Or if you use Linux, it's basically just old card: "cat /dev/sdb > disk.img" and new card: "cat disk.img > /dev/sdb ; sync". (or whatever /dev entry the card uses) It duplicates the old card bit for bit onto the new card. But that's an exact clone and won't use the entire card if the new one is bigger. So if you want to resize the filesystem and upgrade to something better than DOS FAT, old card: "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av /mnt/card ~/bak/ ; umount /mnt/card" and new card: "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 ; mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av ~/bak/card/* /mnt/card ; umount /mnt/card". Essentially, just back up the files from the old card, then format the new card and copy the files onto it.
I cloned it because those cheap SDs seem to be self corrupting ones. With my minimum computer knowledge I just copied the original SD > harddrive > New Sandisk 128GB SD. Now I have a backup on my harddrive as well. It worked flawlessly! 😁
But I don’t think that card will be bootable?? Have u tried writing all that data to a blank card and then inserting it into your device? I don’t think u will be able to boot with it unless u do what was shown in the video
Call me a dummy but I'm having trouble after flashing knulli onto my micro SD card and poppin it into my Miyoo mini plus. The Knulli wiki doesn't mention if U need to have your sd card empty or formatted.
I bought a SD card 128GB and now it is only 48GB in size, because of the disc imager. Is there a way to recover this or should i have paid more attention?
I tried with the regular square thing that comes with the micro sd and nothing works do I need a sd card reader even though I can just use the square thing that came with my micro sd card because that fits in my laptop 😅 I can’t get anything to work 😅
Can you do a tutorial on cloning Linux drives like the game drives... Because my old SD card purged all the games and I am struggling to get my other SD card to clone
I have tried to make an image file from the stock SD card (R36S). Everything went good, but when I put my new flashed SD card into the console I got black screen. BTW it works with the original stock card. Any idea?
Bravo sir! Easy and straight to the point. Do you happen to have a tik tok? I got lots of questions about these devices and I want to point ppl to a page. Or can i clip some of your videos with permission?
When we created an image from a 32GB card to 256GB, an image on the new card only matched the available space size of the old card, I lost 200Gb... is that so? SORRRY my English!
The copied SD card doesn't work in my R36s. When starting the console, the R36 logo appears, but after that, the screen goes black, even though the console remains on. What can I do, or what did I do wrong? Please help.
This won't erase everything from the original SD card will it? I lost my last SD cards data and now I want to make 3 backups in case when I'm adding a game it corrupts the card again I don't have to start from scratch.
Will this also copy your game progress that you've made? Do you know of a good/quick way of wiping all that kind of stuff? Or does it just depend on the OS you're cloning?
Just copy and paste from one sd card to the other. This way seems to add unnecessary extra steps. Or am i missing something? Seems to work fine for me.
I can do this to the stock os micro card that came with my rg35xx h right? And will it carry over all save files and save states? Just want to have that in case I want to come back from custom os.
Does this process work for copying the contents of the sd cards that comes with the r36s to a better sd card as i hear the ones that come with it aren't good and dont last
great video! One thing tho I have 62gb card and want to upgrade to 128gb but when I do that I get 100gb of allocated space on the card and system sees it as 2gb... does anyone know how to fix that?
Hey, I recently acquired an snes mini that came with the hakchi hack already installed. The roms and everything are on a flash drive. I watched your video on how to copy an sd drive, and thought perhaps I could take the same approach with the flash drive that came with the snes mini (I just honestly wanted to make a backup of the usb drive in case it ever got corrupted). Well, I followed your steps and the new flash drive has all the same files from the original, however when I connect it to the snes mini, it just boots up in the snes minis normal operating screen. What did I do wrong?
Does this work with the RG35XX H / SP series? I d like to backup the card it came with, but understand it uses some linux filesystem that i assume doesn'T work with windows pc?
I follow all instructions as described and win32 said it was successful in both reading and writing, but when I loaded the newly cloned micro SD card in, it booted up as if no SD card was inserted. I checked the new SD card and it looks like all the files did transfer. I noticed that when I went to write the newly created image, the file was a .file and not a .img as yours showed. Someone please help I can't keep flashing unsuccessful micro SD cards it's expensive
Hi for some strange reason I can read the old sd card but when I go to writing it on the new sd card I can't find it anywhere what am I missing? Basically all I'm doing is following your video with the original sd card that come with the device and using a brand new sd card??
Hello, I was having the same problem but I might have found a solution So I had followed all of the steps as per the video AND like you, I had the SAME ISSUE but I FOUND THE FILE AND HERE IS HOW TO FIX IT. Now the way to FIND THE FILE is on the bottom where you see the little drop down menu that says img as the file option. CLICK ON IT now it will have EXPANDED and then YOU WANT TO SELECT the OPTION that is "•". It will look like a Period/Full Stop icon or something similar, CLICK ON THAT and then YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE FILE. I'm now writing mine and I'll update this if I have an issue
Really simple instructions but every time I try using Win32 Disk imager to read the original SD card, The speed starts good until just 2% and then the time just increases instead of going down. It's going below 0.6 MB/s in speed. which is causing it to go up to 10+ hours. Any ideas why this could be and what I can do?
This channel is truly the gift that keeps on giving
Very well done Mr. Dweeb! I personally use Balena Etcher and two sd card readers to make it even simpler, but this way works great too 😊 Always nice to have options!
I didn't know Balena Etcher could read images from SD cards. I just learned something!
@@TechDweebWhen you open it up, the third option down on the left is "Clone". If I didn't use it to burn all of my Linux OS's I wouldn't have known it could do it either, lol. It's weird how when looking for cloning software, Etcher doesn't even come up. It's a slow cloner, but it works.
Thx for the tutorial - using it now 🤙🤿
Thanks for getting me started! Wanted to add a simple process for those Mac users :)
1. Mount the original MicroSD on your Mac.
2. Open Terminal.
3. Run: sudo dd if=/dev/disk4 of=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd bs=1m && sync &&
sync (replace "username" with your username; this will copy the entire structure to your desktop in a DD file).
4. Eject the original MicroSD.
5. Swap MicroSD cards and mount the one you wish to copy things over to.
6. Using Terminal, run: diskutil list.
7. Identify which drive your MicroSD is (usually, it's the bottom one listed).
8. In Terminal, run: diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will unmount the desired MicroSD card).
9. Run: sudo newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/disk# (replace # with the disk number you identified your MicroSD card as in Step 7; this will format the desired MicroSD card).
10. Run: sudo dd if=/Users/username/Desktop/Anbernic.dd of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m (replace "username" with your username; this will transfer the file to the desired MicroSD card).
11. Once complete, eject the new MicroSD card.
12. Plug into Anbernic system and enjoy!
NOTE: this entire process will take time because you're dealing with ≈ 60+ GB transferring at typically slower speeds (≈ 30 MB/s to 100 MB/s). Be patient and use Control T as a command to check how things are going!
Good to Know Commands
- diskutil list = mounted disks recognized by system
- Control + C = Cancel Command
- Control + T = Status Check
I have a brand new R36S and also it also goes with a crappy no-name stock rom SD card. I really want to clone the rom to a better SD card but I only have a Macbook Air. I did a bunch of research on Google and I found your instruction is the simplest and it worked perfectly. Now I can comfortably play Pokemon without the fear of losing save game due to SD card failure. Thank you so much, you're the best!
You brought back the background music!!!
I love tutorials like this one! Straight to the point!
Best tutorial for now. Straight to the point 👍
Thanks for this Tutorial I found it to be very helpful. I have several SD Micro cards I need to backup, but I didn't know to to copy them.
Great video! You have a such a brilliant way of making seemingly dull hardware processes, both funny and engaging... Now I want to back up an SD card 😂
..oh and please tell me what is this micro Gameboy on the left next to the Micro-SD Card at 00:50 and where can I get it. I absolutely need it🥰
I just got a new handheld and I gotta try this!
Us “Todd”s out here catching strays lol
I am such a Todd. I don't know how many times I had to shove the adapter into the USB-A hole and pull it out..and in and out..in the beginning...SETTING UP MY HANDHELD.
🤣❤️ Thanks TD as always🌟 Love
There is no link to the Win32 Disk imager
Yes please! Exactly what I was just planning to do!
I read the comments last time and your responses
(the timer is a nice touch)!!!!
Good to see Tech.😎👍💯
Always Backup your Backup's Backup. That way you'll Summon Backstreet Boys. "Backstreet's Back Alright!".🎶🕺
The BSB's love backups!
@@TechDweeb 2000s rapper Juvenile was also a fan of backups. He made a song about it. If you know, you know. You know?
Keep up the good work! These kind of videos are super helpful for us noobs
Thanks for the tutorial, but I just have two questions:
What is with all of the pushing and shoving, can't we all just get along?
Will this same process work if I want to clone myself and my alpaca?
Great video, my first retro console is on its way, I’ve been trying to prep and get ready to transfer everything to a new sd card. This by far is the most simple no bs and straightforward video I have found. Thank you sir!!
Did this tutorial work for you
@@wizzrobe4998 yes it worked without a flaw, took less than an hour, and everything is working as it should! Thank you for the video!
@@JoshLosee-cf8qp did you use the stock os
@@wizzrobe4998 yes used the stock os,would like to update to a new os at some point. Maybe that will be in a new video?
@@wizzrobe4998 just realized your not techdweeb. lol usually don’t get any replies on my comments. Haha the only thing different from the video was I had no partitions. Just selected the drive for my usb, saved it as an img, then wrote it to the new sd.
Nice!
What would also be awesome is a video demonstrating how to sync your game saves between devices. Using stuff like SyncThing and/or cloud storage software to do so. So non-wifi devices may not be able to benefit.
Love the “STEP 1” voice
Good one TD, I was going to suggest a viddy about how to move saved states between systems, but this will do.
That's a great suggestion too 👍
Even when i'm not looking for your channel and just looking for information, you're here !
Awesome stuff !
Hey TechDweeb Awesome tutorial! Short and Sweet! Any chance you could do one explaining how to Erease an Image on A Micro SD Card so that it can be Repurposed for newer Image! ?Thanks I appreciate you TechDweeb!
I’ve just got my RG35XX Plus, is this what I should do so I can use a more reliable SD card rather than the one that came with it?
Needed this to backup the stock before moving to MuOS
my guy always comes with the video i need much love and respect thanks
You are awesome! I love my R36S for on the go and I really wanted to back up my 2 SSD's that came with the device and this worked perfectly. Thank you, Thank you and yeah Thank you!
i only got one with mine.
previous data only 42gb (in 64 microsd size). after the process, image file result in 61gb. so i cannot load image file in new microsd with 58gb free space (in 64gb microsd size). Do you have solution? thank you
Getting a r36s soon. Will need a new sd card so can't wait to try this
What OS are you using and what theme are you using @2:51 thanks
I wish you had covered what to do about unallocated space in the event that the new SD card is larger than the old one.
What do you mean
@@wizzrobe4998 I have not done this process myself yet, but from prior experience with disk images, if you have, for example, a 64GB source card and create a disk image, then write that image to a 128GB card (as seen in this video) the write process only creates a partition the same size as the source image. That leaves about half the card unallocated and thus unused. BBFL is asking to see how to make the partition larger to use all of the extra space.
I guess by extending partition?
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you can’t use the rest of the space on it
Thanks for the video! Will I need to format my brand new SD card?
Really helped expanding my sd card storage of mazda maps update which was a huge recent update.Thank You!
I'm a tech dweeb and I just ordered a Retroid Pocket 2S and half of the fun is setting up a new device. I make every single one a little different and I love doing it
Amigo I got greater news I just clone my first sd card your video it’s help me a lot yes it’s a great staff thank you,gracias
thank you so so much I spent 10+ hours today trying to figure this out your video is the only one that I could Understand!!
Bro ty for this! I dont understand why these overseas vendors don't use a halfway decent SD card? U get a sub and like buddy! THANKS!
Glad it helped you out!
@TechDweeb oh man, thanks for the reply. I'm a old dork and a big fan! 😀
Hdclone 6, copies one card to another direct at sector level. No messing about with partitions
I Don't have any laptop or pc at the moment , only tablet and phone. Is there any application which does the same for android?
Is that Batocera on a MiyooMini Plus? If so, you got a really cool tutorial on install? Thank you much!
Very helpful video. Would this work for cloning an android phone's microsd? I got LOTS of games/roms and don't want to lose anything, but want to upgrade!
Hi! Before watching this I tried copy/pasting the files instead of writing the .img file. Should I format the inoperable SD card and then write the .img file onto the card? Will formatting the inoperable SD card mess anything up? Thank you!
What about those dock stations for duplicating/cloning sd cards? Is that not the same thing or just generally more expensive route to take?
Great, what if i want to copy everything on a bigger SD, example: from a 64gb to a 128gb. Is the process different? thanks
hey there how are u,,. irecently flashed my new sd card with akros for my r36s it booted up fine but now i want to add the games from the stock os sd to my new sd card..how do i go about doing that
how do I allocate the unalocated partition (64GB) to my roms folder? I can create a new partition, but I can't merge them. Any tips/advice?
Might need to use a 3rd party tool like Minitool Partition Wizard (the free version is great)
@@TechDweeb thx
What theme was that? Itt's way cooler than mine
Thank You!!!🔥 It would be VERY kind of you to do a small series of short and fundamental basic (but important) tips that keeps things simple (like this one)☺️👍
I can't just copy the files from the SD card to my computer and then put those files on the new SD card?
I've been looking for an answer to this too. Why can't you just copy the entire cards contents to your computer then move them back to the new sd card
I believe windows doesn't recognise some of the files so no this won't work
If it was an android based emulator then yes you can use that method but this is specifically the method for Linux based emulator handhelds
Because it won't work that way
Windows wasn't detecting the SD with Surwish Onion OS that comes with the LITNXT MM+ but I solve it by using PartitionWizard to assign the drive a letter then Win32 DiskImager finally detected it, maybe make an updated tutorial Dweeb? Anyway I hope this helps in case someone else is have the same problem.
PartitionWizard can't find my knulli firefly card... any ideas?
@@electromagics Ok I also have a Anbernic RG 40XXH and the SD that came with it couldn't be read, so what I did with that one was I downloaded DiskInternals Linux reader (the free version) and that one could see the SD but couldn't clone it (probably a paid version feature) so I had to manually copy each folder to my SSD and then I moved each folder to the new SD card with the KNULLI network transfer (wich was really slow compared to other methods but it worked!) I hope this works for you.
@@kechidonick thanks will try!
How do u copy over just the games sd card too my new sd
Problem. Say we clone the img file onto a larger SD card, say from a 128gb to 512, it ends up being messed up, what do you do to take advantage of all the data that is held in your new drive?
Or if you use Linux, it's basically just old card: "cat /dev/sdb > disk.img" and new card: "cat disk.img > /dev/sdb ; sync". (or whatever /dev entry the card uses) It duplicates the old card bit for bit onto the new card.
But that's an exact clone and won't use the entire card if the new one is bigger. So if you want to resize the filesystem and upgrade to something better than DOS FAT, old card: "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av /mnt/card ~/bak/ ; umount /mnt/card" and new card: "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 ; mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card ; rsync -av ~/bak/card/* /mnt/card ; umount /mnt/card". Essentially, just back up the files from the old card, then format the new card and copy the files onto it.
I cloned it because those cheap SDs seem to be self corrupting ones. With my minimum computer knowledge I just copied the original SD > harddrive > New Sandisk 128GB SD. Now I have a backup on my harddrive as well. It worked flawlessly! 😁
So all you did was drag and drop the files.?
@@39LRich exactly.
@@greensun1334so did u have to have 2 card readers inserted in the computer at the same time
@@mc4lifey no. SD > harddrive > SD.
But I don’t think that card will be bootable?? Have u tried writing all that data to a blank card and then inserting it into your device? I don’t think u will be able to boot with it unless u do what was shown in the video
What is the name of the theme you are using in batocera?
Call me a dummy but I'm having trouble after flashing knulli onto my micro SD card and poppin it into my Miyoo mini plus. The Knulli wiki doesn't mention if U need to have your sd card empty or formatted.
Well Done. Fast video and shows what we came for. thanks!
Won’t the “rom” partition be the exact same size since we’re cloning the old card?
What should the new card be formatted to before copying the image?
I bought a SD card 128GB and now it is only 48GB in size, because of the disc imager. Is there a way to recover this or should i have paid more attention?
Same happened to me
Did you find a fix to get the rest of your space back.?
Down load Sd Card formatter and install. It will give you back your original space
I tried with the regular square thing that comes with the micro sd and nothing works do I need a sd card reader even though I can just use the square thing that came with my micro sd card because that fits in my laptop 😅 I can’t get anything to work 😅
Sorry if this is a silly question . Can I clone contents of an sd card using win32 to a usb stick? Thanks .
Why did you use USB A instead of the USB C plug? Does it make a difference?
Followed this to the tee 3 times and while everything says "successful". None of my 3 new cloned cards read in any handheld I own. Not sure why.
Can you do a tutorial on cloning Linux drives like the game drives... Because my old SD card purged all the games and I am struggling to get my other SD card to clone
I have tried to make an image file from the stock SD card (R36S). Everything went good, but when I put my new flashed SD card into the console I got black screen. BTW it works with the original stock card.
Any idea?
Bravo sir! Easy and straight to the point. Do you happen to have a tik tok? I got lots of questions about these devices and I want to point ppl to a page. Or can i clip some of your videos with permission?
When we created an image from a 32GB card to 256GB, an image on the new card only matched the available space size of the old card, I lost 200Gb... is that so? SORRRY my English!
I have the same issue and cannot find a solution, how has no one talked about this?
Hi, i made a copy of the original sd with win32disk, the new sandisk sd works but reboot every 10 sec. Can you help me?
can we do this without doanloadfing the app? liek just by copying the files manually?
The copied SD card doesn't work in my R36s. When starting the console, the R36 logo appears, but after that, the screen goes black, even though the console remains on. What can I do, or what did I do wrong? Please help.
This won't erase everything from the original SD card will it? I lost my last SD cards data and now I want to make 3 backups in case when I'm adding a game it corrupts the card again I don't have to start from scratch.
it says that my drive is to small
Same, even though I have 500gb available. Any work arounds?
@@gtirdocme too
I have a question for the guy who made this video I want to clone the new SD card I got for my steam deck will this work for that too??
Yup! It should work for ANY sd card, from any system, as long as it can be recognized by your PC. I think it should work fine.
What’s the difference with CTRL+C, CTRL+V ?
Good info kid. Thanks.
Will this also copy your game progress that you've made? Do you know of a good/quick way of wiping all that kind of stuff? Or does it just depend on the OS you're cloning?
Just copy and paste from one sd card to the other. This way seems to add unnecessary extra steps.
Or am i missing something? Seems to work fine for me.
2:06 "grab a root beer" wow, I'm already drinking one. I'm the head of the game!
Legend
May sound like a dumb question but if I have an as card reader for my phone can I do this the same way or do I have to have a computer ?
you said you put the link below, so where is it?
Sir i want to know if the partitions are all in the image file i just want to put easy roms only
Is it suppose to take like a whole day?. (My laptop isn’t the best)
I can do this to the stock os micro card that came with my rg35xx h right? And will it carry over all save files and save states? Just want to have that in case I want to come back from custom os.
Yup!
Does this process work for copying the contents of the sd cards that comes with the r36s to a better sd card as i hear the ones that come with it aren't good and dont last
Would this be the same if I wanna clone to a bigger sd card ? Help please
great video! One thing tho I have 62gb card and want to upgrade to 128gb but when I do that I get 100gb of allocated space on the card and system sees it as 2gb... does anyone know how to fix that?
Thanks for the information Because everyone says backup the sd cards Because the use cheap ones that often fail .Appreciate the help.
how to clone to bigger size, like from stock 64gb to 128 256gb?
the same size as stock card too tight to test anything new
Hey, I recently acquired an snes mini that came with the hakchi hack already installed. The roms and everything are on a flash drive. I watched your video on how to copy an sd drive, and thought perhaps I could take the same approach with the flash drive that came with the snes mini (I just honestly wanted to make a backup of the usb drive in case it ever got corrupted). Well, I followed your steps and the new flash drive has all the same files from the original, however when I connect it to the snes mini, it just boots up in the snes minis normal operating screen. What did I do wrong?
Sir can I use clips from this video with credit to your youtube?
Sure! As long as you give credit I'm cool with that :)
Does this work with the RG35XX H / SP series? I d like to backup the card it came with, but understand it uses some linux filesystem that i assume doesn'T work with windows pc?
I follow all instructions as described and win32 said it was successful in both reading and writing, but when I loaded the newly cloned micro SD card in, it booted up as if no SD card was inserted. I checked the new SD card and it looks like all the files did transfer. I noticed that when I went to write the newly created image, the file was a .file and not a .img as yours showed. Someone please help I can't keep flashing unsuccessful micro SD cards it's expensive
My SD car from R36 is with boot and games, now i want to have 2 SD cards one with boot and one with games?
Hi for some strange reason I can read the old sd card but when I go to writing it on the new sd card I can't find it anywhere what am I missing? Basically all I'm doing is following your video with the original sd card that come with the device and using a brand new sd card??
Hello, I was having the same problem but I might have found a solution
So I had followed all of the steps as per the video AND like you, I had the SAME ISSUE but I FOUND THE FILE AND HERE IS HOW TO FIX IT.
Now the way to FIND THE FILE is on the bottom where you see the little drop down menu that says img as the file option. CLICK ON IT now it will have EXPANDED and then YOU WANT TO SELECT the OPTION that is "•". It will look like a Period/Full Stop icon or something similar, CLICK ON THAT and then YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THE FILE.
I'm now writing mine and I'll update this if I have an issue
I stumbled across you channel. I'm happy I did. I appreciate your useful tutorials. Great stuff.
Do you need to have the space on your computer hard drive to do this? Is there a way to just clone the sd card directly to the new sd card in one hit?
didn't work with win 32 said disk not enough but worked with rufus
Really simple instructions but every time I try using Win32 Disk imager to read the original SD card, The speed starts good until just 2% and then the time just increases instead of going down. It's going below 0.6 MB/s in speed. which is causing it to go up to 10+ hours. Any ideas why this could be and what I can do?