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A complete Nintendo DSi homebrew guide, from stock to HiyaCFW.
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SD Card Setup on Windows with diskpart #169

Closed malvarenga123 closed 8 months ago

malvarenga123 commented 8 months ago

I think using diskpart on Windows would be the simplest way to avoid any issues regarding the SD card.

diskpart
list disk          (lists available disks, write down the correct number for your USB drive)
select disk N      (replace N with the USB drive number you wrote down)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format unit=32k fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit

If any of those steps fail, the SD card cannot be used.

SNBeast commented 8 months ago

diskpart doesn't allow FAT32 on over 32GB

NightScript370 commented 8 months ago

the simplest way to avoid any issues regarding the SD card.

What issues exist that diskpart takes care of that SD Card Formatter can't (beyond needing to be downloaded + installed)?

malvarenga123 commented 8 months ago

What issues exist that diskpart takes care of that SD Card Formatter can't (beyond needing to be downloaded + installed)?

Someone was having issues with a SD card on GBATemp and it was suggested that there could be an extra partition on the card. diskpart clean will make sure that isn't the issue.

Deletecat commented 8 months ago

SD Card Formatter will wipe all of the partitions on the SD card so an extra partition shouldn't be an issue

malvarenga123 commented 8 months ago

I wasn't aware of that.