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Reports were saying the Switch was coming q4 2024, but now Nintendo is reportedly telling its partners that it's been pushed to q1 2025

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You can have errors when you write it back into another SD card and end up with a corrupt card. That was from experience a long time ago.

Maybe the tools are better adapted now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That’s going to be a function of your SD card reader and the quality of the card itself. If you’re really concerned, copy it to your HDD, then read again and verify. And then when writing, do a verify step as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you have write errors, you have a bad card.

But the filesystem is just FAT, isn't it? You should be able to copy at the file instead of block level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not with a Nintendo Switch SD card I would think?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The only difference there is the specific formatting, it can still be cloned

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If this were universally true then SD cards would be completely useless, as regular writes would fail in the same manner. Bad card, bad slot, or bad tools.