GAMING: Cloning a Generic SD Card to a Branded One

In this video, we're going to show you a step-by-step guide on how to upgrade your gaming experience by cloning a generic SD card to a branded one. Whether you're looking to boost the performance of your gaming consoleor save your progress more reliably, this tutorial has you covered.
Win32DiskImager : win32diskimager.org/
SD Card Formatter 5.0.2 : www.sdcard.org/downloads/form...

[@amr.Khalifa]

You made it very simple and easy thank you! Other youtubers made the obvious very complicated for 20 mins or longer

[@nebulaprince]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! A lot of the other tutorials on here are very overwhelming to those new to this type of stuff so I really appreciated this straight forward method.

[@PapiGrayBeard]

Been stressing for months on how to do this and this was super easy. Appreciate it very much. Now I have a good card in there with no worries. 🎉

[@vinidgr]

Just did it and worked flawless, thank you so much

[@TheeMisterspain]

Straight to the point. Very helpful. Might just add that if it asks you to format your original SD card first hit cancel! 😂

[@yencr6011]

I spent 2 hours on this tutorial (it was a long time but because of cloning the sd card and transferring it to the new one), following each step, and it really worked for me from the first try. I was afraid that something would go wrong, but everything is excellent, thank you for making such a well explained video

[@3up3rn0va]

Thank you! I dunno where I would be without KZbin guides. This method works for the new RG35XX SP model! And the SP model is freakin cool

[@topherb1399]

YES!!! Finally a quick, to the point video that worked for me! I'm so stoked it finally worked. This tutorial is awesome. TY my friend 🤙🏻

[@jorgebuddha81]

I'm going to give it a try. Thank You for this tutorial.

[@GurlDreamer50]

Thank you so much! It worked flawlessly.

[@siddiaz1623]

I do need a work out. Thank you for pointing it out

[@Mahroutinespreppy]

Thank you so much! Straight to the point. Your vid was very useful for me!

[@digitalpurrs7623]

That was a big help. Thanks!

[@fotisskodras7627]

It worked perfect for the micro sd of R36S. Thank you!!!

[@rayrock9381]

wow!!!!! It really works. Thanks guy. This help me out a lot and your method is simple to follow.

[@macktruck7466]

awesome thank you for making this, straight to the point much appreciate it.

[@SilversKr]

Awesome video. Very helpful...many thanks!!

[@CheesyBeefy88]

It worked! I was pulling my hair out looking for a solution! Thank you!

[@seanokeefe9990]

Guys this works and is simple if you follow the steps even the links are safe thank you so much

[@snickpick019]

It works!!! Thank you!

[@sunuandreas9267]

very helpful,thankyou...

[@bosb33r40]

Thank you so much it worked for me ❤🎉

[@fabiofboful]

Thank you so much! I did it and now I can safely use my RG405V.

[@yencr6011]

Did you do it in a 128 GB memory?

[@fabiofboful]

@@yencr6011 256GB

[@LFRM97]

Thank you for your help

[@JasonL1202]

This was easy to follow. Thank you. Any chance you could include a larger SD card? Then show how to expand the games partition.

[@GrassOnYourSide]

Worked perfectly

[@MrKelmer01]

Thank you! Muito obrigado! 🇧🇷

[@Iversonwings1]

Thanks this worked

[@greensun1334]

I bought a Anbernic RG ARC-S and I was concerned about the cheap SD card they used, so I simply copied it to my PC and to a Sandisk 128MB SD. Altrough I have minimum PC skills, it worked flawlessly, and now I have also a security backup on my harddrive for the worst case!

[@SlavaSexton]

Thank you so much

[@MultiFribourg]

Thank you very much. I guess you can do the process again for the 128gb SD card aswell ?

[@timyorke4465]

Will this work exactly the same for the Anbernic RG35XX Plus?

[@sueymatta8779]

How different is this process for Mac?

[@rustychastain3877]

Perfect, Thank you

[@nheald0724]

You're welcome!

[@michaelbraimah9204]

@@nheald0724This works for the RG405V as well?Or do you just copy and paste all the folders instead?I copied and pasted as well..

[@AliKhan-vc5ud]

​@@nheald0724brother I have g5 emuelc gamebox and it's memory card is cheap so I want to make a clone of it new memory card but the cheap memory card has partition inside so will it make a clone of memory card in partition also or not .

[@drhassoon]

Thank you it worked! But I also had an issue of unallocated partition because the destination drive is larger than the source. Could you please clarify how to maintain the size of destination drive?!

[@JubeProductions]

is this just for Anbernic devices, or is this a general guide? I just got a Powkiddy x55 and it has 2 SD cards, one is a 16gb operating system and one is a 128GB games card. I understand I can't copy the OS card using this method but I'm not sure this will work with the type of card I have.

[@RyanHinaru]

Will it work if the generic card has 2 partitions ??

[@xXMrTorteXx]

well, what to do if i have a 120 GB SD Card but want all the games to a 256 GB SD Card, when i take the image, then the Partition is only 126 GB and i cant make it larger.... :(

[@Wolfy5499]

Does it work on my Powkiddy V90 with the custom Topo firmware tho , when i add game i see it got 2 separated file like the one with the emu and storage and the one is like booted tho .

[@johnnythunders7975]

Like to know what shader that is at the end of the video - looks nice.

[@fabianiurino]

Hello, thanks for the tutorial, everything went perfectly. A QUESTION, if I add a card in the second slot, does it create the ROM directories automatically? and are they also loaded in retroarch?

[@MrDj-rl2ef]

When formatting new sd card what do I set it to for miyoo mini ? Sorry I’m new at this and need some help community

[@_Username__]

what if I need to use a larger sd card, this method does not work with that case

[@dracodormiens246]

I got two sd cards with the rg35xx plus. One (in slot 1) 64 gb already in place and one external (128 gb) in the packet. Both have slightly different numbers of games. Can you please tell me which card to clone? I have cloned the external one. If I clone the in-built 64 gb card, that came already in the slot, and use the new card, will there be any problem?

[@piensluc7444]

Is it normal that if you write the image of a 128g gb it will be 20 hours to clone it when you write it on a new sd card ?

[@GTA_500]

Does this work with an SD card that has a partition in it? Like the OS SD cards?

[@biosskw]

Great video! Subscribed. I'm really interested in an image file of your exact micrSD card that you are using with your RG35XX in the video. Any help providing me with a cloud source file to download and flash for myself would be much appreciated 🙏 bc it looks awesome 👍

[@nheald0724]

its just the generic sd card image from anbernic..

[@lucasskywalkin9]

So, when I went to write the created file, (which when I copied it to my laptop, the file was “G”.) the drive that my new sd card was under, was “E”.. I tried re writing it to “G”, and said it couldn’t be found. But when I tried writing it to “E” it started writing everything.. so, is that a problem lol? Because I could’ve swore the original file was “G”… sorry if this is confusing. Just curious as to if I missed something n.. and what it was I missed 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@chrismc01]

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?

[@rizogamers4915]

Hi. Can you make video on how to fix rom not detect on stock card. Its there when using retroarch and search manual through folder. And can you show what inside your sd card. I want to what im messing up. Really disappointed when i received my r36s but can play on the go.😔

[@ll0103]

what if i dont know what to call the file for the win32 disk thing? does it matter? what happens if i dont know what to call it

[@Rednotiin]

I’ve done this about 4 times now and every time it keeps saying the cloned drive is corrupted or unreadable. I’m cloning a 256 gb to a 2 TB sd card and I just noticed too that the cloned is only showing as 256 gb after but showed as a 2 TB card when I formatted it before hand. Using the same software you are. Any idea what is happening here? Trying to clone my RG556 256gb card to 2 TB to add more games

[@Poppadee78]

Hello. Just wanted to say thanks for making this video. I used it a few months ago and it worked great. Tried to do it again today and it didn’t. On the first step my drive letter is set to F but when I go to format it’s set to D and it doesn’t let me switch it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

[@Amlamekvids]

Please help I got sf2000 data frog. I didn't know about disk images writer. I managed to copy all files from there to a folder on my pc. Then the cheap sd card went kaput. Cant read it with a card reader. How do i read the folder on my d drive to write on my sandisk sd card?

[@Gvin-pt3nz]

How do you do it on a mac?

[@T_H123]

My Generic SD Card is not working anymore, how can i get all the game now. do you have a link to do to or something?

[@fans-zr3jt]

I'm not very computer literate but I'm gonna try your method to make a copy into new (better)SD card before start using my new rg35xx. Hope it's gonna work, I'm really bad at this.

[@boothatron]

Can you save the disk image directly to an external HD?

[@kless001]

Yes.

[@RTXPhotorealismGameplay]

Does it work for M8 Game Stick 4k Lite

[@PkmHax]

I bought 2 128gb SD cards. 1 for each slot. I can only use up to 64gb in slot 1 for the OS?

[@dannykok1494]

I need tis answer too

[@bludgeonriffola1966]

I was too late..... After a week the sim card stopped working. Now I'm left with a SIM card that I can't read from. Is it possible to download ROM and BIOS that I can add on a new sim card?

[@kingsalomon6459]

I just bought a 256gb. Before i had a 64 gb. My freind is transferring all my file to the 256 gb plus new games 🤩

[@eduardafiorido]

Does it work for the RG35XX H model?

[@stevenboisvert1767]

What is the game at the 4 second mark?

[@redpalmnew1386]

What micro SD size does the Anbernic RG35xx support? If I buy a 128 GB size, can I divide it into 2 drives, 1 for the system and the other for storing the ROM? is that possible? or preferably a 128 GB drive for that system.

[@theowilson2925]

Im running a 512gb Extreme Pro Sandisk with no issues

[@aleister666xx]

Question: can I just drag and drop all the games included on the stock SD card to my new SD card before I throw away the crappy stock card included? Thanks!

[@ivansunde6845]

did you try? was wondering the same

[@jachu1899]

When I need use bigger card like 128 GB when source card have 64 GB HOW im next step change size for more space to more games??

[@SM-rr6ri]

shared your link on another vid thats like 20+ min long to do the same thing.

[@gjuniorX]

Will this method work with the Kinhank X2 Pro Super Console?? Kinhanks directions are very confusing, says need use disk genius on account of the 2 partitions on card, I'm basic PC guy, no idea about all this, I just want to put their tf card content onto a SanDisk card of same size & be able just pop new card into my X2 Super Console & play my games...Thanxs for anyone's help.

[@Tamarocker88]

First, it is not recommended that you copy the provided SD card from an emulation device and blindly copy it to a new SD card. The ROM and BIOS files included with these emulation devices are questionable to say the least, riddled with bad rom dumps that cause problems with performance, gameplay, crashing, data corruption etc... Your best bet will be to obtain a copy of the latest system image\firmware from the manufacturer and follow their steps to create a stable foundation before you copy over your own curated list of known good BIOS and ROM files. The process will involve formatting the SD card, using third party programs to prepare all of the different partitions and write the system image\firmware to the new SD card, and then there may be further modifications needed like editing configuration files, copying data to very specific folders, and finally copying your ROMs and BIOS files to the appropriate directories. These devices are very complex and capable of doing a lot of things, while being manufactured by relatively small companies at rock bottom prices. No, the experience isn't as easy as a plug&play TV console, but there is no realistic way to provide an easy one click solution for everyone's needs. What you decide to do with your handheld will vary from everyone else out there who buys one. There is a LOT that can be configured and changed.

[@Blueoptimus12]

I found out something pretty interesting. I have a 1TB micro SD card I wanted to clone. It still has about 500gb of free space. My PC HDD is 1 TB and still has about 600gb of free space so why the heck would disc image tell me I don’t have enough space? Turns out that if your micro SD card is 1TB the disc image software makes a complete image of the capacity of the card and not just what is saved into it. I wish this knew this from the beginning. I figured it out when I did a disc image of at 32GB micro SD with no issues. So I’m obligated to upgrade my PC HDD if I want to be able to clone 1TB SDs even if they are only using 50GB for example.

[@ternocimadh5863]

You got an solution for this m8

[@Blueoptimus12]

@@ternocimadh5863 If your computers HDD is not a lot more than the storage you are trying to clone/copy as disc image add more storage capacity to your computer.

[@michaelbraimah9204]

Does anyone know if this will work on the Rg405V?Mine just came yesterday,and I have a new Lexar 256gb from Best Buy..

[@newgamestrailer1]

I bought the new version 2024 Rg35xx Plus and incorrectly formatted the included SD card because of a video on KZbin and everything is deleted, now I can't even turn it on 😢can someone help?

[@enriquerosales5487]

I want to do it to my RGXX Plus it stays in the boot logo do you know how to fix that?

[@nheald0724]

i think you need to install a fresh copy on it...

[@freeanto1323]

does it works on phone sd card?

[@dario7556]

hi, I have a myoo mini and I would like to clone the SD card onto another better SD card, should I first copy the SD card to the PC? and then clone it into the new SD from the PC? I have a Mac, can you help me?

[@nheald0724]

sorry...i dont have a mac to test it...

[@oveddepaz5700]

What system are you using in ur console?? Thanks

[@nikosb5755]

Did the steps using a 128GB SD Card but its not working... :(

[@PROCOTRDOCTOR123]

If I clone my SD card that is running onion and I use a cloned SD card in a Miyoo mini plus that is running the stock OS and I put in the cloned SD card with onion OS will that load the new OS and all the games/roms/bios/emulators from my cloned SD card?

[@yencr6011]

When you clone the SD card that the console has, everything it contains also goes to your new SD card. It's like having 2 identical cards with the same information, only one is of better quality (the one you bought)

[@miguelcampos6603]

Hey Sorry for my noobness , i just bought a r36s and i am not sure what to clone from the original Card , this card has some files in it , one of these is called image is this one that i have to select ? It has some files with the console name like the one you ve selectedd , i am afraid to corrupt the card somehow so i cant take the next Step could somebody help me please thank you

[@rcktsky_2606]

my SD has ArkOS 2.0 so im currently cloning the GAME SD. hopefully it works

[@EVOLLOVEx]

A this be done with a sd card of 8Gb to upgrade to a 32GB ? Or will doing this make the 32GB think it’s 8gb ? Hopefully that makes sense.

[@castiland1000]

It will make it exactly the same

[@XTheLostPeachX]

So is this safe to clone the sd card that came with the rg35xx and then putting it on the new sd card. Also do you have a video on cloning the 16gb sd card that came with the system unto another 16gb sd card? Sorry if that doesnt make since im not really tech savy.

[@nheald0724]

It's the same process on 16gb...

[@XTheLostPeachX]

@@nheald0724 Thank you so much for responding. This really helped im getting the RG35XX from amazon and was curious. Also from what i could understand the 16GB is optional. if im wrong correct me. Thank you again.

[@PROCOTRDOCTOR123]

Also why did we not have to format the new SD card to FAT 32?

[@macbeth642]

I second this

[@legiaodehackers865]

Guys i need a help. I made all the steps right but when i put my new sd card he just show like 369 games and when i browse it in my pc most of the another games have the name bugged like "##$&-". I already made the steps again two times and the results are the same. The unique games that works are the N64 and gameboy advance.

[@zoranzoran4422]

Is there any already cloned generic card with all roma and emulators,64Gb on sites?So we can download it?If you can answer

[@THAITANproduction]

Google this > tiny best set go

[@Cheesicle_]

is this only for the os? what about roms? got a r36s and i want to put the roms onto a name brand card and the Os too.

[@nheald0724]

once you image the generic sdcard...it also includes the roms in it..

[@Cheesicle_]

@@nheald0724 no, depends some r36s consoles come with 2, one for the os other for roms. some have the os and roms on a single card

[@PROCOTRDOCTOR123]

Can someone explain to me why I can't just copy all the files over to my computer without Win32DiskImager?

[@yencr6011]

because simply copying and pasting is not the same as rewriting an SD card completely with the information from another and making them exactly the same

[@Dih_Buckuss]

After following your instructions exactly (i used all the sane software, even named the files the same) my device won't turn on anymore and I can't find anything online about what to do to fix this. Can you please tell me what to do to fix this because now I have nothing but a worthless brick that won't turn on and won't charge, and all the data on the original SD card got wiped in the cloning process so I have no idea wtf to do now.

[@Dih_Buckuss]

I followed all your instructions. The image I wrote to copy the original sd card is corrupted (I didn't do ANYTHING except wait for it to be done like you did in the video), and now I have to fly by the seat of my fucking pants to try to figure out how to set up all of this from scratch because the original sd card got wiped in the process of making the copy. Somebody please fucking help me. I'm about to smash this thing to fucking pieces because I am so frustrated. It literally came in the mail today and I listened to everybody on reddit and youtube who said to copy the original card to a new card immediately. I literally had the thing on and working for less than five minutes. Turned it off and followed all the video instructions and now this fucking things won't work and I am lost and have no idea what to do.

[@omajul]

@@Dih_Buckussbuy another console and be happy 😊

[@dgcheeks]

I followed your steps. I used a 128 gb sd card. It's like following this step turned my 128 gb into a 60gb sd card.

[@mikolino2761]

Same here. When i write to the SD Card the diskimager transform my Samsung SD card from a 256 GB card to a 50 GB SD card and there is no space anymore!

[@mikolino2761]

Do you found any solution? The clone is working fine but I dont know how to use and find the 190 GB missing storage space.

[@dgcheeks]

@mikolino2761 no, I'm still working on it. I was watching another video about tiny best set. Maybe that would be a better alternative. Just need to find ROMS.

[@mikolino2761]

@@dgcheeks Try it wit the MiniTool Partition Wizard Free. With this tool you can add the free space to the partition if its not exFat. :-)

[@Ebolanation]

thanks for the simple video! Also, it did not help my body dysmorphia. going for a run....

[@yolady712]

mines taking 24hrs?

[@sw1000xg]

How do I clone the SC card with the roms on it? I've tried copying to another SD card but it wont boot up

[@Tamarocker88]

Assuming you have a 2-card setup where the ROMs are on another SD card, a boot up problem would have nothing to do with your ROM card and everything to do with the system card. The TF2 SD slot only contains ROM/BIOS/Save data etc... and not system data. It's not used to boot the device, only for storing some data.

[@bytechno.1337]

So i could just copy paste the roms to a brand new sd card or what? Because that doens't work for some reason on my powkiddy rgb20s @@Tamarocker88

[@Cheesicle_]

@@bytechno.1337same , would like to know

[@ColeThunder10]

I used a higher capacity card (256gb) when copying the image from a (64gb). Now it says I don’t have that storage capacity? So when copying do you have to use the same size SD or you lose the extra storage capability?

[@Blueoptimus12]

What is the entire storage capacity on your computer?

[@castiland1000]

Yes

[@9997eman]

Or you can repartition the SD drive

[@jhskarving]

Sorry for writing to you. I live in Denmark, everything here is quite a bit more expensive than in other countries. I bought a xu 10 used as I can't afford a new one. now i start it up. it starts as it should. but stops working when i have selected a game. I know that I have to buy a good SD card for it. but is there a place where I can find a new emulator for it, greetings Jakob.

[@nheald0724]

i think you need to format the sd card then install a fresh copy of the application for your device.

[@joseellsonuy3993]

How about the tf2 card? I have the 128gb one. Is the cloning process the same?

[@Tamarocker88]

The secondary card does not have multiple partitions like the system card, so the contents can be copy/pasted directly unless you really want to create a clone image of it. That being said, if it is a no-name secondary card that came with the device and contains ROMs and BIOS files from the device manufacturer, it it strongly recommended that you do not use any of those files because they are unreliable and many do not work (or at best, work, but have glitches, missing data, or poor performance).

[@piensluc7444]

@@Tamarocker88- Is it normal that if you write the image of a 128g gb it will be 20 hours to clone it when you write it on a new sd card ?

[@peeledd]

What if the original sd card doesn't work

[@nheald0724]

install a fresh one...

[@michellealejandrogutierrez6996]

THE DISC IMAGE FILE APPEARS ONLY AS "FILE" AND DONT APPEAR IN THE DISKIMAGER

[@tinboxesruleok5878]

you need the img extension on the end...Example YOURBACKUP.img

[@tinboxesruleok5878]

Even with a file with no extension, just ad d the .img on the end of it.

[@Avalon1489]

When clonning to a bigger sd card which drive do I extend.

[@luciferfoxxx8217]

did this and now my 128gb sd has 61.4gb that is usless

[@yasinberberoglu7367]

New sd card exFAT ? Or fat32 ?

[@nonamemoin9312]

@nheald0724 ? have the same question

[@brod8015]

Anywhere I can just buy a better sd card already loaded with it. I don't own a computer.