Image Sd Card Windows
How to Install Windows 10 Apps to an SD Card or USB Drive. Insert an SD card, USB drive, or other external storage device that will be your new default location for installed apps. Hey Rich, making an SD Card permanent storage on your windows computer will not make the local disk (C:) increase the size. But you have to point the file path to where you mounted the SD Card, if you put a file here the SD Card drive will be affected not the local disk.
Recover an SD Card
If you deleted photos from a SD card mistakenly, or formatted a card inadvertently, or some pictures on the SD card missed for any reasons, you may need to find a SD Card Recovery software to recover the lost files from the SD card.
CardRecovery software from WinRecovery Software is the leading SD Card Recovery software to recover deleted files from SD card, or files lost due to other reasons. Both Windows and Mac versions are available.
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Windows: https://www.cardrecovery.com
Mac: https://www.cardrescue.com
Other SD card recovery software includes Rescue Pro Software, PhotoRec Software …
Flash an SD Card
When you need to save a system to a Raspberry Pi SD card, or similar device, direct copy does not work. You need a tool to flash the operation system image file to an SD card.
balena Etcher is a software tool to flash OS images to SD cards and flash drives.
Etcher is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
Downloads: https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Format an SD Card
To use a new SD card in cameras, phones or other devices, it is better to format it first, otherwise, the SD card may be not supported by the new device, or it does not work in best performance. It is recommended to use the SD Memory Card Formatter to format SD Cards rather than using formatting tools provided with Windows or Mac OS.
SD Memory Card Formatter
Formatting is the process to create a new file system on the disk, memory card, or flash drives.
Common File Systems:
- NTFS: NTFS is the file system that Windows uses by default.
- HFS+: The Hierarchical File System is usually the mainfile system used by macOS.
- APFS: It is an Apple file system developed as a replacement for HFS+, with a focus on flash drives, SSDs, and encryption. It is used in the new iPhone OS.
- FAT32, exFAT: FAT32 and exFAT are the popular and standard file systems used by digital cameras and portable devices.
- EXT 2, 3, & 4: The extended file systems (EXT) are usually used by Linux.
Check an SD Card
H2Testw
There are fake SD cards in the market, e.g. you bought a 128 GB SD card but actually, it is a 16 GB Card with faked labels. If you use it in a digital camera, the card of course stores much less photos and videos, it may also cause data loss and your valuable photos may be lost. You may need a tool to test and detect fake or counterfeit SD cards, or perhaps you just want to test an older storage device for errors and problems. H2Testw is a freeware tool designed to test the card capacity, read/write speed of an SD card, or scan and check for errors.
H2Testw can be downloaded from
Clone an SD Card
Sometimes, you may need to make a extra copy of an SD Card for backup or other purpose. Win32 Disk Imager is a Windows tool for reading data from an SD card and writing to a image file, also, it can be used to write a image file to a SD card. You may first use it to create a image file from a “Master” SD card, then write the image back to a different SD card to complete the SD card clone.
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Important note: flashing, formatting or some SD card cloning and checking tool will wipe the data on the SD completely. So please use those tools carefully.
Dolphin can store data to a virtual SD card named sd.raw. By default, it will be created with the size of 128MB.
The virtual SD card has important use for homebrew apps on Dolphin. Project M and Mario Kart Wii custom tracks are two good examples, as some homebrew apps can only work using files stored on the SD card of the real hardware for which they were designed.
- 1Creating a Virtual SD Card
- 2Editing a Virtual SD Card
- 4Usage
Creating a Virtual SD Card
It is recommend to create one with size at least 1GB for large homebrew apps, for example, Project M, and no more than 2GB for best compatibility as there are compatibility issues with some homebrew apps trying to run under an SDHC card on the real hardware.
Command Line and Executable Files
Download Virtual SD Card Maker, unzip it, and open the appropriate folder for your system (Linux / OS X / Windows). The tool is run with a command like:
- Open the Command Prompt or Terminal then (Note: Vista fails to support drag and drop, and will require manual input.):
- Drag and drop mksdcard file into the command window for the full directory pointing to mkscard.
- Type 2048M for 2GB, or if desired, an alternate size like 512M (512MB), 1024M (1GB), etc.
- Drag and drop an existing sd.raw file into the command window, or use a different directory/filename to create a new one.
- Assuming a default Global User Directory the virtual SD card should be placed at:
- Linux: ~/.dolphin-emu/Wii/sd.raw OR ~/.local/share/dolphin-emu/Wii/sd.raw
- OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Dolphin/Wii/sd.raw
- Windows: '%userprofile%DocumentsDolphin EmulatorWiisd.raw' (quotation marks are necessary when copying it to Command Prompt)
Alternatively, a non-Mediafire download link can be found by visiting https://developer.android.com/studio/#command-tools and downloading the OS-specific zip there (mksdcard is part of the Android SDK)
Manual macOS Command Line Creation
This example creates a 2048 megabyte (2GB) SD card formatted as FAT32:
Manual Linux Command Line Creation
If the above tool does not work, one can manually create a FAT32 partition image in Linux provided dosfstools is installed.First, pull up a terminal, and then chdir into the Wii folder, which under certain configurations may be located at ~/.local/share/dolphin-emu/Wii instead.
Then, we must create our raw disk image. This example create a 2048 megabyte (2GB) SD card, but one can replace the 2048 with an alternate number of megabytes.
Finally, we format our image to FAT32.
Editing a Virtual SD Card
Linux
The virtual SD card can be edited by mounting it to a virtual disk. First create a directory:
Then mount sd.raw to it:
When you are done, simply unmount it like this:
macOS
In Terminal window, type the following to mount the virtual SD card:
The virtual SD card can then be ejected through Finder when done being edited.
If you get an error (hdiutil: attach failed - no mountable file systems), you can use these commands instead:
Windows
The Windows users must use a third party software that can mount the virtual SD card. Speaking of which... ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver
WinImage is unreliable, because oddly enough, it will cause desync and few other unforeseeable problems. ImDisk will be fine.
Quick guide for mounting and editing the virtual SD card with the ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver:
- Right-click on sd.raw file then click 'Mount as ImDisk Virtual Disk' from the context menu.
- Check box Removable media then hit 'OK'. The predefined drive letter and everything else will do just fine.
- The virtual SD card will now appear as 'Removable Disk' in which the native Explorer window can read and write in there.
- When done editing the virtual SD card, simply unmount it by right-click on the 'Removable Disk' then click 'Unmount ImDisk Virtual Disk' from the context menu.
- The virtual SD card must be dismounted before using with Dolphin.
Dolphin Setting
Go to Options > Configure... > Wii > and enable Insert SD Card.
Usage
With Homebrew App
The external files used for the homebrew app must be stored within sd.raw and the homebrew app itself (boot.elf or boot.dol) must exist outside of it for Dolphin to load. Project M, for example, will load from SD root projectm and Dolphin will need to launch Project M through appsprojectmboot.elf, NOT in the virtual SD card. For convenience's sake, it is ideal to have same copies paralleled between inside and outside of the virtual SD card.
Though, it is possible to start homebrew app from virtual SD card through homebrew exploits for Wii.
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The Wii game launcher app will only work if a particular Wii game is set as the default ISO. Within the Dolphin game list, open context menu (right-click) on any Wii game and click Set as default ISO. Do this before loading a homebrew app with Dolphin.
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For Netplay
Netplay will eventually desync if anything reads the virtual SD card that is not cloned, regardless of the same size it was created, and identical file/folder structures within its root. To prevent that, sd.raw must be copied from host's computer to joiners' computers before starting netplay. If the virtual SD card was used offline or online with write block disabled, the MD5 checksum will change ('Date Accessed' of the files are what's different in virtual SD card), but will not cause desync. The SD card got to be coming from elsewhere or subjected to the files modified within to be 'different'.
For the Wii game launcher app, users on both ends must have the same copies of homebrew app and the game in their game list first, then set the game as default ISO, as mentioned in previous section.