How to transfer a smaller SD card/hard Drive to a bigger SD card/Hard Drive ?

[Boing-ball]

Hi,

Yes. WinUAE would be the better and faster method. Just get a SD Card reader (USB) type. Place the original SD card in and you can boot with that on WINUAE.
Then place the other SD card (32GB) in the SD card card reader.

The best practice would be.

1).. Get the 32GB card. Place in the card reader. Then using CMD command with Administrator rights type without the following without quotes “Diskpart” press return.

 2).. Then “ list disk” press return. Check on the list it sees the 32GB SD card. As the next bit will destroy data! So pick correctly or you may wipe the wrong disk!

3).. From the list use the command “select disk” so if your 32GB is showing as disk 3 you use the command “select disk 3”.

4).. Run “List disk” and check that an * is next to the correct disk.

5).. Now the dangerous part. Making sure you have selected the correct disk. Type “Clean”. This will wipe the contents of the disk selected. This should have been the 32GB SD card.

Now you can either place that SD card into your A1200 with a bootable 3.2 Install disk to use HDTOOLBOX to prep. Or WinUAE booting off the 8GB card and using HDTOOLBOX to prep and format the 32GB SD card.

[Boing-ball]

HDToolBox only prepares the new SD card so that the Amiga can see it. I.e setting up the partitions and setting the filesystem up and the boot side.

To get the stuff off the 8GB to the 32GB is basically just copying everything over from the 8GB to the 32GB SD card once you have setup the partitions on the 32GB card using HDTOOLBOX.

A good tool to install and use (If it’s not already on  This 8GB SD card) is DirectoryOPUS (Or known as DOPUS).

Aminet.net has all this free stuff to download and install…

[Boing-ball]

Stop thinking in PC mode. Yes you can’t just copy a Windows 10 or 11 files to a bigger drive.

In Amiga land. Dopus will copy everything. Thus your new Sd card (32GB) will work. Just make the necessary sized partition. Call the partition something like SDDH0. Format the new partition. If the original is called System. Then make the new one System1.
Use Dopus to select and copy all from System to System1. Once done rename the System1 partition to System. Remove old SD and replace with new. Job done.

[Boing-ball]

Stop thinking in PC mode. Yes you can’t just copy a Windows 10 or 11 files to a bigger drive.

In Amiga land. Dopus will copy everything. Thus your new Sd card (32GB) will work. Just make the necessary sized partition. Call the partition something like SDDH0. Format the new partition. If the original is called System. Then make the new one System1.
Use Dopus to select and copy all from System to System1. Once done rename the System1 partition to System. Remove old SD and replace with new. Job done.

This YouTube video may help you in the Diskpart and setting up partitions;

https://youtu.be/olRHScYz3KI?si=O4zj8e67DrAUQVLg

[Boing-ball]

3.1 has a 4GB limit. Use 3.2.

As Thomas a stipulated. The older Kickstart ROMs have an older version of something called scsi.device this can only allow for small partition sizes. From what you describe it won’t read the 32GB SD card? Therefore it would be better to use a higher ROM. But beware! What is the 8GB SD card you bought have in terms of workbench version? As the newer Kickstart ROMs had to remove (For space (512KB)) both the workbench.library and the icon.library. So if using a 3.2 ROM you need copies of those 2 libraries in the LIBS: folder.