How To Upgrade Your Nintendo Switch SD Card

How To Upgrade Your Nintendo Switch SD Card

A step by step guide on how to upgrade your Nintendo Switch storage without losing any data! If you currently have a low capacity microSD card for your Nintendo Switch, you may want to upgrade it to a bigger capacity. Storage for the Nintendo Switch is how you'll store your digitally downloaded games from the Nintendo eShop so you may want to consider upgrading your SD card. With this guide we show you exactly how to do it!

So, you've seen our "What SD Card To Buy" video and now you want to know how to upgrade it! Stick around as in this video we go through each step on how to format, swap and transfer all of your data without losing anything, whilst upgrading your Nintendo Switch storage!

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[davidvazquez]

Thanks for making this video. I got Tears of the Kingdom today and forgot that I'm out of space on my SD card. This helped a ton. Happy playing to all my fellow Zelda fans out there on this 5/12/23! The past 2 years since the initial announcement felt like an eternity and it's awesome to see today finally come

[jackfatal]

thanks for this simple and informative video. you solved my lack of knowledge on how to upgrade my switch memory.

[AmandaWspoon]

I prefer physical games but I have still almost maxed my current card, 128gb I think, so Im looking to upgrade to 512gb soon. This is a relief to not have re-download everything.

[JamSamJackx]

Just did this today with new pny 256gig micro and worked like a charm. Thank you for the video!

[chrisumali]

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

[TomWoop]

Wow that's so unbelievably simple, thanks for the info!

[blitzar]

Just ordered myself a TOTK Edition Switch OLED and was wondering how you do this, turns out it was just as easy, if not easier, than I thought it was gonna be, cheers for the tutorial!

[CATLOAFMAN]

Thanks for the guide gonna follow this carefully once I get my card soon

[tsquares]

Thank you for this. Can you still use your old micro sd card on a second switch with all the same files on it as long as the nintendo user id are linked and play the same digital games off that?

[AlGggeee]

So there's no need to re-download 200gb of games anymore!! Yes!!

[TheShin]

Thank you! My SD Card is completely ful and I need more space for the new Zelda game coming in two weeks. But I still have one question: for the 1st step: do you have to shut down the Switch completely?

[aroh]

So this method worked flawlessly for me the first time I upgraded from a 256 to a 512. However my second time I tried to do this from 512 to 1TB I did it on a Macbook Pro, and the Switch would always say either it couldn't read the Micro SD or that it was corrupted. I re-tried formatting and copy pasting the folder about 4 times before I decided to try on a Windows 10 PC. NOW, it actually worked via doing it from a Windows 10 PC HOWEVER the switch would NOT READ ANY OF MY PICTURES OF VIDEOS. So I re-tried the method over and over and still the same result. So I tried deleting the Album folder from the microSD card and then copy pasting the Album folder from my PC and that actually worked...for some reason.

Hope this helps someone with this issue.

[chewwacaful]

Great tutorial! worked for me, can i use my old sd card for another switch?

[IGenuinelyDunno]

Tysm man you earned a sub this helped so much

[RoyB]

thx for the info. il go save this video for later if i get the 1TB (1000GB) SD card for my birthday.

[nacionnyc]

Nice video. Question. How can I format a new micro sd into 2? Half for sysnand and the other for emmc? Both same amount of memory

[deli]

Maybe the most straight forward video on YouTube

[glitchy_catt]

What do we do about the folders we put on our desktops for copying it to the sd card? Do we delete them once we transfer everything over since we still have the data from the first sd card?

[porgius]

I dont have a laptop or pc can i just re download everything that i had on my ild se card or will the data corrupt?

[satevo]

How much space do you need on your computer to do this on say, 64gb card? Cuz my computer doesn't seem to have enough space even though I have over 64gb free....