A Complete Guide to Recover 3DS SD Card Data

Part 1: What Is New 3DS SD Card?

The New 3DS SD card is a small, portable memory card used to store data on the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. It’s where all the games and its progress, downloaded demos and full games and other digital content like photos and videos are stored.

The New 3DS supports SD cards up to 2GB capacity. SDHC cards up to 32GB, and SDXC cards up to 2TB. However, it’s recommended to use a card size aligning with your needs. The larger card size may not offer a significant performance boost.

If you’re planning to use your phone’s SD card into your New 3DS, it’s important to format your SD card using the Nintendo recommended formatter. This will ensure the compatibility and prevent the data corruption chances. However, make sure to back up your data, as reformatting will erase everything and change the file system to Nintendo’s recommendation.

The New 3DS micro SD card is a tiny magical card, holding tons of information, but is also fragile enough to cause severe data loss. Since, the 3DS model doesn’t have it’s own storage space, a slightest problem can corrupt or damage your saved games and other digital content.

Here’s what can cause a new Nintendo 3DS SD card corruption on Nintendo:

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New 3DS SD Card data recovery is quite possible only if you’ve professional-graded tools. Rely on reputable data recovery tools that ensure smoother recovery or non-graded tools will overwrite the deleted files, leading to permanent data loss.

Part 2: How to Recover Videos from New 3DS SD Card

4DDiG Windows Data Recovery is a professional data recovery tool, powered with smart algorithms. It can retrieve accidentally deleted, lost, formatted, corrupted and damaged files from the SD card used. The advanced algorithms empower it to even retrieve the damaged files, and repair them automatically.

Whether you’ve lost the videos from the new 3DS SD card, games files/progress, or other digital content, you can recover it using 4DDiG Windows Data Recovery with just one-click process.

Key Features:

• Recover new 3DS SD card lost data such as photos, videos, games’ file/progress and more with just one-click.
• Recover accidentally deleted, lost damaged, corrupted and formatted files.
• Recover 2,000+ file formats from 2,000+ storage devices including SD card, Smart Media Card Reader, SDHC and SDXC cards.
• 99% success rate, even files deleted a long time ago or large files can be successfully recovered.
• Preview feature that allows you to view the files before you hit the Recover button.

Here’s how to recover videos from New 3DS SD Card:

• Install the 4DDiG, and connect your SD card to the computer. If it doesn’t detect the SD card, reconnect or click the Refresh option in the 4DDiG interface.

  

• When it shows your SD card, click on the “Scan” button, and choose the file type (photos, videos, documents and more).

  

• Once the scan process is completed, you can go through the files to preview them. Select the files you want to recover, and hit the Recover button.

  

Part 3: How Do You Upgrade New 3DS SD Card?

Since New 3DS doesn’t have its own onboard storage, it solely relies on SD card or micro SD card to store your files. However, with time your storage requirement may exceed, demanding you to use a SD card with larger capacity. If you're also wondering how to upgrade the storage option on the 3DS, the upgrade is quite simple and easy, but requires a few lengthy steps to take.

The 3DS model uses a specific file system, and your SD card shouldn’t be different, or it’ll cause data loss issues. This also becomes a big problem, when you don’t want to lose the data on the old SD card. However, the following steps will allow you to learn how to upgrade a New 3DS SD card without even losing the data on the old SD card. Let’s start.

• Connect your old SD card to the computer using a card reader, and copy its contents to the computer, which you'll transfer to the newer one later on.

• Connect the new one to the computer, and make sure to back up your data saved on it. It’ll be erased during the process.

• Visit this Site, and click on the image to download the exe file.

• Launch the downloaded program, and select the new nintendo 3ds sd card drive letter in the interface. Click on Start button, then click OK, and wait until its file system is changed to FAT32.

• Once done, transfer the old’s SD Card data to the new one. That’s it, when you’ll insert it in the Nintendo, your precious data will automatically show.

You can skip this process and directly transfer the files if your SD card’s format is already FAT32. You can check the SD card file system by navigating to the This PC > right click on new 3DS SD Card > Properties.

Part 4: FAQs

You can easily transfer the 3DS games from one SD Card to another using a computer. Connect the both SD cards to the computer and transfer the files you need to.

There can be various reasons why your 3DS isn’t detecting the SD Card. The major ones can be the incompatible File System, faulty insertion contacts, damaged chip, and incorrect card type.

If you’ve just bought the new 3DS Xl, and don't know where is the SD Card on New 3DS XL, remove the back panel using a small screwdriver to reveal the new 3DS SD card slot.

Final Words

New 3DS uses the memory cards to save the files that you need to access on it. Since it's a bit different to the phone, transferring the files from one SD card to another one or upgrading is a hassle. This guide discusses how to use the SmartMedia card reader, and how to recover the lost videos from New 3DS nintendo using 4DDiG Windows Data Recovery Pro with just a click.