What should I do to install exFAT driver without update firmwork now?

[Macarona]

My SX PRO (and SD card) was just delivered. Unfortunately, they just push the new firmware 6.2.0.
But I have not updated yet. My firmware is still
Is there any new method for me to install exFAT driver without updating? I saw a way in the forum but sadly I can't dump NAND now.
Or the best way is too wait for solution to support 6.2.0?

 

[bribri]

Look at this forums thread: https://team-xecuter.com/forums/threads/154987-How-to-Update-Firmware-on-a-Banned-Nintendo-Switch

It details how you can update the firmware on your switch using a homebrew app called ChoidujourNX, which allows you to install whichever firmware you like and decide whether it will include exFAT support.

Whatever you do, make a backup of your sysNAND before updating anything!!

You say in your post that you can't dump your NAND right now... any reason why not? That's always the first thing you should do before you do any kind of hackery on your Switch.

 

[Macarona]

I can't dump my NAND because I didn't installed(used) SX OS yet then I can't use homebrew. Since the manual said I have to insert SD card for booting...so...I don't know what to do now. My firmware is still on 6.1.0 and I don't know should I insert the SD card or not...

 

[imprezgc8]

You will need to get through the initial switch setup first I believe and create a local user on the switch. Do all of this without connecting to the internet. Don't even configure a wifi connection. Once you do that you can shutdown, then boot to SX bootloader and back your nand up. Since you are still using fat32 it will most likely take a while to back up. You could format as exfat I believe just to load the bootloader and back your nand up though. You would just need to go back to fat32 until you use ChoiDujourNX to update or add exfat support. I believe you can "update" to 6.1 with ChoiDujourNX and just select the exfat option. It will basically just add the files that are missing and keep the 6.1 firmware.

 

[TioBond]

[QUOTE = imprezgc8; 1074726] Você precisará passar pela configuração inicial do switch primeiro e criar um usuário local no switch. Faça tudo isso sem se conectar à internet. Nem configure uma conexão wifi. Depois de fazer isso, você pode desligar, depois inicializar o carregador de inicialização do SX e fazer o backup do seu nand. Como você ainda está usando o fat32, é bem provável que demore um pouco para fazer o backup. Você poderia formatar como exfat eu acredito apenas para carregar o bootloader e voltar o seu ne embora. Você só precisa voltar ao fat32 até usar o ChoiDujourNX para atualizar ou adicionar suporte exfat. Eu acredito que você pode "atualizar" para o 6.1 com ChoiDujourNX e apenas selecionar a opção exfat. Basicamente, basta adicionar os arquivos que estão faltando e manter o firmware 6.1. [/ QUOTE]

So can i dump the nand in a sd fat32?
Or can i create an emunand in a exFat SD to use ChoidujourNX whitout uptade the nand when insert the sd for the first time to add the exFat support?
Whatever i need dump the nand early, can i do this in a sd exfat whithout update to add the exfat support when insert my card?


(Really sorry for my bad english)

 

[HeitorSammael]

I have the exact same problem. i just got my swtich, i bought the sx pro and a sd card, by the time they arrived i upgraded my switch to 6.0.1, so i didnt really knew what to do, cauz the switch asks to update in order to format the sd card. Im going to try this fix. Hope it works

yay for brazil! é nois!!

 

[imprezgc8]

When you boot to the SX loader there is a NAND option. You can click there and then back up. You do not need to do anything with the switch fully booted to backup your NAND. Highly recommended to do that before doing anything else. To do this you can format your sd card exfat as SX bootloader can read it. Once you have a back up of your NAND put that on your computer and anywhere else that you can store data as backups. At this point you have some work to put in if you want to use exfat without updating through Nintendo. You can try formatting your SD back to fat32, creating an emunand, updating through Choi...NX, backing up the SD card, formatting it again as exfat and then copy your SD backup to the card again. Honestly not sure if that will work, but you can try. Otherwise it's probably easier to stay with fat32. You can split xci and nsp files I believe for them to work. Someone else can also chime in too. There may be easier ways. ALSO DO NOT UPGRADE TO 6.2.

 

[Hells_Child22]

Hi guys, I have a similar question.

I am helping my brother get on the SX scene, and he received his SX Pro at the weekend, the issue is that when he puts in the SD card the switch is saying it needs a system update in order to read the SD card - I have told him not to update as this will put him on 6.2 (he is currently on 5.0.1). He cant activate his license because the switch wont ready the SD card unless it does the update (chicken and egg sitch).
Can he use CHOI NX to update to say 6.1 and use the exFAT option through that? or will he need to activate his license first before being able to use Choi NX? Looking at the link supplied by brbri I think it would work as long as he could get into the Album without an activated license but because his SD card is in FAT32 I am not sure if he could even get into the Album? His computer couldn't read the SD card reader so we couldn't format the SD card to ExFAT last night but he will pick up a USB card reader tonight to see if that helps the SX bootloader read the SD card for now.

I got him to do a NAND backup last night and that was ok, so it looks like the switch can write to the SD card, but just not read it.

Do we need to format the SD card to ExFAT first before doing the CHOI NX 6.1 update or can we leave it in FAT32, and use the exFAT support option through ChoiDujou?

Many thanks.

 

[Nickoy]

Ok so i am in a similar situation and have been asking the same questions. I think i have an understanding of what i am going to do. I am on firmware 6.1.0. The switch will not be connected to WIFI.
For what its worth this is how i am going to go about getting set up.

1)My sd card has been formatted to fat32
2)Load sx os and then do a nand backup
3)Copy nand backup on to computer for safe keeping
4)Install ChoiDujou
5)Install 6.1.0 including exfat firmware
6)Format sd card to exfat
7)Take another nand backup (extra cautious measure)
7) Load games and enjoy

Hopefully this will work and can help you.
If i am wrong in this feel free to correct me if anyone knows better!

 

[Hells_Child22]

That actually makes it a little clearer for myself, thanks.

Based on what you are going to do you are gonna keep you SD card in FAT32 until you have completed the ChoiDujou FW update and then re format to exFAT which is what I was confused about so sounds like I need to follow the same approach.

When are you planning to do the update?

 

[Nickoy]

Currently awaiting the sx pro- Hopefully have it by the end of the week- but as soon as it arrives im on it!
Feel free to update me if you get this done first

 

[Hells_Child22]

Will do. My brother is quite keen to get all his games backup up on the SD card so it might be tonight.

Could all go horrible wrong...haha.

 

[Nickoy]

you ll be fine. From everything i have been reading (and i have read alot over the last couple of weeks) its fairly straight forward. Good Luck.

 

[Nickoy]

Did you manage to complete the process?
Hoping everythong went smooth for you.

 

[Hells_Child22]

UPDATE:

So we managed to get it all working last night and the process Nickoy laid down is spot on;

1)Format the SD card to Fat32 - windows will not be able to do this, you will need a 3rd party softwear (I used this http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm)
2)Load sx os and then do a nand backup - (very important if things go wrong!)(no need for an activated license at this stage)
3)Copy nand backup on to computer for safe keeping
4)Install ChoiDujou (Game_Over did a fantastic guide on this https://team-xecuter.com/forums/threads/154987-How-to-Update-Firmware-on-a-Banned-Nintendo-Switch) make sure you follow it precisely.
5)Install 6.1.0 (we were already on FW 6.1, we were just missing the SD "drivers" so you can overwrite 6.1 with ChoiDujou 6.1) including exFAT firmware (important you select the exFAT option on ChoiDujou)
6)Format sd card back to exFAT (FAT32 doesn't support large file transfers, you can use standard windows format options to format to exFAT)
7) Copy all of your folders, boot files and licenses back over to the SD card
8) Load games and enjoy

Things to note;
Keep aeroplane mode on - no need to connect to wifi.
Make sure you have the "Nintendo" folder on the root of the SD card.
We activated the license through the TX website and just copied over the license.dat file once the SD card was formatted back to exFAT.

Overall it was a fairly smooth process. big thanks to all the guides and tutorials that have been made to make this process very simple and easy to do.

 

[Nickoy]

Great news. Thanks for confirming all of the above. i am still waiting for my sx pro. Its like waiting for xmas (when i was a kid)

 

[Hells_Child22]

No worries. Yes I was buzzing when I got my SX pro, its a pity there are no UK sellers as I had to get mine from Cyrus which took nearly 3 weeks to get to me.

 

[xs4all]

For those who wish to have Emunand along side your unmodified OFW, I can confirm the following works.

I got my SX PRO on the 2nd round of shipments back in the day and I just recently got myself a Switch, normally I'm a day one purchase for new consoles, but I held out for the Switch.

Setup:
Switch on OFW 6.0.1 (with NO exFAT support)
128GB SD CARD
SX Pro

I searched all over and nothing I read gave me the answer I wanted, just snippets, so I gathered all the info I found and tried to piece everything together.

So basically I want to use my OFW for legit cart games and play online, and have Emunand for my dirty stuff. My main goal was to have my OFW as is (untouched with exFAT support) and want to setup and use Emunand for backups/homebrew/etc.
I was meaning to upgrade my OFW to 6.1.0 with exFAT support but I was too late when FW 6.2.0 dropped.

What these steps will get you is, you get to keep your OFW as is so you can play legit carts and go online without Ban (not confirmed as nothing is 100% safe) and your Emunand to FW 6.1.0 with exFAT support and staying OFFLINE.

1 - To start off with a clean slate, factory reset your Switch and go through and setup your Switch to the point where you are at the Switch's homes screen.
2 - Turn off Switch
3 - Format your SD CARD to FAT32, I recommend you get a minimum of 64GB, I'm using 128GB.
4 - Setup your SD CARD for booting into SX OS.
5 - Either use the built in SX OS's NAND backup or use other alternatives to backup your NAND, either way, it's going to take some time to make a backup. DONT SKIP THIS STEP.
6 - Once NAND backup has been completed, transfer you NAND backup to somewhere safe, delete the NAND backup on the SD CARD to free up space.
7 - Grab a copy of ChoiDujourNX and put it on the root of your SD CARD, we will need this later.
8 - Grab a copy of the OFW 6.1.0 and place the files in a folder on the SD CARD.
9 - Boot back into SX OS and create a EMUNAND, this will take a while.
10 - Once completed, boot into the Emunand, launch the Photo Album to confirm it's the Emunand by looking at the SX logo, it should say Emunand.
11 - From here, launch ChoiDujourNX.
12 - Navigate to the OFW 6.1.0 firmware and install, make sure you select exFAT.
13 - Now this is the part that got me confused the most, ChoiDujourNX will enabled AUTORCM but default. I could not find the answer to: Is AUTORCM required for Emunand to prevent burning an eFuse? The answer is NO, AUTORCM is NOT required, I'll explain later in my post.
14 - Once you updated the Emunand FW to 6.1.0, choose to shutdown the switch.
15 - Backup your SD CARD to your computer.
16 - Format your SD CARD to exFAT.
17 - Copy the SD CARD files back to your SD CARD.
18 - Put SD CARD back into your Switch.
19 - Boot into Emunand via the SX OS boot menu.
20 - Go to the Photo Album to make sure your in Emunand.
21 - Exit out of this menu and go to the settings menu and check your FW, if you done everything correctly, it should show FW 6.1.0.
22 - Congrats, your Emunand is now on 6.1.0 with exFAT support and also have your unmodified OFW.

Stay safe by staying OFFLINE in Emunand, of course nothing is 100% safe but by staying offline is the next best thing.

Now regarding ChoiDujourNX, do you require AUTORCM so you don't burn a efuse in Enumand?
From my personal experience, this DOES NOT apply to Emunand because the OFW doesn't know anything about your Emunand and what you've been up to.
As a test, I don't have AUTORCM enabled, I have booted into my OFW with and without my SD CARD a few times, and checked my FUSE and the count IS still 7, which is correct for 6.x.x FW.
I'm using the RCM Jig that came with the SX PRO package.
ADDED NOTES:
Regarding the above statement, after some investigation, if you read information about the Switch's FUSES HERE (Scroll down to the bottom of the page). I'm pretty sure the reason my FUSE count is STILL 7 is because, from what I can understand from the link provided, if your on FW 6.0.0, any FW upgrade within 6.0.0 and 6.1.0 doesn't burn a fuse, so that would explain why I'm on still 7 and not 8, so it could very well be that I should be ok with my OFW on 6.0.1 and don't have to worry about burning a fuse.

Not confirmed is, will you be banned if you use OFW to play legit carts and go online? I've very interested to find out, but not until FW 6.2.0 has been sorted out.
Now comes the decision, when FW 6.2.0 is all working with CFW/Emunand, do I use ChoiDujourNX to update and keep by eFuse intact in case I want to downgrade later. But in doing this you need AUTORCM enabled so you don't burn a eFuse.
I'm a bit on the fence with AUTORCM as could this be one of the triggers for a ban?

Hope this info helps out for those want to know or are in the same boat as me.

 

[slamride]

The only thing I would add is "Formatting the sd card in the switch with original firmware will format card to fat32 or exfat if supported for you. This removes any doubt the format will not be read by switch. Learned this trick years ago and helps eliminate format issues."

For those who wish to have Emunand along side your unmodified OFW, I can confirm the following works.

I got my SX PRO on the 2nd round of shipments back in the day and I just recently got myself a Switch, normally I'm a day one purchase for new consoles, but I held out for the Switch.

Setup:
Switch on OFW 6.0.1 (with NO exFAT support)
128GB SD CARD
SX Pro

I searched all over and nothing I read gave me the answer I wanted, just snippets, so I gathered all the info I found and tried to piece everything together.

So basically I want to use my OFW for legit cart games and play online, and have Emunand for my dirty stuff. My main goal was to have my OFW as is (untouched with exFAT support) and want to setup and use Emunand for backups/homebrew/etc.
I was meaning to upgrade my OFW to 6.1.0 with exFAT support but I was too late when FW 6.2.0 dropped.

What these steps will get you is, you get to keep your OFW as is so you can play legit carts and go online without Ban (not confirmed as nothing is 100% safe) and your Emunand to FW 6.1.0 with exFAT support and staying OFFLINE.

1 - To start off with a clean slate, factory reset your Switch and go through and setup your Switch to the point where you are at the Switch's homes screen.
2 - Turn off Switch
3 - Format your SD CARD to FAT32, I recommend you get a minimum of 64GB, I'm using 128GB.
4 - Setup your SD CARD for booting into SX OS.
5 - Either use the built in SX OS's NAND backup or use other alternatives to backup your NAND, either way, it's going to take some time to make a backup. DONT SKIP THIS STEP.
6 - Once NAND backup has been completed, transfer you NAND backup to somewhere safe, delete the NAND backup on the SD CARD to free up space.
7 - Grab a copy of ChoiDujourNX and put it on the root of your SD CARD, we will need this later.
8 - Grab a copy of the OFW 6.1.0 and place the files in a folder on the SD CARD.
9 - Boot back into SX OS and create a EMUNAND, this will take a while.
10 - Once completed, boot into the Emunand, launch the Photo Album to confirm it's the Emunand by looking at the SX logo, it should say Emunand.
11 - From here, launch ChoiDujourNX.
12 - Navigate to the OFW 6.1.0 firmware and install, make sure you select exFAT.
13 - Now this is the part that got me confused the most, ChoiDujourNX will enabled AUTORCM but default. I could not find the answer to: Is AUTORCM required for Emunand to prevent burning an eFuse? The answer is NO, AUTORCM is NOT required, I'll explain later in my post.
14 - Once you updated the Emunand FW to 6.1.0, choose to shutdown the switch.
15 - Backup your SD CARD to your computer.
16 - Format your SD CARD to exFAT.
17 - Copy the SD CARD files back to your SD CARD.
18 - Put SD CARD back into your Switch.
19 - Boot into Emunand via the SX OS boot menu.
20 - Go to the Photo Album to make sure your in Emunand.
21 - Exit out of this menu and go to the settings menu and check your FW, if you done everything correctly, it should show FW 6.1.0.
22 - Congrats, your Emunand is now on 6.1.0 with exFAT support and also have your unmodified OFW.

Stay safe by staying OFFLINE in Emunand, of course nothing is 100% safe but by staying offline is the next best thing.

Now regarding ChoiDujourNX, do you require AUTORCM so you don't burn a efuse in Enumand?
From my personal experience, this DOES NOT apply to Emunand because the OFW doesn't know anything about your Emunand and what you've been up to.
As a test, I don't have AUTORCM enabled, I have booted into my OFW with and without my SD CARD a few times, and checked my FUSE and the count IS still 7, which is correct for 6.x.x FW.
I'm using the RCM Jig that came with the SX PRO package.

Not confirmed is, will you be banned if you use OFW to play legit carts and go online? I've very interested to find out, but not until FW 6.2.0 has been sorted out.
Now comes the decision, when FW 6.2.0 is all working with CFW/Emunand, do I use ChoiDujourNX to update and keep by eFuse intact in case I want to downgrade later. But in doing this you need AUTORCM enabled so you don't burn a eFuse.
I'm a bit on the fence with AUTORCM as could this be one of the triggers for a ban?

Hope this info helps out for those want to know or are in the same boat as me.

 

[Nickoy]

If i am leaving the switch offline at the moment do i really need to do the whole emunand thing. I dont have any legit carts to play currently?