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There are ways to move partitions, but it isn't a simple process and for unexperienced users more often than not ends with data loss and/or disk corruption. This is a good thing, because if it is not, then you can't extend partition. Normally, they have the main data partition, normally the largest and where all the ROMs would be, at the end of the end of the disk. However, a show stopper here is how they have the partitions on the card. It should be able to extend most of the common Linux partition types. I think the most common one is called 'Partition Magic' and I believe it is free.

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However, and this fairly common especially stock images, if they aren't using a format Windows understands, Disk Management would list them as 'Unknown', you gotta use another tool to do this. If they are using a disk partition type that Windows understands, so basically FAT32 or ExFAT, then you should just be able to use the Disk Management tool to expand it. You'll have to use another tool to extend the partition to fill the remaining space. So if you clone a 128 GB card onto a 512 GB card, you are still only gonna be at the 128 GB capacity, because that is what the partitions on the old card were and that info was all copied over exactly.

If the new card is bigger, you have one additional step after cloning. However, the new card needs to be AT LEAST the same size as the original or bigger. So unless the original SD Card craps out on you (which isn't as unlikely as you'd think with the crappy cards they use), you shouldn't lose anything.

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In general it is safe, these tools are doing a 1:1 copy of everything, and most even have a verification process to ensure nothing got corrupted in the process. I find just getting something that is rated for around 100 MB/s is generally good enough, and most devices don't even manage that fast anyways (I know the SD Card slot built into my laptop doesn't, although, funnily enough, that Anker adapter DOES). You don't really need to get one of their top of the line cards, as its doubtful the reader on it is even capable of the higher speeds, but the card should still work, just not at the card's advertised speed.

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Most MicroSD cards come with a full size adapter, so it shouldn't be a problem.Īs for what card to get? Just get a reputable brand, so like SanDisk or Samsung. I honestly wasn't expecting it to, but it does. However, since you'll have to buy one anyways, you can get this SD Card reader: has a full size and MicroSD slot, and I can confirm it DOES support both at the same time. For some reason, it can't just create an image of a card, which you could later write to another card. For whatever reason BlaenaEtcher is only able to clone from one card to another. If you wanted to use BalenaEtcher, yes you would need to have both the old and new SD Card available at the same time.

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