Good Tutorial For Moving to Larger microSD card?

[Agrajag]

I decided to go ahead and get a larger and faster microSD card for my Retropie setup. (pi4b)

Is there a good step-by-step tutorial around that explains how to move everything from the existing card to a larger card so that you can just do the job, plug the new card into the Pi and boot back up without losing anything?

Thanks!

[wmarcio]

@agrajag said in Good Tutorial For Moving to Large microSD card?:

I decided to go ahead and get a larger and faster microSD card for my Retropie setup. (pi4b)

Is there a good step-by-step tutorial around that explains how to move everything from the existing card to a larger card so that you can just do the job, plug the new card into the Pi and boot back up without losing anything?

Thanks!

Make an image of the old SD card and once ready, restore to the new SD. For this, use Win32disk image.

[muldjord]

@agrajag If you have two SD card readers on a separate Linux machine, you can use the ddcommand to do a 1 to 1 copy from the old to the new card. Then plug it into the RetroPie and boot it up. The Raspberry Pi menu or the RetroPie menu (I can't remember which one) has an option to resize the partition to take up the entire card. Then reboot and you should be up and running.

Alternatively, if you only have one card reader, you can do as @wmarcio suggests, and create an image of the card, and then put that on the new card afterwards.

Be careful with the dd command though, it is a powerful tool, and if you put in wrong if=DEV or of=DEV you can end up overwriting your main partition on your Linux machine.

[Agrajag]

@wmarcio Worked great. I had tried Aomei Partition Manager Pro, but it just couldn't make a bootable clone. Go figure. Win32imager did the trick.

I then just went into RASP Setup/Advanced Settings and expanded the file system. From 32GB to 256GB and twice the speed. Very likely major overkill, but it was cheap and will remove all concerns for the time being.