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    How do I copy an sd card with ROMS

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      Nicky
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      Hi guys,

      Recently I bought a arcade machine kit off eBay which included the raspberry pi, etc. and an sd card named 'boot'. Its 32gb and has retropie and all of the roms. When I go into minitool partition wizard I can see that there is 28gb of ROMs inside and the retropie software. But I want to move it onto a 64gb sd card for gaming. I tried to copy the disk onto mine but it didn't work. I suppose this guy had a big file and wrote it to the SD card, but how can I revert this and do it myself? Thanks!!!!

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        bobbycopter
        last edited by

        You can't access directly the roms from the sd card.

        https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Transferring-Roms

        You might want to go with SFTP or Samba share.

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        • MadRikXIVM
          MadRikXIV
          last edited by

          I'm guessing the real answer is ask 'The Guy'

          Selling a Raspberry with retropie pre loaded with roms is quite a no no.

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          • herb_fargusH
            herb_fargus administrators @Nicky
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            @Nicky ask the seller for support. Why you spent money on free software is beyond me. That seller is illegally selling our work not to mention copyrighted content

            If you want any help here, start from scratch with the official image.

            https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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