Hey d0k3,
I've been stuck in a rut for a little while now, but once I found this thread you solved a lot of my questions.
I have an old 3dsxl on 4.2. I downgraded before using the Gateway thing on my ds flashcart and using the sd card. That was before the best option was to be on 9.2 and I had stopped halfway through before. Basically where I'm at is getting the fragmentation error on the Health&Safety Dump. I saw the comment about dumping the CTRNAND.bin that sounds like it would solve my issue.
Right now I'm stuck at the defrag and chkdsk part on my CTRNAND.bin. I mount the drive with these settings:
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Then I analyzed and defragged it with Defraggler with 0% fragmentation after:
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You also said to run a chkdsk on the drive to be safe. I ran chkdsk in administrator mode and got this:
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I'm confused if its dangerous to run the chkdsk f: /F to fix the issues and then "convert the lost chains to files".(I'm not sure what the lost chain thing means)
If the defrag worked correctly shouldn't chkdsk say no errors? Have you run into this before?
Hopefully you have any info that could help me here. I'm wondering if fixing the issues with chkdsk and converting the lost chains to files would be a fine CTRNAND.bin that I could inject without bricking.
Thanks for taking your time to read all this, it would mean a ton to get this project finished!