Copying contents to new SD card

balenaEtcher
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I have a microSD card w/ Noobs for RPi4 that I want to transfer to another faster SD card. Is there an efficient way to do this using balenaEtcher?

regards,
Soujanna

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Hi Soujanna, welcome to the forums!

Currently, etcher can only flash images and not create them. You would need to either use another tool to create an image from the microSD, or download the image again.

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Thanks for the response; is there any tool that you would recommend to create an image from a microSD card?

regards,
Soujanna

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Hi soujanna

My first suggestion is to make a backup copy of the files you need from the old SD card, reinstall everything on the new SD card and copy those files back into the new one.

However, if you are up for something more low level and dangerous, and you are on linux or macOS, you can use command “dd” to dump the contents of the old SD card into a file, and then dump it back into the new SD card. See this message on stackoverflow https://askubuntu.com/a/631758. Be careful! dd is powerful AND dangerous.

Best regards

federico

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Many thanks Federico; will try this out

regards,
Soujanna