Hekate: Fatsfs error 13

Created on 7 Dec 2018 · 4Comments · Source: CTCaer/hekate

Hi. At first. Thanks for your work on hekate. My issue: i change my sd card to a samsung evo 256Gb U3. I format the sd card with different formatter into fat32. Copy my old files into it. When i start hekate 4.2 or 4.5 it shows an error message "...fatfs error 13...cant init sd card". I habe read about 1bit mode, but i think the card sticks correctly into slot. Do you have an idea?

Switch is in 5.1 and atmosphere 7.5. in card.

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Klauserus

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Hi
Great! It Works. Thanks man!
i had to do: (windows) cmd -> diskpart -> select disk -> clean -> with easeUS Partition (free) FAT32 new primary partition (MBR)

have a nice evening
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Klauserus on 7 Dec 2018

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If the problem is not the connector then it's the MBR.

I saw 2 persons having this problem.
And it was fixed by the following steps:
step 1: init the sd card (delete partition and wipe MBR)
step 2: create a new MBR (not GPT)
step 3: create a new primary partition.

The problem was that the MBR was missing some vital info that it was described as a MUST in the spec.
And FatFS requires that info to work.

CTCaer on 7 Dec 2018

Hi
Great! It Works. Thanks man!
i had to do: (windows) cmd -> diskpart -> select disk -> clean -> with easeUS Partition (free) FAT32 new primary partition (MBR)

have a nice evening
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Klauserus on 7 Dec 2018

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Adding additional information for indexing purposes. Finding this answer took me almost a day. When upgrading from a 128gb sandisk sd to a 256gb sandisk sd xc after attempting to boot ReiNX i got: "Failed to init sd card"

I can confirm that @Klauserus solution works.

CMD -> diskpart -> cleandisk

And then on EaseUS Partition Free -> Format FAT32 as Primary Partition.

Thanks a lot for the solution once again.