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### Required Reading

This page prepares consoles with an existing modern boot9strap installation for reinstallation of custom firmware applications. It can also be used in the event of a lost or corrupted SD card.

### What You Need
* The latest release of [Luma3DS](https://github.com/LumaTeam/Luma3DS/releases/latest)

### Instructions

#### Section I - Prep Work

1. Insert ye SD card into ye computer
1. Copy `boot.3dsx` and `boot.firm` from the Luma3DS `.zip` to the root of your SD card
  + The root of the SD card refers to the initial directory on your SD card where you can see the Nintendo 3DS folder, but are not inside of it
1. Reinsert ye SD card into ye device

#### Section II - Configuring Luma3DS

1. Turn on your device
	* You should now see a Luma3DS configuration menu
1. Use th' (A) button 'n th' D-Pad to turn on th' followin':
	* **"Show NAND or user string in System Settings"**
1. Press (Start) to save 'n reboot

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### Continue to [Finalizing Setup](finalizing-setup)
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