I'm having the same issue and have tried everything including renaming the HDD folder to G:\Wii Games\wbfs and then folder for each game and wbfs file in each folder, however wii is still not recognizing the game file
@K3Nv2 He was looking into consoles for his house anyway (for my younger siblings and himself) and I had a spare XSX and Switch I ended up selling him at pretty steep cuts. I would just give them to him, but I did buy them with the intent to sell them... and college is super expensive.