Hacking WD New Usb 3.0 Drive not working

martinezgene · Nov 14, 2010

Just bought a new Western Digital My Book Essentials 1TB and format 2 partitions 1st with fat32 with all usb loader gx files and 2nd formatted with Wbfs loaded 100 games on drive with no problem. When I tried to load on Wii that is running 4.2U rev20 everything works emulators and media files but it will not load usb

here is error I get
loader gx. init wbfs...-1000
you have isues with a slow disc, or a difficult disc
reloading 222...0
initialize sd card
load ehc module
deinit sd card
initialize wbfs...0
initialize sd card
initialize usb device
Then goes into screen awaiting for usb device to be connected.

I have tried on 3 different Wii's and get the same problem. I have the regular usb 2.0 that work with no problem on all
Wii's

AetherMaster · Nov 14, 2010

It could be because the Wii doesn't support USB 3.0 with its USB 2.0 ports.... Just a guess...

Clarky · Nov 14, 2010

shouldnt usb3 be backwards compatible but only run at usb2 speeds? i would rake it up to the incompatibility due to it being usb3 though

OrGoN3 · Nov 14, 2010

martinezgene said:
Just bought a new Western Digital My Book Essentials 1TB and format 2 partitions 1st with fat32 with all usb loader gx files and 2nd formatted with Wbfs loaded 100 games on drive with no problem. When I tried to load on Wii that is running 4.2U rev20 everything works emulators and media files but it will not load usb

here is error I get
loader gx. init wbfs...-1000
you have isues with a slow disc, or a difficult disc
reloading 222...0
initialize sd card
load ehc module
deinit sd card
initialize wbfs...0
initialize sd card
initialize usb device
Then goes into screen awaiting for usb device to be connected.

I have tried on 3 different Wii's and get the same problem. I have the regular usb 2.0 that work with no problem on all
Wii's

Do you have IOS58? If not, are you using the IOS58 builds?

Are your partitions both primary (NOT extended) with the FAT32 partition set to active?

Your issue is typical when your WBFS partition is a logical/extended partition, and not a primary partition.

smash_brew · Nov 14, 2010

These usb 3.0 drives are supposed to be compatible with the 2.0 ports. it's the standard size usb port and it has the four usb 2.0 contacts in the same location. from what i read they should be completely backward compatible.

martinezgene · Nov 14, 2010

update, I believe it has something to do with sleep mode. I was playing with the off button in back and got the usb loader games to load up. Once I shut system down it wouldn't start up again. I have 3 of the same drives here setup exactly the same but they are the 2.0 and work without any problems. The box states USB 2.0 compatible.

Jaz808 · Nov 14, 2010

New WD drives have a Virtual CD drive (vcd) that needs to be disabled, it cant be removed as stored along with the firmware, the other thing is new wd drives use's Advanced Format (afd)

I could never get Triiforce to see the Fat32 partition, bt USB loaders worked fine

martinezgene · Nov 14, 2010

This is drive me crazy. I have 1st partiton fat32 active and primary and 2nd format with wbfs 3.0. I don't see any virtual drive under format manager. Has anybody got one of there new usb 3.0 drives to work?

did a system check here is what is on 1 of my Wii's

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS36 (rev 65535).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.2U (v481)
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 74519515
Boot2 v4

Found 137 titles.
Found 47 IOS on this console. 4 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS12 (rev 269): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 273): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 520): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS20 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS21 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS22 (rev 1037): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS30 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS31 (rev 3349): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS36 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS38 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS40 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS41 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS43 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS45 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS46 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS48 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS50 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS53 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS55 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS56 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS57 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS58 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS60 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS80 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug
IOS202 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 4): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS249 (rev 20): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 31338): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v4

Report generated on 2008/08/17.

update: got it to working
Changed usb loader gx rev from 935 to 883

zorglub07 · Nov 28, 2010

I just got a WD mypassport USB3/USB2 and it won't work with 222.
My working setup for now is r20 249,57 globally and hermes v5.1 223,37 for some games.
For people who use a WBFS partition, the solution is to use an older revision of USB Loader GX (r938 doesn't work even using r249)
For people who use FAT32, the next official release of USB Loader GX will work with those drives for sure, at least using r249. For now the most adventurous can compile and use r1004 and it should work.

martinezgene · Dec 2, 2010

zorglub07 said:
I just got a WD mypassport USB3/USB2 and it won't work with 222.
My working setup for now is r20 249,57 globally and hermes v5.1 223,37 for some games.
For people who use a WBFS partition, the solution is to use an older revision of USB Loader GX (r938 doesn't work even using r249)
For people who use FAT32, the next official release of USB Loader GX will work with those drives for sure, at least using r249. For now the most adventurous can compile and use r1004 and it should work.

I have problems with hermes v5 so I am using hermes v4 and loading 222 with no problem . The newest rev for usb loader gx is r883. My only problem so far is getting the Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands to work because it requires rev935 or newer

duspelly · Dec 4, 2010

I have a WDBACY5000AWT (1 large WBFS partition), I can load my HDD with CFG Loader (updated to the latest beta version). I have Wii system menu 4.3E, yesterday installed Hermes IOS 5.1 (202, 222, 223 and 224) and Waninkoko CIOSX rev 20 (before that I had installed Hermes v4 and Waninkoko rev 19). I stil cannot run music games (like Band Hero). I tried a lot of USB loaders (uLoader, GX loader, WiiFlow, NeoGamma, etc) only CFG loader and NeoGamma can read my HDD, but cannot load music games (I tried loading with all available IOS). It looks like all IOS wont load my HDD. What can I do?

duspelly · Dec 5, 2010

UPDATE: I just tried Band Hero on a 8GB Kingston and load with IOS223 and it works... How can I get it work with the MyPassport Essentials?

Chud · Oct 22, 2011

Use wii-flow with 249! Works for me with WD My Passport Essential 2.0/3.0 compatible hdd!!!!!!!!
FINALLY!!!!!!1
:biggrin:

-Chud-

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