Hardware SD card problem

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

I have a SDHC Transcend 16 GB class 10 but the Wii U does not recognize it.
It's visible under Windows10/Linux and it is also formatted as FAT32.
Tried many times but no success to make it work under Wii U.

Any ideas ?

Garou · Feb 12, 2016

try opening your SD card on windows disk management and see how many partitions in there

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

It shows only 1 partition
Fat32 Healthy (Primary partition) 14,72 Gb

Garou · Feb 12, 2016

okay, try this

codychaosx said:
so somehow there was this random unallocated space of about 7mb so i wiped the whole drive with easus partition manager then formatted to fat 32 with 32kb clusters and then changed it from logical to primary and now it works. weird business.

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

So that partition manager thing is not free

makes me wonder if that really solved it ...

Garou · Feb 12, 2016

There is a free version at http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm but no idea of the limitations
but you can try the other solutions like check if it's currently a logical partition (check with windows disk management) or try reformat it using 32kb cluster (with this http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm)

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

Tried both of them ... not working . I guess will not work

Garou · Feb 12, 2016

okay so I'm out of ideas

maybe it's fake? you can check using h2testw

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

test results

Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 11.7 MByte/s
Reading speed: 30.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Frostbite189 · Feb 12, 2016

Try a program called: sd formatter

ryuuji89 · Feb 12, 2016

Tried that also ... formatted it using all the combinations possible ... still no sd card in Wii U.
Have a usb stick that works in Wii U but ... loadiine supports only sd cards.
Well I guess no backup games for me.

Frostbite189 · Feb 13, 2016

ryuuji89 said:
Tried that also ... formatted it using all the combinations possible ... still no sd card in Wii U.
Have a usb stick that works in Wii U but ... loadiine supports only sd cards.
Well I guess no backup games for me.

Have you tried doing all we told ya but on a different pc???

Maybe just maybe the sd is fine but your PC is not doing things well.

ryuuji89 · Feb 13, 2016

Have sd card reader only on one (the laptop), don't have card reader for the desktop computer.
I doubt that would make any difference.
Have another laptop without hdd but there is no software for linux so I can use live usb stick....

Witalka_Shelby · Feb 13, 2016

Ohh man this thread.. Helped me a Lot..
My wii u dont find any sd card.. The problem was the primary part..
Ps.. Use this tool.. Freeware..

ryuuji89 · Feb 13, 2016

What was the problem with the primary partition ?

Witalka_Shelby · Feb 14, 2016

When you format.. you can chose "primary or logical" .. By me was it from begining on logical.. After formating primary the wii u can read
My Sd Card Setup:
Name : U
Type : Primary
File Sys : Fat32
Cluster : 32kb

ryuuji89 · Feb 14, 2016

It does not work for me...

Hardware SD card problem

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