thanks for the replys guys, it seems it was my drive encloser that was screwing it up, so i got a new one and low and behold i was able to format it from the wii
my USBHDD has a power plug and a usb plug would that affect it at all? also is there any other loaders i can try to format it? i tried everything but it isnt being detected.
noob question here, but how do I get it to recognize my hard drive through USB, i pluged it in and it doesnt detect it. I formatted in windows first with the application and put my games on that i rip through the wii. It doesnt seem to recogize it.