tl;dr,
***BE CAREFUL IF YOU HAVE ColdBoot Haxchi installed!!***
Try formatting an empty second drive with your Wii U, and use the built in Copy functionality to migrate your correct pre-existing game + save data off of the failing drive.
It's not cheap, but it's better imo than recreating an entire setup.
Greetings all!
While this is an old thread, I've come to share my experience, as I recently experienced a very similar scenario and came to a far better solution than completely remaking my Wii U setup + using two different drives.
My setup was:
-8GB White Wii U
-Basic Haxchi w/Mocha CFW
-4GB SanDisk microSD w/adapter used for homebrew apps, Smash mods, etc.
-1 128GB SanDisk microSD w/adapter for game installs
-2 1TB Seagate External Hard Drives
Note: Like
@Fanjita, I originally used two drives, one for Wii U games and another for Wii/GC games using USB Loader GX.
Note Note: I duplicated this exact setup for my fathers + sisters Wii U's, both 32gb black.
After discovering Tecon Moons injector script I decided to pull as many titles as I could to a single drive. Prior to this, I had 200+ Wii U titles (meaning only installs created by Nintendo, be it Wii U, Wii, DS, etc) installed to my Wii U drive. These were done 2 years ago using Wup Installer Y Mod, and a few with the gx2 GUI version around the release of BoTW.
Anyway, excited to install GC games to the same drive, I used Wup Installer gx2 to install an injected Animal Crossing(GC). gx2 said "An error has occurred!" with no error code. Miffed, I tried Soul Calibur 2 instead. This one worked perfectly, and I enjoyed arcade on the gamepad for a few days.
However, after this install, I saw the exact same behavior everyone discusses here.
- SD Card formatting didn't help. --Nor did trying other SD cards
- Tried opening space on HDD in spite of it showing a huge amount of space (maybe it was a fake 1TB) but it didn't work too.
- Y Mod and GX2 versions of WUP Installer tried and failed (both stuck on 0%, Y mod returning to folder selection).
- Games can easily create content (saves) inside HDD, I can also copy installed games from Nand to HDD (so the problem is most likely not on the HDD).
- Reports here show re-formatting HDD didn't solve the issue. -- Did not try this one.
- Tried many types of games: Wii USB Helper packages and also manually injected packages for GC, both with the same results.
- Reports here show reinstalling all mods and Haxchi on Wii U solve the issue.
Importantly noted above, I could install games to NAND and copy to USB. But, these were potentially dirty inject titles. So these were under
no circumstances going straight to NAND.
I replicated this
exact same scenario on
the other two duplicate Wii U setups.
Frightened that I'd need to reinstall 200+ titles, and seeing no solutions aside from total setup recreation, I tried Y Mod. Y Mod did the same thing
BUT it gave me the error code 0xfffcffe5.
I found another thread that op
@bostonBC created for our same problem and immediately replied that he got around this by
copying all of his data from his install-failing drive to another drive using the Wii U copy functionality, and that installs then worked again on that drive.
This solution worked for all 3 of my Wii U setups. I backed up the data for each Wii U's Wii/GC drive, and then did a swap, reformatted the leftovers and used them for other shenanigans.
I agree with
@Fanjita :
My suspicion is that it has something to do with files left on the USB disk after a failed install attempt.
A failing install left corrupted data on the hard drive, invisible to the Wii U but fatal to the installers. Successful installs occurring on the drive containing
only data the Wii U Copy function can see and therefore copy corroborates this theory.
Off soapbox.
Thanks for reading this far!
I hope this helps someone!
All credit goes to
@bostonBC . He
saved my tail.
Cheers for first post on GBATemp ~