Hacking MS-DOS (FAT) External Hardrive recognised in wiiflow but not showing on Mac or PC

[AussieGuy22]

Hi guys,

I can't view any of my wii games or add any new games through the WiiJmanager or WBFS manager because the drive is not showing up on the Mac or PC but on the mac, i can see it in the disk utilities even though the drive is not recognised.

I want to know if there is a way to convert the drive to another format without losing any of the games. Is there a way to save the games some other way.

Thanks

 

[GreyWolf]

What does Disc Utility say the partition type and file system are?

 

[AussieGuy22]

I attached two screenshots from Disk Utility.

 

[Ryccardo]

Apparently the disk had a GPT partition table, which was converted to MBR the wrong way (by just deleting the GPT protective partition and adding new ones, without erasing the GPT data found shortly after it AND at the end of the disk)

You could try installing the command-line gdisk (gptfdisk); it has features to erase the GPT data (forcing fallback to MBR) or to scan the MBR and list any partitions in the GPT too (risky - the first copy of the GPT may occupy the same sectors as your data partition); in any case, run "sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk2" first and read carefully the output (and/or send it here) before taking action

 

[AussieGuy22]

Apparently the disk had a GPT partition table, which was converted to MBR the wrong way (by just deleting the GPT protective partition and adding new ones, without erasing the GPT data found shortly after it AND at the end of the disk)

You could try installing the command-line gdisk (gptfdisk); it has features to erase the GPT data (forcing fallback to MBR) or to scan the MBR and list any partitions in the GPT too (risky - the first copy of the GPT may occupy the same sectors as your data partition); in any case, run "sudo gdisk /dev/rdisk2" first and read carefully the output (and/or send it here) before taking action

Thanks for your detailed response! as I'm not an expert, is there any video tutorial showing me how to do this? I have some ideas, i think i can do this through terminal on a mac but maybe i'd have more luck on a pc?

 

[Ryccardo]

Thanks for your detailed response! as I'm not an expert, is there any video tutorial showing me how to do this? I have some ideas, i think i can do this through terminal on a mac but maybe i'd have more luck on a pc?

Any OS (with a port of gdisk) is fine, provided you're decently familiar with how raw disk devices are named and how to operate a command line program

http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/wipegpt.html better than any video that takes 10 minutes (plus ads) to parrot some text
Search for "you can continue investigating with gdisk" and do that test (which is just the command I've told you in the previous post)