Hacking Noob question- Duplicating wbfs files to a 2nd external hard drive for storage purpose only?

[peruvianman]

Good evening everyone,
I'm not a tech savvy person so please don't bash/hate me for this question....

I made backups of all my 45 original wii game discs (wbfs format) and placed them on my new formatted FAT32 1tb external hard drive.

I would like to make an extra copy of all these wbfs files on a secondary HDD which is NTFS format where I keep personal files, family pics & vids. This is for STORAGE PURPOSE ONLY (in case my fat32 hdd dies out).

Should I just connect both NTFS HDD and FAT32 HDD to my laptop, create a wbfs folder in my NTFS HDD and COPY/PASTE all my wbfs files to this folder?

Is it recommended to use my fat32 hdd for wii games ONLY or can use it to store/play music and movies on my sorround system/tv?

Thanks in advance for your advise

 

[Deletr753]

Good evening everyone,
I'm not a tech savvy person so please don't bash/hate me for this question....

I made backups of all my 45 original wii game discs (wbfs format) and placed them on my new formatted FAT32 1tb external hard drive.

I would like to make an extra copy of all these wbfs files on a secondary HDD which is NTFS format where I keep personal files, family pics & vids. This is for STORAGE PURPOSE ONLY (in case my fat32 hdd dies out).

Should I just connect both NTFS HDD and FAT32 HDD to my laptop, create a wbfs folder in my NTFS HDD and COPY/PASTE all my wbfs files to this folder?

Is it recommended to use my fat32 hdd for wii games ONLY or can use it to store/play music and movies on my sorround system/tv?

Thanks in advance for your advise

I believe FAT32 is for Gamecube games and WBFS format is for Wii games. Individual files on an FAT32 drive can’t be over 4 GB in size so for music you are ok but movies and tv, you will have some issues.

 

[Zonta85]

Should I just connect both NTFS HDD and FAT32 HDD to my laptop, create a wbfs folder in my NTFS HDD and COPY/PASTE all my wbfs files to this folder?

Is it recommended to use my fat32 hdd for wii games ONLY or can use it to store/play music and movies on my sorround system/tv?

Thanks in advance for your advise

Yes, you've just to copy and paste.

Yes you can use your fat32 hard drive for everything, i use itmfpr wii emulators and in the past, prior to the mkv for sroring movies that i used to see with wiith Wiimc, the Wii and his loaders (usb loader gx, nintendont) simply doesn't care of them.

 

[GreyWolf]

Just connect both drives and use Wii Backup Manager to copy them. It will handle splitting any files that need it.

 

[peruvianman]

Thank you everyone for your advise!