Hacking Running HBC/loaders without an SD card: is this possible?

[mark0217]

A friend of mine is getting errors while trying to run his USB Loader/Wiiflow (wiiflow won't even detect the attached HDD), however he says they worked fine a couple of days ago, supposedly he hasn't done anything to the Wii but I noticed he doesn't have an SD card on the Wii. Is this doable? Could the apps be installed on the Wii memory or the HDD itself?

Another question, how would I go about removing the hack from the Wii to return it to its "clean" state to do the process all over again, should my attempts at fixing it fail?

 

[Vanth88]

You can put apps on a HDD and load them from HBC. If that's what he did before then maybe the HDD screwed up somehow. It would also be wise to tell everyone which errors your friend is getting.

 

[mark0217]

USB Loader throws him:

Exception (DSI) occurred!
GPR00 00000000 GPR08 000000000 GPR16 000000000 GPR24 000000000

and a bunch of numbers after that. WiiFlow stays stuck in the "plug the HDD in the right USB" screen.

Is that of any help?

 

[ddetkowski]

you DO NOT want to clean anything, you'll only brick it.
Just re-hack it using ModMii, a PC app. click on my sig for the link.....
And as long as he has a homebrew channel, it can load apps from SD or USB. By default, it loads apps from SD, but in the HBC itself, push the "1" button, then choose USB.
Tada!!! it loads apps now from USB and not the SD

 

[mark0217]

Yeah, you're right. I'll prolly bug him to get a SD card nad get it over with. Thanks!

 

[tbgtbg]

USB Loader throws him:

Exception (DSI) occurred!
GPR00 00000000 GPR08 000000000 GPR16 000000000 GPR24 000000000

and a bunch of numbers after that. WiiFlow stays stuck in the "plug the HDD in the right USB" screen.

Is that of any help?

Well, did he make sure the HDD was plugged into the correct USB slot? A lot of stuff doesn't work right with the other USB slot. Nothing to do with not using an SD card.