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The problem is that the Wii U format is encrypted and the cIOS is expecting it to be unencrypted on the hard drive. I'm sure you could just overwrite a random part of the Wii U formatted drive with the unencrypted wii disk image but you would have to do it in such a way that the wii U wouldn't find out and since we can't read the encrypted contents of the drive we don't know if we're overwriting something important so the hard drive couldn't actually have any wiiu stuff on it. The wii U would have to think it's empty but formatted.Fix94 - I didn't see anything like this posted on the WiiU forums and was wondering if you might know if anyone is working on this or something similar...
As you know the WiiU takes over the entire USB drive with some unknown format when it starts up (if you accept the recommendation to format the drive). Instead of worrying about users accidentally formatting a FAT32 or NTFS volume loaded with old Wii games when they start their WiiU - could we do something like the old WBFS partitioning scheme and decipher how the WiiU stores files on that partition and then write a utility like the old WBFS Manager or the WiiBackupManager to maintain Wii game images on the drive?
I have WiiFlow and other homebrew running on the WiiU in emulation mode but I'm afraid one of my kids is going to accidentally format the drive when they turn the WiiU on.