Hi all I've got a big problem... I was running r1054 on my 4TB system (regular Wii, not a WiiU - v10 cIOS 56/249, 57/250, 58/251, single FAT32 partition) and don't know what happened but the drive got wiped on the Wii.
I have some emulator channels (NES, SNES, Sega etc) on it but they are set to load/save to the SD card and not the hard disk. Not sure what got run last, a Wii game or one of the emulator channels.
I had this happen once before where the 4TB drive got wiped and at the time I thought it was due to one of the emulators being configured to write save files/states to the hard disk instead of the SD card so I took extra care to make sure that all the emulators were configured to run from and save to the SD card.
I have backups so I didn't lose my 2000+ game collection but I don't want to have that happen again as it's going to take most of a day to recopy everything. I'm not sure what emulator did it or if WiiFlow messed up writing something. I've checked with a disc editor and it looks like sectors 1-2111 are zeroed and starting in sector 2112 it has some patterns but nothing resembling a directory.
Here's the first block (0):
I haven't deciphered disc structures for about 35 years now so if anyone has a clue as to what might have accidentally written to block 0 on the drive and wiped it I would be greatly appreciative so we can avoid it happening again.
I will hold the drive in it's current state and not reformat/copy in case anyone wants me to do more forensic analysis.
TIA!
I have some emulator channels (NES, SNES, Sega etc) on it but they are set to load/save to the SD card and not the hard disk. Not sure what got run last, a Wii game or one of the emulator channels.
I had this happen once before where the 4TB drive got wiped and at the time I thought it was due to one of the emulators being configured to write save files/states to the hard disk instead of the SD card so I took extra care to make sure that all the emulators were configured to run from and save to the SD card.
I have backups so I didn't lose my 2000+ game collection but I don't want to have that happen again as it's going to take most of a day to recopy everything. I'm not sure what emulator did it or if WiiFlow messed up writing something. I've checked with a disc editor and it looks like sectors 1-2111 are zeroed and starting in sector 2112 it has some patterns but nothing resembling a directory.
Here's the first block (0):
Code:
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6E 5A 5A EF 00 00 00 20 21 00 0C FE FF FF 00 08 00 00 00 08 38 3A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
I haven't deciphered disc structures for about 35 years now so if anyone has a clue as to what might have accidentally written to block 0 on the drive and wiped it I would be greatly appreciative so we can avoid it happening again.
I will hold the drive in it's current state and not reformat/copy in case anyone wants me to do more forensic analysis.
TIA!