Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

[LucasAraujo]

Thanks for the help PsyBlade and FIX94. The HDD is not even recognized by the diskmgmt.msc, but once it showed up. There's no problem in formatting it, it has no data. If I could just format it it would be great. Never tried wwt.

 

[PsyBlade]

if it does not even show up in diskmanagement the porblem lies deeper than the filesystem
wbfs or whatever is on there does not play a role in detecting the disk
wwt will not help for the moment

probably some hardware defect (unlikely caused by the outage, but possible if there was a spike before)

first try other usb ports
another usb cable is found easy too
then check wether the hdd shows up (diskman.) on another pc

 

[LucasAraujo]

Nevermind, it was recognized (the HDD, not the partition. It showed up a drive partiotion from WD, so it is working). Tried to check by Wii Backup Fusion, but no results. Any other choice ?

 

[PsyBlade]

if there is no data on it there is no point in trying to rescue the partition (or the filesystem it contains)
simply create a new partition (diskman.) and format it to fat32 (win XP+ need a tool to format it, search eg fat32 formarter)

 

[LucasAraujo]

Yeah, erased the partition and created another one. Windows 7 assigned it a letter, but is in RAW format. How can I convert it to FAT32 ?

 

[person66]

Either use the formatter built in to windows (my computer -> right click drive -> format) or use >>this

 

[LucasAraujo]

Neither worked. The GUI showed (GetErrorLast=()2)... Any other options ?

 

[PsyBlade]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+fat32+format

 

[X_TIGERPOWER_X]

Sorry if I'm asking a stupid question, I'm new with this. I've installed cfg usb loader v70 on my wii and I'm running cios 249. When i insert a game and I want to install it to my Western Digital My Passport Essential 320 gb usb 2.0, after a while it hangs. Some games hang at about 3 to 5 % of installation, other games hang after 50 % of installation. The percentage is the same per game every time I try. All the other functions of cfg usb loader work perfect, but the install function doesn't seem to work for me. I've downloaded some iso files from the net and I want to do something back by sharing my games so I'm eager to learn what I'm doing wrong. Can someone help me with this?

 

[Sacred Nym]

Is there some reason why a wbfs file would just up and quit working? I have a fat32 USB HDD and I've had problems with Brawl suddenly not working and I have to re-rip it. Funny thing is I don't think this is the HDD failing since it's ALWAYS Brawl that stops working, never any other game. Anyone know what could be causing this?

 

[PsyBlade]

Both of you should scan the hdd filesystems for errors including bad sectors.

 

[Sacred Nym]

Both of you should scan the hdd filesystems for errors including bad sectors.

Chkdsk is not reporting any errors. :/

 

[PsyBlade]

Did you check for bad sectors too? (called surface scan in windows iirc)

After creation nothing should ever need to write to a wbfs file again. I have no clue where else this could come from.

Scan the bad file with wit to get an idea of what exactly the symtoms are.

And try removing SSBB, adding other games with an total size bigger SSBB, adding SSBB.
Check which of the added games gets corrupted.

 

[Sacred Nym]

I don't have enough undumped games to do that test unfortunately. How do I use WIT to do that? I've downloaded it but I'm not sure how to use it.

 

[DJPlace]

does anyone know each how many games can fit on each hard drive size?

 

[PsyBlade]

@Sacred Nym:
http://wit.wiimm.de/wit/cmd-verify.html

@DJPlace:
there are lists of the games sizes out there
you could look up your the games or at least calculate the average size
My games are 2.65GiB on avarage, so I guess about 3GiB is a save bet

 

[eldaddio]

Hi all,

Hopefully someone can help me with a small issue I'm having. I've currently got a 1tb HDD connected to my wii running fine with cfg usb loader. I'm giving this HDD away so I've copied the contents of my backup partition to a partition on another HDD. The new paritition in question was formatted as NTFS, but I reformatted to FAT32 with wii backup manager so as to match the source partition, then just copied the whole lot across.

The problem is that when I connect the new HDD to the wii and run cfgloader the wii just reboots. Am I likely to have missed something when I copied the stuff across? The new HDD has been used to run games from in the past, so there should be no compatibility issues there. Do I need to reformat the whole HDD again?

Hopefully someone can help. Many thanks in advance.

JT

 

[Luigi2012SM64DS]

try formatting as ntfs

 

[eldaddio]

I've tried that, still doesn't wanna play. Also tried copying everything onto the other partition as well, but no joy with that either.

 

[girugamarc]

My 5th gen iPod just died, now I need a new external HDD. Which one should I think about getting? I only need about 120-160ish gb