Ok, so I haven't used my Wii in a while, and I always wanted to upgrade it's 16GB card to a 32GB one.
So I got some good 32GB cards last Black Friday, and when I put the 16GB card in my PC to make a backup, it kept crashing and failing to read it, so I (stupidly) ran a chkdsk and it found a T.R. Tolken novel's length of errors, and it kept deleting supposedly inaccessible folders left and right.
I tried to copy what I could, but a lot of it was useless, and about all I recovered was my homebrew apps, which I don't care about since I can just re-download those from the homebrew channel anyway (plus I am pretty sure a lot of individual files on said apps got corrupted too anyway, so they would just crash if I tried to use them).
Unfortunately, the "private" folder was one of these corrupted folders. From what I understand, this is where the Wii places any official non-homebrewed data, right?
Thankfully, all of my savegames are on the Wii's internal memory (I think.... REALLY hope that didn't get corrupted), so at least my savegames are still there, but I had moved pretty much ALL of my both official and unofficial Wiiware to my SD card.
Is there any way to recover this? Or even tell what I had installed as WiiChannel/WiiWare data? Would I even be able to reinstall this without the app store?
Or perhaps, could there be any chance (highly highly doubt it, especially since I ran a chkdsk) to recover the SD card?
So I got some good 32GB cards last Black Friday, and when I put the 16GB card in my PC to make a backup, it kept crashing and failing to read it, so I (stupidly) ran a chkdsk and it found a T.R. Tolken novel's length of errors, and it kept deleting supposedly inaccessible folders left and right.
I tried to copy what I could, but a lot of it was useless, and about all I recovered was my homebrew apps, which I don't care about since I can just re-download those from the homebrew channel anyway (plus I am pretty sure a lot of individual files on said apps got corrupted too anyway, so they would just crash if I tried to use them).
Unfortunately, the "private" folder was one of these corrupted folders. From what I understand, this is where the Wii places any official non-homebrewed data, right?
Thankfully, all of my savegames are on the Wii's internal memory (I think.... REALLY hope that didn't get corrupted), so at least my savegames are still there, but I had moved pretty much ALL of my both official and unofficial Wiiware to my SD card.
Is there any way to recover this? Or even tell what I had installed as WiiChannel/WiiWare data? Would I even be able to reinstall this without the app store?
Or perhaps, could there be any chance (highly highly doubt it, especially since I ran a chkdsk) to recover the SD card?