Hacking is it safe to reset a modded wii back to factory setting?

[blueagent004]

today i bought a used wii to play with my friend. this is the first time i've purchased the Wii
the previous owner had installed homebrew channel + GX USB loader on it
but he has removed the SD card prior to selling the console to me
so now the main Wii menu is just a plethora of useless shourtcuts to his old homebrews
the wii console is currently on firmware 4.3E, and seems to be a launch model RVL-001
i have no idea if it has been mod-chipped or not.

in any case, i wish to reset the wii console back to factory setting, then do a fresh reinstall of letterbomb & Homebrew channel so i can put Nintendont on it.

do you think there's a risk of bricking the console if i factory reset it?

or should i just leave things as it is? (i've never owned a wii before so i just want to be on the safe side)

thanks so much for your help!

UPDATE:
I ran SysCheck on my console, then loaded the SysCheck file into ModWii, everything goes well until the program freezes while it was grabbing all the updates for me. i tried over and over with ModWii but it always freezes at "0000005 wrote at 87616", it might be an issue with my computer since i'm using WindowsXP. anways the SysCheck results are as follows:

Spoiler: SysCheck Results:

SysCheck v2.3.2 HacksDen Edition by JoostinOnline, Double_A, R2-D2199, and Nano
...runs on vIOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)

Drive date: 02.13.2007
Homebrew Channel 1.1.2 running on IOS58

Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 72906558
Console Type: Wii
Shop Channel Country: United Kingdom (110)
Boot2 v4
Found 67 titles.
Found 46 IOS on this console. 14 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 3072): Stub
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 5888): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 6400): Stub
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS62 (rev 6430): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6912): Stub
IOS80 (rev 6944): No Patches
IOS222 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS223 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS249[56] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta53-alt): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 65535, Info: d2x-v10beta52): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10
Report generated on 08/25/2018.

 

[Ryccardo]

You can factory reset a Wii just fine: the "exception" is if it has preloader/priiloader installed, in which case the actual Wii Menu will be removed (but you can always go directly from those homebrews to a wad manager, and reinstall a known compatible Wii Menu [and a known working matched IOS for it])

In any case you don't gain much, simply removing the channels you don't care about (and reinstalling CIOS 249 using d2x V8 or V10-52) will get you a console pretty much equivalent to a brand new and softmodded-in-the-last-2-years one; then just put the homebrews you want on it

 

[blueagent004]

thanks for the advice! i'm not really sure if it has prilloader installed or not, so i think i'll just leave the console as it is now.

i managed to remove non-functional channels like you suggested.

earlier i was under the impression that i would need to re-create/re-make the contents of the previous owner's original SD-CARD in order for the homebrew channel to function properly, but it seems like that wasn't necessary afterall. i simply putted my homebrews on a blank SD card and the homebrew channel was able to read it just fine. everything is working great now.

thanks for your help!

 

[Ryab]

thanks for the advice! i'm not really sure if it has prilloader installed or not, so i think i'll just leave the console as it is now.

i managed to remove non-functional channels like you suggested.

earlier i was under the impression that i would need to re-create/re-make the contents of the previous owner's original SD-CARD in order for the homebrew channel to function properly, but it seems like that wasn't necessary afterall. i simply putted my homebrews on a blank SD card and the homebrew channel was able to read it just fine. everything is working great now.

thanks for your help!

you can check for priloaderby holding RESET on boot if a menu pops up then you have it

 

[Ryccardo]

earlier i was under the impression that i would need to re-create/re-make the contents of the previous owner's original SD-CARD in order for the homebrew channel to function properly, but it seems like that wasn't necessary afterall

The only thing required by the HBC is any number of homebrews, each with the appropriate filenames in a subfolder of /apps/ on the SD (or USB, or an SD Gecko)

(Strictly speaking, you can run the HBC just fine without any storage device containing homebrews, or any storage device at all... )

 

[blueagent004]

you can check for priloaderby holding RESET on boot if a menu pops up then you have it

i checked it just now and it looks like there's no priloader on the console.

The only thing required by the HBC is any number of homebrews, each with the appropriate filenames in a subfolder of /apps/ on the SD (or USB, or an SD Gecko)

thank goodness! i almost went mad trying to re-create the previous owner's original sd-card, i'm so glad i don't have to do it anymore!

thanks again for all your help everyone!