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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    thanks for the help guys but no go. I'm thinking the one of the partition maybe got locked with a wii U. It still works on my wii just can't connect with a PC, my pictures are gone (they were on the FAT32 side of the drive). Anyone ever stumbles along this thread and knows of a way to pull...
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    it see the drive, but ..."You cannot make changes to unknown boot sector type" auto
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    just being lazy here.. but what does that mean? Is there a way to turn it off (or on) on my drive?
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    Well lets say my son hooked it to his Wii U at some point and it did some kind of weird lock on it. do you have any insight to how that Wii U format lock thing works? Maybe he did a format on the FAT32 partition, and that locked the wbfs partition some how? I never really messed with the...
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    well either is showing as FAT32 in disk management and I honestly can't remember how I originally set it up lol is there anyway to use a wii app to pull the games off to another USB?
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    both drives show up when i plug the HDD in, but ask to be formatted so I ignore that obviously. both partitions show up as unallocated memory I have tried both wbfs manager and wii backup manager and both won't recognize either drive. I even tried running an win xp on a virtual machine with...
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    Hardware HDD still works on Wii, but can't connect to PC

    Hi Guys, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I have a 1TB HDD that I set up years ago with 1 WBFS partition and 1 FAT32 partition. I have a couple hundred games on the WBFS side and backed up pics on my FAT32 side Oddly enough the Wii will still read the games and play them...
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    awesome site!

    Can't wait to learn and hopefully contribute
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