WUP Installer GX2 is in serious need of an update. CONSTANT failure to install games

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OK, I'm getting a bit infuriated with this so bear with me.

I've been installing several GC/Wii games using UWUVCI and WUP Installer GX2. About 40% of them have installed without any issues, but the other 60% are constantly failing to install. I get the following error:

"Possible bad SD card. Reformat (32k blocks) or replace."

I legally own all of the games and have used a modded Wii + CleanRip to generate my own ISO files. These are mint condition games, no problems at all with the discs.

The SD cards I'm using are brand new, formatted to FAT32 (32k blocks) and are working just fine for everything else. I've even got a third SD card involved just to make sure, but I'm still getting the same error. The ROMs are also tried and tested on Dolphin, and have been used to install the games on my other Wii U system, so I know it's not the ROMs that are the problem. In some cases, I'm even using previously tried and tested injects (already in WUP installable format), and those are failing too.

So... WTF is up with WUP Installer GX2? Why doesn't it have better failsafes in place? Is there a better program / method I can use to get these darn games on my Wii U system, or is this our only option?
 
Na, WUP Installer GX2 is fine. It's just a gui to tell the OS to install something. The real install is handled by IOSU.
So either your SD card is bad or fake your something is wrong with your install target. Do you install to internal memory or USB?
 
Na, WUP Installer GX2 is fine. It's just a gui to tell the OS to install something. The real install is handled by IOSU.
So either your SD card is bad or fake your something is wrong with your install target. Do you install to internal memory or USB?

I find it unlikely that I've managed to acquire 3 bad/fake SD cards, that would be pretty unlucky. Let's assume that at least one of them is real and OK, because I don't have infinite money to keep buying SD cards.

I always install to USB.
 
Test it with h2wtest
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Maybe your USB HDD isn't getting enough power, do you use a y cable?
 
Test it with h2wtest
OK, I'll give that a try later.

Maybe your USB HDD isn't getting enough power, do you use a y cable?
It's a USB drive, not a HDD.

If WUP Installer GX2 is only a GUI, then maybe it could provide better information as to exactly what's going wrong and where. "Bad SD card" is a bit vague, especially when the SD card is otherwise working well and doing its job without issues. Only when it comes to installing games (and, even more specifically, injected GC and Wii games) do I run into these sorts of problems.

The same SD card / USB drive combo has 15 Wii U games successfully installed without issue, for example (dumped using WUDD).

It always seems tempting for people to want to blame the user for this sort of thing ("it's your SD card, it's your USB drive"), but let's in this case look at what we could do to improve the program. It could give better error reporting, for example.
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EDIT: Or, perhaps there could be a way to bypass the SD card altogether in this step. Is it possible to install games via FTP, for example?
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Maybe your USB HDD isn't getting enough power

EDIT 2: This gave me an idea. I did have my Wii U plugged in to a 4-way extension. So, I've plugged it directly into the wall socket and re-seated the USB cable. Managed to get a few more games to install after doing this, only 1 failure so far...
 
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Hello, I'm running in the same issue. I tried small games like Virtual games and it worked flawlessly. So I was kinda happy and queued all the games installs before leaving. When I came back, I had this error (Possible bad SD card)
I tried to connect one of the USB cable (Y shape) directly to a wall outlet and managed to install 1 game ! I was so happy... But it was 1 of 22 titles. Impossible to install any other games from the list.

Help
 

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