Wii U Wafel USB HDD Setup Not Working on rednand – Games/Apps Not Showing on Home Menu

a7m6d · 2026-09-03T11:38:18+0100

I finally got my Wii U working with RedNAND using an SD card. Now I’ve been trying to mod it with Wafel so I can use a USB hard drive, but no matter what I try, I can’t get it to work properly.

Either everything ends up being installed on the SD card, or everything is on the USB HDD but nothing shows up on the Wii U’s main menu.

What am I doing wrong, and what’s the correct way to set this up?

SDIO · 2026-09-03T18:04:30+0100

You can already use the USB HDD like normal with redNAND. You don't need anything extra.

What exactly is your goal? If you want everything on the USB with no SD, you would need to use USBMLC.

To add Aroma to your redNAND setup, you can just follow the instructions for installing Aroma in the ISFShax guide. If you want to use the wafel installer instead, you would just use it like normal to install the homebrew to the SD and connect the HDD later

a7m6d · 2026-09-03T18:12:52+0100

So you want to tell me that i can run rednand using my usb hdd instead of the sd card that acts like my nand since i have hynix broke nand then i can easily go to wafel.zzz to put aróma on?

SDIO · 2026-09-03T18:16:12+0100

First what is your goal. Do you want to keep the SD with redNAND or do you want everything on the USB?
If you want to keep the SD, what do you want in the USB? Just Wii U games or also Wii games?

a7m6d · 2026-09-03T18:36:25+0100

SDIO said:
First what is your goal. Do you want to keep the SD with redNAND or do you want everything on the USB?
If you want to keep the SD, what do you want in the USB? Just Wii U games or also Wii games?

I mean if i could have everything on my usb that would be amazing, just to understand my case i have rednand that when my wii u turn on give me the go go go, if this file not there it wont work ig but yah can i have everything on usb?

SDIO · 2026-09-03T19:01:57+0100

Yes, you can by using USBMLC

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