desperate kids lost wii games from loader drive

Timbiotic · 2026-09-03T19:48:27+0100

Full story, I have not touched our modded WII U in ages. The kids play the WII games all the time. I wanted to add a WII game for them but windows didnt recognize the disc. And i think windows did something to the drive because now its not recognized by GX or windows, and partitions seem flakey. Using Google AI to help me recover I ran "testdisc_win" and analyzing i found 3 "deleted" or "d" partitions. I have played with making them "P" as i think they were all marked "d" to start. But i cant even remember now. I was able to recover 1 game on the 3rd partition but there should be a ton of them. Any suggestions to save their games? I cant remember if the saved games info is on the SD card or the loader gx. Its their saves i am really worried about. I could format and repopulate the drive no issue. But I think from what i have read the saved games are on the loader usb drive?

Any advice welcome. I cant remember if its WBFS , fat32, or ntfs, but my guess is some form of wbfs as windows would not recognize it.

Fien · 2026-09-03T23:19:02+0100

Normally a Wii (or Wii mode on a Wii U) stores the save data on the internal memory of the console, unless emunand is used.

You can check if the save data is on the internal memory in the "Data management" => "Save data" menu of the Wii.

snsclziklost · 2026-09-03T23:32:34+0100

you can load a wbfs formatted drive with wii backup manager on pc. But if you fiddled with them a bunch, you mightve broken your compatibility going forward. Worth a try though. Just install the program, and use the option to open a drive.

copy the games to your computer if you can see them, so you can switch to a fat32 going forward and be done with the WBFS drive

saves should just be on the console itself

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