Here's the thing: I got an external HDD with 500gb full of Wii games. I use an usb adapter.
It works completely fine when I plug in my Wii and use USB Loader GX to play games.
The problem is that I can't get my PC to recognize the HDD anymore, no matter what I try. I simply get the message "USB device not recognized" on the lower right corner of my screen and, after that, it won't even show in Disk Management. I also can't format the HDD -- I would lose a bunch of valuable Wii games and would have to go through the trouble to download all of them again.
Things I have tried:
>using WBFS manager (couldn't detect my hd)
>using Wii Backup manager (couldn't detect my hd)
>plugging in into every other USB port available
>plugging in another PC - it shows the same error message
>using Windows USB troubleshooting
It looks like my system refuses to recognize my HDD no matter what. I can't format the drive even if I wanted too, it doesn't show on Disk Management or anywhere else on the PC.
I have gone through hundreds of forum threads but none had the solution to my problem. So, I humbly ask, please gbatemp, guide me on what to do.
EDIT: SOLVED
Looks like the problem was the case adapting the HDD. I tried another case and my computer recognized the external HD with no trouble. The case I was using before were QGeeM 2.5'' cases bought in AliExpress. They're NO GOOD (for pc at least).
It works completely fine when I plug in my Wii and use USB Loader GX to play games.
The problem is that I can't get my PC to recognize the HDD anymore, no matter what I try. I simply get the message "USB device not recognized" on the lower right corner of my screen and, after that, it won't even show in Disk Management. I also can't format the HDD -- I would lose a bunch of valuable Wii games and would have to go through the trouble to download all of them again.
Things I have tried:
>using WBFS manager (couldn't detect my hd)
>using Wii Backup manager (couldn't detect my hd)
>plugging in into every other USB port available
>plugging in another PC - it shows the same error message
>using Windows USB troubleshooting
It looks like my system refuses to recognize my HDD no matter what. I can't format the drive even if I wanted too, it doesn't show on Disk Management or anywhere else on the PC.
I have gone through hundreds of forum threads but none had the solution to my problem. So, I humbly ask, please gbatemp, guide me on what to do.
EDIT: SOLVED
Looks like the problem was the case adapting the HDD. I tried another case and my computer recognized the external HD with no trouble. The case I was using before were QGeeM 2.5'' cases bought in AliExpress. They're NO GOOD (for pc at least).
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