I have a wii u external hard drive that plugged in to windows 10 and clicked on initialized. Now the wii u is asking to reformat the drive to use it again. The drive is powered by a usb hub and worked 4 days ago I just wanted to try put more games on it. The drive is nearly full of games and saves. In windows it shows up like this Is there anyway to save my games without having to reformat and reinstall them again?
Homebrew Need help with Wii U hard drive that i plugged into windows 10
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Pretty sure it's gone. Maybe some recovery program could recover it but I've never had any luck with them. Just learn your lesson don't do things like that without asking. If you had asked on gbatemp first someone would have said not to do it.
The reason is Wii U has it's own hard drive format and Windows has a different one, and the two don't cross over. If it was Wii you could have or PS3, but Nintendo made it's own format for Wii U for hard drives so once you initialized it in Windows, Wii U wont read it without a format and everything that was on the hdd was gone the second you did that in Windows.
The reason is Wii U has it's own hard drive format and Windows has a different one, and the two don't cross over. If it was Wii you could have or PS3, but Nintendo made it's own format for Wii U for hard drives so once you initialized it in Windows, Wii U wont read it without a format and everything that was on the hdd was gone the second you did that in Windows.
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No, you destroyed everything on it when you did that. If you can get the games once you can get them again. Look up Wii U Usb helper reddit workaround, it's a program that has all Wii U games.
Pay a data recovery company a few hundred dollars to do it.
Otherwise, probably not.
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I made rookie mistakes in the past too now I backup all my saves on all consoles and backup most games. You can reacquire games easier than you can saves of games that you spend countless hours on.
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just had my wiiu HDD fail ... sucks to know game saves are on the drive
Save Mii can back up your saves. I know it's too late now but in the future I suggest you use that feature or it could happen again.
Maybe those prog could help you, but I didn't give it a try. And I don't know if it can make something like a "soft format" without erase datas..
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-wfs-fuse-mount-wii-u-usb-drives-on-linux-and-mlc-dumps.478835/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/dumpsteru-wii-u-harddrive-dumper.568513/
and I don't know how to restore a save made by dump or by saveMii...
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-wfs-fuse-mount-wii-u-usb-drives-on-linux-and-mlc-dumps.478835/
https://gbatemp.net/threads/dumpsteru-wii-u-harddrive-dumper.568513/
and I don't know how to restore a save made by dump or by saveMii...
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