Hacking my hdd is working fine on pc, but not anymore on wiiu. is not recognized

Arnold101 · Jun 15, 2021

my hdd is working fine on pc, but not anymore on wiiu. before worked fine, is not recognized. its full of games

( how i can fix it? help please

if i click delete usb its recognized. only the games inside are not recognized, i think the file system. other usb keys works. front or rear its the same. the software that can dump the drive its useless because can't write data back?

godreborn · Jun 15, 2021

if you initialized the hdd on the pc, you screwed yourself. there's nothing that can be done now.

Arnold101 · Jun 15, 2021

godreborn said:
if you initialized the hdd on the pc, you screwed yourself. there's nothing that can be done now.

never done that. where you read it? i checked it with a partition manager software and is detected. in windows not of course

so how i can fix it?

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

wfsdump can dump and then restore the image in wiiu formatted drive?

jeffyTheHomebrewer · Jun 16, 2021

Dude, if I were you I'd just pirate all the games you had on the HDD< then reformat the HDD with the Wii U and re-install all the games to the HDD.

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

heeeeeelp

Hayato213 · Jun 16, 2021

If you initialize and format the drive, you need to reinstall the games.

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

again...i want to repair it. i know i can format...but i lost games

Deleted User · Jun 16, 2021

It's a risk you take for interfacing between the two Systems, unfortunately.

My suggestion is to listen to what people here are saying to you.
Get your hands on the Games Online while they're still there and install them into your HDD after a reformat.

Or you can continue waste time and cry over spilt milk.
Your choice, but there's no guarantee any ROM will be available Online forever, especially Nintendo's later Consoles.

Sypherone · Jun 16, 2021

i Think u you are talking about a Drive with wiiu Games on it. Wiiu uses its own Filesystem "wbfs" wich Windows or Linux dont recognize. If u did a mistake like repair the drive on Windows or linux its over. The Filesystem is compromised now.
Maybe u find here a solution: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wbfs-hd-corrupted-any-chance-to-recover.197745/
And this tool my help u https://wit.wiimm.de/wwt/

Last way would format new on WiiU and use WiiUhelper for getting your backuped games

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

Desraptor said:
i Think u you are talking about a Drive with wiiu Games on it. Wiiu uses its own Filesystem "wbfs" wich Windows or Linux dont recognize. If u did a mistake like repair the drive on Windows or linux its over. The Filesystem is compromised now.
Maybe u find here a solution: https://gbatemp.net/threads/wbfs-hd-corrupted-any-chance-to-recover.197745/
And this tool my help u https://wit.wiimm.de/wwt/

Last way would format new on WiiU and use WiiUhelper for getting your backuped games

wbfs is for wii....hdd is for wiiu games

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tomasowa said:
It's a risk you take for interfacing between the two Systems, unfortunately.

My suggestion is to listen to what people here are saying to you.
Get your hands on the Games Online while they're still there and install them into your HDD after a reformat.

Or you can continue waste time and cry over spilt milk.
Your choice, but there's no guarantee any ROM will be available Online forever, especially Nintendo's later Consoles.

yeah i know that. yesterday i opened the topic not 1 year ago. i see if there is a chance to recover games and saves..if not i redownload them :/

Hayato213 · Jun 16, 2021

If you format then data recovery won't do much, if you only initialized think you can still repair it by getting a donor sector 0 from the donor drive.

godreborn · Jun 16, 2021

it might be possible to recover the games, but they won't do you much good, because games on the wii u are indexed, so they have to be installed. I think it might be possible to make them the installable versions, but the amount of time that would take for all games would make it not worth it. if you have any wii vc games, there's an app I believe that can extract the iso from the games.

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I think the indexer is the barista file, which is part of the profile. I know that's the file that makes it to where you can't install over 292 games at least, so I think it's the indexer in general.

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I don't know if you can just put the games on another drive though, if that's what you plan to do. btw, did you get your saves? because iirc, saves are transferred to the usb or are on the usb if the game is. that's how I lost all saves one time, many years ago.

Deleted User · Jun 16, 2021

Hayato213 said:
If you format then data recovery won't do much, if you only initialized think you can still repair it by getting a donor sector 0 from the donor drive.

He obviously formatted, otherwise he wouldn't say it's working fine on PC. No point in just intializing.

godreborn · Jun 16, 2021

I think the only way to get content off is through power shell. it can bypass having to initialize the drive just to see it iirc. I remember this app wfs extract: https://github.com/koolkdev/wfslib

I never had much luck with it though. I tried decrypting the mlc, and it works, but then it errors at a specific file. tried three different dumps, and it always errors at the same file, so I think it's a bug. a friend of mine couldn't get it to work at all on his end.

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you need both the seeprom and otp.bin. the mlc only needs the otp.bin, but usb needs both.

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two other options, which may be better, are dumpsterU or dumpling. they're both for the hdd specifically, but I've never used them.

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https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/DumpsterU

here's dumpsterU

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

HardcoreGamer2021 said:
He obviously formatted, otherwise he wouldn't say it's working fine on PC. No point in just intializing.

no, WRONG. i only checked that hdd is detected from a partitioner software. not from windows..

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godreborn said:
I think the only way to get content off is through power shell. it can bypass having to initialize the drive just to see it iirc. I remember this app wfs extract: https://github.com/koolkdev/wfslib

I never had much luck with it though. I tried decrypting the mlc, and it works, but then it errors at a specific file. tried three different dumps, and it always errors at the same file, so I think it's a bug. a friend of mine couldn't get it to work at all on his end.

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you need both the seeprom and otp.bin. the mlc only needs the otp.bin, but usb needs both.

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two other options, which may be better, are dumpsterU or dumpling. they're both for the hdd specifically, but I've never used them.

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https://github.com/GaryOderNichts/DumpsterU

here's dumpsterU

thx!

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dumpsteru can dump games to use them with cemu, not say nothing to reinstall them in the hdd again (wiiu usb helper format type)

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Hayato213 said:
If you format then data recovery won't do much, if you only initialized think you can still repair it by getting a donor sector 0 from the donor drive.

i have done a rawcopy image of the hdd, i can now format from wiiu again and get the sector 0, then restore the dumped image and fix it with the sector0.

but question is how i get sector0 and how i restore it? i readed that need winhex software but then i don't know how to procede

Deleted User · Jun 16, 2021

Arnold101 said:
no, WRONG. i only checked that hdd is detected from a partitioner software. not from windows..

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thx!

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dumpsteru can dump games to use them with cemu, not say nothing to reinstall them in the hdd again (wiiu usb helper format type)

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i have done a rawcopy image of the hdd, i can now format from wiiu again and get the sector 0, then restore the dumped image and fix it with the sector0.

but question is how i get sector0 and how i restore it? i readed that need winhex software but then i don't know how to procede

Well that's your fault for saying it was working fine on PC when it wasn't working on PC at all because it won't work unless you formatted it for PC. That's a fact.

Arnold101 · Jun 16, 2021

HardcoreGamer2021 said:
Well that's your fault for saying it was working fine on PC when it wasn't working on PC at all because it won't work unless you formatted it for PC. That's a fact.

i mean that is not broken...i not said that i format it, or i'll said that instead.

i not found any guide to dump and replace hdd sector 0

Arnold101 · Jun 17, 2021

Hayato213 said:
If you format then data recovery won't do much, if you only initialized think you can still repair it by getting a donor sector 0 from the donor drive.

is correct like this?
i copied all sector 0 like in photo from fresh formatted wiiu 500gb hdd and copied in the first 500gb hdd, wiiu try to read a usb hdd from icon on left but no games and no hdd recognized so not worked.

https://ibb.co/F5w22vH

Hayato213 · Jun 17, 2021

Arnold101 said:
is correct like this?
i copied all sector 0 like in photo from fresh formatted wiiu 500gb hdd and copied in the first 500gb hdd, wiiu try to read a usb hdd from icon on left but no games and no hdd recognized so not worked.

https://ibb.co/F5w22vH

I have never done it before so I can't help you that much. Good luck.

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