Problems with 6TB Drive (1100 Wii Games)

Rubaz · Jan 23, 2022

I used the tutorial from wiiu.hacks.guide to run the homebrew and to run games from the hard drive in the future.
A friend has provided me with all Wii Games (PAL, EU).
All games are in the correct .wbfs format.

WiiFlow does not start correctly and takes a long time to start. (The default Directory is the sd card.)

USB Loader GX immediately shows the dump error code

Cfg Loader does not recognize anything.

The first thing I tried is to start the games via NTFS. Unfortunately no games were recognized.

Atm I divided the harddisk in two partitions: 2x 2tb FAT32 and 1x 2tb not formatted

My hard drive is: Toshiba Canvio 6TB External Desktop Hard Drive (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01GEOZIP2)

Is my hdd not compatible?

Thanks for your support!

Shadow#1 · Jan 24, 2022

Rubaz said:
I used the tutorial from wiiu.hacks.guide to run the homebrew and to run games from the hard drive in the future.
A friend has provided me with all Wii Games (PAL, EU).
All games are in the correct .wbfs format.

WiiFlow does not start correctly and takes a long time to start. (The default Directory is the sd card.)

USB Loader GX immediately shows the dump error code

Cfg Loader does not recognize anything.

The first thing I tried is to start the games via NTFS. Unfortunately no games were recognized.

Atm I divided the harddisk in two partitions: 2x 2tb FAT32 and 1x 2tb not formatted

My hard drive is: Toshiba Canvio 6TB External Desktop Hard Drive (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01GEOZIP2)

Is my hdd not compatible?

Thanks for your support!

Yes drives above 2TB r incompatible

Rubaz · Jan 24, 2022

Thank you for the quick respond.

I have a 1tb seagate Drive But just for the Wii u. Can I use my 6tb for the Wii u or should i sell it?

ChibiMofo · Jan 24, 2022

Shadow#1 said:
Yes drives above 2TB r incompatible

Wow! I'm from the Wii world where I'm using a 4TB drive with USB Loader GX. Amazed to learn that. Are you sure? I think the OP may only need to ensure the first partition is MBR (master boot record) rather than GPT and 2TB and that drive will work.

pedro702 · Jan 24, 2022

ChibiMofo said:
Wow! I'm from the Wii world where I'm using a 4TB drive with USB Loader GX. Amazed to learn that. Are you sure? I think the OP may only need to ensure the first partition is MBR (master boot record) rather than GPT and 2TB and that drive will work.

well i dont know if the wii will read after the 2tb mark, you may use a 4tb drive but all your data if its on the first 2tb should be readable, after those marks im not sure, i always saw people saying the wii read limit was 2tb but i never tested it myself.

The Real Jdbye · Jan 24, 2022

ChibiMofo said:
Wow! I'm from the Wii world where I'm using a 4TB drive with USB Loader GX. Amazed to learn that. Are you sure? I think the OP may only need to ensure the first partition is MBR (master boot record) rather than GPT and 2TB and that drive will work.

Drives with sector size >512 bytes can support larger partitions on MBR but most drives still use 512 byte sector size (natively or simulated) for compatibility reasons and there is usually no way to change it. As you say you can use a larger drive but you can only use 2TB of it. The rest of the space can't even be formatted when you format it as MBR. Unless you are one of the lucky ones that have a drive with a >512 byte sector size.

Rubaz · Jan 24, 2022

Is this a opportunity?

Western Digital WD Gold 4TB, 512n, SATA 6Gb/s

Or should I search for 4k Sectors?

ber71 · Jan 24, 2022

WD disks are your best bet for 4k sectors.
There is an official WD utility to change sector size from the default 512b to the preferred 4k. All data will be lost, so be careful.

Rubaz · Jan 24, 2022

ber71 said:
WD disks are your best bet for 4k sectors.
There is an official WD utility to change sector size from the default 512b to the preferred 4k. All data will be lost, so be careful.

Thats not a problem! Thank you!

Rubaz · Jan 25, 2022

Rubaz said:
Thats not a problem! Thank you!

I tried to play some games but it doesn't work. Mkwii and some other games work. But like 90% does not work. Can sbdy tell me why?

Wiiflow freezes, USB loader GX brings me back to the HBC or Wii channel. Repatched everything but it still does not work.

I changed the game cIOS from 249 to 251 and all of them dont work.

Shadow#1 · Jan 25, 2022

Rubaz said:
I tried to play some games but it doesn't work. Mkwii and some other games work. But like 90% does not work. Can sbdy tell me why?
Wiiflow freezes, USB loader GX brings me back to the HBC or Wii channel. Repatched everything but it still does not work.

I changed the game cIOS from 249 to 251 and all of them dont work.

I love this

Psd99 · Jan 25, 2022

Serious question though 6tb i mean could u even fill that up with wii u content? Lol

Rubaz · Jan 26, 2022

Psd99 said:
Serious question though 6tb i mean could u even fill that up with wii u content? Lol

It was on sale.. Like 90 EUR

Rubaz · Jan 31, 2022

Can somebody help me please?

Shadow#1 · Jan 31, 2022

Rubaz said:
Can somebody help me please?

U was already helped

UltraDolphinRevolution · Feb 1, 2022

You can put a few games (or just one) on a USB stick to make sure the problem is the 6TB disc drive, nothing else. But people have already suggested what to do (see above).

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