Setting up 4TB HDD to be used with the Wii

cereal_killer · Oct 6, 2022

So, I have a Seagate 4TB HDD, it's in NTFS. It plays Wii games (via Wiiflow) perfectly but I wanna also put there all my Gamecube games to play them using Nintendon't. But Nintendon't doesn't support NTFS. The task is to put there all my Wii games and all my Gamecube games and be able to play them on both emulators.

Which format should it be FAT32? Will i be able to format my 4TB drive to FAT32? If yes, how do I do that?

sombrerosonic · Oct 6, 2022

Just put the gamecube games on your SD card..... or make a separate partition for GC on your hard disk.....

If you need to ask more questions start asking here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/quick-newbie-questions-here.155449/

CoolMe · Oct 6, 2022

https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-...-on-a-wii-as-a-single-fat32-partition.602038/

cereal_killer · Oct 7, 2022

CoolMe said:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-...-on-a-wii-as-a-single-fat32-partition.602038/

it is for WD My Passport and relevant software mine is Seagate

Sypherone · Oct 7, 2022

Just for info, you will not be able to use more then the first 2TB of the drive, because the Wii cant read more then that. No matter of partitiontable, filesystemformat or multiple partions.
You may try your mentioned fake MBR, to make bigger drives towork then 2TB, but dont know which drives are supported. Already tried here.

cereal_killer · Oct 7, 2022

Sypherone said:
Just for info, you will not be able to use more then the first 2TB of the drive, because the Wii cant read more then that. No matter of partitiontable, filesystemformat or multiple partions.
You may try your mentioned fake MBR, to make bigger drives towork then 2TB, but dont know which drives are supported. Already tried here.

I don't care about the full capacity (4TB) I don't need that much anyway, all I want is to have a 2TB fat32 partition that would work with wii. But how would I do that?

impeeza · Oct 7, 2022

zackcooper said:
So, I have a Seagate 4TB HDD, it's in NTFS. It plays Wii games (via Wiiflow) perfectly but I wanna also put there all my Gamecube games to play them using Nintendon't. But Nintendon't doesn't support NTFS. The task is to put there all my Wii games and all my Gamecube games and be able to play them on both emulators.

Which format should it be FAT32? Will i be able to format my 4TB drive to FAT32? If yes, how do I do that?

I was about to answer:

CoolMe said:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/how-to-...-on-a-wii-as-a-single-fat32-partition.602038/

please use the search function at top of page before creating a new thread.

Sypherone · Oct 7, 2022

Best use Aomei partition manager and/or guiformat. Maybe you can do it also in Windows diskmanager. And choose MBR as partitiontable first.

cereal_killer · Oct 7, 2022

shit, are you serious???? it is for WD My Passport and relevant WD software mine is Seagate!!!!!

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Sypherone said:
Best use Aomei partition manager and/or guiformat. Maybe you can do it also in Windows diskmanager. And choose MBR as partitiontable.

Already tried guiformat, it won't format it, saying only 2 tb drives can be formatted.
So, what I should do is

1 create two 2tb NTFS partitions each in aomei partition manager
2 format one of these NTFS partitions (which will be shown as a separate drive) to FAT 32 using guiformat?

right?

Sypherone · Oct 7, 2022

What are talking about?!? Formating a drive is independend from the drive manufacturer. By the way, WD and Seagate working together on the technology of the drives.

Yes that way. Convert to MBR, create to partions with aomei or diskmanager and format the first to fat32 with 32k sectorsize and the second nfts.

cereal_killer · Oct 7, 2022

Sypherone said:
What are talking about?!? Formating a drive is independend from the drive manufacturer. By the way, WD and Seagate is the same company.

formatting - yes, but the tutorial uses WD Quick Formatter to change the GPT drive partition to a MBR partition and the guy even mentions "Note: This most likely will not work on a hard drive that's not made by Western Digital, it scans for compatible drives automatically"

So, I tried, downloaded WD Quick Formatter and it says no WD drives found or something like that

MFDC12 · Oct 7, 2022

Sypherone said:
What are talking about?!? Formating a drive is independend from the drive manufacturer. By the way, WD and Seagate is the same company.

What? No they aren't.

Sypherone · Oct 7, 2022

You can convert GPT to MBR inside Aomei Partition Manager or Windows diskmanager. Or use Powershell with adminrights. If its empty you can run in Powershell diskpart -> list disk -> select disk -> convert MBR -> clean then use aomei or diskpart to format.

Jokey_Carrot · Oct 7, 2022

This has to be one of the most brain-dead threads I've read in a while. Just use Disk Management (windows) or GParted (linux) to shrink the main ntfs partition and make an exfat partition with 64kb allocation size in the empty space.

Sypherone · Oct 7, 2022

Ya, sometimes its hard.

kevmic · Nov 2, 2022

Hi. Just noticed this thread.
There's no need to use any partition managers. The basic inbuilt windows functions can cover this... Along with a very small lightweight helper uility called guiformat.exe

See the guide I wrote up on this thread:
gbatemp.net/threads/usb-loader-wont-read-dir-after-adding-more-files.594408/post-9610747

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