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    Hardware WD My Book Essential Spin Down Problem

    Thank you so much for your help. I just downloaded the Smartware software and will install it and turn it off tonight. Thanks again.
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    Hardware WD My Book Essential Spin Down Problem

    When I decided to use my Essential for backups I formatted the drive to FAT32 and loaded up my backups. So therefore I don't have the Smartware software on the drive anymore. Last night I hooked up the Essential to my laptop (Vista) and backed up some games, unmounted the drive using the...
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    Hacking QUICK/NEWBIE QUESTIONS here!

    Question: I'm using a WD 750gb WD Essential. I usually back up using WII Backup Manager and clicked on download selected cover (from WiiTDB) and noticed that after the backup was finished the cover wasn't there. So I decided to go through Wiiflow and download the cover. I'm using Wiiflow 2.2...
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    Hardware Question about formatting HDD for Wiiflow

    Planning on installing WiiFlow 2.2 but I have a question about formatting the drive. I have a WD 750gb USB external. I formatted the whole drive to FAT32. I did not partition it. Did I do it incorrectly? I already have some games installed. Can I partition without losing files or do I...
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    Hacking Virgin Wii Firmware Downgrade Question

    Oh I didn't read that I needed to downgrade my firmware anywhere. Just wondered if it could be done since I have a bad drive and was trying to work around it to do a softmod with Modmii but I need a drive with 4.3U
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    Hacking Virgin Wii Firmware Downgrade Question

    Yes, it's virgin. Approx. how much do they charge.
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    Hardware Need to replace a Wii Drive - Need advice

    Thanks for the advice but I will still need a drive because the wii is unmodded and is updated to 4.3 and in order to mod I need a working drive. Do you know of any other work around a bad drive on firmware 4.3?
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    Hacking NOOB PARADISE - ask away

    Couple of questions. 1. I purchased a cheap wii with a non-functioning drive with the thoughts of modding it. Not thinking I upgraded and went from 4.1 to 4.3 (coulda smacked myself). The reason I upgraded was because the person that had it before me didn't have the internet as a channel and...
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    Hardware Need to replace a Wii Drive - Need advice

    I need to replace the drive in a 4.3 virgin Wii. It is my understanding after doing some reading that the D3-2 drive will not work with a softmod will the D2B work?
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    Hacking Virgin Wii Firmware Downgrade Question

    Thanks guys I thought as much but thought I would ask anyway.
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    Hacking Virgin Wii Firmware Downgrade Question

    I purchased a partially working virgin wii. The disc drive will not read discs. Without thinking I upgraded to 4.3 not thinking that I would need lego to install the homebrew. Is there anyway that I can downgrade th firmware without having homebrew installed and a nonworking disc drive...
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    Hacking Western Digital My Book Essential Formatting with Wiiflow

    I just purchased a brand new 750gb WD My Book Essential. Question is....It already says that it is formatted to FAT32 - should I reformat the drive again? It has a couple of WD file folders on there from installation but I didn't know if there might be some hidden files so I thought I would...
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