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Progress! After all the trouble of putting my old desktop back together I find out that (as an internal SATA) the drive works perfectly. It sees all 3.7 TB without any problems as GPT, and when using MBR it sees a 2 GB partition and a 1.6 GB partition. So I then figured that maybe the real problem was in my choice of an external hard drive enclosure. I unfortunately couldn't find any with a fan that supported drives larger than 3 TB, but I was able to find a "Pluggable Communicator SATA HDD Docking Station" and when plugged into my Windows 7 machine it is working perfectly.
So now I am going to format the two partitions to FAT32, make the smaller one a Primary for DIOS MIOS and see what happens.
EDIT: The new enclosure reports it as a 4k sector drive. I don't really know what to do. Either an enclosure reports it as a 512 byte drive correctly, but doesn't show the entire drive. Or it shows all the space, but then converts it into a 4k drive. As an internal drive I can get everything to work,but does anyone know of an enclosure that will support 512 byte drives *AND* large hard drives?
EDIT 2: I applied a firmware update to the external enclosure and windows is actually formatting it with 512 bytes. There was no error message that the sector size is larger than the selected cluster size. It's going to take me a little while to format and check everything, but if it works I will write a new thread in pictures showing exactly what it takes to get a 4 TB drive working with the Wii.
EDIT 3: Yes! It works! Well, almost. I am able to get a 4 TB hard drive to be seen as having 512 bytes as an external USB hard drive. The problem I am running into now is two fold: First, I am able to format the drive as NTFS, but Fat32GUIFormatter doesn't like the drive anymore. It says "this drive has more than 2^28 clusters". That is only a minor problem though because I can Format it to Fat32 with MiniTools Partition Manager. The second problem is that I can only use a total of 2 TB (s0 far) because it's using MBR. I have to figure out how to get MBR/GPT dual working before I can get this working perfectly.
So now I am going to format the two partitions to FAT32, make the smaller one a Primary for DIOS MIOS and see what happens.
EDIT: The new enclosure reports it as a 4k sector drive. I don't really know what to do. Either an enclosure reports it as a 512 byte drive correctly, but doesn't show the entire drive. Or it shows all the space, but then converts it into a 4k drive. As an internal drive I can get everything to work,
EDIT 2: I applied a firmware update to the external enclosure and windows is actually formatting it with 512 bytes. There was no error message that the sector size is larger than the selected cluster size. It's going to take me a little while to format and check everything, but if it works I will write a new thread in pictures showing exactly what it takes to get a 4 TB drive working with the Wii.
EDIT 3: Yes! It works! Well, almost. I am able to get a 4 TB hard drive to be seen as having 512 bytes as an external USB hard drive. The problem I am running into now is two fold: First, I am able to format the drive as NTFS, but Fat32GUIFormatter doesn't like the drive anymore. It says "this drive has more than 2^28 clusters". That is only a minor problem though because I can Format it to Fat32 with MiniTools Partition Manager. The second problem is that I can only use a total of 2 TB (s0 far) because it's using MBR. I have to figure out how to get MBR/GPT dual working before I can get this working perfectly.