Hacking a 'real' wbfs windows port

[Egonny]

Got some problems with your WBFS tool, I reformat my partition to FAT32 first with Windows, assign it a drive letter (Q), then I connect it to my Wii and format the partition to WBFS. After that I reconnect the harddisk to my PC and I write wbfs_win.exe Q add "image.iso". Then I get the error "could not open drive: No error".
If I write wbfs_win Q init before connecting it to my Wii - adding an ISO works when doing this - but when I connect it to my Wii after that, the USB loader doesn't recognize it as WBFS (but as 0x7 or something), and formats it itself. Any help?

don't type .exe after wbfs_win

Didn't work

 

[Legah]

DON'T format thru your wii, that's what messes your driveletter up.

partition and format in windows (fat32 or ntfs) then run wbfs_win q init

 

[JimmyG]

I have recompiled the wbfs_win.exe and it's working fine now

This build works perfectly. Thank you SleepyPrince!

 

[MrFlooD]

Formatting via Wii or not has nothing to do with the problem. I formatted both my USB stick and External hard drive via the Wii.

Both work fine in the Wii and using the Cygwin version of the loader. The issue is that wbfs_win is trying to access the drive by a letter in the first place. This causes issues on my larger drive, as it has multiple partitions. If it just accessed the drives via /dev/sd** there would be no problems.

Why no one has looked into fixing this is beyond me. I know there are a lot of us having the same issue with Wbfs_win

 

[iazybandit]

DON'T format thru your wii, that's what messes your driveletter up.

partition and format in windows (fat32 or ntfs) then run wbfs_win q init

Wrong. I formatted through my Wii. Plugged the HDD to my PC and changed the drive letter and it shows as RAW format

 

[Egonny]

DON'T format thru your wii, that's what messes your driveletter up.

partition and format in windows (fat32 or ntfs) then run wbfs_win q init

Wrong. I formatted through my Wii. Plugged the HDD to my PC and changed the drive letter and it shows as RAW format

That's my problem: when I format through my PC, the USB loader doesn't recognize it as WBFS; when I format through my Wii, my PC thinks it's unallocated space, thus the partition gets no drive letter.

 

[MrFlooD]

Again another issue with WBFS_Win. We need to stop worrying about these GUI's and start improving the actual WBFS_Win software itself.

 

[calimero100582]

DON'T format thru your wii, that's what messes your driveletter up.

partition and format in windows (fat32 or ntfs) then run wbfs_win q init

Wrong. I formatted through my Wii. Plugged the HDD to my PC and changed the drive letter and it shows as RAW format

That's my problem: when I format through my PC, the USB loader doesn't recognize it as WBFS; when I format through my Wii, my PC thinks it's unallocated space, thus the partition gets no drive letter.

are you sure your drive is still on letter q, may have change after disconnect and reconnect, it should showed up in My Computer, but tell you that the drive is not formatted ......, click no and wbfs_win should be able to see your drive
If the drive is not in My Computer you'll need to assign ita letter manually

 

[calimero100582]

Again another issue with WBFS_Win. We need to stop worrying about these GUI's and start improving the actual WBFS_Win software itself.

the goal is to stop using wbfs_win, it is a sample application that use libwbfs. the goal is to improve libwbfs, personally I wrote wbfsgui and I want to replace my usage of wbfs_win for a compiled DLL based on libwbfs so I don't mind for wbfs_win, again it is a sample application

 

[Legah]

MrFlood - for me it made a difference since I couldn't set a driveletter for the drive when formatting with my wii, only the cygwin version worked then. Vista wouldn't allow me to change anything except let me format it again.

I did the following:
1. formated through wii
2. used the cygwin version for a couple of hours
3. saw the release of wbfs_win and wanted to try it but vista wouldn't let me set a driveletter for the usb-drive
4. formated through win vista as ntfs
5. used wbfs_win to init the drive
6. transfered games
7. connected to wii without problems

 

[Egonny]

DON'T format thru your wii, that's what messes your driveletter up.

partition and format in windows (fat32 or ntfs) then run wbfs_win q init

Wrong. I formatted through my Wii. Plugged the HDD to my PC and changed the drive letter and it shows as RAW format

That's my problem: when I format through my PC, the USB loader doesn't recognize it as WBFS; when I format through my Wii, my PC thinks it's unallocated space, thus the partition gets no drive letter.

are you sure your drive is still on letter q, may have change after disconnect and reconnect, it should showed up in My Computer, but tell you that the drive is not formatted ......, click no and wbfs_win should be able to see your drive
If the drive is not in My Computer you'll need to assign ita letter manually

See, I'll say it again, but I really hope someone can help me since I'm out of DVD's: it shows up at My Computer, gets a drive letter (Q) but when I format it with my Wii, wbfs_win doesn't recognize it anymore, when I format it with my PC, adding games works, but when I connect it to my Wii, it says no partition is formatted to WBFS and asks to format it itself.

 

[mark.m.moran]

Hi all,
Has anyone used wbfsgui with an iPod 5th generation?

Cheers,
M

 

[sionsays]

Using Partition Magic 8, I format my (NTSC) drive to FAT32, then I used the command prompt like you said, and whatever USB loader i use on the wii, its telling me i need to format my drive, not sure why. Partition magic is cutting my drive up because its telling me FAT32 only allows around 196MB of storage and im using a 500GB HDD. So there is an unpartitioned space, perhaps its picking up on that

 

[DarkenSX]

Link isnt working just takes you to file droppers main page plz relink or mirror

 

[OuahOuah]

Link isnt working just takes you to file droppers main page plz relink or mirror

Try this : http://superuploader.net/c99ce3473284-wbfs...-delta-zip.html

Or this : http://sharebee.com/f96cffad

 

[AllWiidUp]

please add WBFS fix:

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=147969&st=0

 

[smithcd2k]

download link not working...

 

[imapterodactyl]

download link not working...

Why would you want it to be? The last post in the thread was from April.... perhaps it's a sign that you should be looking for something a bit more current.