Hi, I'm new to these forums so sorry if I'm not making this thing correctly or something, but anyway, I got this 2tb drive ( a lacie 2tb mobile drive secure [the "secure part is fully disabled btw"]) and i fomatted it to ntfs because usb loadergx supports it i guess. Here is where the problem comes in, whenever loader GX tried to "Reinitialize Device" the damn thing would just shut off and automatically boot into sd card mode, that is... until I unplugged and replugged it in during this "reinitialization phase" and suddenly all my games loaded? BUT NOW I have to unplug it and plug it bacck in when trying to LOAD a game, otherwise itll just show a black screen? I thought maybe because it was formatted as NTFS i should set it to fat32 with 32k clusters or whatever the Wii wants? So I reformatted it as that. but THAT DIDN'T SOLVE IT and worst of all, other loaders can't access it without me unplugging it and replugging it back in! Configurable USB loader needs this, and WiiFlow wont even read it at all?? Please help me, the drive hurt my wallet a lot and I can't even test out other drives to see if its just my Wii being dumb I do not want to replug it back in every single time I want to play.

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Hardware A "Start Up Disk" Wii...again?

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https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/social/questions/detail/qid/47030/kw/*
I remember seeing a post on Nintendo's old tech support forum on the "Start Up Disk" Wii,
...not sure if this's just a replica post of the previous one

, because many (mainly unanswered) posts from the old tech support forum were replicated when the new one was launched...

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https://hackmii.com/2010/09/insert-startup-disc/

this is pretty interesting to read tho

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