First I would like to just say hi since I'm new here

I was just wondering what the pros and cons are of WBFS vs. FAT32 or something similar for backup use on the Wii. I backed up my Wii games on a drive with WBFS and I don't know if the drive was messed up but some games started to fail to load or would fail to load within the game itself. So I try to copy the games over to my pc, reformat the same drive with WBFS again and transfer them back to the drive.
Long story short, I just don't trust reading and writing from WBFS on Windows. Are there any disadvantages to using FAT32 to store and load my Wii games from? Can the Wii handle FAT32 well?

I'm going to get a new external HDD dedicated for Wii games and I would like to not have to worry about the file system once I start accumulating backups. I don't want to have 100 gigs of backups fail on me because of some unknown error copying files to/from this filesystem.

On a related note, what do you think of this HDD? From the reviews, it works with the Wii well. I want a HDD that is USB powered (less clutter) and small.

Thanks!

 

thanks! based on that, wbfs remains the best option for me.

is there anything i need to do to keep the wbfs partition healthy? is it safe to delete games from the partition? i read in a separate thread on gbatemp that deleting a game from a wbfs partition can break other games on the partition. this makes me feel very nervous about using wbfs again, because this adds another possible cause to the list of reasons some of my games stopped loading. i also read that games can get corrupt etc. whats the most commonly used filesystem for wii loading now?

 

hmm sounds good enough for me. usb loader gx is my favorite backup loader; would i still be able to use that with wii backup manager? is wii backup manager the program responsible for automatically splitting when transferring to the hard drive? will it automatically scrub and compress when transferring? also, isn't there a limit of 32 gb for fat32 partitions?

 

i don't mean the file size limit; i was referring to the maximum size of the partition itself. microsoft imposed a limit of 32 gb for some reason, but there are other partition utilities that will format a fat32 partition larger than 32 gb. as far as i know using ntfs isn't unstable per se, just the ripping of wii games to ntfs is. if you're only going to download your backups or rip them with your computer you should be fine. you could also partition your drive with one wbfs/fat32 partition for wii games and the other ntfs partition for your files.

 

my mistake, i think you are right about the partition limit put in place by ms. and oh, i guess i misunderstood the part in that thread about ntfs being unstable. i never plan on using the wii to rip games anyway, i use my computer and an external dvd drive i bought. can anyone confirm for me if ntfs is stable for everything else (other than ripping games with the wii)? are there any other downsides of using ntfs? also, that's a good point about creating an extra partition with wbfs. i hadn't thought of that! i might end up doing that. of course, that's only if i cannot use ntfs stably.

 

the real wii is nice but i like this better check out my video supports NTFS also....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eI3Ct-Lxxc

 

HBC can't read NTFS. So ntfs is not an option.
FAT32 is the way to go. What kind of files you have that are over 4 gb?

 

AS far as im concerned splitted up dual layer games work better than not splitted....

 

So If I'm already on WBFS is it worth changing over to Fat32,
I could transfer evverything on myHDD to my PC reformat then transfer back, will I benefit?