Hacking best way to format a 1.5tb

[Foxi4]

In my opinion, with which most people will disagree, use NTFS on the whole thing, alternatively 1Tb for backups in NTFS and the rest in FAT32 for homebrew, but in my opinion homebrew can easily fit on the SD card. Seriously, screw disc splitting of games that are larger then 4Gb, even if there isn't a whole lot of them. The only real advantage FAT32 has in my opinion is the capacity to boot homebrew from it.

So FAT32 does more stuff with no downsides, but you think NTFS is better? Lol.

Having to split discs is a downside to me, and a massive one considering the fact that Homebrew isn't massive in size and does not require such a large partition anyways just for that purpose, not to mention that as far as I know, SD access is quicker then HDD access. Not a lol matter, just my opinion.

Why is it a downside? There is no loss in performance or anything. Besides, there are almost no games that are over 4GB anyway. FAT32 is also more stable than NTFS on the Wii.

Perhaps I'm bias because I never had any issues with my NTFS drive whatsoever, and putting Smash Bros. and Metroid Prime Trilogy without splitting was the best argument NTFS could provide in its favour at the time. As I said, this is just my opinion. We should present both options and their up-sides .

I still don't understand why you consider splitting files a downside. It doesn't make any difference.

Foxi's my name, purism is my game. I simply have a golden rule of leaving only the game partition on the drive and keeping it intact, don't ask me why, I really don't have a reason other than the splitting lol.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Foxi's my name, purism is my game. I simply have a golden rule of leaving only the game partition on the drive and keeping it intact, don't ask me why, I really don't have a reason other them the splitting lol.

Well accept that you have an NTFS fetish and stop saying that it's beneficial in any way.

 

[jamespoo]

i have 80hdd i use and its fat 32 but all the wii game iso cant copy to it because file size is too big

Thats because youre not using Wii backup manager.

oh never heard of this i will google now ty

 

[Foxi4]

Foxi's my name, purism is my game. I simply have a golden rule of leaving only the game partition on the drive and keeping it intact, don't ask me why, I really don't have a reason other them the splitting lol.

Well accept that you have an NTFS fetish and stop saying that it's beneficial in any way.

Beneficial because "no splitting is required", trololololo!

 

[JoostinOnline]

Foxi's my name, purism is my game. I simply have a golden rule of leaving only the game partition on the drive and keeping it intact, don't ask me why, I really don't have a reason other them the splitting lol.

Well accept that you have an NTFS fetish and stop saying that it's beneficial in any way.

Beneficial because "no splitting is required", trololololo!

Splitting is done automatically when you rip it or move it. I guess if you pirate your games and choose to move the entire ISO to your HDD (which is a huge waste of space) then not splitting would be okay.

 

[Lucif3r]

i have 80hdd i use and its fat 32 but all the wii game iso cant copy to it because file size is too big

Thats because youre not using Wii backup manager.

oh never heard of this i will google now ty

.... or you could just read the sticky -.-

 

[the_randomizer]

Thank goodness there aren't any people on this thread trying to explain how HDDs need to be formatted as WBFS. FAT32 works just fine, and USB Loader GX rips games while keeping the limit

 

[W.I.C.K.E.D.]

Ok. I'm having an issue now. I formatted the drive to fat32, and all seems well. I just tried playing house of the dead overkill, and for some reason the cursor is lagging, or skipping across the screen. Any ideas?

Edit: It's doing it in the system menu too. Seems like if I move the controller from left to right or vice versa, somewhere in the middle it vanished for a half second then appears a little to the right or left respectively and keeps going.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Ok. I'm having an issue now. I formatted the drive to fat32, and all seems well. I just tried playing house of the dead overkill, and for some reason the cursor is lagging, or skipping across the screen. Any ideas?

I don't own that game so I don't know how it plays regularly (probably not that bad). What cIOS and loader are you using?

Did a google search, and it seems that game has lots of lag on it's own.

 

[W.I.C.K.E.D.]

cfg loader and I'll have to check the iOS right now.
I know it wasn't doing this with the 500gb hdd though. Maybe I shouldn't of formatted it to fat 32?

Edit: Says 249

 

[JoostinOnline]

cfg loader and I'll have to check the iOS right now.
I know it wasn't doing this with the 500gb hdd though. Maybe I shouldn't of formatted it to fat 32?

1) See my edit.
2) It could be related to the HDD itself.
3) If you really think NTFS will fix it, just add a 10GB NTFS partition and try playing the game from that.
4) What base is 249 using? Press 1 to pull up info.

 

[nl255]

You should also know that NTFS is read only. That means it is impossible to rip a purchased, borrowed, or rented game to it. Of course, you could just rip it to another drive, connect both drives to your computer, and then copy it over to the NTFS drive.

 

[highsteve]

You should also know that NTFS is read only. That means it is impossible to rip a purchased, borrowed, or rented game to it. Of course, you could just rip it to another drive, connect both drives to your computer, and then copy it over to the NTFS drive.

Not true.

I have NTFS drive and I rip to it perfectly fine.

 

[JoostinOnline]

You should also know that NTFS is read only. That means it is impossible to rip a purchased, borrowed, or rented game to it. Of course, you could just rip it to another drive, connect both drives to your computer, and then copy it over to the NTFS drive.

Put this in your usb-loader folder and double-click it.

 

[highsteve]

You should also know that NTFS is read only. That means it is impossible to rip a purchased, borrowed, or rented game to it. Of course, you could just rip it to another drive, connect both drives to your computer, and then copy it over to the NTFS drive.

Put this in your usb-loader folder and double-click it.

Can't believe you really made a BAT file for that.

 

[JoostinOnline]

You should also know that NTFS is read only. That means it is impossible to rip a purchased, borrowed, or rented game to it. Of course, you could just rip it to another drive, connect both drives to your computer, and then copy it over to the NTFS drive.

Put this in your usb-loader folder and double-click it.

Can't believe you really made a BAT file for that.

I know it's ridiculously simple, but there was a guy who was failing at adding lines to his config.txt file, and I was extremely bored.