Hardware Bricked by Error 160-0103!

[Skele]

So my Wii U recently came down with a case of error 160-0103 whenever I try to play a game. After doing some research I found out it's probably because my Wii U has the faulty eMMC chip that can corrupt the NAND if the system gets turned off at the wrong time. To make a long story short, Nintendo wouldn't repair it since I had softmodded my vWii and despite my best efforts to clean it up, it still got rejected.

So now I have two questions:
1. Is there any way I can fix this? (I am guessing not, at least not without hardmodding, which I have no experience with)
2. If I can't fix it, I will just buy another Wii U secondhand. Is there any way I could tell if the new Wii U would be susceptible to the same problem? I am guessing newer Wii U's should be safer, so is there some way to tell how old a Wii U is just be looking at the serial number or something? Also is there any hope of transferring my save data between consoles?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Captain_N]

if you can get homebrew running on the wii u side via the web browser, then you might be able to dump your saves. then you can install them to another wii U. My friends wii U has the same problem. his boots up and will play games but the corruption is spreading. Im gonna try to copy his saves over to a new wii U when he gets one....

 

[Deleted User]

So my Wii U recently came down with a case of error 160-0103 whenever I try to play a game. After doing some research I found out it's probably because my Wii U has the faulty eMMC chip that can corrupt the NAND if the system gets turned off at the wrong time. To make a long story short, Nintendo wouldn't repair it since I had softmodded my vWii and despite my best efforts to clean it up, it still got rejected.

So now I have two questions:
1. Is there any way I can fix this? (I am guessing not, at least not without hardmodding, which I have no experience with)
2. If I can't fix it, I will just buy another Wii U secondhand. Is there any way I could tell if the new Wii U would be susceptible to the same problem? I am guessing newer Wii U's should be safer, so is there some way to tell how old a Wii U is just be looking at the serial number or something? Also is there any hope of transferring my save data between consoles?

Thanks for any advice.

What did you do before the problem started?