Hacking Drive not recognized?

[Daak]

My HDD isnt recognized by the wii-u. Its a 2.5 250gb WD Scorpio Black inside a non powered usb 3.0 enclosure. I tried all the ports. I tried using with a Y-adapter and without. I tried NTSC and Fat32 formats. The light comes on the drive but nothing happens in the wii-u menu. The drive also works fine on my PC. Could the wii-u be formatting it without any notification?

 

[Stinkerbell]

Buy a other hdd with y cable or a HDD with external power supply

 

[Pokezuculento]

My HDD isnt recognized by the wii-u. Its a 2.5 250gb WD Scorpio Black inside a non powered usb 3.0 enclosure. I tried all the ports. I tried using with a Y-adapter and without. I tried NTSC and Fat32 formats. The light comes on the drive but nothing happens in the wii-u menu. The drive also works fine on my PC. Could the wii-u be formatting it without any notification?

How you connect to the Wii U and to the PC? USB? USB Y (2 USBs)? A converter from hard drive to USB?

 

[Daak]

How you connect to the Wii U and to the PC? USB? USB Y (2 USBs)? A converter from hard drive to USB?

I'm not sure I understand you. It doesnt work with a single cable or the Y cable. The Y cable is 2 male on 1 end. 1 female on the other. Then another short male to male cable to connect to HDD.

 

[Pokezuculento]

I'm not sure I understand you. It doesnt work with a single cable or the Y cable. The Y cable is 2 male on 1 end. 1 female on the other. Then another short male to male cable to connect to HDD.

Try to go to System Settings > Data Management > Format USB Drive, and try to format the drive

 

[Kafluke]

What are you using the drive for? Wii U games or v Wii? If you're trying to use it for Wii U USB games you have to let the Wii U format it. On its own the Wii U will not recognize a fat32 or ntfs drive. It has to format it to a proprietary format that only the Wii U can read

 

[wicksand420]

My HDD isnt recognized by the wii-u. Its a 2.5 250gb WD Scorpio Black inside a non powered usb 3.0 enclosure. I tried all the ports. I tried using with a Y-adapter and without. I tried NTSC and Fat32 formats. The light comes on the drive but nothing happens in the wii-u menu. The drive also works fine on my PC. Could the wii-u be formatting it without any notification?

Western Digital drives come with software for locking, and if you install this software to the drive when you get it, it can't be removed, and you can't use your hdd on wiiu, I have a Western Digital My Passport drive and it has the software installed on it and it wont work on my wiiu either.

 

[Pokezuculento]

What are you using the drive for? Wii U games or v Wii? If you're trying to use it for Wii U USB games you have to let the Wii U format it. On its own the Wii U will not recognize a fat32 or ntfs drive. It has to format it to a proprietary format that only the Wii U can read

Western Digital drives come with software for locking, and if you install this software to the drive when you get it, it can't be removed, and you can't use your hdd on wiiu, I have a Western Digital My Passport drive and it has the software installed on it and it wont work on my wiiu either.

He can try to format the drive in FAT32 and use Mocha

 

[wicksand420]

He can try to format the drive in FAT32 and use Mocha

If its like my drive, the software cannot be formatted, it makes a untouchable partition in front of the drive that can't be erased

 

[Pokezuculento]

If its like my drive, the software cannot be formatted, it makes a untouchable partition in front of the drive that can't be erased

Do you tried with programs like EaseUS Partition Master?

 

[wicksand420]

Do you tried with programs like EaseUS Partition Master?

It wont work on my drive, it cant format the small partition, its locked

 

[Daak]

It was both of the non-powered 2.5 enclosures I tried using. I dont think the wii-U liked my Y cable. I put the drive in a powered enclosure and it worked fine. However, I really want to use some kind of auto-on solution. Either a to get a verified working enclosure/Y cable. Or, a drive that turns on/off automatically when the wii-u is turned on. Any ideas on that?

 

[Daak]

I just got a new "Y cable" and it still didnt work. There seems to be 2 Y-cable designs: one where the twin USB end is spliced and another type that has two full length cables coming out of the single USB end. Ive only tried the spliced cable type but am looking for the other type. Anyone have an auto power on/off solution for a 2.5 inch drive? I need to know the type of drive/enclosure/cables.