So just have Wii U turned on & external HDD not recognized (this is external drive with its own power adapter). If Is there way to check with FTP Everywhere if the Hard drive did get recognized to back up save data?
I didn't do anything. Was working fine last night. Just turned on now and Wii U take a couple minutes trying to detect the hard drive (the usb icon blinking). Then Wii U simply ignored the HDD. Yes everything should be powered on.Hey, we need more info...
What did you do... is it powered on? etc. etc.
I didn't do anything. Was working fine last night. Just turned on now and Wii U take a couple minutes trying to detect the hard drive (the usb icon blinking). Then Wii U simply ignored the HDD. Yes everything should be powered on.
So your HDD just work well after that?It happened to me about a month ago, the drive would start (no heads "beeping" due to limited current) but the HDD icon wouldn't light up on the launcher, didn't try with homebrew
I think I just left the drive and/or console unplugged for a while (was in the process of hacking Vwii to research region changing, and didn't want to wear out the drive with useless start/stops, then after an evening of work I turned off the console for a couple of weeks), then turned it back on, realized the drive was still unplugged so I connected it during the CBHC menu, once I reached the launcher it popped up the usual "don't hotplug USB with the power on kthx" and soft reset, then it just worked again...
If I am doing the trick with WUPInstaller Mod Y, once I exit homebrew launcher the USB is recognized & reload the games. I can get into the games & play just fine. Just some games crashed when I save. Some other games work fine.hello,
If your WiiU HDD's data is not recognized by the WiiU itself, it's probably impossible to read and backup the data with homebrew.
can you list games located on it and launch them ? only the "data menu" is not seeing your drive, or can't you use it at all?
Homebrew are using the original WiiU functions to mount and access the HDD content so I don't think you can recover your files.
There's a project (no idea if it's still maintained) to allow access of WiiU HDD directly from a computer, but I don't know if it would help.
it can depend how badly the HDD is corrupted.
Did you try ftpiiu everywhere?
first, launch Mocha or CBHC (to allow ftpiiu everywhere to access USB).
then launch ftpiiu everywhere
if you don't see USB there, it means it can't even mount it, so you can't recover your data.
You can always dump your saves with SysConfigTool. Also, doesn't Wii U log files include errors related to HDD? [You can always check "Detailed log files" option in SysConfigTool...]oh, then you have a chance to backup your data.
I never did it myself, so it will probably be wrong, I'm doing it by memory.
it should be in
usr/save/<game title ID high>/<game title ID low>/user/8000000x
not sure where the "common" savedata are stored, maybe in /user/common/ ?
you can get the titleID High-Low on http://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Title_database