Hacking Hard drives wont work on wii

[kjb1686]

I didn't know where to put this so here it is. Okay i have two hard drives a 320 seagate freeagent go and a 500 western digital passport both listed as working on the list on gbatemp. Okay heres my problem i plug in my western digital and wiiflow, cfg usb loader and usbloader gx wont recognize it also it makes a weird clicking noise on my wii but when i plug it into my computer it works fine. My freeagent also doesn't work but only on mplayer on usb loaders it works fine. I have defragmented both and that hasn't work. I have no idea what to do please help. Also in geexbox i got the freeagent to be recognized however as soon as i tried to open a folder it became unrecoginzed.

 

[Donkey Plonk]

And what exactly have you done to your wii? Do you have a cios installed. What do the loaders do? Just bring up partiton select screen? Or say usb not connected?

I have a 500gb WD my passport, they work fine.

Sounds like you should post up a sysCheck so we can see what you have installed as theres no reason it shouldn't work.

 

[RPG_Lover]

Have you tried other drives/devices with your wii's usb ports? Could be a port problem instead of a drive problem...

 

[Lacius]

As Donkey Plonk said, run sysCheck and paste the results here.

 

[kjb1686]

Okay i will run syscheck and then post the results sorry about the delay in my response i am on a slow internet connection. Edit i will do that in a couple hours i am going to go shovel my driveway.

 

[kjb1686]

Here is my report from syscheck

sysCheck v2.0.1 by Double_A
...runs on IOS61 (rev 5405).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.2U (v481)
Hollywood v0x21
Console ID: 92666480
Boot2 v4

Found 155 titles.
Found 39 IOS on this console. 9 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 778): Trucha Bug
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 256): Stub
IOS12 (rev 269): Trucha Bug
IOS13 (rev 273): Trucha Bug
IOS14 (rev 520): Trucha Bug
IOS15 (rev 523): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 775): Trucha Bug
IOS20 (rev 256): Stub
IOS21 (rev 782): Trucha Bug
IOS22 (rev 1037): Trucha Bug
IOS28 (rev 1550): Trucha Bug
IOS30 (rev 2816): Stub
IOS31 (rev 3349): Trucha Bug
IOS33 (rev 3091): Trucha Bug
IOS34 (rev 3348): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3349): Trucha Bug
IOS36 (rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS37 (rev 3869): Trucha Bug
IOS38 (rev 3867): Trucha Bug
IOS50 (rev 5120): Stub
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS53 (rev 5406): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS55 (rev 5406): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS56 (rev 5405): Trucha Bug
IOS57 (rev 5661): Trucha Bug
IOS60 (rev 6174): No Patches
IOS61 (rev 5405): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 6687): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224 (rev 65535): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249 (rev 19): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250 (rev 20): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2011/02/08.

 

[Lacius]

Your sysCheck seems to check out. Try downloading the latest version of Configurable USB Loader. You might also want to try updating your cIOS249. I recommend cIOSX rev21 d2x v2.

 

[kjb1686]

Im saying my cfg loader is up to date and that only my western digital isn't working and my seagate does work in usb loaders only. When i try to use it on a media player it doesn't read it.

 

[Lacius]

Have you tried WiiMC?

Edit: I noticed you don't have IOS58 installed. It is required for WiiMC.

 

[kjb1686]

I have but it crashes to a code dump every time i have tried to use it so i gave up on it. Also i tried to install ios 58 using dop mii.

 

[gqzang]

I have but it crashes to a code dump every time i have tried to use it so i gave up on it. Also i tried to install ios 58 using dop mii.

What kind of file system are you using? NTFS or FAT32? I have two HDD, which if I use NTFS files system, WiiMC will crashes, and WiiMC works fine if I format them into FAT32. It seems that IOS58 is unstable on NTFS system.

 

[kjb1686]

yeah i am running on ntfs on both drives. Edit i just installed cios v21 d2x v2 and ios 58 v6176 and it still doesn't work. It still makes the clicking noise only on my western digital and only on my wii not computer. I might order another cable and see if that is the problem

 

[gqzang]

yeah i am running on ntfs on both drives. Edit i just installed cios v21 d2x v2 and ios 58 v6176 and it still doesn't work. It still makes the clicking noise only on my western digital and only on my wii not computer. I might order another cable and see if that is the problem

One of my HDD also makes clicking noise when connected to Wii if it is Formatted into NTFS, but works fine with computer. I then formatted it into FAT32, it works well with WiiMC and WiiXplorer, where both of the applications use IOS58. The IOS58 on my Wii is v6175.

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

NTFS is still troublesome for many applications....FAT32 is the way to go for the Wii. Also make sure you're using the correct usb port on the Wii.

 

[PE06MCG]

I have both a WD and a Seagate 1TB HDD's working ok with wbfs, FAT or NTFS formatted partitions.
Hopefully you have them externally powered and not usb powered?

Make sure the selected partitions are 'primary' and also make sure your partition letter is still available (I sometimes lose its letter so it can't be seen by the Wii).
Just create one in your preferred software (it will show as a question mark).

Spent weeks blaming IOS this and that before realising my port #0 was iffy (sometimes it works, other times it won't)
Ensure it is powered (the light on your card reader should show) if ok.
If ok, great. Then plug in your HDD.

If still no luck, try uLoader and use it to read via port 1.
Amazing what IOS 222 etc can do for the Wii.
I believe USB Loader GX v2.1 can also do this but needs to start from port0 first (unlike uLoader).

 

[kjb1686]

um okay but this topic is more than a month old and i figured out the problem long ago (it was my cable) so okay i don't know why your posting in this topic now.

 

[PE06MCG]

um okay but this topic is more than a month old and i figured out the problem long ago (it was my cable) so okay i don't know why your posting in this topic now.

Pardon me.

Please educate me, what is the time limit on posts?