Hacking ** How To Make Any HDD Compatible With USB Loader For Dummies **

[goku1980]

so has this goten an ipod 2 work?

 

[Gwaith]

I'm not 100% sure but i think i read here at gbatemp that you can't use the usb loader without a wii disc drive yet. Because the usb loader sends something to the drive or sth like that . So the wii disc drive is still needed i think.


Greetz ,

Gwaith

 

[sionsays]

well if someone can confirm that i would be happy

 

[tosva_8po1]

hi guys i don't understand this: "Open Device Manager Tool for your HDD and look for the Power Management Settings and change it from 15 minutes to NEVER . ( this option will eliminate the console freeze at game play )" .
how can i make this??? I don't find the power management settings! please help, i have a iomega desktop drive 640gb!
sorry for my bad english

 

[BIG MOE]

well if someone can confirm that i would be happy

format to primary NTFS then to Primary FAT32 then initialize with the WBFS and load only one game first and try it

please post back

 

[goku1980]

maybe im lost(not about to format my backup drive for gameloading yet) but why would u need a game in the wii to use the usb loader if u get to system menu and got hbc (or the loader as a channel)??

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@big moe is there any way to get the loader to load off an i pod yet

 

[BIG MOE]

hi guys i don't understand this: "Open Device Manager Tool for your HDD and look for the Power Management Settings and change it from 15 minutes to NEVER . ( this option will eliminate the console freeze at game play )" .
how can i make this??? I don't find the power management settings! please help, i have a iomega desktop drive 640gb!
sorry for my bad english

go to iomega support web page and look for there tools to manage your device and change the power management settings

 

[BIG MOE]

maybe im lost(not about to format my backup drive for gameloading yet) but why would u need a game in the wii to use the usb loader if u get to system menu and got hbc (or the loader as a channel)??

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@big moe is there any way to get the loader to load off an i pod yet

you don't need a game in the Wii you need a game ISO in the HDD to try it with the USB Loader , and never tried the Ipod yet but maybe soon

Sorry Double Post

 

[goku1980]

ty big moe,
as far as i know maximillons got a good wbfs windows tool

 

[shtonkalot]

So what are these HDD's connected with ? I was of the understanding that it's the USB chipset of what you're connecting with that issue's arise with, not the logic board of HDD's .?

There are more issues than just that, but yes that is a real problem that cannot be corrected by this method.
This method will possibly help a device that has a compatible chipset but has issues for other reasons (formatting, HDD spinup/down).

The chipset support has nothing to do with USB Loader really. It is all about CIOS rev9 and it's built in support for USB 2.0 devices. It looks like further support is to be added in the future though. Maybe rev10?
If this doesn't work (or any other guaranteed tricks to make ANY device work) then your device is likely using an unsupported chipset and there is no way of getting it to work other than writing the USB support for your device into the CIOS needed.

Just to really hammer the point home, it is not possible to make any USB mass storage device compatible with the Wii when using the current CIOS rev9. HDD+adapter or Flash memory adapter.
No matter how positive your attitude

 

[tosva_8po1]

big moe i find nothing for my iomega! can you help me?

 

[goku1980]

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=144...ed+Gui+for+WBFS
for the tool .
ive heard that dumping from the wii makes some games not work

 

[BIG MOE]

big moe i find nothing for my iomega! can you help me?

if you cann't find it , search google for the best way to change power management settings for your drive , sorry but do this while I get a chance to llok it up

 

[tosva_8po1]

i can find anything! i think in other versions of waninkokos loader it will be resolved! thanks for our help

 

[BIG MOE]

i can find anything! i think in other versions of waninkokos loader it will be resolved! thanks for our help

somewhere on the forums I've seen a tool that will do that for you , I can't remember the name though , look it up

 

[sionsays]

well if someone can confirm that i would be happy

format to primary NTFS then to Primary FAT32 then initialize with the WBFS and load only one game first and try it

please post back

I can't format to NTFS then to FAT32, I have to delete the partition, and format to FAT32 or NTFS. I can only go FROM NTFS to Linux Ext2 or Linux Ext3 which i dont even know what it is. It isn't because I dont have my CD Drive hooked up like a poster before said, is it?

 

[MasterHand300]

what do you mean by hdd

 

[BIG MOE]

well if someone can confirm that i would be happy

format to primary NTFS then to Primary FAT32 then initialize with the WBFS and load only one game first and try it

please post back

I can't format to NTFS then to FAT32, I have to delete the partition, and format to FAT32 or NTFS. I can only go FROM NTFS to Linux Ext2 or Linux Ext3 which i dont even know what it is. It isn't because I dont have my CD Drive hooked up like a poster before said, is it?

ok just format to FAT32 as a primary partition , then format that partition with WBFS

^^^HDD = Hard Drive Device^^^

 

[sionsays]

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ok just format to FAT32 as a primary partition , then format that partition with WBFS

^^^HDD = Hard Drive Device^^^
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I did that from your first steps, and from the looks of the link for the WBFS program, i'm not the only one that doesn't have the USB loader recognizing a WBFS formatted HDD. I'm going to break down what I did and what has happened to me in the past 2 days.

Day 1. Trial + Error

Formatted 500GB External HDD to NTFS through Windows XP 32bit - Loaded games on it with WBFS Manager 2.0.
Result: Original USB Loader recognized the drive + games, tried a game, got the green screen then it asked me to "remove disk".
After that the original USB loader never recognized my drive again.

Next I used Sorgs USB Loader and Channel both recognize my drive and all of it's games, but I still end up getting the same "remove disk" error with every game I have tried. Both PAL And NTSC.

Day 2. Trial + Error

Followed your post to a T, using partition magic I formatted my drive to FAT32, ( only 196,000MB of a 500gb HD ) the rest was left as an unallocated partition that I could not delete. I added games through the command prompt/ and eventually through the WBFS GUI. Sorgs USB loader nor does the original recognize a WBFS on my HDD.

I also tried formatting the unpartitioned part of the drive, which was the remaining part of 500gb from the 196,000MB i formatted to FAT32 originally, and I also added games + the WBFS to that and the USB loaders still did not recognize my partitions as having WBFS on them.

My conclusion:
It seems that my drive in NTFS is recognized with WBFS on it by the Wii, but the games do not properly load.
When I'm formatting to FAT32, I think that the "unpartitioned" part of my drive is also being recognized which is why I think that the USB loader is not finding the HDD at all, And like I said, even with the unpartitioned part formatted to FAT32 or NTSF, it's still not picking up the partitions as having WBFS on them, ( even when both do ).

Is there anyway to get more than 196,000MB of my 500GB drive to FAT32? I think this may solve a part of my problem. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Also, with the WBFS program you posted, it seemed like a lot of the same people were having the same exact problems I was having with the USB channel not even recognizing the HDD with WBFS on it.

 

[elmachin]

dam i had my hopes up when i saw this one. followed steps to the dot and still couldnt get my maxtor ext usb to work.
come on usb loader 1.2