Hacking I want my External Hard Drive partially WBFS formatted...

[john.jingle]

So is there a program that lets me format some parts of my Hard Drive instead of all of it? Can I convert it back to NTFS from WBFS and vice versa without affecting the things that I have already in my HD?

 

[skedone]

you could use a program i use on Linux called gparted it has a LiveCD version two and use that to repartition the drive into 2 parts keeping your old part and adding a fat32 part

 

[defix]

I had the same issue yesterday. Googled a bit for good freeware partitioning programs and came about "Easeus Partition Master". You can resize your existing partition with it. Then, create another partition (be sure to also make it a primary partition, not logical), format that with wbfs manager and you're good to go.

 

[tobeychris]

If you're on Vista, you can go to the disk management console and shrink the NTFS partition, and then format it to be used for WBFS.

 

[Satangel]

Also make sure your WBFS partition is the primary partition.
Else you're Wii isn't going to recognize it.

 

[bowser]

I also wanted my external USB hard drive to be partially WBFS formatted. I just did it through disk management in Windows XP. There is no need for any special partitioning program.

Since it already had some data in it, I had to back it up to my PC. Then I formatted it and partitioned it into 2 NTFS partitions. Then I initialized the primary partition to WBFS and it works great!

 

[Servdogg]

that works, but partition master lets you create partitions without backing up the data already on the device.

 

[pnice]

I used acronis disk director to make a new partition on my external 500GB drive. It let me do it without doing anything with the other 340 used gigs that were on it. It is able to make a partition with the empty space so you don't have to back up.

 

[lavamasta]

heres the guide on how to do it

http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=153138