Hacking In need of help! USB loader issues.

[adam_the_1st]

I have an original launch Wii, and have had it soft-modded for a long time now. I had typically been using USBloaderGX and had recently started playing with WiiMC. Sometime a couple weeks ago I went to load up Super Mario galaxy for some quick fun and found that my USB loader wouldn't start. I had a few other on my SD (WiiFlow Coverfloader CFGloader and NeoGamma) and it seemed none would work. I found out when trying to fix the problem that the game would eventually show but it took about 5 minutes and then they won't start.

The only thing I think I did that may have cause this was install WiiMC cios202.

In order to fix the problem I have tried.

Hermes cios202, ciosx v20, trucha bug restorer, removing old unused IOS (4,16,20) and a few other things.

The drive read fine in my PC (WD passport 320gb) and I have tried it it bot FAT32 and WBFS. Also the game load alright off my SD, but I wiould obvious prefer my HDD as I only have a 4gb SD.

I have searched for hours and havent had the slightest success. Can anyone shed some wisdom.

Thank you.

 

[FIX94]

You could install hermes cIOS222 and try with uloader to open the USB HDD.

 

[adam_the_1st]

I've tried the entire hermes guide with 202, and 222 and 223, and even redid 236 didnt help. I can see how his uLoader would be any different when not anyone of the others has worked, but I suppose I can try. Thanx

 

[adam_the_1st]

Is it possible that my usb port is bad, has anyone had experience with this?

 

[FIX94]

Is it possible that my usb port is bad, has anyone had experience with this?

I heard that USB Loader GX can corrupt USB paritions....

 

[adam_the_1st]

Same issues with uLoader. Although I determined my port is fine because movie still load super quick in WiiMC.

 

[FIX94]

Same issues with uLoader. Although I determined my port is fine because movie still load super quick in WiiMC.

OK, sounds like the WBFS parition is broken... Move a small game from wbfs to fat32 with wii backup manager and try it with configurable usb loader if the game works from fat32...

 

[resincake]

Im sure you can check (and possibly repair) WBFS partitions for corruption with Wimms WBFS tools. I'm not sure how precise this is but may be worth trying.

Good Luck.

 

[adam_the_1st]

I've tried in fat32 and the drive still won't read properly. It there anyway I can do some kind of "re-install"

note: I restored my bootmii backup, and that didn't fix things either.

 

[Amarok]

hmmm, does the drive have power save when it;s not being used?

I have a WD MyBook Essential and had to turn off powersaving in WD Smartware for my HDD to work fine.