Hacking It Finally Happened

[Rebound]

My USB Drive isn't working anymore, I need some help...
I'm not sure what to do, I'm trying to add games on my previously working with WBFS harddrive but when I format it with the computer (using a variety of different computers) It isn't recognized by the Wii as WBFS format, when I format it with the Wii however, it won't show up on my computer and I can't transfer games on to it.

How do I fix this? I'm thinking that assigning a drive letter should help, but I've had no success in doing so so far, help would be appreciated

 

[Thoob]

It won't work just using Windows, that can't read WBFS drives. You need to use a tool like WBFS Manager to add and remove ISOs from the drive.
Hope this helps!

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[Rebound]

Thanks, but I already know that
The WBFS managers need drive letters and since my computer doesn't assign one to my WBFS drive I cant use the WBFS manager with it

 

[JohnnyCheeks]

Make sure you first format the drive as a FAT32 PRIMARY partition prior to formatting it with your preferred USB Loader info WBFS.

I had similar issues when I first starting using USB Loaders. Having a logical formatted drive will cause weird issues.

EDIT: And be sure to use a good 3rd party hard drive utility, like EASUS Partition Master.

 

[Rebound]

Holy Shit it Works!
I LOVE YOU

It's Conduit Time haha

 

[Jaz808]

I never hadd that prob with a brand new WD Elements 250 portable, just plugged it into the wii formatted it, and started loading games, then when i plugged it into the pc, had to be usb-2 as usb-1 couldnt power and read with the one plug, the pc seen it straight away, when i clicked on it it asked to format it, i said NO, loaded WBFS choose the drive letter and bingo

 

[hdhacker]

Make sure you first format the drive as a FAT32 PRIMARY partition prior to formatting it with your preferred USB Loader info WBFS.

I had similar issues when I first starting using USB Loaders. Having a logical formatted drive will cause weird issues.

EDIT: And be sure to use a good 3rd party hard drive utility, like EASUS Partition Master.

Windows has a dumb limitation on FAT32 being only 32GB. You don't have to actually format the partition in Windows. Just create a primary partition and assign it a drive letter. Formatting just takes extra time you don't need since it's going to be reformatted with the WBFS Manager anyway.