My 1TB HDD for my Wii U is corrupted i think. Is there anyway i can get my save data out of it?

i thought wiiu saved game saves to the internal memory and only the games themselves was on the hdd? ive got smash wiiu on disk and then i switched to a digital version on my hdd and the save still worked fine, dont quote me on this as i could be wrong
edit: if I'm right then your saves should still be on your wii u and you'll just need to reformat your hdd and redownload your games. before you do anything check on your wii u to see if the saves are still there

 

maybe with dumpsterU, but that's only if the hdd works at all.

 

if the hdd is corrupted and your wiiu is asking to format it i don't think they's anything that can be done then. wiiu formatted drives can only be used on the wiiu it was formatted on and windows can read the hdd either.

 

Can you start up a homebrew save app and then connect the drive?
Worth a try.

 

maybe you can mount your wiiu hdd with this:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-wfs-fuse-mount-wii-u-usb-drives-on-linux-and-mlc-dumps.478835/

reading data should work (so you can copy your savegames to pc)

 

How did this evade my radar?

 

saves will have this structure. I think the main folder on usb is called usr, so it's probably in there, but it's been a while, so look for the 80000001 folder. I think it's the user folder, so if you have more than one user, it may be a different number. from what I remember, saves are obvious in most cases::

 

You can use saviine, savemii, system config tool, or ftp. Saves are not encrypted

 

i allways be afraid of that! without hdd, saves are on internal memory, but when there is a plugged hdd, saves are saved on this hdd..
I guess there is no way to use wfs-fuse on windows or mac?

 

I think dumpsterU can do the same thing, but I've never personally used it. the hdd has to be functional for it to work, so if it's not being detected or something, there's probably nothing that can be done.

 

no, the wiiu uses its own filesystem which wont be recognized by windows.
it'll only ask you if you want to format the hdd

 

not on windows, afaik

edit:
only with linux and (maybe) mac

edit2:
but it may also be possible your drive is dead/damaged and wont work on pc either

edit3:
if you try to connect it under windows, does the drive spin up ? do you get the windows format prompt?
(sorry for bad english)

 

Hello,

Maybe this will help you ==>https://gbatemp.net/threads/dumpsteru-wii-u-harddrive-dumper.568513/