Hacking Nand Backup Failed

[~De arimasu]

I tried backing up my Nand for the first time just now and I've run into a problem.

I did it with the BootMii Backup on a 4.2 PAL Wii.

It was working alright although I ran into 4 bad blocks then it stopped and came up with

"Short write to block 2540: 16384 bytes
Backup Failed: -1"

Any ideas?

I'm not sure whether to turn my Wii off or not because of that big red warning cross over the power icon in the corner >_

 

[XFlak]

if you were backing up your nand, if u were to lose power (either intentionally or unintentionally) in the middle of the process, your wii will still be find, making a backup reads from the wii and writes to the sd card, so it does not change your wii whatsoever. So u can power it off and try performing another backup, if that also fails then maybe those specific 4 bad blocks you have prevent you from making a nand backup... in which case... be very careful not to brick!

 

[~De arimasu]

I tried using my other SD card and it worked fine so no problem now

Thanks for telling me though, didn't want to brick my Wii before getting the Nand dump.

 

[XFlak]

your welcome, glad 2 hear you got this fixed... I suspect your other SD had a small phisical switch that prevented to the wii to write to it, to fix this, just flip the switch! Either that or that SD card is just plain incompatible!

 

[typo99]

Well after trying another card, I finally got a nand dump also. Thanks for the suggestion.

One thing, during the backup it said it wrote keys, but I don't have a keys.bin file on my card.

Did it mess up?

 

[Vattu]

the keys are probably embedded in your nand backup file.