Hacking New Windows WBFS Tool

[twtcad]

@twtcad

once you have hit "init", click on the drive selector again, choose a diffrent one, then choose your drive you had "init"ed, should now show up as a wbfs

Good thought..........but no joy, it's not formatting for some reason.

 

[jogibear9988]

then try the wbfs.exe in a commandline with wbfs drivletter init and see wich error it reports!

 

[wiigee]

i've just used this tool to format a 500gb partition on my WD 1TB external, worked fine, instantly done, but i did have to click off the drive in the selection menu and back to it to check if it had done it, currently qued up and adding 50+ games to try in the morning. seems to work well

i havent tried renaming, hope it works ok

just as a heads up, the partition was created in vista disk management, half and half, second half was formatted as ntfs, the first half (for use with the usb loader) was set as primary partition unformatted

 

[twtcad]

then try the wbfs.exe in a commandline with wbfs drivletter init and see wich error it reports!

I have and this is what I get:

c:\wbfswin>wbfs n: init
wbfs windows port build 'delta'
You must supply a valid drive letter.

I've double/triple checked the drive letter and I can access it in windows no problem.

 

[jogibear9988]

letter without ":"

 

[slashi]

Great tool, but renaming doesn't work for me.

Version:
V1.06

OS:
Vista Home Premium

Disk:
Ipod 5G 60GB

 

[wiigee]

can you remove the fat 32 format using disk management, set it as unformatted and a primary drive, then try it again

 

[twtcad]

then try the wbfs.exe in a commandline with wbfs drivletter init and see wich error it reports!

I have and this is what I get:

c:\wbfswin>wbfs n: init
wbfs windows port build 'delta'
You must supply a valid drive letter.

I've double/triple checked the drive letter and I can access it in windows no problem.

OK....I just figured part of my problem and that I was adding a : in the command string. But I'm still getting an error:

c:\wbfswin>wbfs n init
wbfs windows port build 'delta'

!!! Warning......

Are you sure........

could not open drive: No error

Something seems to be accessing this drive but I can not figure it out. Which is also probably why I had to go into safemode to format the drive into fat32 in the first place. Any suggestions?

 

[wiigee]

my suggestion of unformatted and set as primary before using the "init" ?

 

[jogibear9988]

no i also don't know... i only know now that that is no problem of my gui...

but i don't know why wbfs does not work...

 

[cheatmaster5]

do any of these programs work on a partitioned drive
my wii finds the wbfs formatted part the computer does but not the program

 

[twtcad]

no i also don't know... i only know now that that is no problem of my gui...

but i don't know why wbfs does not work...

No, sorry jogibear; I was not trying to imply their was something wrong with it. I really think it's an issue on my end. Something is locking the drive and I do not know what.

I went into disk management and the only thing I could do is reformat to NTFS. So I am, then I will try again. If still does not work then I will reboot into safemode again now that I know how to use the dos commands.

Thank You for all your help and I will post back success or failure!

 

[twtcad]

I got it..........I reformated the drive to NTFS and I tried the win tool and no go. So I tried the dos commands and it worked. Opened up the win tool again and there it is recognized as a wbfs drive. Thank You for all your help!

 

[tecroll]

games show in wbfs tools but not in wii usb loader

 

[twtcad]

games show in wbfs tools but not in wii usb loader

is the loader giving you an error like; Could not initialize USB subsystem! (ret = -1) ? I was getting -6 until I realized I had never installed the cIOS36_rev9-Installer. Now everything is working great and I'm ripping games to the hd now.

 

[jogibear9988]

@slashi

as i said, i've no vista to try.... i'm looking what i can do...

 

[jogibear9988]

I'm currently working on Transfering WBFS games from one disk to an otherone. This will work by ripping the game into a iso and put it on the other disk!

Or has anyone a idee how i can copy the game directly to the other disk (via direct access). Is there anywhere the WBFS Filesystem definition aviable?? (I tryed to figure it out via the wbfs libs that are in the USB Launcher, but it's hard...

 

[jogibear9988]

Version 1.0.9:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mw5nnfkmzjm


- Extracting works
- Game copy from one disk to another (not tested yet)

 

[rogras]

Thx Jogi... great work!

 

[wi_takeru]

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