Hey everyone,
I have been using my wbfs formatted hhd for a few months and i just bought a new 1 tb hhd. I was exploring new software for wbfs formatting when i came to the conclusion that wbfs is the worst out of the formats to use (fat and ntfs being better) but i hate the 4 gb restriction of fat32 (especially because wii games are 4.4 gbs) but i could find anything about used ntfs. Does anyone know if ntfs has bad compatibility with usbloaders?

 

Go for FAT32. Lots of homebrew apps arent compatible with NTFS. Plus you cant rip games to NTFS either AFAIK.

 

there is more than that locoroco, they are quite a few games that are just over the 4gb mark. usually they max around 4.13. but it is not a big deal, really, wii backup manager splits them and they play identically to the full size image. they is NO difference in fat32 and ntfs loading, only that ntfs is supported by less programs and you cannot write to ntfs from the wii (correctly, i know GX can do it but you risk your drive). that is it. fat32 wins

 

Okay, i can dual partition it. What should be the size of the partitions, 500 gb x2, or 250 gb formatted as fat and 750 gb formatted as ntfs? and if i do this i should just write the game files to the ntfs partition?

sorry if im being a noob at this >

 

my current setup is 200 gb fat32 for all my homebrew and games and 500 gb ntfs for pc backups, and everything else. Another good thing about this is that everyone knows not to mess with my wii partition .I would recommend 200 gb fat32 for you too because there arent many great games and I am currently using only 20 gb of my fat32.