Hacking Read USB Drive from Broken Wii U on New Wii U

[HarveyHouston]

Okay, so here's the situation. I broke my Wii U last month, and got my NNID stuff transferred via phone. However, I have a 64 GB SanDisk Cruzer Edge that I used on the old console, and it can't be read on the new Wii U. Under my Linux machine, it says "Unknown Partition", so I know it's not a partition type that I can just mount and have access to all my junk on my computer.

To be fair, I have hacked Wii and vWii, but I'm a noob when it comes to hacking Wii U, and I'd be afraid to be locked out of my NNID account. I don't know what to try, but I'd be willing to try a hack only if somebody can guide me, or link to a descriptive guide on extracting USB data with a hack.

I have redownloaded the games, but if it conflicts with the SanDisk flash drive data once I can read it, I am willing to delete the games again.

Most, not all, of my data was on the flash drive.

I have not played any of the games I redownloaded, for fear of not being able to recover my saves.

I want mainly to be able to recover saves and DLC, not just the games, although it would be nice to be able to access all of it. Please help me!

 

[HarveyHouston]

Hmm, after doing a bit of searching here on the forums, I see now that others have similar problems with USB drives. Let me make a few more things clear:

• This is a flash drive, not a hard disk drive. I am using a SanDisk Cruzer Edge. If you don't know what that is, use your search engine of choice and look it up.
• The drive works, and it is fairly new, so I do not believe it is dying.
• I do not believe it is corrupted. I have NOT formatted it. I also did not change partition types or anything of the sort.
• I think it's WBFS-type, if that helps.

I want to either transfer the data to a drive that the Wii U can recognize, or try to make the drive itself readable by the new Wii U. If I need to do this by computer, I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu which I can work with.