Hacking Trouble formatting external HD

[nijs5]

I have a 1TB drive I am trying to use for on the WiiU but I get stuck at the checking drive phase when formatting. The drive was originally internal drive but its hooked up to a sata to usb 3.0 adapter which includes a power cord that plugs in. (just some background info not sure if this is the problem.) I searched around and couldn't find an answer.

I read elsewhere that the wiiu only supports usb 2.0 (although I thought it would be backward compatible) Have other people got usb 3.0 working fine?

I've also tried unblocking updates and seeing if the wiiu needed a connection to the nintendo network to format the drive but that did not make a difference.

The wiiu also doesnt notice the drive on boot so I have to attempt this through the settings.

I tried formatting the drive to exFAT and NTFS before hand and neither worked.

Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks!

 

[Jhnsn]

The drive is incompatible. Like mine. If you want to load games from USB you need another compatible drive.

 

[nijs5]

That's a shame. OK thanks!

 

[Jayro]

...Or a large enough USB stick, or a nano USB microSD reader.

 

[Irastris]

One final measure you could take is to buy a Y splitter and power the drive using two USB ports instead of one USB port and external power.

Using a Y splitter worked perfectly for my 700GB internal HDD inside of a Sabrent SATA to USB 3.0 enclosure. Your results may very, though.

 

[Deleted member 388912]

If your looking for a new HDD I recommend you get either a Western Digital, Seagate, or a SanDisk HDD. And like Irastris said try a y cable.