Hacking Upgrading to a larger external drive

[MarvinMar]

I have a 500 gig portable USB drive connected and loaded using a dual usb cable for date and power.
I would now like to upgrade that to a 1tb external drive.
What is the best way to do this. I would ultimately like to retain all the existing games and have room for more.
I also would like to avoid orphaning games that the WiiU thinks are installed, but are not.

Thanks,

 

[Alexander1970]

I have a 500 gig portable USB drive connected and loaded using a dual usb cable for date and power.
I would now like to upgrade that to a 1tb external drive.
What is the best way to do this. I would ultimately like to retain all the existing games and have room for more.
I also would like to avoid orphaning games that the WiiU thinks are installed, but are not.

Thanks,

Hello.

The "safest" and maybe only but unfortunately "slow" Method is to
- plug first the new 1 TB USB HDD´s into your Wii U,boot it Up please.
The Wii U wants to format it,please do it.
- then power down the Wii U
- please plug in your 500 GB USB HDD too
- please go to the Data Management.
Then copy everything from Disk 1 to Disk 2.Yes,it takes Time.

Personal I have no Idea,if and how an Image/Cloning with for Example "AOMEI Partition Asisstent" works.
It fails on recognizing the Wii U HDD,I think.
If it works,I do not know,you then have Access to the left Space on the new HDD.

Good Luck and
Thank you.

 

[MarvinMar]

Hello.

The "safest" and maybe only but unfortunately "slow" Method is to
- plug first the new 1 TB USB HDD´s into your Wii U,boot it Up please.
The Wii U wants to format it,please do it.
- then power down the Wii U
- please plug in your 500 GB USB HDD too
- please go to the Data Management.
Then copy everything from Disk 1 to Disk 2.Yes,it takes Time.

Personal I have no Idea,if and how an Image/Cloning with for Example "AOMEI Partition Asisstent" works.
It fails on recognizing the Wii U HDD,I think.
If it works,I do not know,you then have Access to the left Space on the new HDD.

Good Luck and
Thank you.

NO, Thank You!