USB loader GX stuck at Loading... Initializing SD CARD

[SilverGreen93]

Hi guys.
As the title says, I cannot get any file manager apps to load. Wiiexplorer, Wiiflow, USBloader are all stuck at mounting devices or loading/initializing SD card.
I have a normal Wii, firmware 4.3E.
I installed Priiloader and cIOS as per wii.guide tutorials.
Here is my syscheck report

EDIT: I had hermes installed:
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermes-v5): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0

which I removed with WiiModLite, but this does still not solve the problem.


What did I do wrong?
Thanks!

EDIT2:
I copied the apps folder to USB and removed the sd card, now the usb loader loads, but why does it not accept the sd card being inserted?

Post automatically merged: Oct 10, 2023

Found the solution:
My SD card was formatted FAT32 with 8192 bytes allocation size.
I reformatted it with 32Kb allocation size and now it works fine.

 

[morning_glory]

Some formatting apps just keep failing to format to 32K cluster (Fat32). There are ways around it.
Your SD card must be small if you formatted using Windows.

It's getting to be less rare these days. Always double check the cluster sizes after a format.