Hacking UStealth - Wii U 'Format Disk' Nag workaround :)

[nintendoswitchfan55]

The problem is I can only hide the USB, it's keep saying to hide it and never to show it again. It's Nintendoswitchfan55.

 

[godreborn]

Can I have help for Ustealth?
I know that it's probably my fault but I don't know what I did wrong but when I tried to hide my USB it worked but I can't show it again? Can anyone help please on how to show it again? A video would be nice too please? It's a Kingston G4 Data Traveler 64 GB Drive

should be just clicking or double clicking the drive that says HIDDEN. then, remove the drive from the computer and plug it back in.

 

[nintendoswitchfan55]

should be just clicking or double clicking the drive that says HIDDEN. then, remove the drive from the computer and plug it back in.

Sorry but the problem is that it's thinking that it's not hidden but it is but won't let me show the USB. Is there any other way to make the USB shown again? This is what I'm taking about:

 

[godreborn]

it says to try R7 if R8 works. R8 works for me, personally. there's also the possibility that it's not compatible for some reason. I'm using I think a wd blue. I put it in an enclosure with a toggle switch, and I think it's a wd blue or black, but I'm think it's a wd blue (can't remember).

 

[nintendoswitchfan55]

it says to try R7 if R8 works. R8 works for me, personally. there's also the possibility that it's not compatible for some reason. I'm using I think a wd blue. I put it in an enclosure with a toggle switch, and I think it's a wd blue or black, but I'm think it's a wd blue (can't remember).

Didn't Work, so is my USB dead then?

 

[ChiefReginod]

Eh... my bad.

 

[nintendoswitchfan55]

Eh... my bad.

is it for me?

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it's over right?

 

[godreborn]

well, there's a couple commands above somewhere that shows how to stealth the drive via terminal. that's the only other thing I can think of. if you don't know how to do that, try another drive or something.

 

[nintendoswitchfan55]

Another thing what I mean is that when I hide it, it thinks the USB is still normal or shown, not hidden, also I got this information from this video

 

[nintendoswitchfan55]

Nope it failed again

 

[ChiefReginod]

is it for me?

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I just missed a bunch of later posts before I replied with what someone already said.

 

[mive]

you need to change the last byte of mbr from AB to AA

e.g.:

$ dd if=/dev/sdc of=/tmp/mbr bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.00559749 s, 91.5 kB/s
mv@mv-pc:~$ xxd /tmp/mbr | tail -n 1
000001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa ..............U.

Offset 1FF (decimal 511, first offset is 0)

 

[kwien37]

you need to change the last byte of mbr from AB to AA

e.g.:

$ dd if=/dev/sdc of=/tmp/mbr bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.00559749 s, 91.5 kB/s
mv@mv-pc:~$ xxd /tmp/mbr | tail -n 1
000001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa ..............U.

Offset 1FF (decimal 511, first offset is 0)

I'm sorry but I have no idea what any of this means

 

[kwien37]

you can also use dd for windows, you just need to copy the first 512 bytes from the usb device to the pc, change with regular hex ediotr and copy back.

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

ensure you use the right device and also maybe make either a backup (of your usb device) or do some sort of test before copying back. also ensure you dont mess up your pc hd

How do I do that

 

[mive]

forget about dd, found an easier way:

download Hxd HexEditor (https://mh-nexus.de/de/downloads.php?product=HxD20)

I used the portable version

Open HxD, go to extras > open device (uncheck read-only)


next, goto offset 1FF and check the value there (should be AB)
change this to AA


save, remove and reinsert device

 

[kwien37]

forget about dd, found an easier way:

download Hxd HexEditor (https://mh-nexus.de/de/downloads.php?product=HxD20)

I used the portable version

Open HxD, go to extras > open device (uncheck read-only)
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next, goto offset 1FF and check the value there (should be AB)
change this to AA
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save, remove and reinsert device
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this happens when i try to save

 

[mive]

did you uncheck read-only when selecting the device?

edit:
also why is there efi stuff?

this dont seem to be mbr, but gpt instead

if thats the case use MBR, no need for something fancy like gpt for your wii hdd

just mbr with one fat32 partition

 

[kwien37]

did you uncheck read-only when selecting the device?

edit:
also why is there efi stuff?

this dont seem to be mbr, but gpt instead

if thats the case use MBR, no need for something fancy like gpt for your wii hdd

just mbr with one fat32 partition

yes, i did uncheck read-only
also my usb is mbr

the efi stuff might be because i used this usb drive to boot up linux like a year or 2 ago

 

[mive]

maybe you need to start as admin to get needed permission.

I only used win 7 and didnt need to do this, so not sure

 

[kwien37]

maybe you need to start as admin to get needed permission.

I only used win 7 and didnt need to do this, so not sure

i already started as admin

 

[mive]

maybe windows is accessing the drive. If you insert the device the windows prompt which wants to format your drive to be useable should show up. Did you abort the dialog? Else, maybe win blocks access ?