Hacking WBFS Corrupted. Trying to fix it with wwt. HELP!!!

[victoitor]

Hey guys, my usb loader crashed today. I can't read it anymore. Searching this forum I found several people using wwt successfully to fix their drives.

My problem is that wwt does not find my wbfs partition. I know it's in /dev/sdb1

This is the output I'm getting:

$ wwt analyse

ANALYZE /dev/sda

ANALYZE /dev/sda1

ANALYZE /dev/sda2

ANALYZE /dev/sda3

ANALYZE /dev/sda4

ANALYZE /dev/sda5

ANALYZE /dev/sda6

ANALYZE /dev/sdb

ANALYZE /dev/sdb1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂHD SECTORSÂÂWBFS SECTORSÂÂ DISCSÂÂÂÂÂÂ (all values in hex)
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ WBFSÂÂÂÂ totalÂÂsecÂÂtotalÂÂÂÂsecÂÂmax inode
NAMEÂÂÂÂmagic vrsÂÂÂÂ num sizeÂÂ numÂÂÂÂsizeÂÂnum sizeÂÂADDITIONAL INFORMATION
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DISCS:ÂÂÂÂÂÂ-ÂÂ0 254297c1ÂÂ200ÂÂ950aÂÂ800000ÂÂ1f4ÂÂa00ÂÂ81 disc header found
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

$ wwt init --recover /dev/sdb1
*****ÂÂwwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v1.20a r1945 i386 - Dirk Clemens - 2010-11-05ÂÂ*****
!! wwt: Option --force must be set to formatting a WBFS!
!! wwt:ÂÂ => test mode (like --test) enabled!

ANALYZE BLOCK DEVICE /dev/sdb1
WOULD FORMAT BLOCK DEVICE /dev/sdb1 [298 GiB, hss=512, wss=8 MiB]
** 1 file formatted.

$ wwt recover /dev/sdb1
*****ÂÂwwt: Wiimms WBFS Tool v1.20a r1945 i386 - Dirk Clemens - 2010-11-05ÂÂ*****

!! wwt: ERROR #28 [READ FILE FAILED] in AnalyzePartitions() @ src/wbfs-interface.c#367
!!ÂÂÂÂÂÂNo WBFS magic found: /dev/sdb1
!! wwt: ERROR #15 [NO WBFS FOUND] in AnalyzePartitions() @ src/wbfs-interface.c#381
!!ÂÂÂÂÂÂno WBFS partitions found -> abort

Is my only solution to format?

 

[dexter222]

Don't look at this as a setback, look at it as an opportunity

Now you can get rid of WBFS and format your drive with one big, happy FAT32 partition

 

[Wiimm]

The diagnostic told you:

!! wwt: Option --force must be set to formatting a WBFS!
!! wwt:ÂÂ => test mode (like --test) enabled!

# following that, use
wwt init --recover /dev/sdb1 --force
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^^^^^^^

You need --force because it's to easy to destroy any other file system with init