Hardware WBFS drive to Fat32

[sangweb]

I am having trouble as every USB GX kept complaining about initializing usb drive. It was working before but just today it won't load games. The drives was formatted WBFS but I don't want to loose all the games. Putting the drive on windows kept asking to format and since I said no, no drive is assigned. How can I get the drive recognize by Wii Backup Manager without format the drive? should I go to the windows disk management and add set the drive as simple without reformatting? I just don't want to loose data. so once I set the drive letter on the disk mgt, I then onen the WBM to see the games?

 

[sangweb]

I am having trouble as every USB GX kept complaining about initializing usb drive. It was working before but just today it won't load games. The drives was formatted WBFS but I don't want to loose all the games. Putting the drive on windows kept asking to format and since I said no, no drive is assigned. How can I get the drive recognize by Wii Backup Manager without format the drive? should I go to the windows disk management and add set the drive as simple without reformatting? I just don't want to loose data. so once I set the drive letter on the disk mgt, I then onen the WBM to see the games?

I was wrong, the drive is Fat32 already but for some reason, Windows does not recognize it. Kept asking to initialize then format. Is it because it is unstealthed? Sorry but I am using this on the vWii on WiiU

 

[JuanMena]

I was wrong, the drive is Fat32 already but for some reason, Windows does not recognize it. Kept asking to initialize then format. Is it because it is unstealthed? Sorry but I am using this on the vWii on WiiU

Sounds like a bad format / corrupted drive.
This has happened to me with SD cards and cellphones...
Have you tried your drive in another console? For example, a Wii? This is in order to rule out possibilities.
If your drive is playable on a Wii console, then your drive is not the problem.

 

[Cyan]

change the "Loader's IOS" setting to use either IOS58 or IOS249.
it's in the loader's settings.

also, on WiiU vWii; YOU NEED Y-CABLE !

it's ALL OVER THE FORUM FOR 5 YEARS!!!
how comes users are still giving wrong and worse solution to that common problem?

Windows does not recognize it. Kept asking to initialize then format. Is it because it is unstealthed?

yes, Ustealth is a method to corrupt the partition table in order for the WiiU to stop asking to format it.
so, Windows doesn't recognize the drive and ask to format it.

it's either the WiiU or windows which asks to format it, you choose what's worse or better.
choose the option you are less prone to click "yes" to the format prompt.
Personnaly, I prefer not using Ustealth as I'm fully capable of not clicking 3 times on WiiU prompts : "yes ... "yess I'm sure"... "yess start now", the wiiU is more forgiving than windows where it might init the MBR right away.
The difference is that windows doesn't delete the partition data (only the partition info/start/size) and can be restored, while the WiiU does format the drive.