Hacking WBFS-HD corrupted - any chance to recover?

[Wiimm]

"1m" is wrong. use "1M" (1024*1024) or "1mb" (1000*1000) instead. ("man dd" say this!)

 

[tedrogers]

@Wiimm
Hi again,

So I tried the backup command, with capital M, and it worked.

Then I tried fdisk, option "o" to create new MS-DOS partition, and "w" to write to disk. Synced disks and it all looks good.

However, wwt analyse /dev/sdb1 does not work....the partition still does not exist for some reason? I have disconnected the drive and remounted, but still not working.

Do you know how I can get /dev/sdb1 to return???

I cannot find a tool to recover WBFS partitions.

Thank you.

 

[Wiimm]

create a primary partition and then you have /dev/sdb1

 

[tedrogers]

Please excuse my ignorance...but how do I create a primary partition?

I already attempted "o" and "w" in fdisk, but it did not help.

I really don't want to break anything any more than I already have!!

 

[Wiimm]

Please excuse my ignorance...but how do I create a primary partition?

I already attempted "o" and "w" in fdisk, but it did not help.

I really don't want to break anything any more than I already have!!

something like (hope that my mind works right):
CODE# fdisk /dec/sdb
n new
p primary
1 first partition
enter (default start sector)
enter (default end sector)
t type
1 partition if ask
c = FAT
p print to verify
w write

 

[tedrogers]

Hi,

When we get to the partition ID (using "t"), do we want FAT16 (option "6") or FAT32 (option "b").

There is a big list of types you can choose from, see picture:

Thanks. Nearly there I hope.

 

[tedrogers]

@Wiimm
Thanks dude.

I just chose FAT32 (option "b") and everything works brilliantly.

All my titles are back and working.

You are a god send.

Thank you for *all* your valuable assistance.

Very pleased.

P.S. I am going to make a full backup!!!

 

[Wiimm]

I just chose FAT32 (option "b") and everything works brilliantly.
"c" (as mentioned before) would also work.


QUOTE(tedrogers @ May 18 2010, 06:35 PM) All my titles are back and working.

Nice to hear.

 

[hoz74]

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry to post a new answer to this thread, but i broke 2 times my HDD with all my backups on it, and i desesperate to backup again all my games,

It happens with the game Mario Kart, with the wrong settings, but that's not the problem now :

I'm on Ubuntu, i use wiithon to manage my datas, and i use a 2.5' HDD of 160go.

When i start usb loader, it asks a valid partition, i choose my HDD, and black screen -> reboot after 5 seconds.
When i start Wiithon, no WBFS drive appears,

Gparted told me that the partition is unknown, i cannot use it, (but i can't format into ntfs, fat, ext, etc...)

So how can i use wwt or a HexaDecimal program to recover my datas ? is it possible on Ubuntu ?

Thank you, i'm a bit noob in that way.

 

[jamieshan]

Okay, so I was trying to get a game to load, and switched to IOS 222 and it corrupted my entire drive! So I'm trying to use the hex editor to recover it, but I can't get the hex editor to recognize my drive? WBFS Manager recognizes it, so what do I do to get HxD to recognize it? Thanks in advance! Kind of worried cause I had a ton of games on this drive!!!!

jamieshan

 

[BIGGDADDY9ER]

I too am in this situation. I accidentally reformatted my wbfs drive that had 187+ games on it and feel like a dog chasing his tail. Wiimms I have your tools and figured out how to run them but thats about as far as Ive succeeded. Ive tried the hex editing but failed at that. I hope I havent completely screwed this up and that someone can please guide me through this. Your patience and time will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Smokey McPot]

open a command windows (admin mode) and try

# check, if any WBFS is detected and to inform you
wwt analyze 

# if the output is to long try one of (os depended)
wwt analyze | less 
wwt analyze | more
wwt analyze > analyze.txt # and edit

# give format a chance (test mode only)
wwt format --recover --test /dev/your_drive

# If you like the results try
wwt formatÂÂ--recover --force /dev/your_drive

But remember: a wrong drive path may destroy the content of that drive

i tryed
wwt format --recover --force /dev/your_drive
THANK YOU IT WORKED!! i almost shit my pants when it said i wasn't formated u rock dude

 

[LaoED]

My way to recover a wbfs currupted partition:

1. Using Wii Backup Manager, re-format your wbfs currupted partition.
2. Use wwt -f -p /dev/YOURPARTITION EDIT ACT=0-1000 to turn data visible
3. Using Wii Backup Manager copy all valid data to other partition, drive ...

Works for me.


ty, this worked for me as well, even w/o step 3

my steps: (where j & /dev/sdc2 is my wbfs partition)

1. wbfs j init
2. wwt -f -p /dev/sdc2 EDIT A CT=0-1000

* MODIFY WBFS partition /dev/sdc2:
ÂÂ> WBFS block size:ÂÂ400000/hex = 4194304 = 4.0 MiB
ÂÂ> WBFS block range:ÂÂ 1..59517
ÂÂ> ISO block range:ÂÂÂÂ0..2241
ÂÂ> Number of discs:ÂÂÂÂ0
ÂÂ> Number of slots:ÂÂ500

ÂÂ- activate discs 0..499.

?
* Summary of WBFS Check: 40901 errors found:
40901 used WBFS sectors marked as free!
ÂÂTotal: 68 discs are invalid!

3. wwt check /dev/sdc2

 * Summary of WBFS Check: 40901 errors found:
40901 used WBFS sectors marked as free!
ÂÂ Total: 68 discs are invalid!

4. wwt repair /dev/sdc2
CODEREPAIR /dev/sdc2
* Store fixed 'free blocks table' (7680 bytes).

another check didn't show any errors and all the games show up and work again
ty all for this thread, saved me many hours of ripping all my originals again

Super newb question here, how can I tell which is my partition when I input the command to analyze. I end up getting these results:

"sdb2
sdc
sdc1
sdc2."

What is the correct command to analyze and tell which one is my wbfs partition?

 

[Wiimm]

Plug of your wbfs drive, wait a few seconds and use "wwt find --long". Then plug in our wbfs drive, wait a few seconds and use "wwt find --long" again. The new entry should be your wbfs drive. confirm the drive geometry.

If you are sure use: "wwt init --recover /dev/your_sd --force" It will format your drive again without overwriting the disc infos, then enabling all slots (like the "wwt edit" command) and then testing each slot and disabling slots without valid discs. After this is is still possible to use the "wwt edit" command to enable all slots.


Some drive info copied from http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

linuxÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂwindows deviceÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂcomment
------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sdaÂÂÂÂ \device\harddisk0\partition0ÂÂÂÂ(whole disk)
/dev/sda1ÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk0\partition1ÂÂÂÂ(first partition)
...
/dev/sda15ÂÂ \device\harddisk0\partition15ÂÂ (fifteenth partition)

/dev/sdbÂÂÂÂ \device\harddisk1\partition0
/dev/sdb1ÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk1\partition1

[up to]

/dev/sddxÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk127\partition0
/dev/sddx1ÂÂ \device\harddisk127\partition1
...
/dev/sddx15ÂÂ\device\harddisk127\partition15

 

[XPirate]

hello

thanks for the great guide, it helped me a lot
my wbfs hdd was also corrupted by a blackout, but it's now okay...

...except for one thing:
as you can see it in the picture, i've got 90 games, but the used space is too small
(it was 0 GB before i put on a game after i repaired the wbfs drive, now it is only the size of that one game)

and my sector 63

am i need to change the 02s to 01s? is it right?

 

[LaoED]

Plug of your wbfs drive, wait a few seconds and use "wwt find --long". Then plug in our wbfs drive, wait a few seconds and use "wwt find --long" again. The new entry should be your wbfs drive. confirm the drive geometry.

If you are sure use: "wwt init --recover /dev/your_sd --force" It will format your drive again without overwriting the disc infos, then enabling all slots (like the "wwt edit" command) and then testing each slot and disabling slots without valid discs. After this is is still possible to use the "wwt edit" command to enable all slots.


Some drive info copied from http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html

linuxÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂwindows deviceÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂcomment
------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sdaÂÂÂÂ \device\harddisk0\partition0ÂÂÂÂ(whole disk)
/dev/sda1ÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk0\partition1ÂÂÂÂ(first partition)
...
/dev/sda15ÂÂ \device\harddisk0\partition15ÂÂ (fifteenth partition)

/dev/sdbÂÂÂÂ \device\harddisk1\partition0
/dev/sdb1ÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk1\partition1

[up to]

/dev/sddxÂÂÂÂ\device\harddisk127\partition0
/dev/sddx1ÂÂ \device\harddisk127\partition1
...
/dev/sddx15ÂÂ\device\harddisk127\partition15

Thanks for the reply.

 

[MrRochie]

Greets all I have the same problem with WBFS. I started to format the wrong drive letter with windows disk management before I realized what I had done... but I canceled it quickly.. Now I cannot access the drive with any WBFS manager at all.... Sure would like to recover from my error somehow anyone got any idea for the non programer here??? ... BTW doesn't fat32 require more storage space for your games since most of them are all around 4.6 gb When I use WBFS it removes the garbage data and reduces the size so I can fit more in the same space... Isn't fat 32 limited in this respect?? Thanks all....

 

[PsyBlade]

I started to format the wrong drive letter with windows disk management before I realized what I had done... but I canceled it quickly.. Now I cannot access the drive with any WBFS manager at all.... Sure would like to recover from my error somehow anyone got any idea for the non programer here??? ... BTW doesn't fat32 require more storage space for your games since most of them are all around 4.6 gb When I use WBFS it removes the garbage data and reduces the size so I can fit more in the same space... Isn't fat 32 limited in this respect?? Thanks all....

to recover wbfs there are basically two tools available
wimms wit toolset and hexeditors
while the later is only usefull for experienced hackers the former should be usable by most computer users
at least indirectly (aka ask someone)

and no fat32 usb loading does not use more space then wbfs
well at least if you dont count lost games as saved space

which I knew why this is claimed so much
cant you lot simply let this terrible fs die

 

[ltjcrew06]

I performed these steps and everything looks good. But when I try to play a game I get "wbfs error, not a wii disc" at the top of each game.
If I try to play, the wii will freeze. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tommy

open a command windows (admin mode) and try

# check, if any WBFS is detected and to inform you
wwt analyze 

# if the output is to long try one of (os depended)
wwt analyze | less 
wwt analyze | more
wwt analyze > analyze.txt # and edit

# give format a chance (test mode only)
wwt format --recover --test /dev/your_drive

# If you like the results try
wwt formatÂÂ--recover --force /dev/your_drive

But remember: a wrong drive path may destroy the content of that drive

 

[Dravial]

I have been suffering from a similar problem in these posts. I have a post under the usbloaders recently as I thought the problem related to my recent updating of them, but after reading this post and performing some of the actions, I no longer believe this. Please, if someone would take the time to assist me and look at this I would be over joyed.

After recnt updates to some outdated cIOS and loaders, I noticed a large number of my games on loader (usb loader gx) would still show up in the lsit, but either not load (black screen) or freeze while loading or even a few load to start screen stating "this game requires nunchuck blah blah" but not respond to wiimote whether nunchuck was installed or not. Something also of note, the usb drive (2.5" / usb powered) may have been unplugged while wii was running (almost sure this happened, and now see this is bad...)

After completely rehacking via modmii and reinstalling a few different loaders my problem remained and I came to be here, to wit I have doen the following:

Using WIT tools, this is what my backupdrive looks like before I do anything, using LIST:

There is 111 discs on drive - This is correct... Also, when I CHECK at this point in the game, it comes up as:

* Summary of WBFS Check: 269 errors found:
ÂÂ 269 WBFS sectors are used by 2 or more discs!
ÂÂ Total: 86 discs are invalid!

Then I analyze, and it looks like:



This says 101 disc headers found, but I have in all 111 discs? I then use the format with --recover command as described in this thread:



All right, zero errors! Uhm, Where did my other 86 games go? Interesting... 86 games go bye bye, 86 errors were invalid, obviously a connection - BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT/WHY?! This is where I would love some help...

Anyway, then I run the edit to get everything back, along with the errors...



Also, I tried using the editor, and I notice 86 of the 111 strings where games should be all read 03, changing them to 01 didn't seem to help... Here is a pic just for reference...



Please help, I bought a new hard drive that has a seperate power source that I hope will prevent this from happening again (if indeed that is the cause of my problem) and I would like to recover everything if possible. Or am I screwed and are these 25 games that get recovered all I have any chance of salvaging?Thanks in advance for your patience and assistance...