Earlier today I bought a 500 gigabyte HDD (TOURO brand), but for some reason, even AFTER formatting it to FAT32 via the Disks app on Fedora Linux, the Wii U won't read or mount it. Any ideas on how I can solve this little conundrum?
Wii U not reading the 500GB HDD I bought earlier
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If this is an actual hard disk drive (and not an SSD) then you will need a Y-splitter cable on the Wii U as a single USB port cannot provide enough power for a mechanical drive, an SSD would have no such issue.
The fact its not reading the HDD and asking you to re-format to the proprietary Wii U filesystem format suggests its not getting enough power.
If it is getting enough power, then try formatting the drive as MBR instead of GPT in Linux then re-connecting.
The fact its not reading the HDD and asking you to re-format to the proprietary Wii U filesystem format suggests its not getting enough power.
If it is getting enough power, then try formatting the drive as MBR instead of GPT in Linux then re-connecting.
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