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Originally Posted by desperado836

NTFS Hard Drives - Formatting, Loading, Ripping, Playing

[NTFS USB Loading will only work with Hermes cIOS222/223 v4+ or with cIOSx Rev19+]

Advantages/Disadvantages

[NTFS Advantages]

• No Wasted WBFS Space as the partition can be shared for other purposes
• Can be used for Storing your USB Loaders files,Movies etc
• Game files can be copied using normal file managers
• Better choice of file system recovery/defragmentation tools
• Can load files larger then 4GB(no need to split in two)
• You don't have to convert ISO(s) into .WBFS

[NTFS Disadvantages]

• Homebrew channel can't load apps off NTFS formatted HDD
  
• No Nand Emulation
  

[Similarities]

• Loading speed is the same compared to WBFS/FAT32

Before You Begin

1. Your Wii MUST Be successfully Soft-modded. Hopefully using one of our
recommended softmod Guides.

• Softmod ANY Wii - By Mauifrog
• Softmod 3.0-4.2 Wiis - By Cile
  
• The 4.3 Softmod Guide - By Mauifrog

2. Before you buy an External USB Hard Drive be sure to check the Compatibility Lists.

• WiiHacks List

• GBATemp Wiki List

Installing The Right cIOS

If you have followed one of mauifrog's guides you can use 250 & 222

My softmod guide you can use both 249 & 222 Options.

Other guides only 222

If you need to install the correct one/new set up look here cIOS Wads Guide.Read the FAQ spoiler in that guide.

Setup

**You WILL Lose ALL data on the Drive following this guide**
**Backup any files you want to keep before continuing**

New USB Hard Drive -- Ready to Use(all new HDD come in NTFS format all you have to do is set it to active through disk management)

Used USB Hard Drive -- Run Check Disk

• Click "My Computer" -- Right click your USB Drive and select "Properties"
• Click "Tools" and "Check Now" -- Check Disk Opens
• Select Both Options by Checking the boxes and click "Start"

Or open a command prompt and run the PC Chkdsk /r command

**You WILL Lose ALL data on the Drive following this guide**
**Backup any files you want to keep before continuing**

Formatting

**Backup any files that you want to keep**

Download -- <Easeus Partition Manager[Home Edition]> Install It

Connect your External USB Hard Drive to your PC

1. Open EASEUS Partition Master -- Start Menu > All Programs > EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition > EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition
*or C:\Program Files (x86)\EASEUS\EASEUS Partition Master 6.5.2 Home Edition\bin\epm0.exe

2. Under "Disk 3" you will see my USB Hard Drive Disk - (Notice - your Disk number may/will be different - Also notice that mine is formatted)

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3. Right Click on the USB HDD you want to use and select "Delete" -- "Delete the Selected Partition?" Click "OK".

• Do the same for ALL partitions on this Hard Drive ONLY
• The Drive will now show as "Unallocated"

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4. Right click your now "unallocated" USB HDD and select "Create" -- Change the following Options :

***Notice: Using the recommended values will aid in diagnosing any problems you may have, until you are familiar with your Wii and it's operation, please try to use these.

• Partition Label : Wii HDD --(Recommended Label -- Name it whatever you want)

• Create As : Primary

• Drive Letter : K: (Recommended Drive Letter -- Choose whatever letter you want)

• File System : NTFS

• Cluster Size : Default -- (This will be set Automatically)

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5. Size And Position

Set The Following:

• Unallocated Space Before should say "0.0 MB"
• Partition Size : (Whatever size you want, in the example I used all available space)
• Unallocated Space After should say "0.0 MB"
• Click "OK"

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6. Set As Active

• Right Click your USB HDD -- Click "Advanced" then "Set Active" -- Click "OK"

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7. Look to the bottom left hand side of the program. Listed under Disk Operations should be the steps to make your USB HDD ready to go for setup. In my case, 1) Set the Label for J: Wii HDD; 2)Delete J: on Disk 3; 3)Create K: on Disk 3; 4)Set Active Wii HDD K: on Disk 3.

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• Now Click "APPLY"

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• A new window will pop up informing you to "Apply Changes" and list the amount of operations are currently pending. If you want to click the box to "Shut down the computer after changes are applied" is up to you, otherwise, click YES.

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• Another window pops up and it is doing the operations you have made for it, see example. This process is particularly fast to do, so it shouldn't be a waiting game unless your computer is really slow.

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• When the program finishes you should get a pop up stating the the operations have been executed successfully!

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• Click OK. You are back to the program's main interface, exit the program, you are done!

Congratulations, your HDD is now formatted to NTFS, move onto installing a loader

Installing Loader & Forwarder Channel

Note: You must have ios58 installed or the forwarders wont work.

This installs a forwarder channel that looks for the boot.dol on SD card or USB Hard Drive. To Update, just replace the boot.dol with a different revision. If you want to load from HBC rather then a Forwarder, just extract the appropriate RAR file to your USB Root.

Configurable USB Loader

1. Install One of the Forwarder Channels With Wad Manager. Extract One of the RAR's

|1. CFG NForwarder58-UXCF -v6 | 2.CFG NForwarder58-UXCF -v6 Alternate

• cIOS222/223 Users -- Download THIS -- Extract the RAR File directly to USB:/

• cIOSx 249 Rev19/20 Users -- Download THIS -- Extract the RAR File directly to USB:/

WiiFlow

1. Install One of the Forwarder Channels With Wad Manager. Extract One of the RAR's

|1. Violet NForwarder58-WFBV |2. Orange NForwarder58-WFBO | 3. Green NForwarder58-WFBG

• cIOS222/223 Users -- Download THIS -- Extract the RAR File directly to USB:/

• cIOSx 249 Rev19/20 Users -- Download THIS -- Extract the RAR File directly to USB:/

http://www.wiihacks.com/other-faq-gu...g-playing.html