Strange Problem with Wii Reading WBFS

BigWinston · 07-10-2009, 03:02 PM

I have an LU65 wii and performed the LU64+ softmod. I am using USBLoaderGX

All appeared to be working fine. Using WBFS Manager I had downloaded a game iso to a portable HDD. Plugged into the back of the Wii, started up USBLoaderGX from the Home screen and the game worked right off the bat.

So I removed it from the Wii, went upstairs to put some more games on. I increased the size of the parition, formatted it again with WBFS Manager, copied several game isos onto it and went to plug into the Wii again.

This time, USBLoaderGX told me that the drive had no partitions, and asked did I want to format it... I selected No, plugged back into my PC and loaded up WBFS manager again. All the ISO's were there.

So, back on the Wii, I formatted the drive in USBLoaderGX and figured I'd use that partition to install my ISO's on. Plugged back into the PC and no drive was recognized. If I loaded up a partition manager it shows the whole drive as unused space (i.e. No partition).

So, on the Wii I backed up Wii sports to the HDD, ran it to test it on the Wii, works fine. Plugged back into the PC and no HDD showing up in Windows (and hence no Wii drive letter available to me in WBFS Manager).

I formatted and added more ISO's again on the PC, plugged back into the Wii and I still see the Wii Sports image!!! (Yes, after formatting it)!?>!? None of the images I added in WBFS Manager though!

Do I have to partition my drive in a particular way?

First time around, I created a FAT32 partition (the whole drive) and formatted that new FAT32 drive using WBFS Manager to WBFS. I've tried that again with no success.

Also I tried USB Loader, and it seems to not recognize the ISOs.

Any ideas? No matter how bizaare? I've searched the forums here and can't find any kind of similar problem! I'm at a loss

Thanks for reading...

BigWinston · 07-10-2009, 03:06 PM

Think I'm going to try something...

Instead of using the "quick format" offered by the various partitioning tools, I'm going to do a complete byte-by-byte wipe (takes hours ZZZZzzz) off the HDD, remove any trace, and try the whole thing again.

Will let you all know if it works, incase someone else runs into this problem in the future...

Would still love your ideas though incase this doesnt work!

mossopinc · 08-11-2009, 08:55 AM

yer i had my drive in a caddiy that was NTFS and used WBFS Manager to format my drive to WBFS which worked and showed up in my vista pc which it wanted to format it but i left it as WBFS and put some games on the drive, when done i put it in the Wii and USB loader said the drive wasnt WBFS and that it wanted to format so i said yes and seconds later it was done

so i brought the drive back to the pc but windows does not show the drive anymore

so i cant format it to WBFS or even NTFS. looked in device manager and it does show the drive so why wont it show up in my computer? How do i get to reformat my drive to sommit i can use?

Tealc · 08-11-2009, 09:32 AM

Try the disk manager utility in Windows to see if that registers the drive, it may show as RAW as the data type.

You also need to set the WBFS partition as primary active for it to work.

mossopinc · 08-11-2009, 09:48 AM

Ah kool i never knew how to do that

thank very much