Harddrive Backup

bjb252r6 · 09-11-2009, 06:48 AM

Hey guys, I hope I'm not posting an already asked question, but I tried the search and I couldn't find what I was looking for.

I have my wii soft modded and I'm using Waninkoko's USB Loader v1.1. I formatted my harddrive using the USB Loader and I want to be able to back up that harddrive in case it ever fails. I tried using WBFS and I had no luck getting it to read the drive. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my computer to recognize the drive so that I can back it up?

Thanks in advance.

WiiJohn · 09-11-2009, 07:06 AM

Your USB HDD is formatted in WBFS. You could only back that up if you had another WBFS drive. Most people backup the iso's of the games either to a partion on the USB HDD, or on their PC.

bjb252r6 · 09-11-2009, 07:15 AM

Right. So if I format another drive using USB Loader, how do I then go about backing up the drive with all of the games on it?

WiiJohn · 09-11-2009, 07:22 AM

Its best to format the drive with WBFS manager. Both drives can plugged into your PC, WBFS manager should recognise both drives, copy from one to the other.
Having said that I've not known anyone do this before. I guess you want to backup the games due to their small size, most people backup the iso's.

bjb252r6 · 09-11-2009, 07:29 AM

Cool, thanks. I'll try it again tonight with WBFS. I guess I should backup using iso's. I just figured if I backup the harddrive it would be smaller.

DjDavidmChicago · 09-12-2009, 03:09 AM

Got Wbfs working on the pc!! Easy to add but hard to back up!! I would make back ups of your games and store them for future catastraphy!!

bjb252r6 · 09-12-2009, 04:58 AM

It's working for me as well. I had a Seagate Freeagent drive and, despite the warnings, I tried it with no luck so I switched to a different drive. It's a little back and forth process, but it's not too bad. Here are the steps I found to take.

-connect both harddrives
-load the drive that you will be copying to into the top window and format it
-unload that drive, then load that blank drive into the bottom window
-then load the drive that has the games into the top window
-click "clone this drive"

It takes a little bit of time, but it's so nice to have a backup of your drive as well as being able to easily manage your WBFS drives from a PC. Plus it uses the real size of the game instead of a full 4GB for each one!

WiiJohn · 09-12-2009, 05:01 AM

Glad to be of help