ok so basically i have an sandisk 16 gig usb drive.Ive formatted 1 gig as fat 32 and the rest to wbfs.It works perfect on my wii but i cannot get ANY wbfs manager(have to have tried about 5 diff. programs) to read it on my windows(xp sp3).Even worse i cant format the wbfs partition because i get the message cannot complete formating because volume is not enabled.The fat 32 is lettered F but the wbfs partition has no letter and i can see this in disk manager(it says its 14 gigs are free and isnt active).If i try to change/give the wfbs a letter...some message not enabled...any help please ??? the drive cant add and cant be deleted and it worked fine when i was on ubuntu...sigh thanks
Windows will never see the partition you have to use a program to see it, you can format it with windows (to FAT32) then check in disc manager that it is set as a primary partition, then use the above program to format it to WBFS.
Originally posted by kittymat: Have you tried Wii Backup Manager (v4 or v5beta)
Windows will never see the partition you have to use a program to see it, you can format it with windows (to FAT32) then check in disc manager that it is set as a primary partition, then use the above program to format it to WBFS.
yes i have tried wii backup manager...thats just the problem though i cant format the partition because according to windows the partition is not enabled...even thought the other 1 gig partition reads perfectly fine.like i said the 14 gig partition has no letter and basically no path
under computer management in the administrative tools, choose disk management it will show you the breakdown to each drive and you can do a lot more stuff there, mind you altering the partition to active will corrupt the data on the hard drive, one active partition per logical drive (physical) you can delete the partition there and reformat it to fat32 make partition active or not alter partitions etc. make sure whatever you have on the drive and can access back up to another media (source) FIRST
to get there on xp click start, control panel, Performance and maintenance, administrative tools, computer management, disk management. just in-case you were unsure
right click on partition you want and you have options from there
