My daughter has backed up her wii games on a hard drive. We both have modded consoles. I would like to duplicate the hard drive for my personal use. Do I need special software, or can you direct me?
Use WBFS 3.0 to extract the ISOs from the USB hard drive onto your PC, or you can perform a Drive-T0-Drive transfer. The GUI is pretty simple and straightforward.
thanks Pryme. I'm currently copying the disk as suggested. It appears there's a partition the original disk. Will that be duplicated as well, or will i need to create a partition and move those files at that point?
I must be doing something wrong. I've tried this twice. I've partitioned the drive just as the original drive is set up and copied the windows recognized files to the same partition on the new one. I then went through the clone feature in WBFS 3.0. Everything appeared to work correctly. Once everything was done I attempted to use it on my wii. However, it said the drive wasn't formatted. I formatted it on the wii, and the drive was blank almost immediately.
get norton ghost and ghost the image of the drive , not only it will compress your daughters drive but transfer it much faster than any wii method out there.
Don't know if this will work, but when I had a similar problem I realised that when I partitioned my drive it had a small area on the drive before any of the partitions. once I deleted that part my wbfs partition became my primary section of the drive, and it worked fine after that. So I had an wbfs partition(primary) and an fat32 partition(secondary)
hope this made sence and helps a little.
Originally posted by rocksie: I must be doing something wrong. I've tried this twice. I've partitioned the drive just as the original drive is set up and copied the windows recognized files to the same partition on the new one. I then went through the clone feature in WBFS 3.0. Everything appeared to work correctly. Once everything was done I attempted to use it on my wii. However, it said the drive wasn't formatted. I formatted it on the wii, and the drive was blank almost immediately.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You're doing these steps out of order. Anytime that you format a drive you are WIPING it out! So thats why the drive was blank. It simple really.
1. Plug in the source HD to your computer.
2. When windows asks you if you want to format you say NO
3. Open WBFS Manager and find your drive letter and click "Load"
4. You should now see all the games on your daughters drive appear in the list
5. Next plug your HD into a USB port on your PC and if windows asks you to format it say NO again.
6. In WBFS Manager click the drive to drive button on the bottom
7. Find the drive letter for your HD and click load (if you haven't already created a partition for your HD then close WBFS and reopen. Next find your drive letter in the drop down list for YOUR HD drive and click format. Shut down WBFS and start over from step 1.)
8. Now its just a matter of selecting the games that you want and then clicking copy to this drive)
Ok something that nobody seems to explain which is very important when formatting a hard drive to be used with WBFS/WII
and that is format the drive as (PRIMARY) not (LOGICAL)
I found this simple piece of advice out after hours and hours of stress trying to get my hard drive to be recognised by both (WBFS) and the(Wii)
A simple program to use is PARTITION WIZARD which is free, google it.
Format the drive as Primary FAT32 in (PARTITION WIZARD)
1- Run (PARTION WIZARD)
2- Select your drive to be formatted
3- right click on drive, Format using FAT32 and as PRIMARY
4- Once formatted run WBFS,
5- Select your drive letter,
6- Then press load button
7- Then format.
After 2 seconds the drive should be ready to transfer your games and play on ur wii.
Im a 1st time wii user. Purchased my wii on the 7th Nov just for the purpose of playing backups on my wii then came across so many amazing things you could do on a Softmod wii
Downgraded from 3.4e to 3.2e
Wiiflow + hardrive (Thumbs) ^___^ Hope my info helped.
Originally posted by luckikun: Im a 1st time wii user. Purchased my wii on the 7th Nov just for the purpose of playing backups on my wii then came across so many amazing things you could do on a Softmod wii
Downgraded from 3.4e to 3.2e
Downgrade from 3.4e to 3.2e !?!?
Why?
I have had a Wii since they came out, originally modchipped, now I have Two, both softmodded, with BootMii, Preloader and WiiFlow installed all safe updated to menu 4.2e.
Everything runs like a dream including titles that people seem to find problematic like New SMBros and Sports Resort etc.
No need to stay back on 3.x or risk downgrading your machines anymore if you spend some time reading up on the net. The trickiest part is working out what is old information and no longer necessary!
:-)
