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simmo2302
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_ 		26. May 2009 @ 03:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i followed the guide here.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/773505

and i dont kno if it is my drive or not. but my comp can find the drive, but the wii cant.

i have a western digital 3.5" drive (40Gb) in a in a external usb adapter case. basically turns a internal comp hdd into a external usb drive.

my comp and any other comp can find it. but usb loader gx cannot.

i run usb loader gx and it just says cannot find external drive, gives 2 cios options (249 and 222 i think) and asks to retry for 30secs.

any ideas ?

i was thinking of formatting the drive with wbfs manager on the comp first maybe.
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simmo2302
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_ 		26. May 2009 @ 08:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
as usb loader wouldnt find drive. i hooked it up to comp, got the pc application to format and instal a few games. then re-tried hdd on wii and worked.

even though the app on the wii should have detected the hdd and asked to format it, i didnt for whateva reason. but all good now .
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fiber32
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_ 		26. May 2009 @ 13:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
it seems like a bug on the GX, i tried two new HDD, which i always recommend to a friend. Both new HDD cannot be detected and formatted but if used a old HDD that i used in loader 1.1 works fine.
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larrylje
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_ 		26. May 2009 @ 15:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Make sure the HDD is formated FAT32 not NTFS.
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nuke1105
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_ 		27. May 2009 @ 00:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
larry why does fat32 make a difference then ntsf? BTW is there anything out there that allows transfering files from a wbfs to wbfs drive? I have wbfs manager 3.0 and its not capable of that.
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larrylje
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_ 		27. May 2009 @ 10:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I know wbfs manager 3.0.1 has this option.

The option is at the bottom left of the GUI. It says Drive-To-Drive

As for why FAT32 and not NTFS. Allot of the documentation I have read from the loaders say to do this. Plus I had a guy the other day that wanted me to hook him up. His flash drive was formated NTFS and I then flashed it to WBFS. It would work properly in Wbfs manager but the USB Loader would not recognize it when I hooked it up to the Wii. After reading that you should format it FAT first then WBFS I followed that recommendation and it then worked both with wbfs manager and USB Loader.
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fiber32
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_ 		27. May 2009 @ 11:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Since most portable HDD are in FAT32 but comes with extra software, do you need to have a clean HDD by reformating again as fat32? Which tool is the best?
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larrylje
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_ 		27. May 2009 @ 11:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have only done a few myself and all I do is use windows and do a quick fat32 format on the drive. I also make sure it is set as a primary partiton in "disc managment" in windows.
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akk555
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_ 		30. June 2009 @ 09:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I formatted to FAT32. And made it the primary partition but the wii is still not recognizing my Verbatim 160gb hdd (#96533). At first install the of the loader GX, it would recognize it sometimes but now it never does.
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