Originally posted by steveo__: I have installed USB loader onto my Wii - and taken weeks to install all of my games on to it...
Now in my house hard disks dont last long before they get knocked over and then become corrupt...
I want to back it up - but my PC now wont recognise the disk and wants to format it?
Anybody got any ideas????
Thanx in advance
Steve
I'll assume that the reason your PC isn't recognising the HDD is because the drive is formatted to WBFS format, which is not a format which Windows recognises, so you won't be able to just drag and drop like you would with other HDD's. I think you may have to use WBFS manager to backup your drive. If you google it, you should find a download link. Just install and run. It's pretty straight forward software! ^o^
Originally posted by steveo__: I have installed USB loader onto my Wii - and taken weeks to install all of my games on to it...
Now in my house hard disks dont last long before they get knocked over and then become corrupt...
I want to back it up - but my PC now wont recognise the disk and wants to format it?
Anybody got any ideas????
Thanx in advance
Steve
well i will be watching this post closely also
i have tried this lots of times with tons of every piece of software i could find
and not one of them would let me copy the drive
wbfs manager 3 says it will copy but when you try it doesnt work
same with all the rest i tried
someone before suggested norton ghost not sure about that one havent tried it has anyone else?
Originally posted by steveo__: I have installed USB loader onto my Wii - and taken weeks to install all of my games on to it...
Now in my house hard disks dont last long before they get knocked over and then become corrupt...
I want to back it up - but my PC now wont recognise the disk and wants to format it?
Anybody got any ideas????
Thanx in advance
Steve
well i will be watching this post closely also
i have tried this lots of times with tons of every piece of software i could find
and not one of them would let me copy the drive
wbfs manager 3 says it will copy but when you try it doesnt work
same with all the rest i tried
someone before suggested norton ghost not sure about that one havent tried it has anyone else?
Norton Ghost sounds like a good idea, but would it work with the format of drive you're using? Apparently you can get drivers so that Windows can see WBFS drives, I think. I remember seeing something likke it not that long ago. I will have a look around and see what I can find. I use Configurable USB Loader and you can use an FAT32 partition with that, so I've had absolutely no experience with WBFS drives. lol Still i'll try and help out! ^o^
I found this on Wiihacks, but you need to be a member to download from there and also i found this at GBAtemp, which is the driver I was on about for WBFS drives. I don't know how well it works, but I couldn't hurt to try and the GBAtempers seem to be giving it a thumbs-up from what I read. lol
Originally posted by steveo__: I have installed USB loader onto my Wii - and taken weeks to install all of my games on to it...
Now in my house hard disks dont last long before they get knocked over and then become corrupt...
I want to back it up - but my PC now wont recognise the disk and wants to format it?
Anybody got any ideas????
Thanx in advance
Steve
well i will be watching this post closely also
i have tried this lots of times with tons of every piece of software i could find
and not one of them would let me copy the drive
wbfs manager 3 says it will copy but when you try it doesnt work
same with all the rest i tried
someone before suggested norton ghost not sure about that one havent tried it has anyone else?
Norton Ghost sounds like a good idea, but would it work with the format of drive you're using? Apparently you can get drivers so that Windows can see WBFS drives, I think. I remember seeing something likke it not that long ago. I will have a look around and see what I can find. I use Configurable USB Loader and you can use an FAT32 partition with that, so I've had absolutely no experience with WBFS drives. lol Still i'll try and help out! ^o^
with configurable usb leader when you copy a downloaded game to your drive does it automatically make it smaller
say you download a 4.7gig disk image then burn it then install with wiiflow to wbfs drive the game installs only 200megs (as an example)
or does it just save the whole disk image and every game takes up as much at the files are
with configurable usb leader when you copy a downloaded game to your drive does it automatically make it smaller
say you download a 4.7gig disk image then burn it then install with wiiflow to wbfs drive the game installs only 200megs (as an example)
or does it just save the whole disk image and every game takes up as much at the files are
Configurable USB Loader extracts just the game partition and strips out anything that isn't needed. It also gives you options like, Ocarina, boot alternate dol, video patching and whatever else you'd expect from a USB loader. You can also download skins for it straight off the console. I have some games which are quite big and some which are really small. All depends on the game tbh. I have about 30+ games on an 80gb WD passport drive and that suits me fine! ^o^ It's the easiest loader to use imo. I also forgot to mention that you don't even need to burn the games to a disk. There is some software which I use (cant remember the name), that will extract it for you and you just have to drop it in the WBFS folder on the HDD! ^o^
with configurable usb leader when you copy a downloaded game to your drive does it automatically make it smaller
say you download a 4.7gig disk image then burn it then install with wiiflow to wbfs drive the game installs only 200megs (as an example)
or does it just save the whole disk image and every game takes up as much at the files are
Configurable USB Loader extracts just the game partition and strips out anything that isn't needed. It also gives you options like, Ocarina, boot alternate dol, video patching and whatever else you'd expect from a USB loader. You can also download skins for it straight off the console. I have some games which are quite big and some which are really small. All depends on the game tbh. I have about 30+ games on an 80gb WD passport drive and that suits me fine! ^o^ It's the easiest loader to use imo. I also forgot to mention that you don't even need to burn the games to a disk. There is some software which I use (cant remember the name), that will extract it for you and you just have to drop it in the WBFS folder on the HDD! ^o^
well it sounds good and as easy as wiiflow (but i am lucky that my wii will read the disks to load them) but when i did my wii it was all wbfs and i love wiiflow and now i have a 1tb drive with well over 200 games and i just dont see an easy way to convert it all over without reloading all the disks and I have zero problems so may aswel stay where i am
but would really like to back up the drive
has anyone else on here tried norton ghost for wbfs and tested that the new drive works on the wii?
and also there were a lot of warnings about the allocated chunk sizes or something or sector sizes must be the same between drives on the wbfs programs but i tried same size drives and different size drives all with no luck
( i also accidently ended up erasing a 250gig drive and loosing a lot of games so be carefull with those programs and your drive letters) :-)
gets a little confusing when you have 6 harddrives hooked up to the computer
