Games not showing up in USB Loader GX

[dreamy crystal]

Double check that loader mode has Wii games enabled

[timid field]

I have it enabled but could it be my USB and storage and stuff? Everytime I start USB Loader GX, it tells me that no WBFS or FAT/NTFS/EXT Partition was found.

[dreamy crystal]

Can you plug your USB drive into a windows PC and launch Disk Management, find your drive, then send a screenshot like this one:

[dreamy crystal]

Also make sure you're using this USB port:

[timid field]

drive E

[dreamy crystal]

Can u right click where I highlighted, select Properties, then go to the Volumes tab and tell us what the partition style is set to

[timid field]

Master Boot

Master Boot Record (MBR)

[dreamy crystal]

Seems fine.
That's the USB drive with your games on it?

[timid field]

yes

[dreamy crystal]

USB sticks are not recommended with the Wii because they often cause issues. An SD or USB hard drive would be a better option.

You can try formatting the drive to wbfs instead of FAT32. Sometimes this makes USB sticks run when they otherwise wouldn't with the Wii.

You can use Wii Backup Manager to format the drive to WBFS

https://wii.guide/wiibackupmanager

[timid field]

gonna try that now, if that doesn’t work I’ll just put my games on my SD

thanks

[dreamy crystal]

heads up, USB Loader GX cannot play games from SD so you will need to use WiiFlow Lite:
https://wii.guide/wiiflow

Also to load games from a FAT32 drive the drive needs to be formatted with at least 32kb allocation unit size.

To verify your SD's allocation unit size:

insert the drive into your PC, then search in windows for cmd and press enter.
in the command prompt, type chkdsk x: but replace x with the letter for your drive.
then screenshot the output.

Looking to verify the following:
Drive is 64gb or less: Formatted to FAT32 with 32kb (32768 bytes) in each allocation unit.
Drive is larger than 64gb: Formatted to FAT32 with 64kb (65536 bytes) in each allocation unit.

If you have a different allocation unit size backup your data and reformat to FAT32 with the correct allocation unit size for your drive.

[timid field]

we good