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clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:39 PM

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help 😭 I was using a flash drive but it couldn’t do everything so I got an external hard drive, copied all the files over and plugged it into my Wii, now when I open Homebrew and select USB device this screen pops up

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I saw something about changing format but the only format options I have are NTFS and exFAT

normal timber Oct 22, 2022, 5:42 PM

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format to fat32 with guiformat and convert to mbr

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http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

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https://www.howtogeek.com/245610/how-to-check-if-a-disk-uses-gpt-or-mbr-and-how-to-convert-between-the-two/

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Modern versions of Windows–and other operating systems–can use either the older Master Boot Record (MBR) or newer GUID Partition Table (GPT) for their partition schemes. Here’s how to check which one a disk is using and convert between the two.

clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:43 PM

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much thank I shall attempt that

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there’s nothing listed for partition style

inland tulip Oct 22, 2022, 5:53 PM

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clever sluice there’s nothing listed for partition style

Send a screenshot like this in disk management

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Then right click where I highlighted. Don't click outside the highlighted part.

Then select properties, then select the volumes tab

clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:56 PM

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oh found it sorry. it’s on GPT, it won’t let me convert though

inland tulip Oct 22, 2022, 5:57 PM

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Windows key + shift + S to take a screenshot btw

clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:57 PM

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oh thanks lol

inland tulip Oct 22, 2022, 5:57 PM

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Then just paste it into discord chat with Ctrl+ V

clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:58 PM

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but convert to MBR is greyed out

inland tulip Oct 22, 2022, 5:59 PM

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clever sluice oh found it sorry. it’s on GPT, it won’t let me convert though

You were supposed to follow the linked guide for converting it but here u go:

type diskpart into windows search and press enter
Type list disk in the command prompt. Find your drive, looking at drive size is usually a key indicator of which drive is which.
Type select disk # replace the # with your disk number, for example: select disk 1

Warning: the next part will delete everything on the drive, so be sure you selected the right disk:
Then type clean
Now type convert mbr

Now you can close the command prompt and open Disk Management.
Right click the Unallocated space of your drive, select New Simple Volume

Format it to FAT32 with 32kb cluster/allocation unit size

If the drive is larger than 32gb, you will need to just assign it a letter but instead of formatting, select 'Do not format this volume'.
Some windows may pop up. Just say cancel when it asks to format again and then exit out of the other window.
Use a third party program like Wii Backup Manager or GUIFormat to convert it to FAT32.
https://wii.guide/wiibackupmanager or http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
If the drive is 64gb or less, format it to FAT32 with 32kb (32768) cluster / allocation unit size.
If the drive is larger than 64gb, format it to FAT32 with 64kb (65536) cluster / allocation unit size.

clever sluice Oct 22, 2022, 5:59 PM

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thank you so much, sorry to be a bother

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