#wii backup manager help

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tiny basin
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my drive doesnt show up

dry cypress
tiny basin
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yup

dry cypress
# tiny basin yup

Can you open Disk Management and find your drive then send a screenshot like this image

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tiny basin
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its wbfs or ntfs or something formatted

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it doesnt show up on windows

dry cypress
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FAT32 is fine

tiny basin
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ugh

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so how do i get my shit off the drive

dry cypress
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I'm not sure it's even there if it's showing up as unallocated

tiny basin
dry cypress
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Ah

tiny basin
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wut du

dry cypress
tiny basin
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???

dry cypress
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This is what my WBFS formatted drive shows up as

tiny basin
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idk bruh

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i was using rvloader

dry cypress
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k idk what to tell u

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try ejecting the drive

tiny basin
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dawg

dry cypress
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and plugging it back in

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also why r you using rvloader

tiny basin
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i thought it was the best loader

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i just got a 16:9 hd crt and now i want to use a diffrent one (what do you recomend lol) so i can use some widescreen gecko codes

dry cypress
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RVLoader just for wii portables

tiny basin
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yeh i get that now

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lol

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so wut do i do

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i dont wanna loose my saves

dry cypress
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your saves shouldn't be stored on your drive

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They're normally stored on the wii

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wbfs file system doesn't even support storing saves

tiny basin
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is there i way can back up just the saves on my wii from the hard drive to an sd card

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dawg

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u sure?\

dry cypress
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why don't you check lol

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you should be able to find the saves in your wii system menu

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like in wii options data management

tiny basin
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nah bro

dry cypress
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without your usb drive plugged in

tiny basin
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my gamecube saves lol

dry cypress
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wbfs file system doesn't even support gamecube games or saves

tiny basin
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vitual mem card

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wut so on system menu itll have my gamecube saves

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bro

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ntfs then

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idek

dry cypress
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virtual memory card and gamecube games would have to be on SD

tiny basin
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i didnt have an sd plugged in

dry cypress
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gamecube games and saves can't be loaded from an NTFS drive

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only exFAT or FAT32

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exFAT has no support for anything else

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so it's usually not used

tiny basin
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idek anymore then

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what do i do

dry cypress
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idk bro

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you tell me where your shit's at

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check your SD

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This is how it's recommended your drive be formatted:

The drive should be 2tb or smaller, formatted to MBR and have a single primary FAT32 partition with 32kb (32768) or 64kb (65536) cluster/allocation unit size.

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

Drive is 64gb or less: Format it to FAT32 with 32kb (32,768 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size.
Drive is larger than 64gb: Format it to FAT32 with 64kb (65,536 bytes) cluster / allocation unit size.

If the drive is larger than 32GB, you will need third party software like GUIFormat or Wii Backup Manager to format your drive to FAT32
Wii Backup Manager: https://wii.guide/wiibackupmanager
GUIFormat: http://ridgecrop.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

tiny basin
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the sd has nothing but mario kart doubl dash