#wiiflow not showing usb drive

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slate elk
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i put my gc games on a small usb drive for the time being while i wait to get a bigger sd card and now all wiiflow shows is my sd card
i let it try to intialize and neither port 0 or 1 works
gc games show fine on nintendont

still haven
slate elk
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only sd

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and in its file explorer only sd

still haven
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Also make sure you're using port 0

slate elk
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on port 0 im reopening wiiflow

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hold on

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mount sd only is set to no

still haven
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Try setting GameCube partition to USB again

slate elk
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still not working

still haven
# slate elk still not working

Can you power down the Wii, insert the USB drive into your PC.
Open Disk Management, find your USB drive and send a screenshot like this:

slate elk
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@still haven

still haven
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Assuming disk 1 is your drive

slate elk
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it is

still haven
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Can you right click on the left by disk 1 and select Properties, then go to the volumes tab and verify it's Partition Style is MBR

slate elk
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it is most certanly

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mbr

still haven
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@slate elk To help troubleshoot your issue please run Syscheck and test all IOS on your Wii by following this guide:
https://wii.guide/syscheck

When it's done it will generate and display a syscheck.csv file.

If you have an SD, power down the Wii and insert the SD into a PC. Drag and drop the syscheck.csv file from the root of your SD into chat.

If you don't have an SD, you might get an error. Just continue until the report is displayed. You will need to upload the report and link the URL to chat or take photos of the entire report.

slate elk
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this is the syscheck from when i created this thread

still haven
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We can try Reloading Cache I guess but that shouldn't fix the issue

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Maybe a chkdsk

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@slate elk
Can you power down the Wii, insert the USB 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.

slate elk
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uh oh..

still haven
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You should probably backup the data and reformat

slate elk
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alr ill try that

still haven
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I think it should have still worked even with 64kb like you have tho

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But sometimes a fresh format fixes things anyways

slate elk
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still worth an attempt tho

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ive been using guiformat btw

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is there smth i should use instead

still haven
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That should work fine

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Tho I like to use Wii Backup Manager to reformat drives to FAT32 cuz I already use it for transferring Wii games.

slate elk
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can u transfer gc with wii backup?

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ive never tried it

still haven
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No

slate elk
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o ok

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still not working

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this STINKS

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@still haven

dull shell
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try delete /wiiflow and /apps/wiiflow and redownload, idk

still haven
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I've seen instances where Nintendont will mount a USB stick and WiiFlow won't

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But yeah reinstalling WiiFlow makes sense here

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I think it's the USB stick tho

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@slate elk