#Hi idk why but my Wii refuses to read my hard drive or acknowledge its existence at all

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dusky prawn
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no homebrew apps even know its there and yes it is fat32

ebon leaf
dusky prawn
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in usb loader i set it to both ports but ok

ebon leaf
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eh dont use port 1

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it doesnt really give the usb enough power

dusky prawn
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k

ebon leaf
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and are u using flash drive or hdd

dusky prawn
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1.8 tb hard drive formatted to fat 32

ebon leaf
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is it fat32 and MBR?

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if you dont know what that is

dusky prawn
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its probably that i just right clicked it and pressed format

ebon leaf
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just check it

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because you definetly need a 3rd party software to do that

dusky prawn
dusky prawn
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bcause windows is annoying

ebon leaf
dusky prawn
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im copying the contents of the drive so i dont loose anything

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ill do that straight after

dusky prawn
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its still only at 30% lmao

dusky prawn
ebon leaf
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sure

ebon leaf
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its really that slow?

odd gust
dusky prawn
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i took my dog for a walk bcaus i got bored

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its done now

ebon leaf
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ok then do it

dusky prawn
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It’s neither

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What should it be formatted as?

ebon leaf
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fat32, mbr

dusky prawn
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It’s fat. 32

ebon leaf
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Format your USB drive: 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

dusky prawn
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Thx

dusky prawn