Clean and convert to MBR | WiiLink | Page 1

willow eagle Jun 27, 2023, 8:40 PM

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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
Format it to FAT32 with 32kb (32768) cluster / allocation unit size.

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Basically only ever use this if the person is having issues with Rufus

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Like if the device is not appearing in Rufus (even with list HDDs selected) or if it gives an error

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Could probably use some better formatting but this copypasta kinda rarely needed anyway

static owl Jun 27, 2023, 9:27 PM

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I haven’t seen anyone have an issue with Rufus before

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Also, I’m pretty sure you can do all of this from gui

willow eagle Jun 28, 2023, 12:33 AM

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I have seen a few

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and frankly having a few commands typed out is easier to explain than explaining it via gui

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Also I've had issues doing it via GUI

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