Hello I have trouble getting a working wbfs partition on my external drive. Here's what I have: Wii with d2pro and bootmii in boot2. FW is 4.2 with Trucha Bug, cIOS 249 r17, 222/223 I think latest revisions. SD Card is left in the slot at all times. SAMSUNG HM160HC IDE USB drive, 160 GB, 512 block size, tested and working on Vista/NTFS And here's what I did: 1. Created 160 GB unformatted partition with gparted -Formatted with WBFS Manager 3.0.1 (Note: Format returns immediately, is that normal?) -No data (wads) on disk -Connected to both USB ports on Wii -I tried connecting the USB drive before Wii switch on, after, before loading USB loader Results: -Configurable USB Loader 1.4: ERROR! (ret = -1) Note: The 30 seconds timeout actually lasts 5 minutes. Drive lights flash slowly. -USB Loader GX rev913: initialize wbfs... (Nothing happens for 30 minutes) Note: You have issues with a slow drive or a difficult drive. -usb mass storage tester v3: USBStorage_open() returned -7005 -wiiflow 1.1 light 222: Please wait... (Nothing happens) -wiiflow 1.1 light 249: Please connect a USB HDD on port 0 Note: Wii DVD and USB HDD ligths flash -NeoGamma R8 beta 17 doesn't work either. 2. Same as 1. but formatted with newest wbfs_win (by Kwiirk) Again wbfs formatting returns immediately. Results unchanged. 3. Deleted the partition, created new one and preformatted to FAT32, then formatted to WBFS. Gparted now takes longer to search for a partition but still sees the whole disk as FAT32. Results were still the same. So I'm thinking either I'm doing something wrong, or the Samsung HD is not compatible. Any ideas?
You're in the wrong section. This is for DS issues, not wii issues. That said though, why don't you just leave the partition formatted FAT32. You don't need a WBFS partition anymore.
Oh, sorry didn't realise that, can a mod please move this topic? Thanks for your advice, I'll try FAT32 next. Which loader works best?
