USB loader question

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  1. Bawango

    Bawango Regular member

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    Is there a particular brand of external HDD that I have to use? Can a USB thumb drive be used as well or is it just USB external HDD for now?
    What format does the HDD have to be? If there's a comprehensive guide to how to use the USB loader please feel free to let me know where it is.

    Thanks
     
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    Not every single hard drive will work. The ones that do and don't isn't quite by brand however.

    Some of them have issues where if you leave them alone for too long they spindown and can't manage to spin back up.

    Take a look at this when you get a chance (the site seems to be having issues right now): http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/index.php/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List

    Yes a thumb drive can be used. I've had no problems with my 8GB DaneElec flash drive.

    The HDD has to be formatted to WBFS (Wii Backup File System) as opposed to something such as NTFS (New Technology File System)
    You can do this by using the backup loader itself or by using your computer and WBFS Manager.

    It's also alright for a hard drive to be dual partitioned. That is a set amount of GB as FAT32 or whatever you want it as and another set of GB as WBFS.

    And the guide is the first stickied thread in this Wii section of the forums. New and improved guide by Larrylje. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/773505
    Particularly near the end of it.
     
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    I'm using a 16gb transcend flash drive and works great!
     
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    Thanks for the response. I do however have another question in regards to using a USB thumb drive. How to I format it to other than FAT or FAT32?
     
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    What are you trying to format it to?

    If you want to format it to WBFS you can put the flash drive in one of the USB ports at the back of your Wii and then load the USB Launcher

    or you could put the flash drive in one of the USB ports on your computer and use WBFS Manager.
    Select the drive of your flash drive and click format.

    http://wbfsmanager.codeplex.com/
     
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    When I try to dump the ISO into the thumb drive. How much space does a Wii game normally take? There's a part when you start the process asking I am assuming how much space will be needed. its started at 512MB.
     
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    Wii games are a bunch of sizes.
    Wii Sports is about 620 MB
    Brawl is 6.92 GB

    Anything between there (actually there are games smaller than Wii Sports)

    Twilight Princess = 1.08 GB
    Super Mario Galaxy = 3.27 GB
    Mario Kart Wii = 2.59 GB
    Super Paper Mario = 410 MB
    Metroid Prime 3 = 4.09 GB
    Call of Duty: World at War = 2.53 GB
    Rock Band 2 = 3.36 GB
    Okami = 4.07 GB
     
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