“No WBFS or FAT/NTFS partition found
you need to select or format a partition
(Select) (Format)
(Return)”

I select (select):

“partition 1: 400.76 gb
partition 2: cant be formated
partition 3: cant be formated
partition 4: cant be formated ”

I select partition 1, and gives me a black screen with white letters saying “expection” at top and “reloading in 5 seconds…” then im taken to the wii menu.

someone please help

I got a new WD HD and formatted it as 1 big (1.5TB) WBFS partition. Tested the drive by loading a few original games to the hard drive via USB Loader GX from the Wii. Everything worked so I moved all my games from my old hard drive to the new one by using WBFS Manager. Once it finished, I tested the games that were moved from my old drive and none of them work! When I click on the game (on USB Loader GX) to play it, it just takes me back to the Wii main menu screen. The games that originally (manually) loaded from USB Loader GX, played with no issues.

Here’s what I found out:

Partition any hard drive over 1TB into multiple partitions. Don’t go beyond 999GB per partition since:

1) You not be able to play your games if you move them over from another hard drive. My one big 1.5TB partition did not work and once I reformatted back to NTFS (took forever) and did 3 new partitions…everything worked. I made a 999GB WBFS, 451GB WBFS, and 10GB NTFS partition for art work and Wii emulators. This 10GB drive will also be used as a storage/backup for my SD card for disaster recovery.

2) There is currently a 500 game limit on WBFS Manager. Some people say 500 games will be around 1TB, so partitioning your drive under 1 TB makes sense. If you do have 500 games and STILL have room, you can use your remaining this space by manually loading games via the USB Loader (via the Wii). If you want to maximize your storage space and still be under the 500 limit, try rearranging your big (large GB) games to your big partition.

3) I would use the copy function instead of clone feature on WBFS Manager since you should test the process on a few games instead of moving all your games at once. Select a few games from the host drive (pick the games from the top of the WBFS list), copy them to your new drive, and THEN test the games on your Wii to see if they work before you move all of them with one big job!!! Why move all the games at the beginning if your test games don’t work in the first place? If your sample does work, select the remaining games and use the copy function.

Hope these tips help out.