Comments on: Wii Homebrew + USB Hard Drive

By: liz

liz — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:49:13 +0000

i have been using a hard drive to play games with for some time now, but for some reason twice now the games the whole lot have vanished the first time it happened i thought my daughter had formatted instead of downloading missing covers, but i don’t think she did, as it just happened to me i just put on the missing games after days of downloading to find in an instant them all gone, i have no idea why, so i hope some one can help ?

By: Someone

Someone — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:25:02 +0000

Does this work with cIOS58 or does it have to be 38?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:39:37 +0000

My friend tried to do this (he did it for himself and others) on a WD Passport but he said the drive kept going to sleep and wouldn’t let him complete the process.. thoughts?

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:06:55 +0000

any on luck how to use 2nd usb port. I would really appreciate as I am faced with the same issue. I would love to be able to use my other devices along with the HD i tried splitter and no luck. My HD has it’s own power source

By: Janelle

Janelle — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:19:03 +0000

Hi, I need a little bit of advice… My ex had put the usb loader and homebrew channel onto my wii. I have the external hard drive connected to the wii. I tried to back up one of my games onto the hard drive, and it told me the memory is full. I can ‘t figure out how to delete any of the games from it, as there are a few that we don’t play frequently. Regardless, I was wondering if I would be able to purchase an additional external hard drive and if it would work if I plugged it into the wii, without any additional work that needs to be done. I have tried to read through several tutorials, but it is all confusing and jibberish to me. Any advice, in very simple terms, would be greatly appreciated!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:36:19 +0000

Can you email me the instructions written so that a brand new wii owner and very oignorant of what you are talking about can do this? I have read many blogs and everyone writes as though everyone knows what is being talked about, but i just do not…tell me exactly what to download, exactly how to put the files on a card, exactly what to do to get the hard drive attached and running, etc…thanks so much!!!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:21:08 +0000

Jason, I’ve soft modded before, but this time through I hit a snag. All steps went smooth except the formatting (I couldn’t format to FAT32), or usr the ext hd. Im using a Toshiba 500G, and just modded a 4.3U(blue model)
when I load up usb loader gx it stalls during loading and my message reads ‘initialize usb device’
What am I missing?? I’ve tried reformatting, a few times.
Please any help is appreciated!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:46:42 +0000

Thanks for the advice :)
But i´m going to keep that version of Usb Loader GX,because it´s not my Nintendo and HHD,so i don´t want to screw things up.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:45:03 +0000

@Pedro There’s no need to format drives as WBFS anymore. Recent versions of usb loader gx allow you to use FAT32 or NTFS. FAT32 will be more widely support by MAC/PC in case you want to use your hard drive for other things.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:40:35 +0000

Hi,i´ve bought a wd elements 1 TB and i want to format it to WBFS,i´m using USB LOADER GX,and a friend of mine told me i have first to reformat the hard drive to NTFS,then to FAT32 and finally to WBFS with WBFS Manager 3.0,i´m also usinf windows xp professional sp3.
Can you help me troughout all the right steps not ot screw things up?
Thanks