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HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Hello, I'm new to the forum and I'd need your help solving my problem: I bought an Advance BX-3802EB enclosure and I put in a Seagate Barracuda 80Go ST380021A hard drive. I plugged the hard drive into my wii which is cracked of course, I put USBloaderGX (the latest version) on and it got stuck at "waiting for HDD: 11 sec" and the console froze and I had to restart the console.
Thanks in advance!!
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Hi juju

did you follow our tutorial to prepare the HDDs?

tutoriels-wii/preparez-votre-disque-dur-t6460.html

did you mix up the USB port?
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yes I put it in the right port, but I only made one WBFS partition. I'll try the tutorial you gave me.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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I made a 5GB NTFS partition and a 70GB partition, but USBloaderGX stays stuck. :(
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Long live fat32/wbfs!
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Hi kalidor, I set it to fat32/wbfs but it's still the same
Any idea?

I should mention I also have an 8GB transcend USB stick fully formatted in WBFS which works very well, and I tested my external HDD on another cracked wii, but it doesn't work.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Are your partitions properly set active?

Not as a logical drive, but as a primary partition?

Is the fat one first?

Is your usb cable a Y cable with 2 male usb ends?
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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The partitions are indeed active, the partitions are primary, the fat one is first and it's not a Y cable (it's not self-powered)
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Could someone help me?? :cry:
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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juju018 wrote:Hi kalidor, I set it to fat32/wbfs but it's still the same
Any idea?

I should mention I also have an 8GB transcend USB stick fully formatted in WBFS which works very well, and I tested my external HDD on another cracked wii, but it doesn't work.

The stick works and your hdd doesn't work on any wii, so your hdd or its connector is dead
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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The HDD works on my PCs but not on the wii and I checked a HDD compatibility list for wii on this site: https://www.wii-addict.fr/forum/LIST-Li ... 13312.html .
So........
I think I'm going to give it back and buy another one.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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A good external verbatim and hey presto, life is beautiful!
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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hi kalidor, I found an external HDD but not VERBATIM; could you tell me if it's compatible please?
https://cgi.ebay.fr/DISQUE-DUR-EXTERNE- ... 296wt_1041
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Just buying on ebay is already a risk.

You don't know what kind of drive is inside, you don't know the chipset of the enclosure, in short you risk ending up stuck again!

Personally I'd rather go with this one (and this one, it's a little bomb)

https://www.google.fr/products/catalog? ... CHgQ8wIwAw
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Thanks for your answer,
the hard drive is great, but it's a bit too expensive for me :lol: and on top of that I'm saving up for a new PC.
But thanks anyway ;)
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FYI following the floods in Thailand, hdds cost 20 to 40 more.


Having bought a verbatim 500 gig hdd for 68€ 2 years ago, it should be around 50€ nowadays, except that...

This isn't the time to buy.

For example the ldlc first boss pc was worth 279€ a month ago unassembled and without an OS, it's at 329 now because of the hard drive.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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mamule wrote:I've never had an hdd not work on wii.
totally agree,

I think, as a first step, you should try your HDD fully formatted in WBFS (without a partition) to see if it works,

then format it in FAT32 to start with using this

then mount it in WBFS manager and prepare it, transfer a backup onto it and try it, if it works, forget the partition, if it doesn't work, try your HDD with another enclosure.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Thanks for your answers, when I received my HDD enclosure, I put my Seagate hard drive in and formatted it entirely in WBFS, but it didn't work. So I tried setting up 2 partitions (WBFS and Fat32) but it still doesn't work. It works fine on PC, that's what I don't understand? Then I figured my hard drive wasn't compatible so I put in another one (Maxtor Diamondmax 10 I think, 200 Go) but still no luck. Maybe the enclosure is incompatible?
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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Yes your enclosure contains a chipset, which is probably poor quality or incompatible.
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Re: HDD problem for wii 4.2E

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so we're back to what I told you, put your hard drive in another enclosure and it'll work fine.

between us, this is really the first time I've seen an enclosure incompatible with the wii, all the ones I've tried have always worked whether 2.5" or 3.5",

that must really be a crappy chipset

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