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on 11 June 2015 - 07:39 PM
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Wii U Hardware Help
I used a Cruzer Glide 32GB for a bit, worked well enough. It will become obsolete fast if you download a lot of games. Also the constant writing to it will kill it pretty fast.
I've seen a few people around the net refute that claim, stating that while there is a maximum read/write limit, it takes eons to actually fill it up. Can anyone second that?
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on 11 June 2015 - 11:21 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
Because it isn't technically a supported solution, more of a work around. Games will not boot from an SD card in the Wii U, with a cheap adapter people have said the Wii U recognizes it as HDD unit of some sort but I still would go with what Nintendo suggests to use. If you ever run into problems technically and need support from Nintendo, I don't think they would be as helpful knowing you didn't follow suggested guidelines.
I get what you're saying. I'll play around with it for a while. I've already played a few titles from it, and the games are saving just fine. So far, so good.
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on 11 June 2015 - 07:21 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
It might need to be formatted (or is damaged)? Temporarily sacrifice a second drive, make sure the Wii U reformats it, then copy everything over to reformat the first drive. You can also then see if large files will work on the other drive when they don't work on the preferred drive.
How was it formatted? If it's FAT32, you'll need to reformat it as NTFS.
If the drive is getting enough power and is formatted correctly, you might have a hardware problem with the drive itself - even if the PC could use it.
Alright. I'll fetch my SD Card+USB Reader and send everything that's currently on the drive to that, and then I'll try re-formatting the HDD. It works fine with my PC, although I can't remember if it was done in FAT32. It was also working great with my Wii, which I was originally using it on.
Alright. I'll fetch my SD Card+USB Reader and send everything that's currently on the drive to that, and then I'll try re-formatting the HDD. It works fine with my PC, although I can't remember if it was done in FAT32. It was also working great with my Wii, which I was originally using it on.
UPDATE: Yep, this is done.
I went ahead and formatted it through the Wii U first, but my MK8 save data still won't copy over. I then moved the HDD to my PC and formatted it there. I also ran a Disk Check to search for errors and bad sectors. That operation found a few bugs, which lead me to think that maybe that's what the problem was. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
I just moved the HDD back to the Wii U, and it formatted it just fine. I tried copying the save data over to the HDD AGAIN—and I was met with an error 3 minutes later. It's pretty much official now: my drive is partially incompatible with the Wii U. Not sure why: it's self-powered, USB 2.0, and is able to transfer files under 1GB between the system memory and itself. I just sent over 5GBs of data from the HDD to the SD Card I talked about earlier and that went FINE. Strange situation, indeed...
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on 11 June 2015 - 07:17 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
I don't think that is a good solution at all.
From Nintendo,
I'm aware that they can be used for those operations. In fact I've done all of those already (I've had my Wii U since 2012, lol). I was just wondering if it was really all that dangerous to use it as full expandable storage. Like I said; they warned against USB Flash Drives, but not SD Cards. You said you don't think it's a good solution—any particular reason?
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on 11 June 2015 - 06:39 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
I just recently started a topic, asking for help with my external hard drive which has been stopping me from transferring files over 1GB from the system memory.
Here: http://thewiiu.com/t...dd/#entry314187
As of this writing, I'm transferring the data from the external HDD to an SD Card via a USB 2.0 Card Reader. I've done this before in the past and everything worked beautifully from the SD Card, even full retail games. Now, here's what I'm wondering: has anyone decided to use this method instead of the traditional external HDD? I'm asking because, I don't want to buy another external HDD when the one I have works just fine on my PC and original Wii. I'd rather use my funds to pick up Splatoon. 
I know from jumpstreet Nintendo said the best option would be to go ahead and use HDDs, however, after reading around I've seen that a lot of people have gone against their word and things have worked out just fine for them. Now, they warned against using USB thumbdrives, but not SD Cards. The 3DS uses SD Cards, as does many phones and tablets that have expandable storage, and of course digital cameras. So I'm wondering; would it be okay to use the SD Card+USB Reader as a long-term alternative? Should I be worried about it failing? Like I said—at this point it's working better than my external HDD, which is strange considering the HDD has its own power source...
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on 11 June 2015 - 04:37 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
If it's a USB 3.0 drive, you'll need a Y-cable to power the thing with the Wii U, it only has USB 2.0 ports.
No, it's a USB 2.0 drive. Plus, it uses AC power.
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on 11 June 2015 - 03:56 AM
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Wii U Hardware Help
Good day people.
I'm having a very annoying issue with my Wii U and my external HDD. A friend of mine gave me his code for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze a while ago. I used it, and only then did I find out that it's a whopping 10GB. I already had The Wonderful 101 installed on the system memory, which is another 10GB. I own the Deluxe Set, so between those games, my indie titles and savedata—it was just too much for the limited memory.
So I sacrificed HDD I was using, and hooked it up to the U. Most things moved over with ease, but anything above 1GB has issues being moved. I lost my Smash data a few months ago because of this problem. Every time I try to copy or move big files over to the HDD, after about 2-3 minutes, a message would pop up saying that "there was an error copying the data. Only disconnect your external hard drive when the console is powered off."
I already disabled the hard drive sleep mode function, so the disk isn't going idle. I'm stumped at this point.
