This was the case for PS3 but I haven't seen anything saying the same for the Wii U. I am assuming so.
Does and External Hard Drive for Wii U need to be formatted to fat32?
Started by Terraquven, Nov 09 2012 07:34 AM
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:37 AM
I don't believe they said. On that note though I would home the system would format it for you
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:59 AM
You sure do love asking one-line questions as separate threads.
To answer you: Who knows. It's November 9th, not 18th.
To answer you: Who knows. It's November 9th, not 18th.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 08:03 AM
The forums were built for chat like this and it's good to know these things ahead of time so when I get the Wii U and go to use my hard drive for the first time I don't get a message saying the hard drive is not in the right format. I would like to have my hard drive properly formatted ahead of time to ensure I can download games onto it on day 1. Formatting a hard drive can be time consuming if you didn't know.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 08:12 AM
The forums were built for chat like this and it's good to know these things ahead of time so when I get the Wii U and go to use my hard drive for the first time I don't get a message saying the hard drive is not in the right format. I would like to have my hard drive properly formatted ahead of time to ensure I can download games onto it on day 1. Formatting a hard drive can be time consuming if you didn't know.
Whether you're getting the basic or deluxe model you will have some amount of internal storage. It's unlikely you will need the use of an external hard drive right away. I'm sure having to spend a few hours formatting when you get the console won't be an issue.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 08:52 AM
Knowing Nintendo it might be a proprietary format, would fat32 even be good? I thought it couldn't handle file sizes above 4GBs, well unless you do some modifying to it.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 11:47 AM
not sure since some games will be bigger then 4gb so fat will have a problem there. I would say ntfs for bigger file size but just looking at the wii hombrew stuff it was wbfs or something.
So my guess is it will be nintendo own format to stop people from "sharing" games, they downloaded.
So my guess is it will be nintendo own format to stop people from "sharing" games, they downloaded.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 02:34 PM
I hope it's ntfs it runs better.
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Posted 09 November 2012 - 07:32 PM
It would probably be WFBS like the wii.
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