SD cards are small storage units, exclusively used to store a collection of data that you can access from your computer or other devices. All I can do now is add games through disc backup. To create a partition on a flash drive without formatting / erasing existing data, you can use Mac’s inbuilt Disk Utility feature. Now I'm worried because I can't access my hard drive through my computer at all.
If I recall (been a while) GC games are just a simple ISO, but renamed game.iso and dropped in a folder with the game name. It can be run on a PC only through the emulator. The Wii game files are created as a backup in a separate WBFS partition in the flash drive or SD card. Its always worked well for me, since I have all my emulators, GC, and Wii games on one partition. This article tells you about the WBFS file, a format of the Wii game disc, and gives you ways to preserve the data by converting it into an ISO file. Make sure the drive is not in use or open and that it has been formated to WBFS format." With WBFS Manager, you just convert Wii ISOs to WBFS format, and everything goes on a fat formatted drive. I click on 'Load' in the WBFS Manager to bring up my drive, but it says: "Error occured while loading drive. And correct me if I'm wrong, but that program is the ONLY way that I can put a downloaded ISO on that hard drive right? Aside from the disc backup option of course. THE PROBLEM that I'm having, is that I cannot put any downloaded Wii game ISO's on my hard drive now because STILL, the WBFS Manager wont detect the drive. I then followed through with backing up my Wii games to my hard drive. It took me a while but I finally figured out that the USB Loader will only format my drive if its in a "raw" format.
#Partition usb drive for wii mac how to#
I had posted a thread here asking for help on how to fix that problem, then one the posters(I forget the name) told me that the USB Loader will format the hard drive for me also. Not compatible natively with computers, you need a dedicated program to manage the content. It would not work, and repeatedly gave me errors no matter how many times I retried Step 8. HDD Format WBFS: Old and deprecated Wii Backup File System format. Once that was done, I then proceeded to Step 8 to use the WBFS Manager to prepare my hard drive for use on the Wii. For example, we want to create two partitions of 7 GB and 8 GB on the 15 GB USB.
#Partition usb drive for wii mac install#
So.I used the tutorial to mod my Wii and install Homebrew channel and that good stuff. Format the USB flash drive in the NTFS file system and then open the Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) console Right-click the partition on the USB stick and select Shrink Volume in the context menu Specify the size of free space after shrinking and click Shrink. This might be a little complicated so I'm gonna do my best to explain my situation:
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