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How to play Wii backups from a usb stick with no modchip.by Solderguy on April 22, 2009

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Intro:   How to play Wii backups from a usb stick with no modchip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 1:   Install WBFS Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Step 2:   Download the Wii iso to your usb device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Step 3:   Install USB loader application on your Wii Homebrew Channel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Step 4:   Install USB loader Channel in your Wii. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Step 5:   Using the USB loader channel and playing your games. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Step 6:   Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Intro:  How to play Wii backups from a usb stick with no modchip.Tired of bad DVD burns? Wii laser die out on you? Want to rip Wii games directly from your Wii's dvd to your hard drive? This instructable is perfect for you! With thisinstructable, you will be able to play all your favorite Wii games on your Wii from a usb stick or usb hard drive!

Hardware requirements:Wii3.4 or earlier Wii firmwareLarge usb stick or usb external usb hard drive.Computer with usb ports

Software requirements:The Homebrew channelWBFS manager 3.0 or laterrev 10 installer with usb loaderWii game iso(OPTIONAL: All region Wii game covers .)7-zip

###DISCLAIMER:I am not the author of these program, I am not responsible for any damage you make to your Wii, computer, yourself, other people around you, your dog, you get thepicture. The programs are only for playing backups of games you already own.###

Step 1: Install WBFS Manager.Download these files:

Uncompress the WBFS Manager rar file with 7-zip.Click on the WBFS Manager setup icon.A new screen will pop up and tell you that the program will install WBFS Manager on your computer. Click next.It will then ask you to save to files in a folder. Either choose a folder or leave it on the default folder.Click next. It will now tell you that it is ready to install to your hard drive. Click Next to begin the installation process. When it is done installing press "Close."

Image Notes1. Click next.

Image Notes1. This is if your computer has multiple profiles.

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2. This will say 3.0 because I was too lazy to update the picture. 2. This is the folder that the program will save to.3. Click browse if you want to change the folder.4. Click next.

Image Notes1. Click next again.

Image Notes1. This takes a while. You might be prompted by your Vista computer if you wantto run the installer program, just click accept.

Image Notes1. It's all done installing on your computer!2. Click close.

Step 2: Download the Wii iso to your usb device.This next step explains how to load a Wii ISO to you usb device.

The first step is to get a Wii iso backup file. (I can't tell you where.)

Plug in your usb device in your computer . Click on the WBFS Manager 2.5 icon on your desktop. A new scree n will open. Use the drop-down tab under "Edit" in theupper left corner to choose your usb device drive letter.

(WARNING: Be very careful not to format your hard drive! Make sure you're drive number is right!)

Now click format to delete the contents on your USB device and change the format to WBFS.

(Note: You will not be able to use the USB drive only to store Wii isos because the computer operating system doesn't recognize the WBFS format).

After you're done formatting click the "Load button to load the contents of your USB device. It's empty.

Click the "Browse" button in the lower right corner to open a new window, locate your Wii ISO, click it, and click "Open" in the lower right corner.It will take a few seconds to load. You should see it in the right half of the WBFS Manager window. Hover your mouse over it to see it's game cover.

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Now click "Add to Device" to compress your Wii ISO and add it to your usb device.It will take about 5 minutes to upload the file to a usb device.After it's done, either close the program and take your usb device out of your computer and go to the next step, or add more games to your usb device.

Image Notes1. This is actually supposed to be 3.0 but I am too lazy to update the picture.

Image Notes1. Use this to choose your usb device drive letter. (This is unique to everycomputer, mine is drive I and will be used just as an example.)

Image Notes1. My drive letter is I.

Image Notes1. Press "Format" to format your usb device.

Image Notes Image Notes

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1. This is a warning you get to ask you if you really want to format your drive.Click "Yes" if you are ready.

1. "Format completed successfully.."

Image Notes1. Press "Load" to load your drive.2. "Browse" will appear after you press "Load". Press it to load your Wii isos.3. Total space you have on the device.4. The space you currently are using on your device.5. The free space you have on your device.

Image Notes1. Star Wars!2. You can load ISO or RAR files.3. Click "Open" when you find your file.

Image Notes1. It takes a while to load.

Image Notes1. Press "Add to drive" to add it to the USB device.

Image Notes1. It takes a few minutes to compress and copy to your drive.

Image Notes1. Click this.

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Image Notes1. Close the window now.2. Ok, we're done!

Step 3: Install USB loader application on your Wii Homebrew Channel.This next step will explain how to usb loader on your Wii.

Before you can install usb loader to your Wii you first need the files in your SD card.

Unrar the usb hack rar file with Winrar or 7-Zip and copy the contents of the "Copy contents to root" folder to the root of your SD card. Pretty self explanatory. If you get awindow asking you to merge folders click yes. Now comes the tricky part.

(Optional: You can also download the covers for the games.The reason I say it's optional is because it contains over 1300 game covers and will occupy 100 MB in your SD card. But it's convenient to have so you don't have tosquint to read the game text on the tv. Just download it, uncompress the Covers zip file with 7-ZIP and drag the covers folder to the usb-loader folder in the root on yourSD card.. You will get a prompt to merge folders and click yes )

Remove any Gamecube memory cars and Gamecube controllers from the Wii.Insert the SD card into your Wii, turn the Wii on and go to the Homebrew channel.

Click on "cIOS36rev10" and click load. The screen will go black for a second and you will then be in the cIOS36rev10 installer. Use the directional arrows to choose WADinstallation and click A. After a few minutes it will have completed the installation of cIOS rev 10.Now, restart your wii, go back to the Homebrew channel, and go to Wad Manager 1.3 and click load.Choose the SD card, press A, then choose the WAD "USBLoadermodBrisma.wad" and press the + button on your Wii remote. After a few moments it will have completedinstalling the USB channel.Press "HOME" on your Wii remote to restart your Wii.

Image Notes1. Press start.

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Image Notes1. Press the "A" button on your wii remote to start installing cIOS rev 10.2. Press the "B" button on your Wii remote to restart your Wii.

Image Notes1. Press the left/right directional cursors on your wii remote to choose installationmode.2. Choose WAD installation and press the "A" button.

Image Notes1. "Press any button to restart..."2. Success:Custom IOS has installed successfully.

Image Notes1. Press 'Load'.

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Step 4: Install USB loader Channel in your Wii.This step will explain how to install the usb loader channel to your Wii menu.

First go to the homebrew channel then load the WAD manager.

The screen will go green for a second and you will see a disclaimer on the screen. Press "A" on your Wii remote to continue.Use your left and right directional arrows on your Wii remote to select SD card.Now you will see a USBLoadermodBrisma WAD file.Use the down key to select it and press "+" on your Wii remote to install it.After it finishes installing, press your HOME button te restart the Wii.On your Wii menu there should be a new channel called usb loader channel.

Image Notes1. Click load.

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Image Notes1. "If you agree press A button to start.2. Press B button to restart Wii.

Image Notes1. You new usbloader channel!

Step 5: Using the USB loader channel and playing your games.In this next step I will explain how to use your new Channel, and how you can play your games on it.

First, plug your usb device into your Wii usb slot and start the USB loader channel.

Here are the controls for the USB loader channel:

"+" button: Lets you install a game. (I haven't figured out how this works.)"-" button: Lets you delete a game."A" button: Lets you select and start a game."B" button: Lets you go back to menu if you choose the wrong game."1" button: Forces the game to play in PAL mode."2" button: Forces the game to play in NTSC mode.

Next, use the left and right directional arrows to choose "USB mass storage device", and click A.

It will load all the games on your USB drive and if you downloaded the covers it will show you their cover. Use the up and down directional arrows and press "A" tochoose your game. Press "A" again to load your game and press "A" one last time to play your game.

If you have any problems just ask it in the comments below.

Image Notes1. It's as simple as "Plug-and play."

Image Notes1. This is actually a mirror.2. Make sure your usb device is working.3. 8 GB is enough for one larger dual layer game or two single layer games.

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Image Notes1. Press the 1 button to force PAL mode.2. Press 2 to force NTSC mode.3. Press A to select a game.4. Press B to go back.5. Use the directional arrows to select a WBFS drive.6. Press and hold the power button to turn off the Wii.7. Lets you rip a game off a DVD in you Wii's DVD drive.8. Lets you uninstall a game from your usb device.

Image Notes1. Have the covers is extremely useful.

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1. SUCCESS!! WOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Step 6: Troubleshooting.I finally had the time to write the solutions to some Wii error codes. If at any time you Wii spits an error code at you, here two of the most common errors, and theirsolutions.

Common error codes and solutions:

Error Code:ret= -1 Cause:You are missing a Cios (249, 222 or something like that)Solution: Install Cios 249 or 222, or whatever cios is needed by the usb loader you are using.

Error Code:ret= -2011Cause: A signing bug that allowed the execution of code was patched by /nintendo is system menu 4.0 and higher.Solution: Run trucha bug restorer to restore the exploit on your Wii.

For the errors that I didn't bother to write down, here is a list of common Wii errors and their solutions:http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsG1QflcbnLndE5JQUpIbS1BZEEyb2VzSTJad2RZNlE&hl=en

Always remember, THE HOMEBREW CHANNEL IS FREE .

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Comments

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 prowan-1 says:  Mar 4, 2011. 1:00 PM  REPLYFollow this - much better and it works..

http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-faqs-guides-tutorials-only/60921-guide-softmod-any-wii.html

 Sydneysyd says:  Feb 13, 2011. 8:27 AM  REPLYThx 4 ur instructable, always run ! Great ! ^^

 b-rome says:  Nov 21, 2009. 4:29 AM  REPLYThanks for that sorry about the spelling, but still having problem it can't reconise my usb stick. I have used the WBFS manager 3.0 and 2.2, I have used bothUltimate USB loader v7 and the one you suggested think 1.5. On the first I get "ERROR could not initialize USB subsysten (ret -6)" and one the other i get Mounting device please wait ERROR (ret -1)

 HollowCandy says:  Jan 30, 2011. 1:59 PM  REPLYI have this problem

 HollowCandy says:  Jan 30, 2011. 1:56 PM  REPLYHeya, i need some help if you'd be so kind.

I have a usb(2 gig) and two sd cards(one is 1gig, the other 8 gig.) i have all the files loaded, my wii already hacked, i have 2 different usb loaders, and dvdloader. i formated my usb and sd 8 gig to be able to play backed up wii games, and i even put the game on a dvd, but every single thing i do, i cant get mywii to detect a single drive.

If you could teach me how to fix this problem, or even just help me to get it working on a dvd, id be greatfull,

i format my drives to wbfs, and i convert the iso on to the drive. plug into wii, then its not detected, and i'm instructed to resart my wii.

Please help. i don't know what to do.

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 metri3 says:  Jan 2, 2011. 4:35 PM  REPLYAnybody looking for the easiest, best, and fool proof way to hack your wii check out gbatemp.net and search for "modmii". Awesome program for a virgin wiior if you are just looking to do further hacking such as play backup games from your usb port. I have tried a lot of things on different wiis and this was thebest!

 kakashi.hatakae says:  Dec 27, 2010. 2:57 PM  REPLYi got a error when formatting, why id that

 causkimo says:  Dec 23, 2010. 3:44 PM  REPLYPROBLEM!!!! I did everything this told me to do... but when I try to load a game from my USB, it says "No SD Codes" and then proceeds to the "Error 002"screen. What do I do?

 IamElliF says:  Nov 26, 2010. 10:28 PM  REPLYThis is my problem. So from the wiibrew website I installed homebrew and bootmii threw the Indiana pwns exploit. From this point I'm totally cluelessbecause all vids and websites instruct me on how to do it all at once with there packs but I've already installed homebrew and bootmii...I need to know whatto do from this point on in order to play downloaded games from my USB external hard drive. I also need an up to date program that will format my externalhard drive to wbfs and transfer the downloaded games onto the hard drive as well. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated

 tonya3777 says:  Nov 21, 2010. 8:06 PM  REPLYIm so new at all this. Just got a wii yesterday & I know plp that can burn movies to a disc so I was wondering if you can games too or do i just need to keepthem on a usb or ex drive? lz help & thx

 RisingSun says:  Nov 23, 2010. 3:06 PM  REPLYYes games can be burned to a dvd as well and then played by the console they're for, so Wii games on Wii, Xbox360 games on Xbox360, etc.

 WRivera460 says:  Nov 17, 2010. 4:49 PM  REPLYcool...i have a wii and i was wondering if u can plug in a two modchips and or one flash and a modchip??

 akinich says:  Feb 24, 2010. 4:44 AM  REPLYhey nice instructablei have a question for youi have a wii and it has a mod chip in itcan i do this if the mod chip is still inside?will this damage my wii if there is a mod chip inside it when i do thisthanksakinich

 le-Sid says:  Nov 9, 2010. 7:54 PM  REPLYyup you can afaik, the chip only fools the wii thinking your burnt disk is a legit one, you can always install hbc or any other hacks

 oxuk says:  Jan 16, 2010. 12:12 AM  REPLYHi there, I'm hoping you can help me sort out my problem.I resently installed the homebrew channel in my Nintendo wii and it all went well.I am now trying to install the USB loader application following your instruction, I get as far as viewing the "cIOS36rev10" loader and clicking on it, but then myscreen goes black and it stays like that, I've left on on for as long as 5mins but nothings happens.Is there something else I should know, or is there a way around this?By the way I recently updated my nintendo wii to the latest version.Any help will be greatly appreciated!

 galacius29 says:  Jan 16, 2010. 5:52 PM  REPLYsame thing is happening to me

 tunafishwarrior says:  Jan 19, 2010. 7:22 PM  REPLYThis really sucks, I think it may have to do with being updated to the 4.2 update.  Is there anyone who knows the fix for this, I have homebrewinstalled, and as soon as I try to open any of the files from my SD card to try and get it started, the screen goes black, the wiimote disconnects, andthe only solve is a hard boot.

 coso22 says:  Mar 12, 2010. 6:37 PM  REPLYRight everybody here is the best way to get everything working on any wii no matter what firmware!!!! Download Dop Mii it works in yourhomebrew channel and when you go onto it it lets you delete all of the iso's nintendo have put there to stop piracy or even just downgrade it alsolets you downgrade from 4.2 to any system firmware. Then download pimp my wii and launch from homebrew and press install pass tests and fixproblems go right through this then whenever you want to install a wad u use ios 36 no matter what it is. Then download usb loader gx waddownload if you dont have wad manager you need to download that to install the wads all of these files can be easily found in google all are free!!Download cios rev 14 also from google and install from homebrew to ios36 this can only be done after using pimp  my wii, once this is installedyou will have no problem installing and running any games from a external usb hdd any questions please adk i know it sounds complicated but

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this is really easy to do. Any questions ask i will help !!!!!!

 le-Sid says:  Nov 9, 2010. 7:53 PM  REPLYfor my part i've used "pimp my wii" from wii-info.fr, it updates your ios to the required versions to make most hacks run, including updates forthe shop channel and most other online nintendo channels.

 darrenthorpe says:  Jan 5, 2010. 2:59 PM  REPLYI have transfered wii sports resort to my usb devise but it has gone over as 0.83GB as apposed to 4.38GB that it actually is. is this correct? I have done thesame with bolt and it shows the same in both and works fine!!!!!!

 Solderguy says:  Jan 7, 2010. 2:09 AM  REPLYYes it is the correct size. 4.3 GB is the size of the DVD, not the size of that game data. You'll be surprised how small they can make the games.

 Jrwhar says:  Mar 31, 2010. 9:11 AM  REPLYFor some reason when I transfered SSBB it went up to 6.8 gig from 4.7 any ideas on how to fix that? Any help would be greatly appreciated becauseid be able to fit alot more games on my 16 Gb flash drive. Awesome work on the tut by the way :)

 Jrwhar says:  Mar 31, 2010. 9:17 AM  REPLYNevermind, did some research and SSBB is a dual layer game which takes up a massive amount of space.

 le-Sid says:  Nov 8, 2010. 4:55 PM  REPLYyup, ssbb is one of the few games that are burnt on double-layer dvd ... (same thing for Metroid trilogy)

 darrenthorpe says:  Feb 15, 2010. 1:08 PM  REPLYHi,I am also having lots of problems with the screen getting lots of strange symbols when scrolling through the games and then it crashes with a dsierror and other comments. I have to turn the wii off at the mains. this is happening with probably 80% of the games that I put on the hard drive. OnceI delete the game off (that was downloaded last that caused the issue), all is ok with the games that are on and ok. Can you help?? Daz

 Solderguy says:  Feb 16, 2010. 3:16 PM  REPLYTry using another usb loder program. I use Uloader 3.0 now because I got the same error.

 darrenthorpe says:  Feb 17, 2010. 3:00 PM  REPLYThanks, Took some time finding uloader 3.0 but now installed and worked well with the first game. Thanks for all your help. I'll now try theothers.

 adi badaya says:  Jul 31, 2010. 4:57 AM  REPLYi wanna convert my flash drive to WBFS format .but after that can i use it the same before or that will be permanent

 le-Sid says:  Nov 8, 2010. 4:52 PM  REPLYthe wbfs format is a partition type, you can always reformat your drive in fat32 afterwards, but keep in mind that you'll lose what was on the wbfs partition

 MTB2010 says:  Sep 5, 2010. 8:55 PM  REPLYI downloaded the WBFS and tried putting my game file in its a .rar but says it fails becaus theres a password on it, how do i get past this?

 boyflai says:  Jun 22, 2010. 6:26 AM  REPLYI have been trying to put games on my wii for months and still have no idea how to do it. For step 2, I got a game that is a ciso and made a rar file out of it.So when i try to put the game to load into the wii, all it did was pop up and then close. Do i need a better game? any is there anysuggestion for a gamedownload website since i don't know how to use torrent.

 pcjoeyd says:  Jul 5, 2010. 10:07 AM  REPLYHi boyflai, You have to mod your system before you can do any of this. Also (and this is for everyone that has asked), do NOT update your wii system tothe latest update (4.3U) DO NOT UPDATE YOUR WII !!! If you do, you will not be able to mod your system. Eventually there will be a fix, but it's not outyet.. Having said that, if you are anyone else wants their wii modded, I'll do it for you for a small fee....I can mod any version EXCEPT 4.3

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 Ghost99 says:  Aug 14, 2010. 5:48 PM  REPLY4.3u can be modded in minutes. I did mine this morning and the entire process took me literally under 10 minutes. What you will need: Lego IndianaJones - The original Adventures Indiana PWNS hacked save file Hackmii installer 1-2GB SD card (DO NOT use larger then 2GB, DO NOT use aSDHD card) Process: 1. Back-up or delete your Wii saved files system memory. 2. Start Indiana Jones and play through the first level WITH theNunchuck attached. 3. Save your game at the end of the first level. 4. Exit to Wii Menu, Access save file, delete the current Indiana Jones save andcopy the the Indiana PWNS save from your SD card (use the save for your region e.g. USA, EU, JAP) 5. Extract the HackMii files to the ROOT ofyour SD card. Make sure that boot.dol is in the ROOT and named "boot.dol" (If the .dol file is named something else rename it to boot.dol) 6. StartIndiana Jones and load the save file. 7. You will be loaded into the College or Museum or whatever it is, walk to the Art Room at the end of theCourtyard. 8. Walk up to the guy on the first pedestal and select the option of the two silhouette's 9. When the Indiana PWNS exploit runs select"load from SD" 10. HackMii should load on its own 11. Install the Homebrew Channel and BootMii loader 12. Voila! HBC is installed on your 4.3 Wii inunder 10 minutes!

 p2d2r2 says:  Jul 31, 2010. 12:33 PM  REPLYum ive made a way to put the homebrew channel back on the wii 4.3... 1 have a working wad manager channel (not application) 2 update to 4.3U 3download this wad: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J7XAKSV8 4 install this wad with wad manager 5 it will be an orange homebrew channel 6 loadthe channel 7 it will be upside down so wait and a message will pop up saying to update to the latest version of hbc 8 update the homebrew channeland it will open the hackmii installer where you can install hbc and bootmii 9 at the first screen press a the go to install hbc 10 exit and you will havethe new hbc on a 4.3 wii!! ----p2d2r2

 steamruler says:  Aug 14, 2010. 11:02 AM  REPLYFYI Be careful when using a cIOS, since it "rips the ios in half and mess with it".

 jonaboy says:  Jul 22, 2010. 1:23 AM  REPLYHI i'm getting the error ret = -6 when i load my hdd its strange because i formatted it to wbfs anyone help please?

 benzugo says:  Jul 6, 2010. 7:24 PM  REPLYI have just installed eveything with no problems until i Loaded USB loader it come up with boot.dol missing in /apps/busbloader. Now i checked and its there.Any ideas what i have done wrong would be great Many Thanks

 catfish182 says:  Jun 19, 2010. 5:33 PM  REPLYis there a assumption that the homebrew channel is installed? i have not seen that part yet and i can not imagine this working without it.

 mcknikker says:  Jun 1, 2010. 6:54 AM  REPLY I have the same problem as everyone below! my screen turns black and also my wii remote doesn't want to connect any more. Does someone found asolutions for this problem( I now that it might be the firmware version on my wii, but someone should have a solution for this.. ?) I hope to hear of you all! 

 cubemike99 says:  May 8, 2010. 2:37 PM  REPLYwill this work for gamecube games? 

 x17 says:  May 5, 2010. 10:22 PM  REPLY""+" button: Lets you install a game. (I haven't figured out how this works.)"

You press that button, insert a store bought game into the Wii and it puts it on your memory  stick or USB drive.

 Lukissio says:  Apr 6, 2010. 6:51 AM  REPLYMy WBFS software can't format my SD card is that because I did something wrong or is it that it's an SD card? :/

 Ganoderma says:  Apr 18, 2010. 12:37 PM  REPLY I had the same problem, taking the SD out, rebooting comp and putting it back it seemed to work. 

 witnessachange says:  Apr 13, 2010. 11:08 PM  REPLYdo I need a SD card??? My pc doesnt have a SD slot!!!

I can get a USB flash drive, but if I need a SD card then it makes no sense!!

 witnessachange says:  Apr 13, 2010. 11:09 PM  REPLYnevermind, I have a SD card reader LOL..

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-play-Wii-backups-on-a-usb-stick-with-no-mod/

 wombat_831 says:  Mar 26, 2010. 8:13 PM  REPLYwad manager v1.3 is giving meerror (ret = -1)what does this mean i tried reinstalling the cIOS36rev10 but no luck

 clarx says:  Mar 5, 2010. 10:59 AM  REPLYWhen I try to install my usb loader GX I get an error : ret -1035 please help me

 twinkymartinez says:  Feb 14, 2010. 1:10 AM  REPLY for some reason it lets ne start to load the iso ro the hard drive but it like freezes and stops like after 4 minutes and hey scrubbed games so theyre not thatlong to upload i have done it before and it went quick but my hard drive messed up for some reason so i had to upload it again but it is taking forever toupload

 Devinology says:  Jan 18, 2010. 12:47 PM  REPLYHi there, nice guide.

I have finally got the usb loader program installed properly but it doesn't seem to be recognizing my WBFS formatted drives.  I have tried two different mediaplayers, one HDD based with a seperate partition on it that I formatted in WBFS, and one flash based with the whole thing formatted in WBFS.  I have alsotried an external HDD (HP brand) that has one partition in NTFS and one partition in WBFS.  I do not have any SD cards or usb keys large enough to holdany games.  I know the HP HDD should work though, as many have got them to work.  What am I doing wrong?  USB loader 1.5 says it cannot find a WBFSpartition.  I would I formatted it correctly and added the games correctly.  I am using Wii 3.4U firmware, with trucha bug restored (it needed to be restored forme to install usb loader properly in the first place.  Is the problem maybe that I need to have an HDD that is completely formatted in WBFS (one partition allin WBFS)?  I have other stuff on the HDD and I really only want about 100GB of it to be a WBFS partition.  Is 100GB partition too large?  Do I need to go outand get a larger USB key and use it only for this purpose?

I need help!I am so close to geting this to work, I thought the hard drive part would be the easiest part.

Any help would be great.  I don't want to go buy another USB device for this if I can just use ones I have.Again, the problem with everything I have tried is that usb loader 1.5 does not recognize the WBFS formatted usb devices.

 Devinology says:  Jan 18, 2010. 7:34 PM  REPLYokay, I have figured it out.I have a few tips to get this going. You CAN use an HDD with multiple partitions, as long as one of them is in WBFS.  To do this you have to use a partitioning program (I used Partitionmagic 8) to change some free space on the HDD into a new partition.  Then you format the partition.  There are two things you MUST do when formattingif you want to be able to format into WBFS with the WBFS manager and have the Wii (USB loader) recognize the drive.  First, you must format thepartition in FAT32 first.  Second, when you format in FAT32 make sure you make the partition a primary partition rather than a logical one.  The Wii willnot recognize it unless it is primary.  After this you can format into WBFS with the WBFS manager.  Then you add the games using the manager, andthen hook the HDD up to the Wii via USB.  USB loader should now recognize it.

DO NOT use the game ripping function (install game)  in USB loader.  it was not meant to be used with WBFS manager formatted drives (I don't think). Well all I know is that I have tried it several times and it always seems to just mess up my drive and I have to do the whole process over again.I think if you want to rip games from the Wii you can probably get it to work in USB loader by ripping to a different drive than the one you use to playgames, and then maybe somehow transfer it over properly with WBFS manager using you computer.If anyone figures out how to use this function I would be grateful.  For now I am just downloading the games I want, but the ripping function would be niceif it worked well (especially if it ripped directly into playable form on the HDD, which I believe it is supposed to).  I haven't looked into how to rip Wiigames on a PC yet, but I am sure it isn't too hard.  I know the game ISOs I have downloaded say they have been "scrubbed", not sure what this means,something to do with beating copy protection I am sure. 

Also, I managed to get the inverted homebrew channel thing going on after patching my IOS36 to have the trucha bug, which I needed to do in order toget the IOS36rev10 patch to work.  I would kind of like to fix it, but now that I have games working from the HDD I almost don't want to mess with it, and itactually doesn't really affect the functionality of the homebrew channel or any of it's apps.  Just makes the menu a little tricky to navigate in order toselect an app.  If anyone knows of a way that will fix it without messing up anything else I have done, please let me know.

Cheers, hope this helps someone.

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