My second External for my Wii U has now died -edit- Actually all my data just vanished, save data too!

[Barkley]

caffeinade said:

Barkley said:
My external I've had for... a decade? Still works great... except I used it on my WiiU and apparently it's now impossible to reformat it so I can use it on something else.

Seriously? Fuck you Nintendo!

If you cannot use Microsoft Windows to do the job, use a Linux distro, you can boot a wide selection of Linux distros from a USB

That's an absolute joke, If the HDD isn't easily reformatable Nintendo screwed up. I'll give it a go on windows first then followed by linux and post my findings here.