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

[caffeinade]

Barkley said:

caffeinade said:

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.Cool, just very hard to believe that formatting a drive would damage it

If that were truly the case then it would be due to the HDD's ICs or internal management of data, after a decade of service errors are not altogether unavoidable.

If you need any help with Linux I am happy to be of assistance.