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

Barkley on 04 December 2016
caffeinade said:

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.

Thanks but I'm quite familiar with linux actually, as it seems it's not a universal problem I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out. Though as I bought another one to use I don't know when I'll bother to do it.

But yeah I'm sure I'll be able to fix it then, seems it isn't the 100% concrete problem I thought it was.



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Knitemare on 04 December 2016

Yeah, it is an external drive. I am sure just like the Xbox or PS4. But now I am not sure that some how my entire system did not just erase for some reason. Because all the memory on my Wii U is wiped as well.

Dude, I think you have an enemy in your home...



                          

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NoirSon on 04 December 2016

I have a 1 TB WD portable. It is hooked up to a USB hub due to the device being 3.0 and the Wii U only having 2.0 connections but so far so good. Although I don't have too many games on it, mostly eshop and VC games so nothing to extensive and probably only used 25% of its capacity.



zippy on 05 December 2016
Mowco said:
zippy said:
I have a Seagate 2TB hooked up to mine, works like a dream.

 

That seems a little overkill! How much have you filled up?

 

Got about 30 digital games on it, a mix of Indie, virtual console and full retail games.

snyps on 05 December 2016
spurgeonryan said:
zippy said:

 

Got about 30 digital games on it, a mix of Indie, virtual console and full retail games.

That is even overkill for me! I have close to 320 now.

I hooked my External drive to my pc for a few seconds, for curiousity, and my Wii U immediately dis owned it. Said it was unrecognizable. I think it's like when you pick up a baby bird and place it back in it's nest, the mom throws it out the nest because it smells like a human. 



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snyps on 05 December 2016
SpokenTruth said:
snyps said:

I hooked my External drive to my pc for a few seconds, for curiousity, and my Wii U immediately dis owned it. Said it was unrecognizable. I think it's like when you pick up a baby bird and place it back in it's nest, the mom throws it out the nest because it smells like a human. 

1. Was that HDD ever connected to anything else prior to the Wii U?   It will need formating to work with it.

2. That's false.  Just an old tale to keep kids from picking up baby birds out of nests.

I installed almost a terabyte of Wii U games onto my external HDD. Connected it to my computer to see what it would do. What ever it did wasn't good. I already beat all my games and there weren't any new ones coming out so I use it for sharing files between Windows 10 and OS X. 

 

Thanks btw, i always believed that since I was very young... Probably for the better though :)



The_Yoda on 05 December 2016
spurgeonryan said:
zippy said:

 

Got about 30 digital games on it, a mix of Indie, virtual console and full retail games.

That is even overkill for me! I have close to 320 now.

I went even further. I filled a 750 G drive then bought a dual enclosure with built in fan and threw in two 2TB drives ... there for a while i was buying WiiU content like gangbusters. I know how long it takes to download and never wanted to have to do it again.

Side story _ I thought the eShop had double charged me so I call in and the girl that answered looked up my history and said "holy shit ... sorry ... I've just not seen anyone buy that many games on an account" That said I still didn't reach the max limit, now it's likely I never will.



snyps on 05 December 2016
SpokenTruth said:
snyps said:

I installed almost a terabyte of Wii U games onto my external HDD. Connected it to my computer to see what it would do. What ever it did wasn't good. I already beat all my games and there weren't any new ones coming out so I use it for sharing files between Windows 10 and OS X. 

 

Thanks btw, i always believed that since I was very young... Probably for the better though :)

When you connected it, Windows probably said doesn't recognize the file system and asked to reformat it.  Was probably an easy to dismiss popup or notification.  Did you have to reformat it to use it to share those files between OS's?

Actually, when I connected it, Windows didn't do anything. So I opened Disk Management. This allowed me to locate it. All I did was force windows to locate it. After that it was too late. But yeah after that I purposefully formated it to a type that both Microsoft and Apple agree on :) Thanks for your interest in this.



Solid-Stark on 05 December 2016

Sounds like bad luck. How old is the drive?

I have two, one is 10+ years old and it's still going and the other 5 years no issues. Neither of these were used for game storage except for save backups. But I had an internal 1TB HDD die last month, lasted 4 years. This one was used for game storage on PC.



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