How to partition hard drive for wii games


















Once you have downloaded all these zip files, you need to unzip them and remove the. Then you should get the folders paths that look like this:. In this part, you need to transfer all downloaded Homebrew Wii U files from your computer to your SD card.

You can follow this simple guide:. Select the appstore and homebrew-launcher folders on your computer, right-click them and select Copy. Select the payload. Step 4. After that, all the Wii U Homebrew hack files should have the following structure:. Now, you can download games and apps more easily on Wii U once the Homebrew Launcher is loaded. If all the above files match your SD card, continue with the following parts.

Tip: Sometimes many users may receive an error while copying the files to the SD card. The initial exploit is loaded via the browser, so you need to make sure that your Wii U system is connected to the Internet. To do so, follow the detailed steps below:. Open the Internet browser on your Wii U, and navigate to the wiiuexploit.

On the pop-up page, click on the Run Homebrew Launcher button to load the launcher. If it freezes, you can hold the Power button to turn off your console and follow the above steps to try again. The Homebrew Channel is an important loader for the Homebrew Launcher. It can help you load in and out of games and apps directly. Extract the files. On a Windows computer, double-click the ZIP folder, click Extract at the top of the folder's window, click Extract all in the resulting toolbar, and click Extract when prompted.

This will extract the files to a regular folder and open the folder when the extraction completes. On a Mac, just double-click the ZIP folder to open it. Open the "Files" folder. Copy the all files in the Files folder. Click your SD card's name. Paste in the files.

The files will copy onto the SD card. Eject the card. Once your files finish copying, you can proceed with removing your SD card. To do so: Windows - RIght-click the drive in the panel to the left and click Eject. Mac - Click the upward-facing arrow to the right of your SD card's name in the left-hand pane. Part 4. Plug your SD card into your Wii. It should fit in a slot in the front of the Wii. Turn on your Wii. Press your Wii's power button, or use the power button on the remote. The Wii's remote will need to be on and synced as well.

Press A when prompted. This will take you to the main menu. Start the Homebrew Channel. Select the Homebrew Channel on your Wii's main menu, then select Start when prompted.

Select IOS Installer. It's on the first page of the Homebrew Channel. A pop-up menu will appear. Select Load when prompted. You'll find this option in the bottom-middle of the pop-up menu. Press the 1 button. Doing so selects the Install option. If you're using a GameCube controller, press the Y button instead. It's at the bottom of the page. If you don't see this option, select the text in brackets at the bottom of the screen and press Right until you see it appear.

Doing so will install the IOS base onto your Wii. This process can take upward of 20 minutes, so be patient. Press any button when prompted.

This will exit the setup and return you to the Homebrew Channel. Part 5. It's in the middle of the first page of the Homebrew Channel. The installer window menu will open. Scroll left to the "IOS" option. This will select the IOS file that you installed earlier. Press A. Doing so confirms your choice. Agree to the terms of use. Press A on your controller to do so. Select an IOS version. Select a custom IOS slot.

Select an installation mode. Press Left until you see "Network installation" appear between the brackets. Start the installation. Press A to begin installing the IOS installer. This will move you to the next part of the installation. Select another IOS version. Select another slot. Use the network installer. Select "Network installation" and press A as you did with the last installer, then wait for the installation to complete. Press any button when prompted, then press the B button.

This will restart your Wii. When it finishes restarting, you'll be able to proceed. Part 6. Navigate to the next page of the Homebrew Channel.

Press the Right arrow on your Wii remote's D-pad to do so. Select WAD Manager. It's the second option on this page. Doing so will start up the WAD Manager installer.

This agrees to the terms of use. Enter the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes MB or accept the maximum default size, and then select Next. Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then select Next.

If you don't want to format the volume right now, select Do not format this volume , and then select Next. Note: When you create new partitions on a basic disk, the first three will be formatted as primary partitions.

Beginning with the fourth, each one will be configured as a logical drive within an extended partition. Warning: Formatting a volume will destroy any data on the partition. Be sure to back up any data you want to save before you begin.

Right-click the volume that you want to format, and then select Format. To format the volume with the default settings, in the Format dialog box, select OK , and then select OK again. You cannot format a disk or partition that is currently in use, including the partition that contains Windows. After you've downloaded the covers, your default interface should look like this:. Clicking along the bar at the top of the screen gives you new layouts like the one at the top of this article and this one:.

You can favorite games to make a "Best Of" list or sort them by number of plays so your most frequently played games rise to the top. You can even set a parental lock so that children playing games on your Wii can't load the Mature rated titles—do you really want to explain why your nephew is playing No More Heroes instead of Super Paper Mario?

So far things are looking pretty good. You're rocking Homebrew, you've got a USB hard drive with all your games hooked up to your Wii, and it's all controlled by a beautiful cover-style loader. What could be better? Not having to launch the Homebrew Channel and then launch the loader, just to get to your games. Let's put the loader front and center. We're going to need a few more tools, so grab that SD card. We need a WAD manager, essentially a file manager for the Wii that handles installation bundles.

You can't go wrong downloading Waninkoko's Wad Manager; you'll find a copy here. DOL file to boot. Throw it back into your Wii and boot into the Homebrew Channel. Run the Wad Manager. You should see a screen that looks like this:.

On the next screen select "Wii SD Slot" as the source device. The next screen should look like this:. After the installation is complete, hit the home button on your Wiimote to boot back into the Wii. From now on, whenever you boot up your Wii you'll be one click away from your awesome collection in all its cover-flow glory. Before we break from the tutorial, we have some links to share with you. The following sites have astounding amounts of information about the Wii, modding the Wii, and the inner workings of the Wii.

If you can't find the answer to your Wii-related questions among them, you probably won't find it anywhere. Have a favorite Wii-related resource?



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