fitting a H/D instead of D/D

[icepick]

Just purchased a wii that has a faulty disc drive,my aim is to temp. fit a disc drive, mod the unit & instead of the disc drive fit inside the unit a small hard drive & wire-up to the wii-usb .
Before I begin this ,has anybody done this or can anyone forsee any problems I may encounter !

Regards

[ck-ok]

Just purchased a wii that has a faulty disc drive,my aim is to temp. fit a disc drive, mod the unit & instead of the disc drive fit inside the unit a small hard drive & wire-up to the wii-usb .
Before I begin this ,has anybody done this or can anyone forsee any problems I may encounter !

Regards

why fit a different drive? you can mod it without a drive.
and why put hdd inside the unit?

[bluebottle]

Just purchased a wii that has a faulty disc drive,my aim is to temp. fit a disc drive, mod the unit & instead of the disc drive fit inside the unit a small hard drive & wire-up to the wii-usb .
Before I begin this ,has anybody done this or can anyone forsee any problems I may encounter !

Regards

Its very tight inside the Wii, I cant think of any space free. The mod chip only just fitted. And as CK says, you dont need to if you want to modify it.

[icepick]

..@ ck-ok thanks for an answer....

"you can mod it without a drive" ... sorry not keeping up to date on modding ! reading more that's great "news"

"why put hdd inside the unit? " ... 1."Tidyness (all-in -one!)"

2.When sleeping over daughter still takes her dvd's with her,infrequently she will also take her H/D. Asked if there was no dvd drive & a H/D were fitted inside instead,would she use it....her answer was yes !

3. I'm doing No....... Women Logic Jokes :)

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@ bluebottle ,By Removing the dvd player completly from the unit will not there be enough space for a small H/D ?

Regards

[ck-ok]

..@ ck-ok thanks for an answer....

"you can mod it without a drive" ... sorry not keeping up to date on modding ! reading more that's great "news"

"why put hdd inside the unit? " ... 1."Tidyness (all-in -one!)"

2.When sleeping over daughter still takes her dvd's with her,infrequently she will also take her H/D. Asked if there was no dvd drive & a H/D were fitted inside instead,would she use it....her answer was yes !

3. I'm doing No....... Women Logic Jokes :)

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@ bluebottle ,By Removing the dvd player completly from the unit will not there be enough space for a small H/D ?

Regards

cant see any reason why it wont work give it a go and let us know how you go on.

[Keithuk]

icepick - you haven't said how old the Wii is or which system menu you are using? Obviously if its less than 4.3 then your going to need a useful DVD in it else you can't softmod it.

If it is 4.3 then you can use LetterBomb (http://hackmii.com/2011/08/letterbomb/) then you won't need a working DVD player you would just use an external HDD.

[happy_highlander]

icepick - you haven't said how old the Wii is or which system menu you are using? Obviously if its less than 4.3 then your going to need a useful DVD in it else you can't softmod it.

If it is 4.3 then you can use LetterBomb (http://hackmii.com/2011/08/letterbomb/) then you won't need a working DVD player you would just use an external HDD.

Didn't you read the post from ck-ok. A soft mod can be done without a dvd. Even if a game exploit was required for below 4.3 then surely you would just use nintendo online update to 4.3 then use letter bomb

[happy_highlander]

Just purchased a wii that has a faulty disc drive,my aim is to temp. fit a disc drive, mod the unit & instead of the disc drive fit inside the unit a small hard drive & wire-up to the wii-usb .
Before I begin this ,has anybody done this or can anyone forsee any problems I may encounter !

Regards
Before you try and fit a usb powered hdd inside the wii have a look at this list USB Devices Compatibility List - WikiTemp (http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/USB_Devices_Compatibility_List) and make sure you get a compatible drive as not all usb only powered drive's work due to the wii not producing enough power from port 0 which if i remember correctly is still the only port you can load hdd from

[ck-ok]

icepick - you haven't said how old the Wii is or which system menu you are using? Obviously if its less than 4.3 then your going to need a useful DVD in it else you can't softmod it.

If it is 4.3 then you can use LetterBomb (http://hackmii.com/2011/08/letterbomb/) then you won't need a working DVD player you would just use an external HDD.

even if he didn't want to update he could still use bannerbomb.
Bannerbomb - WiiBrew (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Bannerbomb)

[Keithuk]

why fit a different drive? you can mod it without a drive.


Didn't you read the post from ck-ok. A soft mod can be done without a dvd.

Yes I read that but he doesn't say how?

[icepick]

Hi again,the wii that I purchased arrived today,disc drive is faulty which I knew. Unit seems to work & running 4.2E & when connected to the net wants to upgrade !
Advice/options/recommendations of what you would do next? (relevant to softmodding)
Regards

[ck-ok]

Hi again,the wii that I purchased arrived today,disc drive is faulty which I knew. Unit seems to work & running 4.2E & when connected to the net wants to upgrade !
Advice/options/recommendations of what you would do next? (relevant to softmodding)
Regards

update it to 4.3 then use http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f16/modmii-4-3-4-windows-170234/ to mod it

[icepick]

Just to say the modding has gone well. THANKYOU to all that contruted to my questions.
When I finish the project I will keep all informed.
Regards