Help, followed all instructions of Modmii and still can't get usb loader working

[erockgineer]

Dear all, I am no stranger when it comes to soft modding a Wii. I have followed Modmii on several Wii's with success on them all. So I know all the steps that must be followed.

However I'm working on one now and for some reason after everything has been successfully installed, I cannot get any USB loader to recognize my USB hard drive. I know its a hard drive that works because it works on other Wii's. And I've tried USB Loader, Config. USB Loader, Wiiflow, etc.

Any suggestions on what I can try?

[Keithuk]

Welcome to DK.

There are a few threads on here where the USB hard drive isn't recognised have you checked those out?

The best thing you can do is post a full sysCheck (http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/syscheck-v2-1-0-beta-17-2071/) report as instructed so we can see if any wads are missing.

You can use the sysCheck.csv file in ModMii with the SU option. It will check if there are newer wads out there.

If as you say this HDD works on other Wii's then do a sysCheck on those and compare the differences, its not rocket science.

[erockgineer]

Thank you for your reply. I have actually read all the related threads in this forum in search of a solution. Last night in my desperate times I found the thread about 20 down called "usb loader can't find HD" and thought I found a solution since he was having the same problem and he downloaded the recommended file, "Digital Kaos - Downloads - Usbloader gx 2.3 r1128 and d2x v7 with mmm 13.4", however this didn't work for me.

Last night I was kind of short because it was late and I had been working on it for hours and was frustrated, sorry for that.

I feel I'm up to date on all the WAD's but of course I can't be 100% sure. I didn't see the sysCheck file last night so I apologize I would have posted that already. I'll do that as soon as I get home from work today.

In my last attempt last night I noticed something very strange that further confused me. I wanted to see if perhaps my USB port in the back is broken. So I took the entire contents of my SD card that I've been using to install and run all my apps, and I copied it all to a USB flash drive. I then inserted it into slot 0 in the back (the one closest to the edge) and opened up Homebrew.

Nothing was there, it wasn't recognizing my apps. So out of curiosity I moved the USB flash drive to the other usb slot. And bingo, all my apps appeared in Homebrew instantly.....so what does that mean???? (and yes I went back and tried the HD's in the other usb slot, but it didn't work).

Also I tried something else. I put everything back on my SD card, including a WBFS folder and a game. Then I plugged it in and ran USB Loader. I changed it to read from the SD card instead of the USB slot and BINGO!! My game appeared, and I was able to play it. What the heck!! So it works via SD card but not via USB???

I'll post my SysCheck later on, hopefully you guys can tell me what to do. I've started from scratch twice now, once following the Soft Guide Mod process.....and the second time following the ModMii process....and neither have fixed the problem.

[erockgineer]

Evening, So I ran the syscheck and compared it to others in the other forum I mentioned earlier, and I don't see any big differences. According to this syscheck I would think it would be working. But it's not.

I think the biggest thing right now is that when I put my app folder onto a usb flash drive to try and see them in homebrew, it only sees the apps if I place the usb flash drive into port 1, not port 0. So it seems that port 0 is not recognizing a usb device. However the light to my hard drive and flash drive will illuminate when something is plugged into port 0, just nothing is read. Weird???

Here is the syscheck you mentioned:


sysCheck v2.1.0b17 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).

Region: NTSC-U
System Menu 4.3U (v513)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 2006.09.07
Homebrew Channel 1.0.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 42990747
Boot2 v4
Found 103 titles.
Found 54 IOS on this console. 3 of them are stub.

IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug ES Identify Flash Access NAND Access
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug NAND Access
IOS90 (rev 54321): Trucha Bug
IOS202[60] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS223[37] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535 Info: hermes-v5.1): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535 Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug ES Identify NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21007 Info: d2x-v7final): Trucha Bug NAND Access USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/06/21.

[erockgineer]

One extra note, I just uploaded the sysCheck file to Bootmii as you suggested and it recommended I download and install a few, I guess, updated WADs. They were:

cIOS202[60]-v5.1R
cIOS222[38]-v4
cIOS223[37-38]-v4
cIOS224[57]-v5.1R
cIOS249[56]-d2x-v8-final
cIOS250[57]-d2x-v8-final

So I installed them, but it didn't change anything. It still doesn't load any usb device.

Just thought I'd add that in.

[Keithuk]

Thanks for posting the full sysCheck report as you say they doesn't appear to be anything essential missing. As you say it could be a faulty USB port 0 but to me a USB port going faulty means its been used alot but it hasn't been softmodded before.

Your using d2x v7.0 final but installing d2x v8.0 final (http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/downloads/wii/16/d2x-v8-final-wad-pack-2048/) won't fix anything at the moment.

I don't know if happy highlander or ck-ok have any suggestions.

[erockgineer]

Yeah it has me stumped to the max as well. I feel like I've tried every trick in the book and everything is correct. But it still won't recognize on that USB port 0.

I tried something crazy I found on the internet last night where a guy said he was able to get the hard drive to read off of Port 1 instead. He said it was a supported feature in USB Loader GX using Hermes v5. All you had to do was changed some text in two files, the GXGlobal file and the meta.xml file. Found here: Wii USB loader using Port 1 » Wii USB loader using Port 1 » The Tales of Fevenis (http://fevenis.tumblr.com/post/13309015216/wiiusbloader)

I tried it but unfortunately it didn't work for me either. Still the same results, port 1 didn't work either.

So you mentioned two other experts that might have suggestions. is there a way to request them to view my thread? I'll take any ideas at this point.

[Keithuk]

Well happy_highlander and ck-ok are experts on here, they will have read this thread and I assume they were waiting for the sysCheck report that I asked for, you must have seen their names listed?

[erockgineer]

Yes I certainly did, I've read there replies on other threads and tried some of their ideas. One of which was downloading a file with USB Loader GX in it and placing it on a blank SD card. I thought perhaps it was a special version for people with Wii's that wouldn't recognize hard drives, so I tried that last night. But unfortunately it didn't.

In all honesty I'm fathoming the idea of just spending the $50 on a new used Wii and doing it from scratch. And just accepting the idea that my Wii is ultimately a coursed rare breed....or the usb port is broken. However considering that it lights up the led on my hard drive when i plug it into port 0 makes me think its not. But perhaps the data transfer pins are broke.

Is there any way to test if that usb port is broke? For example, what can I plug into port 0 that would show me if the Wii is reading data on it? If I put my apps folder on a usb flash drive and stick into usb port 0, nothing shows up in homebrew. But if I plug it into usb port 1, my apps show up. Are the apps suppose to show up regardless of what port I put it in? This would be an easy experiment?

(PS, I don't have a Wii rockband controller to plug in, I thought of that)

[happy_highlander]

D2x v9 has been made available and supports reading from port 1 with gx v3 so you may have gx v3 but no d2x v9 check the setting in gx and see If there is an option to choose what usb port to use. This is a bit of a blind shot, as I've been very busy of late and have kind of left the wii questions for keith to answer, if I get time over the weekend I'll set up gx v3 with d2x v9 and see how it goes, bit of guess mate as I'm at work and haven't really been keeping an eye on this thread.

Edit.....don't think you have said what your hdd is formatted to or whether it has multiple partitions, but even if port 0 isn't working all is not lost with the new developments mentioned above.

Another edit (should read the whole thread first lol) put your working sd card into a usb card reader and stick it in port 0 as you know the file structure is correct

[happy_highlander]

~~~~ me can't believe I missed that.........you don't have a patched ios 36.......run mmm from hbc and choose patch and install ios 36
Edit...cios 236 is also an older rev. and running of ios 36 when you install a patched ios 36 this should also install the newer 236, this is not a guaranteed fix but it's the best shot you've got at the minute. If this doesn't solve the problem you have a corrupt file in there somewhere so run modmii again and select full softmod wizard and grab a full set of new files then follow the guide from after installation of hbc and reinstall everything from scratch...

[Keithuk]

~~~~ me can't believe I missed that.........you don't have a patched ios 36.......run mmm from hbc and choose patch and install ios 36
Edit...cios 236 is also an older rev. and running of ios 36 when you install a patched ios 36 this should also install the newer 236,

I don't have IOS36 patched I have IOS236 the same on mine but mine has always worked ok.

sysCheck v2.1.0b18 by Double_A and R2-D2199
...runs on IOS58 (rev 6176).
Region: PAL
System Menu 4.3E (v514)
Priiloader installed
Drive date: 2008.07.14
Homebrew Channel 1.1.0 running on IOS58
Hollywood v0x11
Console ID: 91742115
Boot2 v4
Found 175 titles.
Found 54 IOS on this console. 5 of them are stub.

IOS3 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS4 (rev 65280): Stub
IOS9 (rev 1034): No Patches
IOS10 (rev 768): Stub
IOS11 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS12 (rev 526): No Patches
IOS13 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS14 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS15 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS16 (rev 512): Stub
IOS17 (rev 1032): No Patches
IOS20 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS21 (rev 1039): No Patches
IOS22 (rev 1294): No Patches
IOS28 (rev 1807): No Patches
IOS30 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS31 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS33 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS34 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS35 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS36 (rev 3608): No Patches
IOS37 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS38 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS40 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS41 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS43 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS45 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS46 (rev 3607): No Patches
IOS48 (rev 4124): No Patches
IOS50 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS51 (rev 4864): Stub
IOS52 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS53 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS55 (rev 5663): No Patches
IOS56 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS57 (rev 5919): No Patches
IOS58 (rev 6176): USB 2.0
IOS60 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS61 (rev 5662): No Patches
IOS70 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS80 (rev 16174): Trucha Bug, NAND Access
IOS202[60] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS222[38] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS223[38+37] (rev 4, Info: hermes-v4): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS224[57] (rev 65535, Info: hermesrodries-v6): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS236[36] (rev 65535, Info: rev 3351): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS245[37] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS246[38] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, ES Identify, NAND Access
IOS247[53] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS248[55] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS249[56] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS250[57] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS251[58] (rev 21008, Info: d2x-v8final): Trucha Bug, NAND Access, USB 2.0
IOS254 (rev 65281): BootMii
BC v6
MIOS v10

Report generated on 2012/04/24.

To check the USB port I would assume if you had a big enough USB flash drive you could put at least 1 game on it to see if it works.

[happy_highlander]

I don't have a patched ios36, I do however have a different version of 236 which is really just an extra layer of protection, by that i mean combined with the rest of the ios and the correct mmm I can boot straight into mmm bypassing priiloader if it ever becomes corrupt, but we are unsure of his complete setup and it isn't working at the minute so it is an option to install a patched ios36, Personally I don't think it will make any difference and if it was my wii I wouldn't have messed about this long with it. Modmii would have been run again to get new files then 5 mins to resoftmod if that didn't work I would starting to try and fault find...

[happy_highlander]

To check the USB port I would assume if you had a big enough USB flash drive you could put at least 1 game on it to see if it works.

Good shout Keith ......Is the op remembering that gx will not recognise an hdd unless there is a game on it

[Keithuk]

Good shout Keith ......Is the op remembering that gx will not recognise an hdd unless there is a game on it

Good point but he says the drive works on other Wii's so I assume he has games on it and he's tried the other USB Loaders.



I cannot get any USB loader to recognize my USB hard drive. I know its a hard drive that works because it works on other Wii's. And I've tried USB Loader, Config. USB Loader, Wiiflow, etc.

[erockgineer]

Hey guys, well it was a busy weekend with work but I managed to steal some time to work on my Wii again. While I was at work I ran into an ad for someone selling a used Wii with a broken disc drive for $20. I figured this would be ok considering I was soft modding it for usb loader and it was only $20 and worst case scenario I could steal parts out of it.

Wouldn't you know it, I did the exact same thing as my old Wii and this one works PERFECT!! So to this day I have no idea what happened to my other Wii that wouldn't let it recognize a USB hard drive, but I'm happy I have one working at least :-)

However now seeing on this forum that Happy_Highlander advised me to try a few more things, I'm going to go back and see if it fixes the original one. I'll let ya know.