[Cherri83]

I solved the problem last night.

Although Windows reported a RAW files system [that’s bad], chkdsk reported NTFS [that’s good] and that’s probably the reason the Wii recognized the drive and could play from it. Windows Explorer would only recognize the drive by its drive letter and not its ‘friendly’ name. Disk Manager had also reported it as NTFS and also as healthy. But neither Explorer nor Disk Manager reported the drives size.

I have a couple of ISOs for Hiren’s as well as another one for another PE boot CD, and another but of course, all are on the drive in question.

Running chkdsk /f did not solved the problem, though is seemed to find and correct a couple of errors. I did that immediately after posting in this thread. However yesterday, when running chkdsk /x, which unmounts the drive from Windows, the problem was solved. I don’t see a chkdsk log, so I can’t tell the exact nature of what the problem was, but my guess is that is was a bad partition table. If it were the FAT I doubt that the Wii would have been able to read it at all.

I’m pretty sure this drive is about to fail. Its a 250gb Maxtor, at least 5 years old. In trying to copy files from it, its really slow and reports occasional I/O errors on some files. Fortunately, the media files on it are mostly just backups, but not all the software that’s one it.

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