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Alright I was able to run a test in which I used MPlayer CE (v0.80 r658) and I didn’t get the “Error opening usb1:/” or anything like that. It played the movie all the way till the end.

Maybe its because MPlayer CE supports both FAT32 and NTFS. However I still like WiiMC better because it reads my hard drive pretty fast unlike MPlayer CE in which it takes around 30 secs to 1 min and I can not reformat my new hard drive since i got around 230GB already on it, and my computer hard drive has only 86 GB free.

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@Shrale wrote:

Today I’d been having the error: Error opening usb1:/. I tried and tried everything I could think of along with others suggestions, and then I decided to use a flash drive and when installing it on my computer it had to restart the computer. I also had my Seagate drive connected at the time and when it restarted the computer automatically ran chkdsk on the Seagate and it found several indexing files that were corrupted and deleted them along with many other files that were messed up, it also fixed any errors on the harddrive. I no longer have that error and works fine. So it may not be a problem with your Wii, Homebrew, or WiiMC; it may be some corrupt index files on your hard drives that need fixing.

I tried that and it took like around 5hrs to do a full chkdsk and I still get the “Error opening usb1:/” while watching a movie, however once I click “retry” or restart my Wii it works fine after that to the point were I can finish the movie I was watching.

I’ve only had my new WD Hard drive for less then a week so I can’t really say if it worked with older versions of WiiMC.

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My Problem is that I am guessing that WiiMC looses connection with my USB Hard Drive because I get an error saying that “File cannot be read on USB1” when I’m watching a movie and when I click retry it goes back into the Hard Drive but other times when I click retry I have to click retry like 4-5 times before I give up and restart my Wii in order to get it working again.

My Wii is 4.1U, installed the IOS58 (per this forum and the Wiibrew page), Homebrew channel 1.1.0, IOS58 v24.31

My hard drive is:

Formatted by default NTFS (came that way when I bought it new)

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 (backwards compatibility with 2.0).

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