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Hi,
I bought a WD My Passport Essential 250GB a couple of days ago with the intention of reformatting it to WBFS and using it attached to my Wii to play my backuped games from the hard drive (no piracy intended), and as an SD-Free alternative to running homebrew apps. I was able to remove the single volume on the device and create a new RAW volume, which was then formatted to WBFS; all no problem. I have since been able to run my backups using the wii, and everything has been working well.
That was until today. I was attempting to add previously ripped ISO to the HD (using WBFS Manager 3.0) and encountered an error. After this point the same application was unable to mount the drive as before. I decided to attempt to start again (at the advice of several threads I've read online) and delete and repartition the drive. I went into disk management (Windows 7 x64) and attempted to delete the current volume to be greeted with the error "Unable to locate the file specified". (and yes, it said "file"). I figured I'd safely remove the device, reboot the PC, and try again. Upon doing so the HD no longer appears at all in Windows. I've restarted several times. I've removed / reconnected the device several times. I've even tried reconnecting it to the Wii to see if the WBFS Volume still exists but it is still not detected.
When I say not detected; I mean no detection at all; it does not appear in Computer, Device Manager, Disk Management. The activity light on the device indicates Idle when first connected to the PC however soon changes to a quicker flashing (which according to documentation indicates Activity). The same is true when connected to the Wii. Additionally the drive sounds and feels as though it is spinning correctly; that said, could the issue be too low power? If so surely it wouldn't have worked at all...
I've connected the device both before and after Windows boot, and am connecting it using the PowerBoost USB cable that came stocked with the drive directly to a USB port on the PC (not via a hub / extension). I've also tried ports directly on the MoBo and Additional Case Ports.
I'm out of ideas as to why the device isn't being detected. I'm not bothered about the data on it, as I have backups of everything on my PC, however having only had the drive a few days am a tad annoyed at the loss of ability to play backups / homebrew without an SD card, and am annoyingly back to digging out the Wii discs to play games again.
Besides a fix, I do have one other question. How strict is the RMA policy for these HDs? As I've removed the stock partition and was surely using an unsupported FS; am I still eligible for RMA? Or have I in some way violated a warranty?
Thank you in advance for any help, I'd love to get it going again.
I bought a WD My Passport Essential 250GB a couple of days ago with the intention of reformatting it to WBFS and using it attached to my Wii to play my backuped games from the hard drive (no piracy intended), and as an SD-Free alternative to running homebrew apps. I was able to remove the single volume on the device and create a new RAW volume, which was then formatted to WBFS; all no problem. I have since been able to run my backups using the wii, and everything has been working well.
That was until today. I was attempting to add previously ripped ISO to the HD (using WBFS Manager 3.0) and encountered an error. After this point the same application was unable to mount the drive as before. I decided to attempt to start again (at the advice of several threads I've read online) and delete and repartition the drive. I went into disk management (Windows 7 x64) and attempted to delete the current volume to be greeted with the error "Unable to locate the file specified". (and yes, it said "file"). I figured I'd safely remove the device, reboot the PC, and try again. Upon doing so the HD no longer appears at all in Windows. I've restarted several times. I've removed / reconnected the device several times. I've even tried reconnecting it to the Wii to see if the WBFS Volume still exists but it is still not detected.
When I say not detected; I mean no detection at all; it does not appear in Computer, Device Manager, Disk Management. The activity light on the device indicates Idle when first connected to the PC however soon changes to a quicker flashing (which according to documentation indicates Activity). The same is true when connected to the Wii. Additionally the drive sounds and feels as though it is spinning correctly; that said, could the issue be too low power? If so surely it wouldn't have worked at all...
I've connected the device both before and after Windows boot, and am connecting it using the PowerBoost USB cable that came stocked with the drive directly to a USB port on the PC (not via a hub / extension). I've also tried ports directly on the MoBo and Additional Case Ports.
I'm out of ideas as to why the device isn't being detected. I'm not bothered about the data on it, as I have backups of everything on my PC, however having only had the drive a few days am a tad annoyed at the loss of ability to play backups / homebrew without an SD card, and am annoyingly back to digging out the Wii discs to play games again.
Besides a fix, I do have one other question. How strict is the RMA policy for these HDs? As I've removed the stock partition and was surely using an unsupported FS; am I still eligible for RMA? Or have I in some way violated a warranty?
Thank you in advance for any help, I'd love to get it going again.
So at least if I can't get it to run I can always get another one from WD... What a bummer though!
