![]() ![]() I didn't sweat it at this point, because I knew I could re-download games I wanted onto a new drive, but then I looked at what is actually stored on the Wii U memory. I even plugged an empty 2GB USB memory stick into the Wii U to check it wasn't a problem with the console that drive was picked up fine, formatted etc, so the logical conclusion was that, ultimately, the hard drive had failed. After looking online I found that these WD drives actually seem to have a slightly sketchy record, but ultimately it was on the list of suitable drives for Wii U back in 2012, and runs off its own power supply.Īlthough the Wii U formats hard drives in a peculiar and bespoke way, it was nevertheless being acknowledged when plugged into a PC, but the PC couldn't read it. I should clarify, too, that this hard drive was one of the models specifically recommended by Nintendo when the system launched, a Western Digital My Book. Ultimately a handful of forum posts summarised the issue as "your hard drive is doomed, sucks to be you". I looked up the error code it wasn't mentioned at all on the European Nintendo support site, and the North American equivalent said (and I paraphrase slightly) "call us". Dozens (maybe even 100+ counting all the eShop copies) of games were gone, and no matter which USB port I used or how many restarts I did that data had disappeared. In any case, my hard drive had been acting temperamentally for a while - occasionally causing error messages - and yesterday it stopped playing ball the Wii U couldn't find it, and all of my 'windows' were empty. ![]() ![]() Of course now I've found the official support page stating that save data goes to USB storage by default - like I said, assumptions are a bad idea. That's the common-sense solution, anyway, as save data should be small enough to fit into the teeny-weeny 32GB of my Premium model. Here's an assumption I'd made for nearly four years (assumptions are a bad idea, evidently) - my Wii U was automatically downloading game data to my external hard drive, but I thought it'd be doing the sensible thing and putting important stuff like save data on the internal memory, maybe using some of that 5GB it nicked with the console's day one launch update. Well, my Wii U's external hard drive has now failed, sort of, and it's reminded me of how poor data management is on the system. In 20 or so years of using PCs, external hard drives on consoles and so on, I'd never had one fail and therefore thought nothing of it. I'd always blithely assumed I'd never have a hard drive die on me. These are all problems that other people have to deal with. You don't think you'll be the victim of a crime, or get stranded overnight when a flight gets cancelled, or perhaps get addicted to amiibo collecting. There are lots of things that many people assume will never happen to them, just to 'others'. ![]()
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