1. Alright fantastic, I'll keep the USB HDD plugged into the bottom port / closest to the edge, glad to know its normal.
2. OK, no problems, I can change them to both use beta52, shouldn't be a problem.
3. I'm guessing I shouldn't try 'updating my wii' when I make a new network connection? What happens is, I use the USB Network Adapter for the Wii (WiFI doesn't reach), so I had to remove the wired connection from the main menu, whilst I was mucking around trying to work out which USB port to plug the HDD in. So every time I made a new connection it would pop up saying to update. I probably should of checked if the Wii needing updating before doing steps 1 to 5 (it was on 4.3)? Or is there actually an update that I should do / have done?
4. So installing App into the homebrew channel is basically 'not really installing, but copy/pasting the program into the apps folder' correct? I think that confused me a little at the start but I think I might also try USB Loader GX, I can have both WiiFlow and GX right?
5. WiiFlow 4 The Masterpiece Pack by Abz - I believe this is more updated/more features compared to the default WiiFlow (which I grabbed from the net). Only thing is, I have no idea how to install it or get it running, are you just suppose to copy/paste the entire structure/files into the main directory? If so, then all I need to do is remove my current WiiFlow directory from the apps folder correct?
6. I would prefer to keep the files in ISO format, that's why I wanted to use NTFS (>4GB limit) but I could just use one main FAT32 partition. It seems to be working with split partition (one as FAT32, one as NTFS) so I might just leave it this way for the time being, because from memory I did try Dolphin ages ago and it used ISO files, I can't remember if it ran WBFS files? But yeah when I use Wii Backup Manager then transfer to external HDD, it converts the ISO to WBFS so something to think about I guess, unless I don't use it and just copy/paste the iso into the wbfs folder, but I'm not sure if that works?
Once again, thanks for the help
2. some HDD just isn't compatible, but yea, 52 have better compatibility.
3. install priiloader and block updates. Priiloader provides some brick protection also. If you are on system menu 4.1 or later, there is no real reason to update and if you update via the official method, you will have to re-softmod your Wii.
4. thats right for both points
6. ISO are always 4.35G while .wbfs will remove garbage data from the isos. Some games can be shrunk down to a few hundred MB (animal crossing?). I have yet to see games not running just because of the .wbfs format. .wbfs and usbloaders work with FAT32 or NTFS but many other homebrews (such as Nintendont for GC loading) are NOT compatible with NTFS. You need to put the games into predefined folder structure and Wii backup manager will do that automatically via transfer.
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