Hello all. Same issue here.
Would I have needed to hack/mod my wiiu in order to do this? I never modded my wiiu, and like previous poster, mine also does 2 disc drive start ups. I did try with a stopwatch, but didn't work.The black screen can have multiple causes. When the recovery menu won't boot (no purple LED) it's most likely a IOSU brick, so it crashes before the USB driver loads. This is fixable with a NAND backup and hardmod only.