I recently got a Wii U. It is an 8gb model, so I needed to connect an external HDD drive. I still had one laying around. Only a few months old, once put some files on it, never used it much or actively, 1Tb in size, no external power supply (though I got a USB-Y cable for it).
I decided to take the files off it, and format it on the Wii U. Before the HDD I had a standard 16Gb USB-stick connected to hold me over. I copied all the files from the stick to the HDD, disconnected the USB-stick (in the recommended way of course) and booted up the console again. Everything seemed to be fine. I then booted up Smash, went to the trophy gallery, left, and the system crashed. It gave me an error message saying that there was a problem with the HDD.
I rebooted the console and started Smash again. This time, I wanted to test whether I could trigger another error (that way I could be sure there was a problem). I went into 8-player Smash, loaded nothing but characters that were on the HDD (DLC and Miis), battled, won, nothing happened. Then I went to the eShop and decided to download the Starfox Guard demo, since I heard the eShop gives issues with broken HDDs as well. However, it's downloading just fine right now with no issues.
Naturally, I'm a little worried now. I don't want to continue using this HDD if it may end up giving problems. Has anyone ever had anything like this? Could the problem be with Smash? Or is this just a coincidence?
UPDATE: Never mind about Starfox, I just got an error message, the HDD apparently can't handle any new data. Please help!
ANOTHER UPDATE: Just tried to install a smaller demo (Word Puzzles by POWGI). That one installed fine. I'm completely lost as to what's going on here. Please help!
@RealPoketendoNL I can't offer an answer to you at this stage, I can only say that I've had similar woes. Difference being I've been using a Micro SD card, plugged in to a usb card reader.
When I first got mine I plugged it straight into the back of the Wii U, not using any y-cable or external power source. And it seemed to work fine for a few weeks. I downloaded and played Tekken on it, which is not a small game file-size-wise, and it worked fine.
My problems started a few weeks later playing a disc game (YWW) and the console crashed with a usb storage error. Since then the same error has occurred at various different times. I've tried it with a y-cable and without.
I'm just about given up with it and am resigned to the idea that I should use proper hard drive with external power cable...
...Except, I also use a usb hdd via y-cable to play Wii and Gamecube games on the same console and that never generates the error.
It's one of those issues that, unless you follow exactly what Nintendo advises, you don't know what's going to happen, I guess.
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