Topic: Quick question re. External harddrove

I tried an external (non-powered) harddrive on my wii u and to my surprise it worked. Has been working fine for months but now suddenly getting "unplugged hard drive" errors, not enough power for hard drive errors and system crashes.

Clearly I need to splurge on a powered one, but I have two problems.

1) all my stuff is now on the existing external hard drive. Is is possible to transfer it over and if so how?
2) I can't actually find any powered hard drives (I'm in the UK). Has anyone got any good recommendations?

Thanks in advance!

Perhaps you could use a Y-cable on your current harddrive for the time being?

On Nintendo's website they list compatible hard drives maybe you could buy them from Nintendo or Amazon.

Has anybody tried e.g a Hyundai HS2 Series drive. (It is a usb ssd).

I wouldn't assume an externally powered drive will sort your problems as I had similar issues with my Seagate desktop expansion drive and I've switched to using the Seagate portable I normally used as a backup drive as my main drive with a y-cable. I'm not sure if the drive was on the way out or if the fact it's made to go to sleep after periods on inactivity meant it wasn't a good fit for doing things like playing virtual console games or Crunchy Roll for long periods of time, making it look like the drive was gone. Perhaps the Wii U could compensate by pinging the drive periodically to stop that happening, but it kind of puts me off using desktop drives and I'm planning on getting a powered hub and another portable drive to use as my new backup instead.

If you have two external drives plugged in you can transfer from one to the other. I use one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-desktop-external-dr...

When transferring data from one drive to the other, do both have to be plugged into the Wii U, or can you run them both through a desktop computer?

Both drives have to be plugged in to the Wii U.

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Wii-U/Storage/Copying-data-...

You have to time the connection right because the Wii U won't start with two drives connected. I wish that would change. You need to connect the second drive after you go into the copy/move data section of settings.