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USB Being read improperly #546

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Putting Gamecube .iso on USB
2. Mounting the usb
3. Going to the USB directory

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: USB1. Instead: 4 Different USBs, Each having random numbers and files 
on each "drive" with files inside totaling over 40gigs, yet is only
8gig USB drive

What version of WiiXplorer are you using? On what System Menu?

Latest Version, 4.3U
Please provide any additional information below.
Only happened after i formatted the USB to the standard Format of FAT32 with 32 
Kb clusters

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dragongo...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2013 at 6:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
And i know its not the USB, before anyone even asks, because both WiiFlow, CFG 
USB loader, and Gecko can all read from it and mount it just fine

Original comment by dragongo...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2013 at 6:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There is no asking required. I can tell you with 99% accuracy that your drives 
MBR is messed up and probably the filesystem too. If you say you have only 1 
partition and WiiXplorer reads more than 1 then there is more than 1 in the MBR 
and most likely each of them has a still valid FAT boot sector which wasnt 
overwritten yet otherwise it wouldnt mount. Despite what WiiFlow or any other 
application might be showing you it might still be incorrect. They might not 
look at the MBR strictly and just try mounting the drive at sectors 1-63 trying 
to find the partition and eventually finding it. I would suggest you to first 
fix your MBR with some good partition manager (i think EASEAUS can do it) and 
check your filesystem with for example "chkdsk /f" on Windows. Then try it 
again.

WiiXplorer doesn't use any other filesystem library or device drivers. It's 
exactly the same code as any other homebrew application. The only difference 
might be that the MBR is evaluated by WiiXplorer to find partitions and not 
just randomly mount various sectors.

Original comment by dimok...@googlemail.com on 27 Mar 2013 at 12:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
i checked the disk, its normal, not a single error. this only happened after i 
updated the program. Anything that could cause this? I used both Ease US 
partition manager, and windows check disk. The only reason i could see it doing 
this, is because 50% of the time i remount the drives, i get a DSI stack dump 
error, or it just refuses to mount

Original comment by dragongo...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2013 at 4:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Heres a bit more info, i also have a 1gig USB drive, and this one comes up with 
5 different "drives". this one has been checked, its fine. I reformatted it and 
checked it again. its still mounting 5 different "drives"

Original comment by dragongo...@gmail.com on 27 Mar 2013 at 4:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I understand that there are no filesystem errors but did you actually execute 
MBR fix on easeaus? It will not be fixed with a simple chkdsk. That is only for 
filesystem.

Original comment by dimok...@googlemail.com on 30 Mar 2013 at 7:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
i did. i found what happened and this can be closed now. I have no clue how or 
why this happened but WiiXplorer decided to read my sd partitions as a usb. 
dont know how this could have happened but its all good now. Thanks for the help

Original comment by dragongo...@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2013 at 3:24