Wii Hard Drive

DVD drive in my Wii stopped working a few days ago, every disk gave read errors.
So I did what any self-respecting hacker would do
I hooked my Wii to a Usb Hard Drive full of disk images. (All of which i own of course)
Software is surprisingly well done, Disk images have all the empty space removed, I fit about 20 games on an old 40 Gb HDD
Update: games work with much faster load times except for games that have Usb controllers aka RockBand. Must be because the Usb is in use. So we've had to switch to Guitar Hero...
Update 2Jun
Supposedly USB controllers work now and you have to plug the HDD into USB port 1

Need:
Wii with serial lower than LU64
external USB Flash/HDD that is not a Segate FreeAgent

Step0:
Install BootMii and do a full backup of your NAND (flash memory inside Wii)
so you can restore if you brick yr Wii

Step1: Load the Homebrew channel
Find out what OS menu you have [video]
v4 uses BannerBomb hack [here]
v3.4 or older uses Twilight hack, need a copy of Zelda Twilight Princess to make this work (borrow/rent it or upgrade to v4)[here]

Base USB loader:
download the USB Loader GX and forwarder
put the .wad file on your SD card in \wad
put the \usbloader directory in \apps


Use WAD manager 1.4 to install USB forwarder

What is a forwarder?
When your Wii first boots it goes to the Opening Screen, there are some Icons there. The forwarder installs a shortcut icon that just points to SD:\apps\usbloader_gx\boot.dol so hopefully there is something at that location to load.

install cIOS38_rev13b or here

here is the bulk of the guide

Update USB Loader GX:
Start the Usb Loader
unlock button bottom right, you'll need a password try ab121b (or upper case)
after unlocking the update button will appear at the bottom mid right
update to the latest loader via Wifi

Optional: Use your PC to load games onto your wii HDD with WBFS Manager 3 [howto]

Make sure all yr ISO's are from the right region cuz now it matters. Both the WBFS Manager 3 and the USB Loader GX will tell you what Region Code your ISO's are from. Use
[RegionFrii by SYNDiCATE] if you need to change their region

I was told to format the HDD Fat32 before converting it to WBFS, except that windows refuses to format a drive larger than 30Gb with anything other than NTFS, download the FormatFat32 utility to accomplish this; yes the drive really formats in 10 seconds

using 1 partition < 500Gb works best

Windows will always report a WBFS drive as unformatted and ask you to format it SAY NO to cra...er format

Other useful Links:
http://wii.yafaze.com/downloads.html

Firmware downgrader v1.11(295.88 KB): Mediafire(By Waninkoko) | Wiinewz

from what i ready all cIOS (custom Input Output system) overwrites block 249
so cIOS36v9 and cIOS38v13b can't co-exist, the last one written is present.

Waninkoko has released an IOS patcher for Wii ISO images; the application patches the data that specifies which IOS version to use to execute a Wii game.
- drag a Wii game ISO onto the executable and input an IOS
version.
-For most games, IOS version 30 is recommended (IOS30, firmware 3.0 and higher).
- With this application we CAN'T patch the IOS37 nor avoid it when upgrading the Wii.
- With this application we CAN run SSBB without update the Wii (and probably we'll be able to run Mario Kart even if it wants to use the IOS37).