I recently modified my Wii so I could make backup’s of my games and play them from an external USB hard drive.

I ran into one big hiccup that I could not not find any solutions for so I thought I would post it here in case someone else runs into the same issue.

While trying to install Waninkoko’s CIOS38rev14 it would just go to a black screen and turn off the wiimote.  no matter what I did it wouldn’t load the boot.dol

I tried redownloading the files and coping them to the SD card.  ( no luck always the same issue) every other boot.dol and wad would load up properly.

Solution!!

Reformat the SD card, do it again if you have to.  I used the panasonic tool that is linked on many sites about this procedure.

Now I am playing wii games off the hard drive and not putting wear and tear on my discs or DVD drive.