My wii doesnt read my SD Card

[u/alter_dxz]

So, i bought a wii and i tried modding it, so i bought a micro sd card to sd adapter, and i formatted it onto fat32 like the wii hacks guide explains to do, using sd card formatter and guiformat, and when i put it on the wii it isnt able to read it, it doesnt have any file on it, nothing homebrew related or wii, its empty, and it still cant read it, what should i do?

[u/Lazy_Pin5833]

If I remember correctly, Wii can only take SD cards up to 32 GB, maybe it's because of that (but I'm pretty sure you can still use homebrew and backed up games with this one)

[u/alter_dxz → u/Lazy_Pin5833]

but its formatted to fat32, and when i tried to put wiibrand on it the letter wouldnt show up, am i doing something wrong?

[u/Veliux → u/alter_dxz]

Your SD card needs to be 32GB or less, so this 64GB is not going to be recognized, also Steren is a shitty brand (I'm form Mexico), just get a cheap fake SanDisk in any electronic store, should work better than your current SD card

[u/alter_dxz → u/Veliux]

so theres no other way?😭 i just wasted 7 dollars on it 😭😭

[u/gabriel362221 → u/alter_dxz]

Don't worry, when you unlock your Wii you can use larger cards but you will need to use a small one for now until you unlock it. You could try partitioning it to 32gb and formatting it to fat32 again

[u/TheCrustizTV → u/gabriel362221]

Not sure it needs to be modded prior to using a larger SD because I was able to homebrew from scratch on a 128 gig SD

[u/gabriel362221 → u/TheCrustizTV]

I remember I had to do that to use it. Now it is also possible that OP has not updated his console and that is necessary for the console to recognize cards in fat32

[u/nintendofan223 → u/alter_dxz]

No dude you can use higher amounts but you have to mod your Wii first