I was having issues trying to get anything to actually allow the manager to format. The only one of my externals that seemed to be acceptable was my 64 GB SanDisk, as it did not cause the error: "Error occurred while loading drive. Make sure the drive is not in use or open and that it has been formatted to WBFS format".
However, after the format (apparently) successfully completed, my computer stopped being able to read (or use) the USB. I've tried reformatting, and my PC (Windows 8) can't do it. Now WBFS Manger can't even open it. When I select the drive, the "Error occurred while loading drive. Make sure the drive is not in use or open and that it has been formatted to WBFS format" message is displayed.
I would like to either 1. Find a way to undo the damage done by this program or 2. At least get it working to do what it is actually meant to do. I was really excited about, so this is really disappointing.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: jmoneste **
Hello,
Try this
In Windows:
Open a CMD
Start > RUN > cmd <hit enter>
Type: Diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
This will display the Disks connected to the computer
DISKPART> select disk
The one you want to use with WBFS
DISKPART> online disk
If the disk is not online (check if it says ONLINE next to the disk you want to use)
DISKPART> clean
This will clear the partition and volume information
DISKPART> convert mbr
This will allow the Disk to be used as boot disk.
DISKPART> create partition primary
This will make the whole disk to be used for WBFS, if you want a smaller section of the disk let's say 500Mb then the command is "create partition primary size=500"
DISKPART> select part 1
DISKPART> active
This will mark the partition created as active
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs quick
Format in NTFS for better performance on larger files 4gb+
DISKPART> assign letter "Letter"
This is so you can choose the letter in WBFS
DISKPART> exit
Then Open WBFS to format the drive to WBFS, if it was already opened, refresh drive list.