Again, people are pretty damn vague...
Take your 250 GB HDD.
Use either Partition Magic or EASEUS Partition Master (ahem this one has a Home Edition, which means free...recommended)
If you plan on using your HDD for more than just Wii backups, then I'd suggest making two partitions. And yes, I just figured this out today and running two partitions is perfectly fine.
Most likely you'll have a NTFS volume that is set to be partitioned for the whole volume.
With EASEUS, right click and resize the partition to 200 GB (so that you have 50 GB for Wii backups), play around with the numbers until you get something that you want. Can be 150 GB and 100 GB or whatever. DO NOT set your partition lower than what you have used up! Meaning don't set the partition to 50 GB if you have 100 GB filled...This software lets you resize partitions without losing data, but that data can't be bigger than the partition...obviously.
That 50 GB or whatever (we'll call it Partition B) should be unallocated space now. Right click the space and Format it to FAT32 (and set it to Primary), assign it a Drive Letter. (For mine, my FAT32 partitions are G: and H:, H: being the space that is formatted for the Wii)
If you are only using the HDD for Wii backups, then format the entire drive into FAT32 (I haven't tried with NTFS so feel free to try it out with the original file system)
When that's done, you are now ready to use WBFS Manager and you can safely format Partition B (mine was H:) to the Wii's file system.
DOUBLE TRIPLE QUADRUPLE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE THE CORRECT DRIVE LETTER LISTED WHEN FORMATTING!
If you pick the wrong drive letter, you're totally screwed and you lost something...
When that is done, Load the correct drive letter (for mine it was H:) and it should have blank space. Drag and drop a Wii .ISO file into the added list (on the right hand side), and add game.
When the game is added, it most likely has padded data (meaning blank) and it is automatically taken out for you.
You can also extract games using WBFS Manager and it will automatically re-add the padded data (most likely to 4.37 GB).
If you have any questions, ask on this thread.
Replying to #5
Lol, not everybody likes megaupload and rapidshit links...
Torrents are easier for me since it requires ONE click to get them started, and I'm not babysitting the downloads since they only allow one download at a time...
Oh, and I love that for some, some random piece is missing and you've already downloaded the first 7 pieces.