u/cardsIlIIbuycards

i've been going at this for a couple hours and have tried an external 128 gb ssd, 128 gb flash drive, and 64 gb flash drive - all have been formatted to fat32 using guiformat with a 32 kb allocation size (i have also tried different allocation sizes and formats) yet every single time i go to format them on the wii u i get "the device could not be formatted"

i'm trying to set up an external game drive, i'd appreciate if anyone has a fix or if there's a way to get my drive formatted on windows

thanks