can someone please help me, harddrive for ps2 problem

please, please can somebody help me i am waiting for delivery of my ps2 network adapter and hard drive and apparantly i need a disc to copy games to the hardrive? well so i have been told but dont know how to get hold of one does anybody know? would be grateful. all the best

 

There is no disc required for putting games onto the HD. It is the loading of the games that requires a disc (HD Loader disc). If your system is modded is some way though, you would not need the HD Loader disc either.

 

i aint got a clue if its modded or not, dont even know what it means mate, and if i do need a c.d wheres the cheapest place to get one i found one from america and it was £35 all together

 

What all does it come with?

 

i brought the ps2 second hand, brought sony harddrive on its own nothing with it and the network adapter just comes with the cd for setting it up mate, thanks for this help appreciate it

 

Ok first its better to copy games to the PS2 hdd with your PC using WinHiip
http://www.console-exploits.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9236

Then to be able to play them you need to exploit your PS2 so you can run hddloader.elf to be able to play the games on your hdd.

http://www.console-exploits.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7872

Do you have a gameshark, codebreaker or some type of cheat disk, as its really easy then to transfer the exploit.
http://www.console-exploits.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12497

Otherwise you need an original PS1 disk.

 

+1

Your going to need more tools man. Exploit is going to be your best bet right now. So as smokyrain says, your going to need a cheat disc or a ps1 disc. Another option would be to order Swapmagic, that will take down many barriers.

 

o.k seems a lot, tahnks all for the help, all the best

 

No problem.

 

i now have my hardrive and network adapter but the hard drive dont come up on the ps2 and dont know why? do i need a cd for that aswell?

 

the hdd is not suppose to show up in the ps2 browser if you use winhiip to format. only the official 40gig formatted with the hdd utility disc will show up in the browser.

to get third party hdd's to show up in the browser, you'll need the dms4 modchip; it's the only modchip that makes all hdd's appear in the browser.

 

it is an official 40 gig hardrive so how do i get a utility disc?

 

Here is a thread that talks about the utility disc. Link seems to have the files missing though...

Your other option would have to be to get it online (ex. Ebay) or through P2P.

 

thanks, i now have winhip and hdd loader i just need a wire that connects into the hard drive and with a usb on the end so i can connect it to my laptop as dont have p.c can anyone help?

 

Check Ebay for them.

 

Easiest option for you would be to install and load games using HDLoader, it has a brilliant user interface too. To find out if your ps2 is modded, does it play backups?, if yes then your ps2 is modded, if no, youl need an original, "pressed hdloader disc", just the disc itself costs about £30 minimum

 

F4HAD - you need to read the whole thread before you go posting advice.

The best way too transfer games to hdd is using WinHiip

Maybe not the easiest, but not hard and it is way faster and more reliable in my opinion.

 

+1 for smokyrain, winhiip is definitely faster.

 

yes, winhiip and imgburn is way better than hdloader.

rip all games with imgburn, and load all with winhiip. you can probably get at least five games ripped and loaded onto the hdd before hdloader is done loading one.

 

thanks very much will give it a go