my advice is too buy a maxtor drive this was taken off the hd advance website "Some [bold]modern Seagate HDD[/bold] may have problems when used in conjunction with older models of the official PS2 network adapter. Most Western Digital HDD do not physically fit in the PS2 Official network adapter without some modification." just thought id point that out to you
I have a v1 ps2 (cost 300 when I bought it now 150 I think grrr) and am using the hd that came w/ff11, do you know of them being problematic using winHIIP, or hdl dump???
No prob, Mr. Hstile. I paid $185 for my 300gb Seagate ... and it's worth it ... About the Sony HDD and WinHIIP ... I lost most of my games for unknown reasons ... I had to eventually reformat. However, I still had GT4 and Battlefront on my PCs HD.
I have hdadvance 2.0 and PS2 fatty with Maxtor 40g installed inside. HDAdvance formated the drive. I am trying to download a new MAP from SOCOM 2 to the hard drive and I get error initializing HDD. I can back up a copy of a game and play it fine booting from hdadvance dvd. Why would the dload to hdd fail? When I start the PS2 with no CD it will recognize the mem card but not hte hdd. I have a friend that has the original Sony hdd and it came with hdloader..he CAN see his HDD when booting PS2 with no cd. Am I missing somthing here??? Thanks
maybe not. I would recommend trying the HDD in another unit, if possible. It could be something so small as being disconnected from the network adapter. but ... before you buy, i'd try it on someone's ps2.
I used HD Advance. I can copy games to the HDD fine and play from it. What I cant do is download SOCOM 2 Maps to it. It fails to initialize. I have found some posts of this exact thing and it indicates that if you use a HDD that is NOT the OEM Sony HDD you cant download the SOCOM maps or use it like a big mem card. Since the HDD is just a seagate or MAXTOR anyhow...I imagine that there is some firmware or special formating on the OEM Sony drive. Has anyone been able to figure out how to use a NON OEM drive as a giant MEM card or figure out the formating of the OEM Sony Drive??
Try searching the forums here, but I am convinced it can't be done, or if it can be done, it's not gonna be very easy. I have an original HDD and I have the SOCOM II maps. There has to be a clear advantage of owning an official Sony HDD.
yo i am confused by the HDA cd and dvd. I copied a dvd game with the cd onto my hard drive, and the game played fine. I was wondering, what's the diff between the cd and dvd
There is no difference. I have several scratches on my DVD one, so I tend to use the CD one. They both work ... just consider it an extra copy of the program. Awesome program, btw.
yea fo sho heh guess everyone that bought HDA has 2 copies then yea my DVD doesn't work as often as the CD.I read some threads bout people havin the same problem with the dvd, when it takes you to the ps2 load up screen.
you can use a non OEM hd ont he ps2 as big mem card, but you'll need a copy of the disk that came with the official sony drive, and not all unofficial hds work with it. for instance, i had a 160 gb maxtor drive at first in my ps2, and then put that in ym pc and took my spare 40 gb seagate out of my pc and put that in my ps2. when i had the maxtor in, i could easily format it for use with the ps2 to use it as a big mem card (and life was great) and on ei changed it for the seagate, ive never been able to use that one as a mem card, ever (and life was not so great). so i say that to say, yes, it can in fact be done, but if you dont have a friend with the official hd tools disk, youll have to find it online and odnwload it, which then means youll need a modchip, which youll need anyways in order to enable atad patching (not all chips support this)
Please,please,please does ANYONE know of a ps2 media player that has hdd support or features similar to the xbmc?????? i really need this for the hdd.
update, swapped my 40 gig seagate drive for a 60 gig maxtor drive, reran the sony hdd tools and it now recognizes it in the browser again, very happy bout that now.
i dont have hdl or hda. I used the MC exploit aka free hdloader, but i cant get it to recognize my hd, it say hdd error. I have tried with a 40gb wd and a 60gb maxtor. Is there any other way to format hdd w/o hdl or hda. Also can you play any backup games online?
As far as i know you cant play backup games online of your HDD you can off a backup disc, but not off the HDD
thanks jpp01uk, But when i try to play online from my backup, it say insert a ps2 disc the red screen. Do you know of any other way to format my hard hdd.
