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So I have been at this for quite some time now. No matter what guide I follow or how I go about getting my HDD formatted when I try to boot the HDD, either from turning on the console, or via my free mcboot memory card ulaunchELF HDD Manager it just hangs and hangs and hangs.
Via uLaunchELF it says 'Loading HDD Modules' FOREVER, and via booting up the ps2 with no modded memory card but all required ELF's on drive and.IMGC file, it just shows a black screen forever. I have tried the jumper in all possible locations. During format, install and running the ps2.
In all possible combinations, in Full Erase mode. I have been at this for days lol That 3 x 3 x 3. I think so 27 Full Erase and Formats. Lol Also I was concerned with the quality of WinHiips erasing, so I used a real hard drive wiping tool, Active Killdisk every 3 or 4 WinHiip Erases. I have spent way too long trying to get this drive to work.
The drive is a brand new, Seagate 160 gb IDE drive. Model: ST3160215ACE.
I have formatted it via WinHiip with 28bit HdLoader, 48bit and Toxic, they all result in the black screen. I turn on console, it says Sony Entertainment blah blah blah, fades to black, I hear drive boot up, then nothing all black. Blackness, everything is black, forever. I have tried 3 or 4 different put together hard drive packages from here and other various sites that I then after formatting via WinHiip would take into Raw Copy and put on the new Ps2 drive. The closest I got was, one of these images upon booting the drive, said Loading HDD Modules, it looked like that image had uLaunchELF boot HDD Manager by default, but it still just hung there and nothing else happened.
These issues are all with trying to get my HDD working. My end game for all of this madness is to be able to play my personal collection of Ps2 games, that I already ripped to my pc waiting for a working hard drive solution. In the mean time though and as I previously mentioned, I just so happened to have a Magic Swap disc laying around from YEARS ago, and I was able to install Free McBoot to a memory card from USB. Then I got uLaunchELF and 3 or 4 different versions of HdLoader, and a sweet NES Emulator. When I hook in drive and have the Free McBoot Memory card in, the mem card boots, then if I select HdLoader any of them.
They just lock up. I am assuming that is because of the drive, since by itself I get the black screen, and via uLaunchELF I get 'Loading HDD Modules'. So long story short, I soft modded with Swap Magic/ USB / Memory card / Free McBoot, but what I really want to do is have all of that in a nice package on my hard drive as well as my ps2 game library. I have tried all packages for HDD's that I could find on the internet, and get the same issue with all of them. Which makes me think it is the hard drive, but after looking at the list of hard drives that work and don't work, I think my exact drive came up three times, working on a v3, v7 and a v10 ps2.
I have a v 5/6, (SCPH-30001 R) Sorry for the long winded post, I just had a ton of coffee and feel like I have tried everything possible. Any and all feedback or assistance would be greatly appreciated! Lets start from scratch. Did you run a full diagnostic on the hard drive (whether new or not needs to be done) Hook drive up to computer and partition and format either FAT32 or NTSF use EaseUS Partition Master 10.2 its free. Get a program like Seatools (Seagates hard drive diagnostic software) Seatools for Windows is FREE and can easily be googled and downloaded from their site Do a Short Drive Self Test (SDST) and a Short Generic Make sure hard drive (since IDE) has CORRECT amount a voltage. USB power to IDE drives is no good needs to be a real 12 Volt connection (like computers PSU) See if tests pass if you keep failing Short Drive Self Test or have errors with the Short Generic then the drive will always crash with the PlayStation.
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If all tests are in the green you can go to the next best step that worked for me. Let me know results. Okay thanks guys! I will try all of your suggestions. As for the partitioning. I got that tool and pulled up my drive, it says the entire thing is unallocated.
Should I right click allocate as NTFS? Then do I run Winhiip? Or can I just allocate right now and will that be enough? This is what I feel like the order of events should be. Nuke the drive again partition the drive run diagnostic tool hook into ps2 to check if the ps2 sees it via OPL/HdLoader/ULaunchELF if all goes well, then go back to WinHiip, format and finally get my games on there.
The Ps2 will not see it unless it is formatted with Winhiip. I always format my drives in 48bit HDloader. Since yours is small you could also do 28bit but 48bit should also work. You have to run the scan / repair hard drive (in utilities) also, once it is formatted, and let it save the repair structure. FIRST make sure that the hard drive is running 100% in regular Windows NTSF or FAT 32 format.
You need to allocate and set the drive as Primary pick your format NTSF is fine. Then run a diagnostic on that drive with Seagate tools. I have had plenty of BAD brand new hard drives.
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If you don't care about using an internal HDD, slim is the way to go. Prettier, quieter, built-in network adapter (not that it matters anymore).
I had an fat V7 before and it was like having an airplane at home. There's some talk about the V9 models (aqua blue, etc) onward being unreliable and dying due to the cd reader components being close to coils or some crap and wearing out fast, but that seemed to be a problem only with pirates using the worst possible media The thing to keep in mind is that if you want to use the Memory card Exploit (homebrew / patched backups / etc) with a slim PS2, it needs to be a model with external power supply.
The last model with internal supply and no brick (blue and white box) partially fixed this. Speaking of the exploit, I haven't found anything to directly load imports (Pal50 is depressing 99% of the time), having to backup and patch them. And not all of the patched games run as well as the originals. In that sense, a few times I have had to rely on that old hunk of junk of fat PS2 I want to get rid off. You need a few things. 120 or 250GB size recommended.
500 might work too. A memory card with Free McBoot on it. You can install it yourself with different tricks, but the least painful way is to spend $10 3. An IDE to USB adapter, so you can transfer PS2 ISOs to the PS2 HDD from your PC. I doubt your PC has IDE connectors, so thats why the adapter is recommended. PS2 network adapter, so you can close the compartment where you have your HDD.If you go the SMB route, you just need the Free McBoot card and a crossover ethernet cable.
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You can even play games from any region with this method!. As far as more specific instructions go, just look them up. But this is the stuff you'll need. The only thing I don't recommend is playing games on PS2 off an external USB HDD.
It has noticeably slower speeds than these methods or disc. Also as a bonus tip you may need 'fixiso' to change your ISO names to the correct format, but maybe not. I have done the ethernet SMB method, not the internal HDD method but I know it works.