need help

**eightballr** · 07-10-2010,09:51 PM

i just bought a usb hdd. it a my book essential. what program do i use to format the drive to use with my ps2? also windows doesnt recognize the drive. its shown during booting windows an in windows disk management but not anywhere else. thanks in advance.

**sammybean** · 07-10-2010,10:03 PM

Try using Disk Management to format it, that should solve your issues. Also, be sure to format in FAT32

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**JNABK** · 07-10-2010,10:16 PM

I have a few of the "Book Essentials" USB HDDs and i found they dont work in 'some' USB Ports on my PCs. I dont know why, but if i plug them into the back instead of the front ports, they work fine.

Most PCs have at least 4 ports available, 2 in front, 2 in back and some have 'reserved' space to add a USB card giving you 2-4 more, depending on the USB Hub drivers.

Once you have your HDD showing in My Computer again, you shouldnt have any issues with game installing software.

**eightballr** · 07-10-2010,10:42 PM

do i use winhiip to format an install the games or something else?

**RandQalan** · 07-11-2010,01:08 AM

Originally Posted by eightballr

do i use winhiip to format an install the games or something else?

Follow this guide

http://openps2loader.info/usb_install.html

**dlanor** · 07-11-2010,07:34 AM

Originally Posted by eightballr

do i use winhiip to format an install the games or something else?

You do not use WinHiip for genuine USB drives. WinHiip is intended only for drives that are to be used through a native IDE interface of a PS2, such as exists in the network adaptors for a fat PS2, or in some HDCombo kits for v12/v13 PSTwo consoles. For such cases WinHiip is the proper tool, regardless of whether the drive is connected to the PC through IDE interface or USB adaptors. The important thing is that such a drive will be connected for use by the PS2 through an IDE interface.

Such IDE interfaces are not available for later PSTwo models, so with these you must connect external HDDs by the USB interface, and then you need standard FAT32 format, which can be supplied either by native disk manager formatting of some Windows dialects (though some refuse to offer you FAT32 for a large drive), or by various homebrew tools (follow the links given in previous post).

NB: When some instructions tell you to use NTFS format, that is only for temporary intermediate use, cleaning out the partition list so as to ensure that the real formatting to follow will use the entire drive. You should never try to use a drive with the PS2 while it has NTFS format.

Best regards: dlanor

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