Fragmented Harddisk

Dear All,

I'm using HDD for my ps2. Since my harddisk only 40 GB, sometimes to add new games i have to delete some of my old games. I'm using winhiip or HDL DUMB to transfer/delete the ISO from PC to PS2 and vice versa. However something bothering me, by deleting some old games, i have fragmented my harddisk and somehow affecting/reducing capacity of my harddisk, CMIIW, and everytime i'm deleting old games i'm adding fragmentation to my harddisk.

Questions:

1. Can I defragment my PS2 harddisk? if yes, how? my windows XP is unable to explore the harddisk.
2. Is there any solution for this? (beside formating the harddisk :p ).

BIG THX!!

1. no way to defrag the hdd, you can have the settings on wiinhip to reduce fragments.
2. worse come to worse just backup our games on ur pc as isos' and format the whole thing.

i think im haveing a similar problem, i have deleted some games of my hdd, and the last 2 games that i have recently installed always have and extra 128mb added to it. i have no idead why. one game was metal slug5 and the other was pac man world.

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Originally Posted by DJZeroK

1. no way to defrag the hdd, you can have the settings on wiinhip to reduce fragments.
2. worse come to worse just backup our games on ur pc as isos' and format the whole thing.

i think im haveing a similar problem, i have deleted some games of my hdd, and the last 2 games that i have recently installed always have and extra 128mb added to it. i have no idead why. one game was metal slug5 and the other was pac man world.

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It might be used for HD Loader setting. Remember that when first formatting the hdd, we are asked to set the partition, right? The whole partition is taking about 2,5 GB of my small 40 GB harddisk. sigh. :(

So there is no way to defrag the harddisk? oohh man :banghead: .... hopefully PS2 Homebrew Geniuses out there can make an utilites to solve this kind of problem. :-pray:

I tried using the Official HD Util, and it didn't do a thing (didn't Optimise the HDD). So, I think there's nothing you can do right now about it...

cause_of_chaos

if I use hdl dump, will that eliminate or decrease fragmentation caused by winhiip?

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Originally Posted by footclan

if I use hdl dump, will that eliminate or decrease fragmentation caused by winhiip?

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no, i tihnk winhiip is the ONLY software that can reduce fragmentation

but once u delete a game, space occurs, and that will eventually leave to more fragmentation


DO NOT keep switching programs, only use one and stick wit it, if u do keep switch'n , one day the hdd will crash and hdl will not be able to read the hdd (while ur pc can).

then u hafta backup all ur games and reformat.

there isn't any bad sides of hav'n fragmentation. you'll wont notice a BIG decrease in game load'n times. and it'll still be faster than play'n by disk.

Maybe use wiinhip to copy whole HDD to other via selected images,
when You have more then 1 HDD for PS2!

Only A sugestion!