HDD Install Problem!

[tonybologna]

Hey guys! I'm having some trouble getting a game to install to the HDD via either WINHIIP or HDL Dump. I've tried both of these programs & get errors with each. I'll explain. First of all,this is an ISO image of Tiger Woods 2006 already uploaded to the PC. When I try to install with WINHIIP about halfway thru(52.3%) I get an error message of "There has been a problem writing to the hard disc drive!" When I click on "OK" then the icon for the HDD hardware from the system tray disappears like the device was disconnected or the PC just quit reading the drive from my USB port. I then reconnected the USB cable & went to files on the HDD & there was a Bad.HdrlD listing were I had tried to install the game. I went to the help file with WINHIIP & noticed this as a typical error saying "HDL indent in main page partition is not 0XDEADFEED". I have no idea what this means first off. Is this some type partirion problem going by this message? I have installed quite a few games this way but this is the first problem I've encountered. I tried the same thing with HDL Dump & about halfway thru again I get an aborted message of the same. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have deleted the Bad.HdrlD checkbox file from the HDD since I assume this was a bad install.

[_zaphod_]

Short answer. Get a new enclosure. if it still fails get a new motherbaord.

[tonybologna]

Short answer. Get a new enclosure. if it still fails get a new motherbaord.

What are you talking about? This is a IDE HDD that's taken out of my ps2 & hooked up to the PC USB port for file transferring. There's no need for an enclosure dude! All that's done is take the HDD out of the ps2 console & hooked up to your PC for transferring files so I don't know what you think I'm explaining. Now,anybody else?

[qqq1]

How are you hooking it up to your usb port if it's not in an enclosure?

[tonybologna]

I'm using the IDE to USB cable kit! I'm taking the HDD out of the ps2 & using the kit to transfer the files that way. You have a USB hookup on one end & the IDE interface on the other end. Then you have the power supply from the HDD going to your power outlet. You plug the USB end to the PC & the IDE into your HDD. Next,you plug the power supply into the HDD & then to the power oulet. This turns on the HDD for your USB port to read the hardware which has happened all other times when installing images. Only this time when trying to install this big image I get the abort error message & the hardware system tray icon disappearing.

[qqq1]

oh, I see. it's just an enclosure hookup without the actual enclosure box. are you sure the drive is not nearly full? there could be a bad spot on the hdd. is there another machine you could try transfering from?

[tonybologna]

oh, I see. it's just an enclosure hookup without the actual enclosure box. are you sure the drive is not nearly full? there could be a bad spot on the hdd. is there another machine you could try transfering from?

I still have plenty of drive space. It's an 80GB Hitachi HDD & I have about 40 GB on there right now. Actually,I have over 40 GB on the HDD now because this evening I burned the image onto a DVD-R(Tiger Woods 2006) & just used HD Loader to install the image & it worked fine. I don't really know what caused this 1 image to not work with WINHIIP but it sure wouldn't install. It wouldn't install with HDL Dump either so it could fall back on a PC USB issue due to the hardware tray icon disappearing after the error message. I don't want to blame it on that either because I have a USB DVD burner works flawlessly from the same USB hookup.

[suram884]

It might be a problem with Windows XP/drivers, because you get an error and then the icon disappears. So what probably happens is that while the data is being transmitted windows makes an error, then WinHIIP/HDL_Dump has no choice but to report an error. If it was WinHIIP/HDL_Dump causing the error, it would be highly unlikely that the HDD would get disconnected.

Now that you have the game put on the HDD, try to upload it again through your computer with a different name without deleting the old one. That way you can figure out if there was a bad sector that caused it.

BTW, where did you get your IDE-USB adapter from and for how much? I think I'm going to get one of those so that I can transfer files easily.

[tonybologna]

It might be a problem with Windows XP/drivers, because you get an error and then the icon disappears. So what probably happens is that while the data is being transmitted windows makes an error, then WinHIIP/HDL_Dump has no choice but to report an error. If it was WinHIIP/HDL_Dump causing the error, it would be highly unlikely that the HDD would get disconnected.

Now that you have the game put on the HDD, try to upload it again through your computer with a different name without deleting the old one. That way you can figure out if there was a bad sector that caused it.

BTW, where did you get your IDE-USB adapter from and for how much? I think I'm going to get one of those so that I can transfer files easily.

Thanks for the reply! Are you telling me to just rename the Tiger Woods file to another name & then try to transfer the file again to see what happens? If so then I'll see what I can do! I do think it has come down to a Windows XP problem even though this is the first error I've received since transferring files in this manner. I purchased the IDE to USB kit from eBay back a couple months ago. I don't remember exactly the company name but they sell items like these quite often & it was received in 2 days from California & I live in Tennessee. The name on the receipt with the package is www.AdapterZ.com but I think this is where the shipment came from. I only know it was a really fast shipment in working condition & this company has great feedback on eBay. Thanks! BTW,this is certainly the fastest way to transfer multiple images from your PC to HDD. I would wait til you had quite a few files to transfer because taking your HDD out of the PS2 & hooking it up to your PC can take some time. I usually wait til I have at least 5 files to transfer. It's certainly better than waisting discs for burning & transferring this way to the ps2 HDD via HD Loader. It's also harder on the ps2 laser having to read the discs to the HDD with a burned disc. It doesn't matter what kind of media is used for burning because this will give extra work on the ps2 laser for reading images to your HDD. If you use cheaper media then it's that much extra work on the laser. If you have a lot of games then the IDE to USB kit is a great,inexpensive,& better way of getting them to your HDD without placing a lot of wear & tear on the ps2 laser.