HDL on official Sony HD with FFXI

[Desperado]

I have a friend who is playing Final fantasy 11 on his official sony HD, and we're wondering if he can use HDL without messing up or interfering with his FFXI data. Does HDL need to reformat the HD or can it be used as is?

[importtuner]

I believe it needs to reformat it to a specific format (Well I'm almost certain. HDL asks you to reformat the drive when you first use HDL w/ the HDD.). That way the program (HDL and HDA) can actually read the HDD and games, that's just what I figure..... anyway, just my thoughts, I don't have a $ony HDD.

[infiniteshamoo]

You can use it. i play ffXi and use the same HDD to store games.

[importtuner]

Hmm... did you use HDL or HDA before or after you play ffXi? Just curious.

[anigamer]

I, too, can confirm that you can use HDL/HDA on an official hard drive with FFXI.

[goboom]

HDL/HDA work with FFXI, ive used them both on and off many times.. the HDA website also confirms this

"Does HDAdvance conflict with other HDD enabled software such as PlayOnline, FFXI etc?
-No, HDAdvance does not interfere with any other HDD enabled software."

http://www.hdadvance.com/hd_advance_faq.htm

[Desperado]

But does it need to reformat the drive? Can HDL be installed AFTER ffxi?

[bungiefan]

It does not need to reformat the hard drive if it has already been formatted with HDD Utility Disc or PSBBN. HDLoader/Advance uses the same disk format as the official Sony software. It just doesn't install software to make the system boot into their interfaces.