I need answers as soon as possible about new hdd

**ps2dragon** · 11-21-2009,12:06 PM

Just a thought, but has anyone tried a program like Norton Ghost to do a full backup of a hard drive with PS2 games to a single image and then restore it to another hard drive and does it work?

**luisoman2000** · 11-21-2009,12:59 PM

Originally Posted by ps2dragon

Just a thought, but has anyone tried a program like Norton Ghost to do a full backup of a hard drive with PS2 games to a single image and then restore it to another hard drive and does it work?

First of all, will norton ghost recognize the ps2 drive? The drive cant be seen in MyPc, thats why we use winhiip to install/delete games.

**ps2dragon** · 11-21-2009,02:30 PM

Originally Posted by luisoman2000

First of all, will norton ghost recognize the ps2 drive? The drive cant be seen in MyPc, thats why we use winhiip to install/delete games.

This is my question, I never used Norton Ghost and don't have it installed, so that's why I was asking. I am well aware a hard drive with a PFS (Playstation File System) is not recognized in Windows, meaning being able to browse folders, etc, but it's still recognized inside Computer Management. I never used Norton Ghost, so I don't know if it's limited to backing up and restoring data based on a hard drive's file system. If Norton Ghost can't, maybe this other program I have can. lol Guess I'll test it out and see if it works.

**darthkamikaz3** · 11-21-2009,03:18 PM

Originally Posted by ps2dragon

Just a thought, but has anyone tried a program like Norton Ghost to do a full backup of a hard drive with PS2 games to a single image and then restore it to another hard drive and does it work?

i have done it on PS2 formatted HDD and Xbox Formatted HDD..but i used a a program that comes with UBCD [Ultimate Boot CD] to clone the drive..and i didn't create an IMAGE but a direct copy from one drive to another..

i only tried it with 160GB Seagate Source and Destination..

I Haven't tried mixing the brand of HDDs..maybe it will work as long as the HDD size is the same..

kamikaz3

**urbigbro** · 11-21-2009,06:26 PM

Originally Posted by darthkamikaz3

i have done it on PS2 formatted HDD and Xbox Formatted HDD..but i used a a program that comes with UBCD [Ultimate Boot CD] to clone the drive..and i didn't create an IMAGE but a direct copy from one drive to another..

i only tried it with 160GB Seagate Source and Destination..

I Haven't tried mixing the brand of HDDs..maybe it will work as long as the HDD size is the same..
kamikaz3

I'd love to know the program's name if you still remember it. I plan on doing a HDD transfer soon, and would also like to find a way to store a live 'back-up' of the entire drive image, so I can just restore it to a new drive if the one I'm using dies.

**darthkamikaz3** · 11-21-2009,10:46 PM

Originally Posted by urbigbro

I'd love to know the program's name if you still remember it. I plan on doing a HDD transfer soon, and would also like to find a way to store a live 'back-up' of the entire drive image, so I can just restore it to a new drive if the one I'm using dies.

it's part of
UBCD [ultimate boot CD] http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

check out the site...

**vsub** · 11-22-2009,03:05 AM

And here's the first bad thing about having a huge hdd.
The problem is not the hdd but still...PGEN loads EXTREMELY slow every time when I start it because it scan the whole hdd every time.

And second,I can't enter in the directory where the SNES games are because SNES Station shows only 20 partitions(the partition where the games are is partition 125)

**nemosomen** · 11-22-2009,05:38 PM

Regarding the cbc files, I don't have a mod chip at all, and I couldn't get them to work at all, either. Not with the factory pressed DVD of 10, nor with the elf versions of 9. I had tried to figure out if I could move them manually into the partition on the HDD, and now I know why after so much frustration, I couldn't even find the partition.

**dlanor** · 11-23-2009,04:38 PM

Originally Posted by vsub

And here's the first bad thing about having a huge hdd.
The problem is not the hdd but still...PGEN loads EXTREMELY slow every time when I start it because it scan the whole hdd every time.

And second,I can't enter in the directory where the SNES games are because SNES Station shows only 20 partitions(the partition where the games are is partition 125)

Someone really needs to patch SNES station again, to make it exclude all HDLoader games from its HDD partition list. The test for this is extremely simple, as the partition names all begin with the same prefix, so no mounting of the partitions is needed for testing, but only a simple string check of the partition names.

Most likely an effective list length of 20 partitions would suffice for most users, if only the HDLoader game partitions were properly skipped (as by uLE FileBrowser).

As a workaround you could uninstall an HDL game from one of those first 20 partition slots and then use uLE to create an emulation ROM partition using that partition list slot, finally reinstalling the HDL game again, presumably ending up somewhere late in the partition list. But that is no problem for HDL, which normally doesn't care where on the HDD a game is installed (except that DL games must have layer 2 unfragmented). I have used this workaround myself to ensure that old programs will be able to find the partitions I need to use.

Best regards: dlanor

**vsub** · 11-24-2009,12:35 AM

dlanor can I use the HDLoader partition to place all of my games there?
Is that partition used for something else except placing those two small files(using 128mb partition for files less than 50kb is a total waste if you ask me)

And is this normal....when I create a partition with Ule,to the beginning of the partition name is added "+"(why)

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