n00b Needs Help

[thethimble]

Alright, i'm completely new to this hacking/modding stuff, so please forgive me if i have any stupid questions

1) I have a few ide hard drives formatted for windows laying around. Can i plug these into my ps2? Do they need to be specially formatted (I know they do). If so, how can i format one to work? Do i need any software for it?

2) Can any IDE HD work?

3) I know HD Advance will backup games onto my HD and hdl_dump will read the HD from my PC. Are these the only two things i need?

EDIT:

4) Can games save onto the HDD?

Anyway, I appologize since i am asking sooo much from my first post. Thanks in advance for the help

[zabolyx]

1. HD Loader/advance will reformat the drive for the PS2....

2. any drive that fits should work (even drives that don't fit can be made to fit).... although it is suggested to have a large drive... because the average game is 2 - 4GB in size.... But if you are using a Pressed disc of HD Loader/HDA you can't access anymore than the first 137GB of data... but a patched version can read a drive up to 2TB.

3. You can use FAPLink to send games to the PS2 over a network from your PC.. or use Winhiip to install directly from PC to PS2 HDD... you would be better using FAPLink and Winhiip

4. Not natively.... you can transfer gamesave to the HDD with MC Manager... but games can not save to or read from the HDD....

It's all good... that's how I learned.. and using the search function every 3 sec... to find more info on these programs i suggest using the search function...

[thethimble]

and using the search function every 3 sec

lol, thanks for the help