nessecary hdadvanced partitions

**spellbyte** · 01-29-2006,07:18 AM

I'm using winhiip to format an 80gig seagate drive and want as much space as possible, what partitions can i leave out or shrink to the minimum 128MB and what ones are essential.

I have seen this posted somewhere else but can't find it anywhere....please help

**wozzza2** · 01-29-2006,07:38 AM

partitions?? delete them, dont need them. ive never had partitions on my PS2 drives.

**spellbyte** · 01-29-2006,07:50 AM

ok thanks for that and for the quick reply

**t00p** · 01-29-2006,05:06 PM

all you need is __boot and hdloader settings

__common
__net
__sysconf
__system

are unnessicary

**wozzza2** · 01-29-2006,10:49 PM

ive still never seen any partitions?

**dlanor** · 02-01-2006,03:58 AM

Originally Posted by wozzza2

ive still never seen any partitions?

In that case you have never looked. At least not properly.
Everything that you store on your HDD goes into some kind of partition.

In fact each HDL game installed is a separate partition, and in addition HDL always creates some non-game partitions, though it only uses one of those to keep track of installed games. That's the partition "HDLoader Settings".

Like t00p said, the partition "__boot" can also be important. That is where mod chips with support for Dev2 booting place the ELFs to be booted. And some other software also makes more extensive use of it (eg: DMS HDD Explorer).

Best regards: dlanor

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