Winhiip "there was a problem writing to the destination drive"

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02-22-2012, 10:15 PM
GW2

Winhiip "there was a problem writing to the destination drive"

I'm trying to format a 250GB samsung 2.5" sata hard drive to the PS2 format using winhiip. The drive is in a 2.5" enclosure and will be used with the ps2 slim sata HDD adapter from the sticky thread above. Whenever I use the latest version of winhiip it keeps giving me the same error of "there has been a problem writing to the destination hard disk drive", "There has been a problem writing to the hard disk drive", "The selected hard drive does not have a valid PS2 Master Boot Record". I'm launching the program as administrator in windows 7. I used version 1.66 and it gave me the same error but now the drive shows as formatted in both version even though it really doesn't seem to be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
02-22-2012, 11:08 PM
BahumatLord

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Originally Posted by GW2

I'm trying to format a 250GB samsung 2.5" sata hard drive to the PS2 format using winhiip. The drive is in a 2.5" enclosure and will be used with the ps2 slim sata HDD adapter from the sticky thread above. Whenever I use the latest version of winhiip it keeps giving me the same error of "there has been a problem writing to the destination hard disk drive", "There has been a problem writing to the hard disk drive", "The selected hard drive does not have a valid PS2 Master Boot Record". I'm launching the program as administrator in windows 7. I used version 1.66 and it gave me the same error but now the drive shows as formatted in both version even though it really doesn't seem to be. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A couple things - Windows 7 is known to be a pain in the ass when trying to mod a psp, xbox, or ps2. There's a way to run XP on Windows 7 using VMWare. An easier thing to check first is that you're not trying to do this on top of a FAT32/NTFS drive. delete the partition and try again. If that doesn't work, create a new unformatted partition and try again
02-22-2012, 11:14 PM
GW2

I put the drive in my laptop and it worked (thank god my laptop has 2 HDD bays). And i've never had an issue with modding my psp in W7. Either way I got it all figured now.
02-22-2012, 11:20 PM
BahumatLord

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Originally Posted by GW2

I put the drive in my laptop and it worked (thank god my laptop has 2 HDD bays). And i've never had an issue with modding my psp in W7. Either way I got it all figured now.

that's good. The psp thing I was talking about was formatting the magic memory stick to be used with a pandora battery. Windows 7 by default doesn't have necessary system files to do the format