I have a PS2 in the living room & a PS2 in the bedroom, so I don't have to move the thing around when the main TV is otherwise in use for viewing Lost or somesuch. The living room PS2 currently has a 200gig HDD attached & uses HDloader, so I rarely ever need to get off my rear & actually mess around with game discs. Yes, I know I'm a lazy bum!:nod: Now, I'd like to install another HDD in the other PS2 in the bedroom. I'd really like to just image copy the first drive to the new drive, since individually reinstalling 200gigs of games is a bit of a drag. I tried Symantec Ghost, but it refuses to let me select the PS2 HDD (it's recognised, but greyed out) - does anyone know a workaround, or a better way to do this?
i really dont think theres a simple way of doing it due to how the ps2 formats the hdd, your just going to have to take the long route and copy all of your original games onto the other hdd
If you can either setup an FTP connection between your PS2 and Computer, or just hook up both HDDs to the computer, then you can use HDLdump/dumb or WinHIIP to quickly transfer everything from one HDD onto your computer, to then transfer onto the next (Heck, newer versions might even have a clone/direct transfer feature) Worst case scenario, just batch transfer all content from one HDD to your desktop drive, then onto the other. Only problem there is that I dunno how those apps are now with all the newer compatibility settings, as I haven't touched this stuff in like 2 years++
i have 2 PS2's and was planning on doing something similar. that way i can leave one hardwired into my AV setup and then take the second with me whenever i go away or to friends/functions etc where the PS2 will be handy to take with me..... Would be interested to know what solution you find.
Put both hdds in your computer, boot g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ (floppy or cdrom), choose copydisk and wait. Both hdds must be of the same size of course.
Thanks again, unclejun - g4u seems to be exactly what I need. Instead of copying disk-to-disk, I decided to backup to an ftp server, so that I'd end up with a disk image that I could recover from in the future (I've heard of instances of HDLdump/dumb & WinHIIP not playing nicely with each other, resulting in files going missing). I was originally going to reuse an old Maxtor I was using for ghost backups, but outpost.com was selling 200gig Maxtors for $40 shipped, so I ordered one of those to use instead - once that arrives, I'll do the restore & see if it all works. Still kinda suprised that Ghost wouldn't do a sector copy, but g4u seems to do the trick & appears to be faster than ghost as well.
I have a rather old version of ghost that can do a sector copy if I recall correctly...anyway g4u works fine, although a local dump save/load could be usefull too, but for this a little linux distro like tomsrtbt will do.
Go here: http://www.sksapps.com/index.php?page=hd.html Download: WinHIIP Attach both HD's to your PC and do a direct copy all in one shot. Keeps everything intact even HDloader.
