Hi does anyone knows the original structure of the ps2 hdd ? i got a Supernova ps2 arcade board with a faulty hdd
My ones show up as RAW data when I plug it into my computer! Was that what you were meaning? I use WINHIIP, it has a function that can repair bad sectors!
i cant read the faulty disc at all, bios shows it, but neither windows or linux can read it, ofcourse i am talking about raw read (dd at linux and winhex at windows)
Do a Google search for WINHIIP, it's a program designed specially for PS2 Drives only! This should work, but if it doesn't you could always try connecting it to a FAT PS2 with an N/A, (assuming that you have one) and using FREE MCBOOT, format your drive that way! These are the only ways that I know of to do it!
The format used by PS2 hdds isn't readable by Windows or Linux as you have discovered. Reading it in raw works obviously but you won't be able to make heads or tails of what you see. WinHIIP works great as stuff on the PS2 is stored on a partition by partition basis, typically. But you'll only be able to back up entire partitions of data. BTW, if you need a network adapter I have a stack of them.
Honestly this might even not use a APA/PFS partitioning system. All the PS2 BIOS need to boot from the hard drive is a MBR section on the first sector of the harddrive. That in turn tells the PS2 BIOS where to look for the MBR KELF (krypto elf) which in turn boots whatever needed be. So the HDD might be on any format the program within the MBR KELF is capable of reading. :shrug:
