Hey guys, I'm getting a PS2 Tool on Monday/Tuesday and was wondering what the best way was to go about cloning the HDD. I thought about taking the drives out, and either using a usb enclosure, or just plugging them in, and "dd'ing" them. But, I don't really want to be taking my new toy apart, just yet.. Is there a better way of doing it? Like PXE booting the TOOL and dd'ing the images to a network share, or something? If so, can people point me in the direction of software they've used, or recommend. Thanks,
Only the PCI-815VE card found in newer units supports booting from LAN. My Tools have the older 586-HVE-S, so I had to open them and plug a cdrom drive... I used g4u to image the hdd, it "dd'ing &gzip'ing" them and upload the result file to a ftp server. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ Note that it took something like 10 hours to dump one hdd. You could also connect the 2 Tool hdds to the SBC board with a regular IDE cable, just set one as slave, and then "dd|gzip" the slave disk to the master, once done, get the file by ftp, delete it from the master disk, shutdown, exchange the slave and master disk's jumpers, and do the "dd|gzip" procedure again... Anyway, doing the "dd|gzip" method on a more powerful PC (or having a long cable IDE or IDE/USB adapter) should be faster
Yeah, I read one of your posts about g4u. I think thats probably gonna be my way forward. Thanks UJ, this is the second time you've helped me now. Haha. Cheers man.
I'd recommend this method- it also produces nicely archivable ~100-300mb files with the full contents of said drives.
