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androdork
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_ 		13. September 2005 @ 19:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've just stupidly "intialized" 2 of my ps2 hard drives in the disk management place of windows xp. Now I'm trying to see if there is a way to recover them before I lose my games I've collected. I've seen some hard drive recovery programs but I doubt they work with ps2 hard drive files. This is my last chance before I reformat with WinHiip.
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byngo
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_ 		15. September 2005 @ 07:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Surely the files are still there unless you have "Formatted"
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androdork
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_ 		16. September 2005 @ 02:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and how do i get access to them? that is my problem.
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WPKenny
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_ 		12. October 2005 @ 04:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is exactly what I've just done. Did you ever find a solution?
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androdork
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_ 		12. October 2005 @ 06:52 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
nope, i just went to get my games again at blockbuster with gamepass and download the popular ones, through torrents.
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WPKenny
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_ 		12. October 2005 @ 07:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
:( :cry:

That's not really the reply I was hoping for. Bugger.

I can load up winHIIP and can see the games still on the hard drive but it just wont access the disk in a normal way, nor will it repair it. So basically the files are still there but neither windows nor the ps2 will read it. :/

EDIT: It seems the guy who wrote WinHIIP, GadgetFreak, might be able to help but my timing sucks. It seems he's gone to Africa for at least 3 months and he's left a note saying he has no idea when he might have net access.
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