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jdawg69
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4. September 2004 @ 13:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey everyone im new to this site and im getting a hd advance and was wondering how to in-stall it and i just bought a 250 GB hard drive 7200 rpm western digital and was wondering if its compatible or not and how the safe was to install it

plz help thank you :)
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azn_kda
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4. September 2004 @ 14:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hm...Western Digital HDD? I don't think it could fit onto the ps2 because the HDD is too big. Did you try fitting onto the ps2 yet?

Anyway if you install 250 GB HDD onto the ps2, it will only read 137 GB or 127 GB. I got 160 GB Maxtor HDD and it only reads 127 GB.

To make it work, all you have to do is just pop in the HD Advance while the HDD is inside the PS2 and install the games from there. That's about it. I hope this information help but I can be wrong sometime. ^_^

-PS2v7 Modded|Network Adaptor|160 GB Maxtor HDD|HDLoader|Action Replay Max Evo|USB Cooling Fan|
-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
jdawg69
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4. September 2004 @ 14:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey no i have not installed it yet its still in its package maybe i could return it and get a smaller hard drive maybe 120 - 160 GB in town i know they have western digital not to expensive or Cicero maxtor which or a bit more expensiver but who cares :P lol msg me back dude :)
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4. September 2004 @ 19:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
lol...i meant the size of the HDD in Width, not by GB, western digital is too big I think.

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-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
jdawg69
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4. September 2004 @ 20:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ohh well how big is urz cuz i can buy a Cicero maxtor like urz and if its 250 gb and it only reads 137 gb not really worth it eh
azn_kda
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4. September 2004 @ 20:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
My HDD is Maxtor and fix perfectly inside, it's a little loose but it's alright. Yeah, u shouldn't buy 250 gb yet until someone find a way to read 250 GB.

-PS2v7 Modded|Network Adaptor|160 GB Maxtor HDD|HDLoader|Action Replay Max Evo|USB Cooling Fan|
-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
jdawg69
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4. September 2004 @ 21:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
reason i bought 2 way because there were on sale for 200 bucks each one for my pc and 1 for my ps2 so should i take it back and get a 120 or 160 gb on maxtor
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azn_kda
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7. September 2004 @ 16:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sorry I took too long to reply.

I would pick Maxtor. If you compare the HDD Dimensions...Maxtor - 10.2(W) x 2.6(H) x 14.7(D) cm and western digital - 19.8(W) x 10.8(H) x 24.1(D) cm, the size a little different and western digital is the only HDD that can't fit into the ps2...but I saw a site somewhere that you can customize the western digital. But I forgot the site.

-PS2v7 Modded|Network Adaptor|160 GB Maxtor HDD|HDLoader|Action Replay Max Evo|USB Cooling Fan|
-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
Quikshot
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8. September 2004 @ 10:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I got my 120GB WD HD yesterday and HDLoader today.

I had to do a little unprofessional mods, but everything came at OK.
If i were you. I would switch your new HDD with the older one on your comp, but thats just my opinion.

I was thinking about doing the same thing until I realized that WD HDDs can easily be modded.

This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 8. September 2004 @ 10:13

jdawg69
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11. September 2004 @ 15:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ok i bought that maxtor 120 GB now i backed up 2 games and i have slight problem everytime i play my hockey it freezes i looked at the HD Advance disc and it has quite a few scratches my question is can i copy the disc or go to a cd shop and resurface it plz let me know thank you.
azn_kda
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11. September 2004 @ 15:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What the title name of that hockey game? Some games might not work on HD.

Go to this site and find your game here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/casey.miller/HD%20Loader%20Compatibility.htm

do you have an modchip? If so, if u think u need another hd loader/advance, here's a crack one u can download at http://suprnova.org, but will need bit torrent to download these. I'll give you the link here.

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2469/ps2ownz-hdloader-RAR.torrent

I hope this help.





-PS2v7 Modded|Network Adaptor|160 GB Maxtor HDD|HDLoader|Action Replay Max Evo|USB Cooling Fan|
-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
jdawg69
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11. September 2004 @ 15:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i think i just need the disc cleaned if the hd advance this is the 1st time ive even seened a disc with lines in the disc which is pretty cool but just wondering if a cd place would clean that kinda disc and would it ruin it yes or no ?
azn_kda
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11. September 2004 @ 15:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
never heard of a place that clean cd for you but I did found some stuff on ebgames.com . this product might help but i never try them. Read the review and see what you think.

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/234359.asp

there is another product that's like this but i can't find it right now.

-PS2v7 Modded|Network Adaptor|160 GB Maxtor HDD|HDLoader|Action Replay Max Evo|USB Cooling Fan|
-PS2v3|Unmodded|
-Xbox v1.1|Xecuter3|XBMC|300 GB Maxtor HDD|Clear blue ghost case| X3 Front Panel |
-Gamecube| Unmodded
-Xbox360 | Unmodded
jonjakjam
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11. September 2004 @ 16:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The hockey game is running from the harddrive, its got nothing to do with the hdadvance disk. once you load up hdadvance you can take out the disk and close the tray!
Some games just wont work properly with the hd tho, did you check this?
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/casey.miller/HD%20Loader%20Compatibility.htm
If your PS2 can still read the disk, theres no point in resurfacing it, also are they lines OR scratches?


jdawg69
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11. September 2004 @ 17:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is the game

ESPN NHL 2K5 says it works fine and it was scratches
it freezes with 0.01 sec left in the game i dunno why but it sucks
jdawg69
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12. September 2004 @ 08:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
1 more question if your converting a game and the game has scratches on it could it end up freezing from ur hard drive like the nhl 2k5 is doing to me.
jonjakjam
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12. September 2004 @ 09:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think the ps2 would just skip scraches and carry on convertin? since the ps2 will not be able to read a scrached area on the disk. So the game would probably end up freezing at some point when you play it from the hd.

Has anyone else had this problem?


jdawg69
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12. September 2004 @ 10:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
maybe the nhl 2k5 just has flaws in it anyways i deleted it its was pissing me right off lol.
dlocke
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13. September 2004 @ 06:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If your game disc is scatched it will give you read errors while you're trying to copy it. You can tell hd loader to ignore this but do so at your own risk. Games might freeze or be missing lots of content or may not work at all. Your best bet is to clean the disc the best you can and try to copy it again.

Some dvd movies have free replacement for scratched or non working discs but I don't know about video games...
KCflyGuy
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28. September 2004 @ 17:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
d@mn, that suck. I have already bought HD Advance and my favorite game, Madden 05, didn't even work. I also saw from that list and that's quite a few games that aren't compatible with.

What is code 3? I noticed it can't even play my 2nd favorite, Kill Switch.

I guess I should just stick to my Magic Swap.
dlocke
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29. September 2004 @ 11:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Funny. My Madden 2005 works just fine. Enable mode 3, that means on that game hit select. Arrow down to mode 3, hit x to enable, select to return to the previous menu. Now madden should work (note: collectors edition needs to be ripped to DVD-5 as dual layer discs will only copy the first layer).

This mode stuff was left out of the hd loader manual by mistake.
KCflyGuy
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2. October 2004 @ 08:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
dlocke, how many codes are there and how do you go on with code 1 & 2? Thanks
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dlocke
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3. October 2004 @ 15:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
3 modes. I thought I said to hit the select button on any installed game to access the mode screen. Just hit x button on mode 1 & 2.
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