PS1/2 Need Help Adding Hardrive To Fat Ps2

[wingzrow]

So ive gotten tired of running games off discs with freemcboot and decided the faster load times and ease of use of a hardrive loader would be better for me.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a tutorial or guide for how to go about adding a hardrive to my ps2 and running games off it? I already have hdd loader off freemcboot and can boot elf files if that helps.

Oh and if possible, someone link me to a recommended site for buying one of these drives, any help at all would be appreciated.

 

[xist]

You need to find a Network Adapter to connect the HDD to your PS2. This is a table of compatible IDE HDD's, and you'll probably need to trawl ebay for the Network Adapter.

 

[wingzrow]

Ok I found a network Adapter for $50.00, now what? I'm assuming I should go out and buy one of the compatible hard drives now but is there a size limit for how many gigs? I'm going for a 350-500GB drive if there isn't.

 

[xist]

Drive compatibility list :

http://ps2drives.x-pec.com/?p=list

 

[wingzrow]

ok, HDLOADER recognized the hardrive, how do I add games to it?

 

[xist]

Winhiip 1.7.6.

 

[wingzrow]

How do I connect the hardrive to my computer? Doesn't HDloader have a ripping option so i can just put in a dsc to add it to the hardrive?

 

[lenselijer]

it has but it only works with original games i think.

you have 2 options, either connect your ps2 harddisk to your pc and put games on it real fast, or use an ftp program to transfer the games but it goes really slow

 

[xist]

I use a USB IDE caddy.