partition

Hi! Is it possible to reorganize the game partitions after delete them in OPL so I can retrieve that empty space as available? Or if i delete a game partition do i need to rebuild all again to make that space available again?

Hi there. I have a PlayStation 3 Super Slim CHECH-4004C Original Firmware (OFW): 4.91 I want to flash the Hybrid Firmware (HFW). But I stuck at formatting the USB-Drive correctly. I don't have any Windows system, so I can't use rufus. Rufus on Wine does not work, because it can not...

I accidentally found something interesting. For some reason, when I formatting my pendrive on Windows, it doesn't creating MBR partition table but partition as a whole disk (on all other pendrives it creates partition table). Maybe that's the reason why some USB devices aren't supported by OPL...

Hey all, tearing my hair out here. I've been working on my dream FHDB image for 2 years, and as a final update, wanted to use the newer OPL builds for POPSTARTER support for PS1 games. Using v1.0 or the daily build grabbed last night, imaging to a 2TB drive, OPL cannot see the +OPL partition at...

How to determine disc size written to HDL/OPL partition? I cannot figure it out. For sure size cannot be written inside "FileSystem Space" because whole is occupied by disc image (except rounding to 128MiB). For sure cannot be on PFS partition because various of programs can extract image with...

If Your HDD partition index or OPL partition goes broken, PS2 will not read it it's contents, nor any PC tool. Yet still there is a way to safe game saves. And this cover up this mini tutorial. Open PS2 HDD in hex editor (any, I prefer HxD). Take to Your hands game box or game disc and read the...

I have changed partition ID type from 0001h (PFS) to 8300h (Linux) in hex editor and now partition in uLE disappear from list in HDD Manager (it obviously disappear from file manager, but why disappear from HDD Manager menu?). There is some kind of checksum (or something like that) for each APA...

Here it is a huge tutorial covering up various of topic related to HDD and partitions on PS2. It is written in Polish. Tutorial covering up: Basics of logic structure of HDD (APA, APAEXT and APADVR) Formatting HDD Why Your HDD could be not recognized? Free HDBoot Installation (including...

I tested both: MBR and GPT and I can confirm that both ARE fixable by partition table transplantation. At least on CECHL04 with OFW 3.55. ;) For MBR You need 512B, for GPT 17KiB. It is unfixable only if user additionally create partition on such disk. I didn't test device with larger than 512B...