PS2 Can't connect to PS2 with HDL-Dump

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I'm wanting to reverse-dump the ISOs from my PS2's internal HDD back to my computer, and nothing I've done has resulted in a successful connection. I have the PS2 and the computer connected directly via network cable, and Open PS2 Loader can see and run network-share ISOs, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

PC-side I've tried the HDL-Dump Helper GUI as well as the older HDL-Dumb, with no luck. PS2-side, I've tried running both v0.86 and v0.90 of the HDL-Dump Server, as well as whichever version is integrated into Open PS2 Loader 0.9.3.
 
My disks are in storage.

Anyway, figured it out! Installing x86 Java and then running the executable as Administrator instead of running the JAR directly worked.
 
You can use current beta of IsoBuster to extract disc images from PS2 HDD.

However, the best would be dump from discs because those images written by HDLoader, HDL Dump/Dumb, HDLGame Installer or WinHIIP, aren't 1:1 copies (as I remember those are only track dumps and in case of CD, converted to mode1). This method of storage games cannot be used as archival purpose (if this is Your goal anyway; for playing is fine).

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If you made a proper DVD-ROM image (ISO) on a PC at its md5sum matches the one from redump...
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You can install this game via HDLGameInstaller through ETH (Install new game...)
HDLGame-Installer-Menu.png


Once the game has been installed onto PS2 HDD, you can copy it back to PC:
HDLGame-Installer-Menu-copy.png


Transfer can take a while:
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At the end you should get:
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If you check md5sum of this game (e.g. I-Ninja):
http://redump.org/disc/4255/.
Code: 
b1f8528f17435b05445f5db8e28b119b
After installing and copy back to PC:
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I don't know how this operation works with other "installers"...

As Berion mentioned, with CD it is a different story.
 
Yes, I am quite sure we had this discussion before!
HDL-Dump's (and tools based on it, like WinHIIP or HDL Dump Helper GUI) ISOs don't match anymore after extraction (even when extracted with another tool), whereas AFAIR HDLGI is the only installer where ISOs match completely [at least for DVDs] (kudos to SP193)!
 
Worth to mention that size after extraction must be trimmed back to real one because APA specification forcing to round partitions by 128MiB. Some tools doing it automatically (probably by reading fs table from image because there is no such information in APA header), some don't. "Rounded images" will of course have different checksum, so keep this is in mind.

Didn't know that only HDLGI making full disc dump (the rest dumps only track data, at least this is how I understand it comparing data from written "hdl partition" and real disc/proper dump). However HDLGI have one flaw: it doesn't support DVD9 (I don't know why).
 
TnA said:
Yes, I am quite sure we had this discussion before!
HDL-Dump's (and tools based on it, like WinHIIP or HDL Dump Helper GUI) ISOs don't match anymore after extraction (even when extracted with another tool), whereas AFAIR HDLGI is the only installer where ISOs match completely [at least for DVDs] (kudos to SP193)!
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I don't know if you're referring to the discussion I and @jolek started some time ago.

HDL dump and Winhiip have no problem on extracting games back to PC (their MD5s remains the same).

The problem arises if you use HDLGI and HDL dump/winhiip on same games, since it seems they're 99% not compatible (I said 99% since I found a game on wich the compatibility problem didn't show up).

So, if you install a game with HDLGI, you have to also use it for extracting it back to PC. Viceversa if a game has been installed with HDL dump/winhiip, you have to extract it with one of them, otherwise the extracted iso will be corrupted (totally unusable obviously, you'll get BSOD at launch or freeze at the first logo).

Also about different MD5 results, we were testing different programs for doing the bin to iso conversion and each of them gived us different results. But it was another topic.
 
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