PS2 HDDManager freezes expanding +OPL
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Berion
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What is "HDDManager" app? Never heard of, only about PFS HDD Manager, which is in alpha stage (it is GUI for PFS Shell which You should use in the first place, because this is the only one application which understanding PFS file system on APA, on PC).
Probably You destroyed file system table and/or APA index is now broken.
Probably You destroyed file system table and/or APA index is now broken.
Strizay
Member
Read Fin9gersMcGee's AIO guide and he explains how to resize partitions with HDDManager
krHACKen
Developer
Never expand anything, especially the +OPL partition, or else you might trigger a bug that causes major PFS corruption.
The practice is : manually create your +OPL partition to give it the size that you want. It is preferable to create this partition BEFORE you start installing games (ie right after the HDD was formatted) so OPL loads faster.
The practice is : manually create your +OPL partition to give it the size that you want. It is preferable to create this partition BEFORE you start installing games (ie right after the HDD was formatted) so OPL loads faster.
Strizay
Member
Am I able to delete the folder that's already there and create a new one?
Strizay
Member
I understand. The whole section of the tutorial is gone, so I'm pretty much playing it by ear and using the aio tutorial. I'm currently in the process of moving all the art from the hdd back to the USB drive so I dont have to download it again. I didn't realize the speed was so bad, I wish there was an easy way to move files from pc to the hdd. I can't ftp because my adapter came without a port.
Berion
Developer
Paste the link. No one will special for You searching what are You talking about... If You want help in solving some of Yours problems, Your obligation is to provide as much as possible information for the reader. Especially using proper names of the applications...
There is. As I mentioned, such application is PFS Shell.
Strizay
Member
Fin9gersMcGee's AIO guide is a tutorial located on this site. He's actually one of the people that responded to this thread. You've been a member of this forum for how many years and you're not familiar with Fin9gersMcGee and the AIO guide he has written? When I mentioned HDDManager, I thought you would know what I"m talking about. No one is special searching anything, the guide for OPL is gone, it is no longer there. And that is the proper name that he used, if you go under MISC in ULaunch, it is right there.
PFS Shell is still a work in progress and is extremely buggy. I was able to delete the +OPL folder using it, but that was as far as it would go. It would not let me create a new partition and and it would not let me move files from the pc desktop over to the folder I created using ULaunch. I am just moving all the ART from a usb drive over to the folder with file manager, but there are over 2000 files. It is very slow and after 20 minutes or so it might move a couple hundred, then it freezes.
Berion
Developer
It is hard to have in head every thread which was created.
I was thinking that You have in mind application, especially on PC side. HDD Manager is proper name but for menu in uLE. My bad. It looks like I have been somehow self suggested.
I never encounter any bug with data managing using this app. Maybe newest v1.1.1 have some new bugs, try v1.1.0.
I was thinking that You have in mind application, especially on PC side. HDD Manager is proper name but for menu in uLE. My bad. It looks like I have been somehow self suggested.
I never encounter any bug with data managing using this app. Maybe newest v1.1.1 have some new bugs, try v1.1.0.
Strizay
Member
I tried pfshell and I have no idea what I'm doing. I checked it in compatibility mode for windows xp and gave it admin priv, but every time I type device hdd3: and press enter, the window disappears.
Strizay
Member
I got a little further this time with it, when I go to put the ART folder it keeps saying permission denied and I have the program running as admin.
If I were you, I'd backup +OPL content through USB (since you only have a 128MB partition it won't take much time) and delete the partition with Wle-HDDmanager. Then connect the HDD to PC and delete the first game you've installed using winhiip.
Take note how big is that game so you can enlarge your OPL partition accordingly and maybe also install a game there.
For example if your first installed game is 2GB, after deleting it you can make a 1GB +OPL partition, then install a game that's about 1GB (if you have any), like i.e. ICO (PAL version) that's about 900MB, in order to minimize space wasting and avoid fragmentation (you should make sure to leave less than 256MB free. So if you delete a game that's 2,400GB, +OPL and eventual game you will install should be at least 2,150GB**).
After you can re-install the game you previously deleted (that will be installed after all your currently installed games).
**Someone correct me if I'm wrong: afaIk minimum partition size on PFS can be 128MB, also when installing games, 128MB of space are left between games.
So if 256MB or more of freespace remains, after the first game deleting, the next game he will install could have the first 128MB there and the rest of the game after all his installed games. In any case I'm not sure it could even be a problem, probably not.
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Berion
Developer
Fragmentation appears on APA level because of that.
I would also recommending to delete everything except "hdd0:/__mbr" (because partition index is stored there) and create all system partitions which You need with 128MiB in size (i.e if You plan to install at least FHDB "__sysconf" and "__system" are need, if You want also HDD OSD, then "__common" is also mandatory). This saves quite a lot of space.
I would also recommending to delete everything except "hdd0:/__mbr" (because partition index is stored there) and create all system partitions which You need with 128MiB in size (i.e if You plan to install at least FHDB "__sysconf" and "__system" are need, if You want also HDD OSD, then "__common" is also mandatory). This saves quite a lot of space.
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Berion
Developer
Read post no.12 carefully.
I done so on my HDD. I kept only mbr partition (I want all the space for the games and maximize booting speed, so no FHDB, also for a matter of resource saving), then created HDLoader Settings partition and +OPL.
