PS2 Issues with WinHIIP

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I'm having some issues with WinHIIP if someone could please help me, that'd be very appreciated!

HDD: Western Digital 2TB - WD20EZAZ

My PC:
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Nvidia 2070
Windows 10 Home - 21H2

My PS2:
SCPH-39001
Everything works as far as I can tell, I was able to boot up Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, I don't have any PS2 Memory cards, but it can read my PS1 Memory cards (Official).

Using WINHIIP V1.7.6

My issue:
I run WinHIIP as administrator, then select 48bit HDLoader, I go to format the drive it does not give me the option to selection HDLoader 48bit it only gives me the option of 28bit. I tried reformating the drive in Exfat, NTFS, deleting volumes so that it was simply unallocated, it never lets me choose 48bit. It let me use 28bit for formating but that isn't the right setting for my drive from everything I read it needs to be 48bit because my drive is 2 TBs and that's far about 128GBs.

I tested the drive by loading files on to it, and checking if they open everything is working fine as far as I can tell. The drive is also brand new fresh out the box.

I'm using an Insignia Dock that's also pretty new (Only 2-3 weeks) it was able to move data on my other HDDs just fine as well, I also tried different USB slots on my PC.

I'm new to modding and I'm new here, please let me know if there's anything unclear.
 
Do not use WinHIIP on HDD equal or larger than 1TiB. It will break the logic even after You format it.

If You only want to format drive, do this on PS2 itself in uLE/wLE or HDDChecker. If You want install games there, use HDL Dump/Dumb or one of toolkits based on like i.e HDL Batch Installer.

Formatting HDD with MBR/GPT and fs like exFAT is pointless. PS2 using different logic:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/a...thing-you-should-know-about-hdd-in-ps2.30912/
 
Berion said:
Do not use WinHIIP on HDD equal or larger than 1TiB. It will break the logic even after You format it.

If You only want to format drive, do this on PS2 itself in uLE/wLE or HDDChecker. If You want install games there, use HDL Dump/Dumb or one of toolkits based on like i.e HDL Batch Installer.

Formatting HDD with MBR/GPT and fs like exFAT is pointless. PS2 using different logic:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/a...thing-you-should-know-about-hdd-in-ps2.30912/
Click to expand...

Sorry, I'm slightly confused. I have a PS2 that's not modded at all & doesn't have any software on it. Would the smarter/easier route be to get a smaller HDD so that I can format with WinHIIP? I'm starting from complete scratch (I revived this PS2 by cleaning & replacing parts).

I was following this guide:


& this:

https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps2-aio-guide.30219/

Thank you for your time & response.
 
If Your console is not modded yet, best approach will be:
  1. write uLE kHn __mbr to HDD (it is disk image) by i.e HDD Raw Copy
  2. when You turn on PS2 with inserted Network Adaptor and HDD, it will automatically boot to uLE kHn
  3. go to HDD Manager and do Format HDD
  4. go back to file manager and go to mass:/ (USB) from which run FMCB/FHDB Installer
  5. install FHDB on HDD; after that You will be automatically boot to FHDB and have fully prepared HDD for further fun
 
Berion said:
If Your console is not modded yet, best approach will be:
  1. write uLE kHn __mbr to HDD (it is disk image) by i.e HDD Raw Copy
  2. when You turn on PS2 with inserted Network Adaptor and HDD, it will automatically boot to uLE kHn
  3. go to HDD Manager and do Format HDD
  4. go back to file manager and go to mass:/ (USB) from which run FMCB/FHDB Installer
  5. install FHDB on HDD; after that You will be automatically boot to FHDB and have fully prepared HDD for further fun
Click to expand...

Sorry if this is a dumb question, I just want to make sure I understand.

I got a smaller 1TB that matches the compatibility chart now as well.

This ISO right here:
uLE kHn __mbr to HDD (it is disk image)
Is it the DVD/ISO here:
https://www.psx-place.com/resources/wlaunchelf.713
or
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1895

I should be able to do the rest, I think I understand the other steps or if there's an in depth guide on the forum I can refer to that would be great as well.

Thank you again for the help!
 
You misleading disc image with disk image.

uLE (unofficial LaunchELF) is open source file manager for PS2. He got a lot of forks, and one of them is uLE kHn.
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/unofficial-launch-elf-flavours.33890/

Once You download it an unpack it, write "__mbr.raw" to this HDD by i.e HDD Raw Copy Tool. This is partial disk image with one partition set to boot, and booting app is uLE kHn. If You are curious how this works, I've described it in "MBR Boot" chapter in my tutorial.
 
Don't use WinHIIP at all, except maybe for "repair" nowadays!

Format via wLE, create a +OPL-Partition with an appropriate size (do NOT "expand" it), install FHDB, use PFS Batchkit Manager to install HDD-OSD, PS1&PS2-games which you can even start from the PS2-Menu's "Browser".
 
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