PS2 PSX DESR needs hdd

[Stayhye]

try pressing select

 

[ag06]

try pressing select

Yeah I tried that it's almost like it's freezing after it starts up. Some time I see the blue ball in the corner and it stops moving after a few seconds. I'm honestly not sure what I did to it. I know I have a back up of all of the files but I can not find it for the life of me

 

[Berion]

AFAIK those all translation files are only for last fw versions and for two dedicated model families. You cannot mix them up.

 

[Jose64141]

I share my progress:

Attempt 1:
System files were format using HDD manager while game partition area was set to 0gb resulting system partition so small to accommodate XMB files.

. __MBR 128MB,
__net 32MB, __system 32MB, __sysconf 32MB and __commom 32MB.

To restore normal XMB partitions, I followed these steps:
1. I moved the HDD from the non-working PSX DESR(0GB game area) to the working one (40GB game area).
2. With the working PSX DESR, I powered it on and formatted the HDD using the HDD manager through FMCB.
3. Then I reinstalled the HDD into the non-working PSX DESR and powered it on with FMCB.
4. This successfully restored the XMB partitions to their normal size.!!

. __MBR 128MB,
__net 128MB, __system 256MB, __sysconf 512MB and __commom 1024MB.

5. I copied the XMB files from the working PSX DESR to the non-working one.
6. I also copied the .opt files to xfrom, removed memory cards, and unplugged the USB power cable before rebooting.

Result:
The blue ball did not appear, and after checking the dvr_hdd0: _xdata and _xcontents were not created.

Attempt 2:
In this attempt, I performed the following steps:
1. I moved the HDD from the non-working PSX DESR(0GB game area) to the working one (40GB game area).
2. In the HDD manager of the working PSX DESR, I created the __xdata and _xcontents folders.
3.These partition appeared in HDD0:/.
4.Then I moved the HDD back to the non-working PSX DESR and booted it with FMCB.
5. This action made the _xdata and _xcontents partitions appear in the dvr_hdd0:/ area.!!

Result:
The non-working PSX DESR now boots until the blue ball freezes.

Attempt 3:
Following the steps from attempt 2, I also copied/pasted the .opt files to xfrom.

Result:
The blue ball still halts at the same point in the booting process.

I know it's way late in the game, but I followed your steps and got the same results.
I have a DESR-5100 with a dead HDD. I bought a PS2 40GB HDD but never managed to do anything because the PSX has a dead disc drive, only backed up XFROM. When I saw your post, I tried it with some HDD backups I found on the Internet, and most of them stuck at the blue ball. On of the I think has a xosdmain.elf which mached the hash of the one in mi XFROM. It managed to show the channel list, but I only could move vertically between channel numbers, and it didn't show any other option of the XMB, also sometimes getting the blue ball freezing. I know someone else on Reddit and here got a similar behaviour.
Anyway, I tried to address the dead disc drive and found out that a dead fuse on the MoBo could be the issue on the CD laser malfunction. I checked and fuse P5701 near one of the disc assembly ribbon connectors was dead. FFW to now, I managed to buy a replacement (extracted from a Phat PS2 board lol), changed it, and while the disc drive still doesn't work, the XMB does!!! Could switch between the options, check some of the settings, I may try to add some music, photos and videos to a thumbdrive to check that but the XMB is pretty much there so yeah, I managed to restore the XMB without a update disc, just reformating the HDD and copying an XMB backup.