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WeaponX

Jan 14 2007, 06:10 PM

@Grafitti: So Paragon won't wipe out the second hard drive that I want to save the image to right? I still didn't get to do the cloning yet since I don't have a blank hard drive. But if Paragon can do this without deleting all my data from one of my current hard drives, then I can use one of those instead.

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WeaponX

Jan 16 2007, 11:34 PM

OK, thought I would give Norton Ghost a shot, but that failed. I connected my bad hard drive as master and a blank hard drive as slave. I tried to choose the option to do a disk to disk copy but got this error message:

Error. there is no valid Source Drive to choose (11032)

I tried switching it so the master is the good hard drive and the bad one is set to slave, but still a no-go.

I just had something that came to mind. Does it matter if I set the jumpers on cable select for both? It should auto-detect what they are connected as with more recent computers right? This computer was built by me about a year ago using a AMD chipset.

Will try giving Paragon a try if no one else has any other suggestions...

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Grafitti

Jan 17 2007, 10:44 AM

Since it's not freeware, I'd suggest you ask some qualified technician if it can do it (copying a playstation disk) before you go and spend cash on it. You can back up the disk or selected partitions on it to an image file stored on your existing drive, while you can then write back to a blank hard disk once you get it.
Here's a screenshot. With the C partition selected I have the option to create an image of the logical disk, and if i select the drive i get the option to create an image of the entire disk
IPB Image

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cmosads

Feb 22 2007, 06:21 AM

or you can download a Hard drive "RAW" reader...it just looks for files that are on the Hard drive...and should be able to copy that to an external harddrive.... or try using a undeleter/unformatter software....find one that scans the hard drive using sectors and it should find the files and give you the option to restore them to a different location...i hope that helps

(and there are several freeware software solutions out there...you just have to look...and in the right places!)

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WeaponX

Mar 13 2007, 11:16 PM

OK, Paragon didn't work either. It sees the hard drive as with all the other programs I tested with, but all it sees is unallocated data.

Shouldn't the Ghost bootdisk be able to copy this "unallocated" data over to my other blank hard drive? I assume not since none of these are seeing it properly.

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wutske

Mar 14 2007, 05:36 PM

I have no idea how norton works, but have you already tried browsing the hdd using a bootable linux cd ? Linux supports a lot of rare hdd formats, so maybe it supports the Sony PS2 format.
I think you'll have most luck using knoppix (it's a 700mb download, and if it doesn't work, you still have a handy cd in case windows crashes again

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WeaponX

Mar 19 2007, 11:21 PM

The Knoppix CD couldn't recognize the hard drive either

I found a solution to the issue. For those who have a PS2, they might know of a program called WinHiip. I used this program earlier already (before posting here at Astahost), but to no avail. For some reason, I got it to work today. It detected the hard drive and I chose the option to repair the directory since it seems to be corrupted somehow. I'm sure it's all well now in terms of copying it over to another hard drive. The program has an option to copy drive to drive.

Many thanks for all the replies. Now back to my games

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