24bit does not support all drive sizes, whereas 48bit has large drive support built in to it.

In almost all cases, I would recommend 48bit if the option is available. This is important – you want either HDLoader 24bit or 48bit. Tells the drive whether is simply wipes the drive by telling the hard drive firmware ‘it’s wiped’, so the firmware ignores all the data on the drive prior and writes new stuff to the drive, or set it to Full if you want it to write blank data to the whole drive, useful only if you have something to hide previously on the drive, or quick and partial failed in the past. All you need to worry about are the options on the right. Unless you have advanced knowledge with Linux drives and HDLoader, you do not need to touch all these left-side options.

You will be greeted with the following dialog. Once your drive has been selected (if you are unsure, open ‘Computer Management’ and check ‘Disk Management’, it will say which drive number is what). You need your drive to be formatted as ‘PS2’ format, which your base PC system cannot achieve but WinHIIP can. However, you need a particular drive format before you can continue with the installation. Select the drive you wish to use with your PS2. Retro PlayStation is not responsible for any data lost following this guide. If you select a drive that is not your PS2 dedicated drive, you could lose your data. The drive you select will need to be your IDE drive you wish to dedicate for your PlayStation.īe careful in choosing your drive to use with the software. Most of the controls here are greyed out because they need to know which drive you wish to use before you continue. When you open the WinHIIP software you will be given a screen similar to above. Right click and run this as Administrator (Vista and above).

Open the folder where you extracted WinHIIP and find WinHIIP.exe.

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