FAQ
Q: I cant load PC - it is showing up "BOOTMGR is missing" or black screen.
A: Change jumper setting into slave or change boot device priorities in the bios.
Q: Does it work for any IDE hard disk drive?
A: Yes! It is not according to disk size (it can be any: 512Mb, 4Tb, ...). If you can physically connect disk to Network Adapter - that mean that you can use it for soft modding. The disk it even can be broken - the only thing you need that there is no bad blocks in first 4Mb and that it can run for at least 2 minutes. For example i have one disk that is full of bad blocks and can shut down after 5-10 minutes of work. Thats works fine for soft modding.
Q: How to install Western Digital models?
A: You have to to remove the shielding from the network adapter to allow the power plug to be moved slightly...
Q: Ive got official Sony Hard disk drive. Will I loose some information from it?
A: Actually official hard drives already have some kind of official soft modding (HDD OSD or BB Navigator), so there is no need for using this soft mod. It is better to install FreeHDboot over HDD OSD. But if you really want to use my soft mod - it is really good idea to backup first 4Mb. Open HDD Raw Copy Tool and select as source our Hard drive. Start backuping and wait for about 20 seconds then press stop.
Q: My Hard Drive was full of games!!! Now I cannot see anything!!! Panic!!!
A: All games became intact. You have to fix checksum through winhiip. The same is according to official Sony Hard disk - if you want to restore official Hard disk drive structure after softmodding you have to run WinHiip/
Q: I know that there is some interesting PS2 Fat exclusives like HDD OSD, BB Navigator, Pops PSOne emulator and so on. How to install them?
A: The simplest way is to find proper HDD image and select them in 4.1 Tutorial point. For example for installing BB Navigator you can paste in google "PSBBN custom install 2013 by AKuHAK"
Q: The disk that Im found was old and full with information. Can I erase it?
A: Of course you can. It is very good idea to Zero Out your HDD before start using it. Im using Low Level Format Tool. During cleaning you can find Bad Sectors in the disk (if the program freeze that mean that you have bad blocks). But be very careful - this program can erase all data from your normal working Hard Disk!!!
Q: HDD Raw Copy Tool doesn't work. PLEASE HELP!!!111oneone...
A: Start it with Administrative rules.
Q: Is it possible to install such a trick into SCPH-70000?
A: You tell me
Q: Is it possible to install Free MC boot after this soft modding?
A: Yes.
Q: Is this legal? Can I free redistribute and use it? Or one night I wake up a Giant $ony Crab?
A: Yes, this is fully legal. This files are FULLY free and you can share them on the net. The only limitation you can't call it FreeHDBoot because it is not FreeHDBoot!
Q: I want to use SATA!!! IDE is very old, small, slow and I cannot connect them to my MacBook!!!
A: For sata support you can use for example DELOCK guide (Adapter for SATA HDD). But be careful it needs some technical skills
Q: How to install official Sony stuff into non-official HDD?
A: Thanks to krHACKen it is very easy to adopt any official software for supporting non-official Hard Disk drive (no matter sata or ide). And yes this is fully legal. You have to download ATADpatcher_0_03.zip You have to find all atad.irx and patch them with atadpatcher You have to find all elf files that can contain atad.irx and patch them If you see "0 bytes patched" that means that file isnt modified. You have to replaced non-patched files with patched one. There is of course some limitation like DNAS check and big HDD support (see next FAQ question).
Q: There are rumors that I cannot install official stuff on the HDD bigger than 127Gb.
A: Yes and no. If you need to install some official stuff on HDD that is bigger that 127Gb you can do it in 2 ways. You can Atad Patch your stuff and install it. If you don't cross physically 127Gb border it seems that your stuff will work but will work with problems. It is not recommended to do it but sometimes it is the only way (for example if you use BB Navigator). You have to replace all atad.irx with ps2atad.irx from latest compiled PS2SDK. Be careful sometimes atad.irx is placed inside elf files, sometimes it is placed into packed and crypted files. If it is crypted - sorry there is no way (yeah BB Navigator) And don't forget about such a fact that PS2SDK isn't completed and can produce some errors.
Q: Can I install Final Fantasy XII on the disk?
A: No you can't!!! At least you have to buy Japanese console and you have to buy Final Fantasy XII. There is no way for cracking DNAS.
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