This time I plugged it into the PS2 and the yellow light came on BUT it wasn't flickering to indicate it was reading the HDD. This one was only 40gb but I thought it was worth a try just to test it. I even tried to use UELF so I could try formatting via the HDDFORMAT tool, but that idea failed because the PS2 wasn't detecting anything plugged in. So I tried a second Western Digital IDE HDD, same thing. There is no yellow light indicator visible through the console vents, just nothing. I format the HDD using WinHIIP, take it out the dongle and put it into the PS2. I whip out a Samsung 250GB IDE HDD and plug it into the dongle (This time I make sure I plug the power connector in the CORRECT way). I didn't think it would be a problem because I have another 3 IDE HDDs laying around the house.

You could physically hear the HDD failing to spin up. It would no longer read attached to the PC via dongle and I tried plugging it back into the PS2, but nothing. I took the HDD out of my PS2 and plugged it into the USB dongle but I stupidly plugged the power connected of the dongle into the HDD the wrong way around and it completely blew the HDD. So I went on Amazon and purchased one of those IDE/USB dongles. But I now no longer had the OLD PC with the IDE connectors. Everything was working fine, absolutely no issues.įast forward to last week and I decided that I wanted to install some new games on the HDD.

(You could always tell the HDD was working with the PS2 because you could see a yellow light indicator through the vents of the console). I used an OLD PC that still had IDE connectors and WinHIIP to load the HDD with a bunch of games and used OPL to boot them. I installed a 160gb HDD and it was working completely fine. About 2 years ago I brought a GameStar IDE HDD adapter for my PS2.

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