how do i format a hard drive so it works on my playstation 2?

Answer 1

To be honest I don't actually know, and i can't imagine $ony freely distributing information like that.

My best advise is (throw your playstation in the bin. I HATE $ony, they ripped me £200 on a mini-disc player that broke within 3 month) use Acronis DiskDirector V.10.

It can format partions 'on-the-fly' can do anything(within reason) to a HDD and has about 100 types of file systems that are unlabled, so i guess it would be one of those. If you can get hold of a PS2 HDD and plug it into your pc, and use Acronis to identify it, make a note of the type, and use that.

Being $ony (they are REALLY awkard, I hate micro$oft too, but the x-box really is a better console) it possibly needs a certain set of files upon it, or the PS2 will reject it anyhay(I don't know this to be fact, but i have played with $ony file systems and copyright/protection routines before and it wasn't fun!)

Besides PS3 out soon anyhow(i'd avoid that too. Damn $ony to the ends of the earth. and back again.)

Answer 2

You don't, because you can't.

Edit; Wait, I'm thinking of the CD drives. Interesting question, but I still don't think you can do it.