PS2 Hdd Crash

[Neipas02]

It may be a long shot but there is a program called "knoppix" its linux based. It runs off of a cd-rom. Like Linux its open source so its free to download. I've used this to recover info off of a broken sata hard drive that was physically damamged. It was about to read all the contents on it and I was able to recover everything I wanted. (It took a very long time to extract the data because the disk was physically damamged internally).. But anyway this is a really neat tool. It may be able to help.

If you're not on a highspeed connection though kiss it goodbye. It's a 700mb download. You can buy it also though.. for a few bucks. Really cheap.

All you do is set your computer to boot first from the cd rom drive.. Stick that bad boy in the cd rom drive.. and it should boot directly off of the the disc and load its own mini OS. It even has its own burning utility included.. I'm going to link you to a page that has all the information on it.. READ IT THOROUGHLY if you decide to use it that is.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20040303/index.html

the home page that has a hell of a lot of download mirrors (http/ftp)
http://www.knoppix.com/

Good Luck..
I recommend this to anyone who's having hard drive troubles.. It was a life saver. (not my own) but the owner of the hard drive... It had so much por... valueable information on it that we were thankful to have recovered..