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Tips of speeding up the installation with Windows XP
Since different computers have different configurations, some old model computer may install the games slowly. Here is a tip which make your computer speed up in installing the PS2 games:
Go to My Computer->Properties->Hardware->Device Manager->Disk Drives->(external one here)->Properties->Policies->Optimize for performance. Speed ups from 1MBps to about 10-15MBps, but do not forget to unplug the device the proper way (that is Unplug or eject hardware...)

If you are using a new hard drive, you will need to initial the hard drive with Windows 2000/XP.(For Windows 98/ME user, you will need other Disk Management software, like, Partition Magic to initialize and format the HDD) To initial the hard drive, connect the hard drive enclosure to your PC?s USB port and install the driver*, then go to Windows ?Control Panel? à ?Administrative Tools? à ?Computer Management?, find ?Disk Management? on the tree diagram. After that you will able to view all drives installed in your PC, select the newly installed hard drive, right click and choose ?initialize?, follow the on screen instruction and the hard drive will be initialize by your PC and assign a driver letter to it.

You can format the drive by using NTFS format in order to use up the maximum space of the hard drive.

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