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...)

How to use USBeXtreme

USBeXtreme User Manual(MS-DOS mode)

Before Start:

To use the USBeXtreme on your PS2, you will need a USB Hard drive Enclosure with Hard drive installed (both devices are sold separately), either 3.5’’ or 2.5’’ USB Hard drive Enclosure with Hard drive can be use.

*For the installation of the Hard drive on your HDD enclosure, please refer to the user manual of the Hard drive Enclosure.

Hard drive formatting

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.

If the hard drive has formatted and assigned a drive letter successfully, you will see a new drive in “My Computer”

* For the driver installation, please refer to the user manual of the hard drive enclosure

Download the Client software of USBeXtreme from http://www.playstationdirect.com/download/, unzip the file and run the USBeXtreme_setup.exe file, then the tools will be extracted into the drive C. Please DO NOT change the default installation path except you are familiar with MS-DOS command.

After extracted the USBeXtreme Client software, go to “Start”à”Run”,

  

 Enter “Command” to start using command prompt, change directory to the root directory C drive by entering command cd\ and press enter, you will see C:\> appear on the command line after successful. You can refer to the following picture.

Then you can enter the following command.

ul_format X format

“X” is the drive letter of your USB hard drive.

The format action will take a few minutes, it is depends on the capacity of the partition you created, please DO NOT remove the hard drive or power off the USB hdd enclosure during this period.

Game Converting

To convert games from DVD/CD to the USB hard drive, please connect the USB drive to your PC, then go to command prompt “Start”à”Run”àenter “Command”, change directory to the root directory C drive by entering command cd\ and press enter, you will see C:\> appear on the command line after successful. You can refer to the following picture.

Then you can enter the following command.

ul_install SourceDrive TargetDrive GameName CD/DVD

e.g. if your DVD/CD-Rom drive is drive D, and the USB HDD is E, and you are about converting a PS2 DVD game “Metal Gear Solid”, the command will be the following

       ul_install D E MetalGearSolid DVD

you can refer to the following picture

**Game converting will take a few minutes depend on the game file size.

Game Playing

Connect and power on the USB HDD to your PS2 and boot your PS2 with USBeXtreme, when you see the game selection menu, select the game and press X on the joypad, the game will then run immediately.