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thomas · 06 October 2012, 07:30

It does not matter in your case actually. The main difference is that without IDEfix PFS3 can access only the first 4GB of your harddrive while PFS3DS can access almost 8GB. To access all 40GB you need IDEfix anyway and with it both can access the entire drive.

You should however change the entry in startup-sequence to read C:LoadIDE RESET instead of C:IDEfix. This is described in the comment added to startup-sequence during installation. It makes IDEfix resident so that the 40GB harddrive is really accessible. With C:IDEfix partitions might not show until they are accessed by a Shell command (for example DiskChange).

06 October 2012, 07:30	#2
thomas Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 7,009	It does not matter in your case actually. The main difference is that without IDEfix PFS3 can access only the first 4GB of your harddrive while PFS3DS can access almost 8GB. To access all 40GB you need IDEfix anyway and with it both can access the entire drive. You should however change the entry in startup-sequence to read C:LoadIDE RESET instead of C:IDEfix. This is described in the comment added to startup-sequence during installation. It makes IDEfix resident so that the 40GB harddrive is really accessible. With C:IDEfix partitions might not show until they are accessed by a Shell command (for example DiskChange).