Comments on: New Hard Drive For Your PS3? Say Good Bye To Your Old One

By: srgprfrcr

srgprfrcr — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:29:56 +0000

By: richie(sennano1)

richie(sennano1) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:39:26 +0000

Hi people sorry to hear about this persons lose am in need if some advice.My launch 60gig PS3 got YLOD a while ago i have managed to get it up and running again 3 or 4 times using the reflow method and managed to perform a backup.But each time i have reflowed the time it lasts gets shorter.Am led to believe i will not be able to restore this backup to a new PS3 due to the encryption.So i am wondering should i:

1.Reflow again again and buy a new ps3 and hope i have enough time to do a transfer to a new ps3.

2.Or reflow again and copy all game saves manaually and transfer to a new ps3.

3.Or give my ps3 to a company who i know who can reball the processor and hope this holds up.

By: flip665

flip665 — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:08:21 +0000

dont know why everyone is buying new ps3’s after they get YLOD… i got it, cured it, and have cured several in town… not hard to do, a little intimidating at first, but not hard…

By: kisaimi

kisaimi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:19:18 +0000

lots of comments here great readings-hehe. but to much for one day. I’ll share my experience than. you can use both the old and new hd drive when you first get it. you can still use the old one after reformatting the new one i think (i’m 75% sure but can’t remember the event clearly) the only time i could use the old was when i change the ps3 partition to use ydlps3 around apirl of second week. I ‘m using all 500gb for linux . i have the slim as well so i can. I have one ydlps3 and a slim.

By: Twelve Units Shy

Twelve Units Shy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:39:02 +0000

Try not to feel too bad, guy. I know where you’re coming from. My PS3 died without warning almost a year ago and I’m still holding onto the hard drive. (Hundreds of hours on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is hard to give up.) I’ve tried a couple of tricks and none have worked. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to try some stuff the people here have named.

By: Xemik

Xemik — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:37:04 +0000

Easy to slag someone off, right. So how about trying to be constructive? I’ve had TWO PS3’s brick on me & both 2 weeks after I did a backup! Great…

@danimalmanimal: So you don’t care about game saves, eh? Well I darn well do, when I’ve played Fallout 3 for over a year & reached level 24. So how do you recover THAT when Sony’s baby dies on you. Took them 13 weeks & 6 calls to get my game disk back & 3 hours to restore the backup.

Sony told me that all HDDs are encrpyted to run only on the PS3 that they are installed in. What a stupid, ignorant idea. Of course, they have to protect the copyrighted stuff we d/l from PSN, but you can’t back that up anyway. They could have formatted the HDD as FAT32 (say) to allow easy backup to a PC via your network & just tie the copyright stuff to the PS3.

So whatever you think of the OP, he should, IMHO, expect that the old HDD would still work in its original PS3. After all he can’t copy anything to it & if he’d put it in another PS3 it would have been reformated.

And how difficult would it be to add a network backup option? I have a 2Tb NAS RAID1 on my network, but I have to backup to a USB drive then copy THAT onto the NAS. Huh, & there’s me thinking Sony knew a thing or two about technology.

You might be hearing me rant on here as well, if my backup doesn’t restore to my new PS3 when it arrives later this week.

By: d2harris

d2harris — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:49:31 +0000

I did the same thing (thankfully there is only one file lost because my others were previously backed up). All of the name calling is unnecessary. If you are an IT Pro, act like a pro and simply point out the mistake and why we should back data up first. If you are some dateless geek who happens to know everything about IT but can’t score with a beached whale, shut up with the criticism.

By: Flying_Tiger

Flying_Tiger — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:07:28 +0000

Wow, you guys burned the original poster, this is a game console for consumers, not computer savy people. But you’ve lately written about some “real” solutions.

We got the YLOD, yellow light of death, with the game disk in the unit(I can’t believe that there’s an accepted term for what I see as a Sony issue, dead machine). So the game was trapped in the machine and the hard drive was unusable. Forget about asking how I got the game out…wasn’t done by Sony.

So what do we need, how about a “Linux guy or gal” who can retrieve the saves on the hard drive and tell us how to use it on the new PS3 we bought over the holiday.

Who really knows how to do this? Sounds like a business opportunity.

By: danimalmanimal

danimalmanimal — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:24:40 +0000

who cares. game saves aren’t all that important. at least all the online ranks and saves are backed up by sony. they’re the only important ones anyways.

By: Can't Copy By Game Saves

Can't Copy By Game Saves — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:28:29 +0000

Well, I really think the guy who started this thread has been given a rough ride by a lot of you. Although I agree some sort of backup should have taken place, I’ve found that some ps3 data (including game saves) can not be copied due to the copy protection. I would also agreed that some where along the line windows mashed the original drive. I have two drives for my PS3 and can swop between them no problem.

Following some research I’ve found that the ps3’s own backup utility doesn’t work properly becauses of it own copy protection system. Er doesn’t that stike you as being stupid?

Lastly, it is the general PS3/PC/Mac user population who are to blame here. Who if they weren’t all obssesd with using torrent sites and sharing PS3 games saves etc the industry wouldn’t need to put these stupid protection protocals in place.

In the mean time the few people like my self who want to copy/move data for honest reasons have to suffer.