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How To Change Your PS3's Hard Drive

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dabest1
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written by dabest1, June 30, 2009
250 gig in mine
skip2mylou
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written by skip2mylou, June 30, 2009
that would of been sad if he lost something like screw while he was doing that
tmanmushroom
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written by tmanmushroom, June 30, 2009
i want to do this, but can't i just use an external hardrive? and if i do perform this, all the psn games will stay if i back them up, right?
PikminGuts92
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written by PikminGuts92, June 30, 2009
Great video tutorial. smilies/wink.gif

One question though,
When you back-up your hard drive, does it copy all of your save data including copy-prohibited data like my Rock Band 2 save file?
Lethal_Doze
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written by Lethal_Doze, June 30, 2009
nice, i already got me a 500gig hd, easy to change

@tmanmushroom, u can back up ur psn stuff on big enough pendrive

@PikminGuts92, im not sure about it but as far as i know save files are not included on hard drive, they stay on console after the hard drive is removed
Lambo91
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written by Lambo91, June 30, 2009
Nice, that's good to know. I am gonna buy a 500GB HDD soon since my 60gig free space is only 19GB right now
skip2mylou
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written by skip2mylou, June 30, 2009
what hdd do u guys have on your PS3. i got Seagate 300GB
Nick McCandless
@skip2mylou
written by Nick McCandless, June 30, 2009
I have a 320gb Western Digital Scorpio Black 7200 RPM.
CHASE167
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written by CHASE167, June 30, 2009
good shit
i have 320 gb in all my ps3's already
im waiting for SSD to get cheaper
Louie Villalobos
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written by Louie Villalobos, June 30, 2009
@PikminGuts92 The backup utility grabs everything. It's exactly like the Microsoft feature that allows you to restore your PC to a certain point. Everything comes back.
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written by lto4 experts, July 01, 2009
Really nice video easily stand able that how can i change our Ps3 hard drive.smilies/smiley.gif
haskell420
Items like QORE CAN'T be transfered, and FAT 32 mess
written by haskell420, July 06, 2009
You cannot transfer some, or most of your files. Downloads like QORE, cannot be transfered over, and if you call Sony, and ask them what WON'T transfer, you will wanna puke..

Now while the vid is great, and it is the same as Gamespots tutorial on how to switch, but, you, NEED a BOG section in HOW TO TRANSFER over your files to your NEW hard drive. No web site offers this, not even Sony. They only explain on how to remove the HD, and put in the new HD.

Back in Decemeber I called Sony, and I asked the guy about transfering my files, and how do i do it, because i wiondered where i was going to store my files during the HD Switch. The guy told me, that he coudn't go step by step because it will take too long, BUT, ALL I needed to do, was buy a Male to Male USB cable, and put one side in a PS3 controller slot, and the other end into my PC's twoer!
I said, Wow, that's all i need to do is hook a cable from my PS3 to my PC..that's it? I was told YES, and as soon as i hooked them up the transfer dialog box will be on my screen!
AWESOME!
So I find a USB cable at cablewholesaler.com, it arrives, I hook it up as he said and nothing is happeneing. So I call SONY Tech support, like I did prior, and explain what I did, then was I was told to do, and he interupts me and says, "You can't do that"!"

So I asked, what can't I do? And he proceeds to tell me that I cannot transfer the files that way. So I again tell him that is exactly what I was told to do by YOUR Tech department. So WHY can't I do it?
He then explains that the files in the PS3, when I go to transfer them, are in the FAT32 format and since my PC is a regular windows PC, it's NOT compatible with the FAT32 file system.
So I asked if I could create a file folder in my PC and that is FAT32 Based, and he said no.
Well the next 10 minutes are a blur because I snapped LOL

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