because some people are bit slow to understand , depending on the IQ

Hi all
i want to ask why my Fat Silver 80GB PS3 cant upgrade/detect HDD ?
that 160GB HDD is my fren (PS3 Slim) give me one

Each PS3 encrypts its own HDD. Your friend PS3 HDD will not be readable in your PS3, unless you do a fresh "format and partition". Just follow the PS3 message to guide you to format it.

Also, prepare the PS3 latest firmware in another USB drive (download from internet into PC)

but i have use software Swissknife to detele and create FAT32 b4...
but also cant detect the HDD

looks like my ps3 hdd rosak liao lo...
i cant back up my data from it T^T
canot sync my trophies as well T^T
gona lose everything T^T
everything in my ps3 is slow as snail now T^T

just upgraded to 640GB. perfectly fine!

just great, perfectly a year, my 320gb hdd drop dead, all gigs of games dloaded need to dload again, and about warranty, can i sent just the hdd to sony?

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Added on October 1, 2011, 6:56 pmbro, same as mine, 2 days ago, kena dload all over again games purchased

This post has been edited by eone: Oct 1 2011, 06:56 PM

i upgrade my hdd to 500gb liao
^^

you cant , you have to send the ps3 itself to sony

myPS3 slim is asking me to change more bigger HDD lo. the process of backup and restore make memad(take too long hours)

banyak prawn ni!!!

i thinking wanna plonk an SSD into my ps3 or not

Does PS3 Support 1 TB drive yet ?

^ slowpoke

Just got home today with a 500GB WD HDD to upgrade my stock 40GB PS3 HDD.
Ran through all youtube + lyn tutorials. Sounded really easy. So proceeded with the upgrade, backed up all my data.
Unfortunately, upon booting up with new HDD, PS3 did not ask to format HDD, only gave msg "correct hard disk not found"
Panic ++
swapped new and old HDD in and out many times, made sure new HDD was FAT32 (used Mac, swisknife, etc) - still the PS3 couldn't detect the HDD.
Then, tried snipersnakes tutorial at start of thread -> the SELECT + START command -> it worked provided you reset the PS3 first (turn on & hold power button till u hear 2 beeps) and with firmware 3.72 in thumbdrive plugged in. Just follow the instructions, the PS3 will then finally "recognize" and proceed to format the new HDD.

Currently restoring my backup data to the new HDD


This post has been edited by samowong: Oct 12 2011, 12:34 AM

when u done please do a tutorial

nobody tried with SSD yet?
whats the minimum size needed for the os itself?

my console also have HDD problem last week,send back to SONY service center to change new HDD,and yesterday i got back my console and running well.

Symptom : take long time to load games, HDD led just keep on static not blinking as usual.

OS occupies 10% space of the storage drive.
You can go as small as 40GB or if you just want cheap thrills, the Kingston 20GB SSDNow..

Is it worth slugging a SSD into a PS3?
Not really, atleast not for the cost you're gonna pay for.