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Full stepsĬonnect bigger new disk to computer > Run EaseUS Partition Master > Select "Migrate OS". Maybe you should have researched his posts before stating all of them are "useless".Delete folder like "game data" > the data will be reinstalled automatically. This is a 2-year-old thread which you've bumped to clearly bash Terminator for nothing. Also the op has stated that he/she couldn't access the recovery menu's on the PS3. The op probably has this issue fixed, so really this thread should have been closed long ago to prevent posts like yours. No help is better than bad, incorrect, completely wrong and utterly useless help.Īnd what if the PS3 still shuts itself off after doing this? Then there's clearly a problem with either the console itself or the HDD. Terminator you should be damn well ashamed of yourself for attempting to give help for something you clearly know nothing whatsoever of. Literally ANY tutorial, from Youtube, Sony's website, or anywhere else, for replacing/upgrading the PS3 HDD would have been sufficient to solve this problem.
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Insert the HDD, start the PS3 in Recovery/Safe Mode, download a firmware update to your computer from the Sony website and install via USB, exact instructions will be listed there on the site. ".Your existing Hard Drive is essentially useless now except as maybe an external storage drive where you can backup some of your saves."
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The PS3 uses a proprietary file system that only it can recognise, by formatting via the PC you've destroyed that and I don't know of any legal way to get it back" I suppose in the fantasy world he comes from, hard drives NEVER die, NEVER need to be replaced, and despite being made so easily accessible from the console itself, the entire PS3 system is a right-off when the HDD goes? Wow. He has 50,000 posts, all of which I'm sure are as useless as the several he has posted here. At the time of his posting in this thread, the Playstation 3 had been released 6 years prior, and he had been a member of this site for 4 years. has given possibly the stupidest replies I have ever seen on the Internet. I am downright astounded, and throughly angered that nobody with anything more than half a brain has bothered responding to the op. I've created this temporary account to make this reply. Sorry to bump this thread ladies, but this result appears in the 2nd page of Google when searching for a similar PS3 error. Why does the PS3 shut down immediately with the newly formatted drive? Is there anything related to the partitioning that is vitally important for the PS3 to recognize it? I can not go to the service/recovery menu also.Īny ideas? Sounds like a HDD issue, but the HDD seems to be ok and works on the PC, which confuses me. Without any HDD inserted, I get a message that no memory can be found (as expected, so the console seems to work).

However, when I plug the HDD back into the PS3, the console shuts off 2 seconds or so after I push the button - all lights go off (no blinking whatsoever, so it should not be a YLOD), even the power light - this happens when it tries to access the HDD. I formatted the drive to FAT32 (creating one logical partition) and wiped all the data to make sure all sectors of the HDD are accessed so the pending reallocation problem is fixed, and indeed it is - The HDD works as it should, despite the few bad sectors that are now reallocated however and should not cause any problems. So, I checked the HDD externally using my PC, and indeed found some pending reallocation events when I checked the SMART values of the HDD. I have the following problem: The original 40 GB HDD had some errors in the file system that the PS3 could not repair, causing games to stutter (FIFA, for example).

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However, I reached a point where I don't really know how to proceed, so I hoped someone here can help me. I am new here, and I spent several hours reading forums to figure out what the problem is.
