PS3 hard drive replacment advice

Thanks everyone for the help and the links, its greatfully appreciated.

I formatted my external hard drive with a program called FAT32 format.

I've backed up the contents of the 60 GB hard drive that's presently in my PS3.

On our PS3, we have two users, and this means that we have different saved game data and other different data to each other.

I presume that I will need to log on for each user and chose the backup utility while logged in as a different user, so that all the data etc is backed up for each of the two users?

Also. When it comes to restoring the backed up data back on to the new 640GB hard drive. How do I restore the data for each of the two users, so that I do not wipe off the data for the other user?
 
Dutch Guy said:
I am fairly sure the backup is a backup off all users.
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Thanks for that.

I've copied the contents that I have on the external hard drive that I backed up off of the PS3 on to my PC. So I think I'll log in has a different user and just see if there is any difference in the data/data size between the two.

I expect that you are correct though :)
 
Maybe one thing to check is if copy protected saves are backud up.

It might be that they aren't and you could lose them ?!?!?!
 
Dutch Guy said:
I think that only applies to the Slim as it has less Flash memory so it stores the update on the harddrive.
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^^ correcto mungo to this, the older phat's you never had to download the latest OS onto a USB, because it had the hardware to store the OS. The slims have made some cutbacks and the hardware chip has been replaced to a small partition on the drive.
 
thedoc46 said:
^^ correcto mungo to this, the older phat's you never had to download the latest OS onto a USB, because it had the hardware to store the OS. The slims have made some cutbacks and the hardware chip has been replaced to a small partition on the drive.
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I think it's only the early original PS3s, because my 40GB one needed the firmware on a flash drive when I upgraded the HDD.
 
thedoc46 said:
^^ correcto mungo to this, the older phat's you never had to download the latest OS onto a USB, because it had the hardware to store the OS. The slims have made some cutbacks and the hardware chip has been replaced to a small partition on the drive.
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I have the original fat PS3 so that's good to know :)
 
I'm not sure if anyone will be able to answer this.

My girlfriend downloaded some paid for PS1/PS2 games a while back (ABE, Rampage). Will these have been backed up or would she have to download them again, and if so would she need to pay for them again?

Thanks in advance.
 
fatboy1971 said:
My girlfriend downloaded some paid for PS1/PS2 games a while back (ABE, Rampage). Will these have been backed up or would she have to download them again, and if so would she need to pay for them again?
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I think they are backed up, but even if they are not you can re-download them from PSN without cost (for 5 times I think)

To do that you need to go into PSN and go to the top and select 'View downloads' that lists all purchased and downloaded PSN stuff.
 
Dutch Guy said:
I think they are backed up, but even if they are not you can re-download them from PSN without cost (for 5 times I think)

To do that you need to go into PSN and go to the top and select 'View downloads' that lists all purchased and downloaded PSN stuff.
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Unless you deleted them before the backup you should have them there still. Or as said you can download them again anyway for free.
 
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