PS3 60gb ylod

mufcmark

mufcmark

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My 60gb suffered the yellow light of death (ylod) over a year and a half ago. I fixed it using youtube and it worked well for 2-3 months but the blue-ray died and this is what is causing the ylod.

It costs £60 to replace this so I decided to just buy a new 250gb slim.

Would anyone buy my ps3 for spare parts on ebay or in the hope of repairing it?

There's one problem however, all my data is on the hard drive and I have no way to wipe it. Is there anyway I could wipe it?
 
mufcmark said:
There's one problem however, all my data is on the hard drive and I have no way to wipe it. Is there anyway I could wipe it?
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Just take off the cover on the bottom and unscrew the drive housing. It's a standard 2.5" laptop drive. I'd advise you get a good screwdriver. It seems when the early PS3s were made they hired Vulcan God of the Forge to screw in the Hard Drives and I absolutely wrecked the blue screw that fixes the drive enclosure to the case (also it's really soft metal). In the end I used a pair of needle nosed pliers to grip the screw on the outside.

As for wiping it plug it into your PC using sata cables (I disconnected my DVD drive to do it) and reformat it in windows. Personally since you're selling it for parts just keep the drive, buy an enclosure, and you've got yourself a 60Gb portable drive. Or you may never know when you'll need a spare 2.5" drive.
 
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A 60gb is worth more than most realise as it plays the old Ps2 and Ps1 games. I'm sure you could sell it on there to someone like myself who isn't interesed in the newer Ps3 models because of no backwards compatibility.

As for wiping the Hdd, I'm afraid the only way is to either put it in a laptop and format it or buy an Hdd enclosure and format it by installing it to your PC.
 
SonicUK said:
As for wiping the Hdd, I'm afraid the only way is to either put it in a laptop and format it or buy an Hdd enclosure and format it by installing it to your PC.
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Can't you just use SATA cables in a PC to connect it directly without an enclosure? I know in my previous post I said that was how I did it, but to be honest that was actually a 3.5" drive from another PC, and I assumed the process would be the same for a 2.5".
 
or you can buy a sata to usb convertor and just plug it in as if it was an external usb drive. Then format it.. Save's you rummaging around the inside of your machine for a sata port... Or maybe you have a laptop and no O/S CD.
 
thedoc46 said:
or you can buy a sata to usb convertor and just plug it in as if it was an external usb drive. Then format it.. Save's you rummaging around the inside of your machine for a sata port... Or maybe you have a laptop and no O/S CD.
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These are really useful things to have if you work with PCs. You can buy SATA drive docks, but I'd go for an adapter that allows you to read IDE drives as well. They can be cheaper, and it came in really handy when I had to get some data from an old busted laptop.
 
Code13 said:
These are really useful things to have if you work with PCs. You can buy SATA drive docks, but I'd go for an adapter that allows you to read IDE drives as well. They can be cheaper, and it came in really handy when I had to get some data from an old busted laptop.
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indeed they are usefull. Mine cost less than $4 too. Just a cable with a sata interface and two USB plugs. Both needed for the extra power needed to power the SATA drive. Works a treat and makes the drive work just like any external USB drive. From there you can reformat.
 
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