Changing PS3s hard disk

ic1male · 11 Nov 2007 at 10:42

OK, so I have a new WD Scorpio drive sitting next to me destined for the PS3. Am I right in saying that I can go to the settings in the XMB, choose "Backup System", plug in my USB2 HDD and then it will copy all my videos, pics, demos, memory card files to the HDD?

Then I can plug in the new Scorpio and choose "Restore System" and it will copy everything back again from the USB2 drive?

Anyone upgraded their console yet?

ic1male · 11 Nov 2007 at 11:06

Thank you, my man. That is very helpful.

ic1male · 11 Nov 2007 at 15:54

Well I'm afraid that's not gone according to plan. The screws were too tight on the caddy and I've ended up cross-threading them.

Anyone know where you can buy new PS3 HDD caddies from with fixing screws? LOL.

ic1male · 11 Nov 2007 at 19:02

Well the backup procedure seemed to go OK. It backs the drive up into 4GB file segments as archive_xx.dat. Unfortunately with not putting the new HDD in, I haven't seen how successful the restore was.

ic1male · 12 Nov 2007 at 11:23

No joy from Sony, the gits. They won't send one out. I've just stuck the disk drive in there manually with no cage. Seems to work OK. The console never gets moved so it should stay put. Getting it out again at some point in the future might be troublesome. Oh well.

Interesting that out of a 250GB drive, 232GB is available and 30-odd GB is taken up by the system, leaving 200-odd GB free.

Just doing my restore now. It formatted the drive again, so anything that's already on the HDD will be gone. Approx 40 minutes to restore 20GB of data.