PS3 HDD Upgrade Woes

Sareth · 26 Jul 2008 at 14:48

I decided to upgrade the hdd in my PS3 so I ordered a 320gb Scorpio drive and a 2.5" external enclosure.

Stage One (this is as far as it gets), I put the 320gb drive in the enclosure and backed up the PS3, thats strange I thought, 27gb was used on the disk but the backup folder was only showing its size as 3.5gb.
So I try backing up again and it creates 23gb folder, so now I know something is wrong with the previous backup and possibly the caddy/drive.
I copied the larger back up off the drive onto my mac, put the 320gb drive in the ps3 and copied the backup onto an old 3.5" external drive (original plan was to copy the backup to the original ps3 disk and put it in the 2.5" enclosure but I'm feeling somewhat paranoid now)
Restore operation fails error 800283F0, can't find any information on this, wonderful.
I'm pretty certain now either the 320gb or the caddy is at fault. I presently have WD Diagnostics running on the 320gb drive having removed it from the PS3 and put it in my PC and am backing the PS3 up again from its original disk directly to the old 3.5" drive to bypass the 2.5" caddy.

THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE EASY.

Johnnytoxic · 26 Jul 2008 at 15:19

This is confusing. You need to backup you original hdd onto some usb storage like a usb external hdd. Then restore it to your new internal PS3 hdd you have.

dalin80 · 26 Jul 2008 at 15:26

You have took something extremely easy and made it many times more complicated for yourself.

The only tricky bit is making sure you didnt strip the philips screws.

Sareth · 26 Jul 2008 at 15:37

dalin80 said:
You have took something extremely easy and made it many times more complicated for yourself.

The only tricky bit is making sure you didnt strip the philips screws.

That was the easy bit, forewarned is forearmed.

I was just trying to save myself using the old 3.5" drive to do the transfer (as I don't trust it) by copying the backup from new drive -> PC -> old drive -> restore but in the process have discovered either the new drive or the caddy are faulty.

edit: that being said, who or what did they put those screws in with ? I had to apply so much force to get them to turn without stripping the heads it was frightening.

mmj_uk · 26 Jul 2008 at 16:44

Sareth said:
thats strange I thought, 27gb was used on the disk but the backup folder was only showing its size as 3.5gb.

It's because PS3 reserves a fixed percentage of HD space, so the bigger the drive the more space is reserved.

Like dalin80 says you've tried to fix something that wasn't faulty in the first place.

Sareth · 26 Jul 2008 at 16:48

mmj_uk said:
It's because PS3 reserves a fixed percentage of HD space, so the bigger the drive the more space is reserved.

Like dalin80 says you've tried to fix something that wasn't faulty in the first place.

No No NO, one backup was 3.5gb in folder size but it said 27gb was used on the disk (fat32 formatted on a mac) the second backup on the same disk was 23gb in size and after that 50gb was used on the disk, there is a definite error.

Sareth · 26 Jul 2008 at 17:00

The caddy would appear to be faulty, doing a straight backup to the ancient 3.5" external drive (file size slightly different to the second backup) and restore worked and the new drive passed WD utilities, in fact right now the caddy with a hdd I pulled out of an old laptop is repeatedly disconnecting.
So it was the usb caddy that was tripping me up.

Sareth · 27 Jul 2008 at 15:31

Huh 100% of my attempts to do another backup (just out of interest) have failed without warning (shows completed) resulting in 0kb files on the destination drive regardless of what destination I use.

So overall out of approximately ten backup attempts only one was good to restore. More worrying the one before the backup that worked looked ok but wouldn't complete the restore, got images off it but no saves.

I think I will be taking manual backups of game saves in future.