Will PS3 install game data to external drive?

Thesnipergecko · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:08

As title, after having downloaded Siren: Bloodcurse I have now run out of room on my 40gb PS3.

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Joebob · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:23

No - you can upgrade the HDD easily enough though.

closeratio · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:26

Joebob said:
No - you can upgrade the HDD easily enough though.

Yeah just make sure you backup your game save data on some sort of external hard drive beforehand.

wannabedamned · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:26

closeratio said:
Yeah just make sure you backup your game save data on some sort of external hard drive beforehand.

Your solution could be there actually.

Could you not back things up you dont play often to the external drive? and free up room that way.

Joebob · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:29

closeratio said:
Yeah just make sure you backup your game save data on some sort of external hard drive beforehand.

What I did was to buy an external 2.5" SATA caddie and a new 2.5" drive for my PS3. Then put the new drive in the caddie and backup your pS3 - plug this into your PC and copy this onto your PC's HDD. Take the new drive out of the caddie and replace with the drive in your PS3 - then put the old 40GB drive into the caddie and plug it into the PC. Format it and then copy backup files back onto the caddie drive ready to restore to the new PS3 HDD.

If that makes sense?

Sareth · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:42

Joebob said:
What I did was to buy an external 2.5" SATA caddie and a new 2.5" drive for my PS3. Then put the new drive in the caddie and backup your pS3 - plug this into your PC and copy this onto your PC's HDD. Take the new drive out of the caddie and replace with the drive in your PS3 - then put the old 40GB drive into the caddie and plug it into the PC. Format it and then copy backup files back onto the caddie drive ready to restore to the new PS3 HDD.

If that makes sense?

did that work ok ? I have a 320gb drive + a caddy that I was intending on putting the 60gb drive in arriving tomorrow, I don't have *confidence* in the drive in my 3.5" caddy so would be much better if I could do it via this method.

edit: so the backup files can be copied anywhere, basically ?

Joebob · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:45

Sareth said:
did that work ok ? I have a 320gb drive + a caddy that I was intending on putting the 60gb drive in arriving tomorrow, I don't have *confidence* in the drive in my 3.5" caddy so would be much better if I could do it via this method.

edit: so the backup files can be copied anywhere, basically ?

well your the drive in your caddie has to be formatted to fat32, then once you have backed it up you can copy the backup files across to your pc. Worked a treat for me when I put my 250GB drive in - I used the old 160GB drive in the caddie I bought as an extenral drive now.

Sareth · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:47

Joebob said:
well your the drive in your caddie has to be formatted to fat32, then once you have backed it up you can copy the backup files across to your pc. Worked a treat for me when I put my 250GB drive in - I used the old 160GB drive in the caddie I bought as an extenral drive now.

That's great, I'll likely take a copy of the backup files to my NAS, just in case.

Joebob · 24 Jul 2008 at 19:49

Sareth said:
That's great, I'll likely take a copy of the backup files to my NAS, just in case.

it doesnt backup any account info etc as thats all stored in flash memory rather than on the hdd.

Sareth · 24 Jul 2008 at 20:28

Joebob said:
it doesnt backup any account info etc as thats all stored in flash memory rather than on the hdd.

Not a problem, its game saves etc. I'm after preservng as I have a bad habit of dropping a game and coming back to it after months, having the ps3 hdd crap out would be a disaster with everything I have on the go.

Doog · 25 Jul 2008 at 07:45

just to jump in on the thread quickly

, I'm running out of room now due to the missus keeping spending on singstar. Can the singstar purchases be backed up too, or do the have to be downloaded again?

orderoftheflame · 25 Jul 2008 at 07:50

Sareth said:
did that work ok ? I have a 320gb drive + a caddy that I was intending on putting the 60gb drive in arriving tomorrow, I don't have *confidence* in the drive in my 3.5" caddy so would be much better if I could do it via this method.

edit: so the backup files can be copied anywhere, basically ?

If you've only got a few save files it's much easier to copy them up one by one onto a pen drive in my opinion.

Joebob · 25 Jul 2008 at 08:14

orderoftheflame said:
If you've only got a few save files it's much easier to copy them up one by one onto a pen drive in my opinion.

That makes more sense to me too if there isn't too much. That eay you can transfer the save files back as you need them rather than having to do a full restore from the backup!