Replacing hard drive on PS3 - Blu-ray Forum

highdef monster · 02-23-2008, 10:24 PM

If you replace hard drive on PS3 is it posiblle to somehow transfer data from old HD such as PSN ID, game saves etc.Or you have to start all over again.

tntkain · 02-23-2008, 10:26 PM

save it all on a flash drive

highdef monster · 02-23-2008, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by tntkain

save it all on a flash drive

And then download to new HD,Is that it??

tntkain · 02-23-2008, 10:30 PM

I believe so. I have never done it myself. If you look on the playstation network forums, there is all kinds of info there about it

ps3andlovinit · 02-23-2008, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by highdef monster

If you replace hard drive on PS3 is it posiblle to somehow transfer data from old HD such as PSN ID, game saves etc.Or you have to start all over again.

Do a search there is lots of details on this forum. You can copy files to usb drives etc, or use the backup/restore utility.

Search so you understand the issues.

Valion · 02-23-2008, 10:39 PM

If you look under System Settings, you'll see a Backup Utility. You can use this to save everything to any USB drive (or SD/Memstick/CF if you have the card readers, I think), then use the same utility to restore everything once you swap out the drive. When I did it, I deleted all my stuff I had downloaded from PSN or had copied over from my computer to get the size down since I only had a small flash drive available, then re-downloaded stuff after the new drive was in.

If all you care about is your system/PSN account information, you don't actually have to do anything, since they're stored in flash rather than on the hard drive.

highdef monster · 02-23-2008, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Valion

If you look under System Settings, you'll see a Backup Utility. You can use this to save everything to any USB drive (or SD/Memstick/CF if you have the card readers, I think), then use the same utility to restore everything once you swap out the drive. When I did it, I deleted all my stuff I had downloaded from PSN or had copied over from my computer to get the size down since I only had a small flash drive available, then re-downloaded stuff after the new drive was in.

If all you care about is your system/PSN account information, you don't actually have to do anything, since they're stored in flash rather than on the hard drive.

That's all i was woried about, thanks for help

BluGamer · 02-24-2008, 06:02 PM

You should get an external harddrive for back-up. Much better than downloading everything over..

crackinhedz · 02-24-2008, 06:27 PM

**Upgrading Your Hard Drive**

un4gvn94538 · 02-24-2008, 10:33 PM

its very easy to do and i used the 60gig hard drive it came with as a external drive now.

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02-23-2008, 10:26 PM	#2
tntkain Senior Member Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray collection:103 Blu-ray reviews: 2	save it all on a flash drive

02-23-2008, 10:30 PM	#4
tntkain Senior Member Member since:Jul 2007 Blu-ray collection:103 Blu-ray reviews: 2	I believe so. I have never done it myself. If you look on the playstation network forums, there is all kinds of info there about it

02-23-2008, 10:39 PM	#6
Valion New Member Member since:Jan 2007	If you look under System Settings, you'll see a Backup Utility. You can use this to save everything to any USB drive (or SD/Memstick/CF if you have the card readers, I think), then use the same utility to restore everything once you swap out the drive. When I did it, I deleted all my stuff I had downloaded from PSN or had copied over from my computer to get the size down since I only had a small flash drive available, then re-downloaded stuff after the new drive was in. If all you care about is your system/PSN account information, you don't actually have to do anything, since they're stored in flash rather than on the hard drive.

02-24-2008, 06:02 PM	#8
BluGamer Member Member since:Jan 2008 Location:NY, US Blu-ray collection:55 Blu-ray reviews:1	You should get an external harddrive for back-up. Much better than downloading everything over..

02-24-2008, 06:27 PM	#9
crackinhedz Super Moderator Member since:Feb 2007 Home Theater Gallery:10 Blu-ray reviews:8 Trading Score:19	**Upgrading Your Hard Drive**

02-24-2008, 10:33 PM	#10
un4gvn94538 Blu-ray Knight Top contributor Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Limbo (Bakersfield, Ca.) 4K collection:143 Blu-ray collection:811 DVD collection:54 Digital collection:1494 Trading Score:277	its very easy to do and i used the 60gig hard drive it came with as a external drive now.

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