Rebuild hard disk database?!

I was just playing a game and then I quit it and I notice my demo's wouldn't show up and so i turned it off

When I turned it back on it said it needs to rebuild hard disk database

I did it since i had no other choice and everything was fine and back to normal

but didn anyone else have this happen to them? y did it need to 'rebuild hard disk database"?

Did you by chance ever turn it off if it was saving or loading, my first guess would be that some data became corrupted so it tried to repair it in which it was successful.

Other wise as I say when i have to go through testing software just a weird anomaly and probably doesn't have a reason.

o ok thx

im happy that nothing got deleted would be pissed if all my saves and data got deleted

it happened to me like last month, nothing was deleted apart from my PSN messages

i googled it and on a few sites, its apparently the PS3's version of a hard disk clean up. its supposed to happen around 8 months to a year after the console was built.

i dunno if that 100% accurate but thats what a few sites were saying :)

This has never happened to me and I've had my PS3 for over a year

Mine is doing this, but when it loads the entire bar and restarts, the same thing comes up again! Help!salsa911

I saw this in the Playstation forums: "call SCEA, sounds like the database file which keeps track of your file locations is writen on a damage sector of the hard drive indicating hard drive failure and a need of a replacement."

From: http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3&thread.id=2633947

Did you at least backup your data? :c