The day my PS3 died........

Overheated, cooked, bricked, yellow light of death. Whatever you want to call it, it happened to me 45 minutes ago. Very tragic indeed. I will be getting another bc PS3 asap but I have questions to which I'm sure I won't like the answers. I have a 300gb hard drive in tthe bricked one with a ton of content. So if I swap that into new one, do I have to format the drive again?

Overheated, cooked, bricked, yellow light of death. Whatever you want to call it, it happened to me 45 minutes ago. Very tragic indeed. I will be getting another bc PS3 asap but I have questions to which I'm sure I won't like the answers. I have a 300gb hard drive in tthe bricked one with a ton of content. So if I swap that into new one, do I have to format the drive again?

dreadnought666

as far as i know, all your music and pictures will be fine. but you will have to redownload your paied stuff with your psn account.

As far as I know the drive will need to be formatted.When mine went poof,I put the old drive in my new one,and it said it was corrupted and had to be formatted :(.

Take your drive out and replace it with the stock drive. My blu-ray disc diode died out last year and I was really frightened about losing my data on my 250 gb drive. No problem.

Take your drive out and replace it with the stock drive. My blu-ray disc diode died out last year and I was really frightened about losing my data on my 250 gb drive. No problem.

cdx00

I figured that you contacted Sony already. Oops.

The yellow light just means that the system is overheating right? I didnt think it neccessarily meant the hard drive was corrupted. Please god no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thing. Is trophy completion tied to the hard drive on your PSN account?

Is there any way to back up the hard drive outside of the PS3?

The yellow light just means that the system is overheating right? I didnt think it neccessarily meant the hard drive was corrupted. Please god no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another thing. Is trophy completion tied to the hard drive on your PSN account?

Is there any way to back up the hard drive outside of the PS3?

dreadnought666

" How to Access PlayStation 3 Recovery Menu

1. Turn your PlayStation 3 off.
2. Hold the power button until you hear 3 beeps.
3. You should be prompted with a screen asking you to press the PS Button on a control.
4. Woola! The Recovery Menu should load.

The current Recovery Menu supports:

Restart System
Restore Default Settings
Restore File System *
Rebuild Database
Restore PS3 System
System Update

"

from here (scroll down to 2.50)

Only the one i marked * could potentially wipe your data i think,but I dont know if any would work to make th drive usable on the new ps3,or if You can even get into the menu wiht that drive in.Maybe try it out.

Thanks. The worst part is the game saves. Very bad.

speaking from experience, i offer my sincere condolences on this very very sad occasion. :(

As far as I know the drive will need to be formatted.When mine went poof,I put the old drive in my new one,and it said it was corrupted and had to be formatted :(.

freekninjinc

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As far as I know the drive will need to be formatted.When mine went poof,I put the old drive in my new one,and it said it was corrupted and had to be formatted :(.

progamer-Andrew