How to Upgrade a Fat PS3 Hard Drive
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My PS3 was flashing access error and locking up. I swapped in a new drive and followed these instructions. PS3 is now working great. Thanks for making this
It sort of shocks me that you did not even bother to blow the dust off before inserting the replacement HDD.
I was thinking the same thing.
i agree
Vaccum clean that thing
I was literally going to say the same thing, disgusting.
i cringed
Thanks for explaining how to get to safe mode. Most of the currently tutorials on how to upgrade fat PS3s were written when this model was still relatively new and didn't have issues with simply popping in a new HDD, which can cause issues after pressing the pwr button. Much appreciated man!!
8 years ago, and i thank you now. This was very simple. Thanks again.
Damn dude that's a lot of dust
lol
This video just saved me from a total headache. I didnt know how to access the Safe Mode on the PS3 nor i did I know about making folders for the software update on the USB drive. I just installed a 500GB on my system it all went well. Thanks
Thanks a ton I had been stuck with a 40 gb ps3 for 7 years thanks so simple
7 years!!! how?
How did you manage 40 gigs for 7 years
@@ThrashHim literally would only play one or 2 games if I wanted a new one I would delete one to get space
Make sure you don't bother cleaning the dust from the hard drive slot in the PS3. New Harddrives LOVE tons of dust all over their connections.
had a little trouble getting my ps3 to read my flash drive but once it finally picked it up everything flowed just like the video thanks Peyton you know your stuff man and made it easy to follow cool vid
Just used this video to put in a 1TB hard drive (Western Digital) into my 1st gen PS3 (CECHA01) and had no trouble whatsoever. It recognized it easily and the whole process was very easy to do. Thanks for a great DIY vid! :)
Thank you sir for the video, it helped a lot. Been struggling with the stock 80GB for the past few years. Just bought a 500GB HDD, now I can install and finally play GT6.
Ryu Lord Hell yeah. :)
Mochi gta 6? you mean 5..
Jesse Powell I should've gotten a 1TB one. Thought 500GB would be enough for all my media and games I guess it wasn't. :)
Where dis you get your new hard drive ?
@@Anna-vx5bg maybe he meant Gran Turismo.
10yrs past and this video is still helping folks like me out👏😁
I just put in a new hard drive into my 60gb backwards compatible ps3. it just booted up with updated firmware. didn't need usb stick. awesome.
Just upgraded my 500 GB PS4 to 2 TB and put the 500 GB hard disk to my PS3 by watching this video. Thanks a lot!
+Batuhan Akdeniz Exactly what i did
Hangı marka harddisk? Link atabilir misin?
+Serge Mersin www.bimeks.com.tr/urun/147300/seagate-2tb-2-5-expansion-portable-usb-3-0-external-hard-disk.aspx
usta bu taşınabilir bunu nasil takacaz
Thanks for your comment I’m going to do this for my PS3 because I upgraded my PS4 to a 2tb
New WD Blue 1 TB thanks to this vid. Never knew I could change my HD. Now I'm not so eager to buy a PS4.
I know this is really old, but I appreciate this tutorial. My PS3 is an oldler PS2 BC model. It has a 500GB hard drive installed (bought it used on eBay a couple years ago.) The large space has been nice and I've been able to fit a lot on it. Recently with the announcement of the store closing I've decided to buy some more digital games in interested in before they're gone forever. But I can't download them for some reason. So I might need to change the hard drive.
Where you downloaded your update from when you reformatted your system?
This old video helped me out. The official playstation website doesn't go into detail about the two file names.
Just used this to upgrade an 80GB PS3 to 500GB in 2021. Thank you so much!
This video was a great help to me. Just upgraded my PS3. Thank you so much. I just wished that we were capable of saving full games onto a flash drive, too not just saved data.
Thank you so much this really helped me in upgrading my ps3 hard-drive I could not have done it with out watching this video. This is the best step-by-step video out there!!!
Thanks. I've done the steps according to that video a few days ago and here what goes different:
- I could not to copy saves to USB drive until I bought PSPlus membership (I've done it so far), by now it must be some premium service;
- copy protected save (DeusEx: HR) doesn't copy to the cloud (and of course to usb too).
So now I have upgraded my ps3 80GB to 500GB (it is worth to do) but must play again about 6hr of DeusEx.
same thing happened to me but at least ps+ isnt horrible to have....sucks about DeusEx though
Great straightforward tutorial. I upgraded my slim PS3 from 160gb to 1tb. Im glad i didn't get rid of the 160 because i recently bought a 60gb backwards compatible PS3 so I can upgrade using the 160. (I really hope you went back and cleaned out all that dust BTW.)
Great video!! I just switched out the old hard drive with a new one (following you steps) and it worked perfectly. Thanks so much!!!
Cheers for the video. Not a hardware guy myself but i managed to upgrade my PS3 hard drive with ease. Used 1 TB SATA II hard drive that works like a charm.
Apart from the dusty console,. Thank you man! This was crystal clear and very straight to the point.
"Don't let your cat knock it around"
Felt that.
thanks for the video! i successfully installed my new hard drive!
if any one has trouble removing the screws try using pliers and use alot of force!
AtomicFox thanks man for an advice with pliers!
Thank you... Just put ps4 hard drive into fat PS3 originally only had 40 GB. Now 500 thx was very easy to do.
+maes33 I'm going to be doing the same thing
Thhis video made my life 1000x better. Thanks man, earned my sub
Man, thanks for the nice vid. Glad your cat is helping you.
Thank you for posting this. I swapped my 160 gb HDD for my 500 gb PS4 HDD. I found that I had to put the flash drive in port #1 in order for the PS3 to recognize that there was stuff on it. Odd, but whatever works, I guess.
Tysm. My ps3 hard drive died so I really needed this
Good video! Thanks! Upgraded my old 40gb HDD to a 240gb SSD because I needed more space to play GTA V ;)
Thanks a ton man. Like many people have said, I decided to use my PS4's hard drive on my PS3 lol.
Thanks bro! Just upgraded from the 40gb to 500gb and it works great.
Just used this video to help me upgrade my 80 GB PS3 to a nice 1TB drive.
Just one thing the author forgot to mention
"USB device is formatted to the File Format FAT 32 or FAT 16. The PS3 will not recognize NFST File Format"
Arun Thakur It's actually NTFS.
Brilliant! Thanks very much for this, my 40gb is now a 500gb. Very informative :-)
You can do everything he did in this video,but instead of downloading firmwire from website,go to ps3 setting and back up your entire system to the flash drive,put in new hard drive and flash it like he did in the video or you can on your computer in FAT32 FORMAT.After you flash it go to ps3 recovery menu like he show you and install your os.
Yeah. On the xbox 360, the hdd affects backwards compatability. Only official ones will be backwards compatable.
Make sure the flash drive is formatted to FAT32, not NTFS. I just had the same problem. Fixed it by reformatting to FAT32.
Good, concise tutorial.
I think PS3 updates have prevented the select multiple option for save data folders. I had to open each save folder and then it would let me select multiple. Making a 1 minute job a 5 minute job, having to do this for each game's save folder.
Another note a few save files wouldn't copy to USB. GT5, GT6 (although there was a second save file in each of their folders that would copy) and I think Killzone 2. These save files seem to be locked
Also noticed I had a corrupt save file at the bottom of the list
Thanks again
Thanks Man just Upgraded original 60gb to 120gb helped a lot
Thanks buddy because of you my fat original ps3 went from 40 gig to 120 lol. Used an xbox 360 old HD that didn't work on my console took it out now it's a ps3 HD lol you da man took 5 min l.
hey question for you. i have a 40 gig hd in a fat console as well. when you put in a new drive, do you have to make sure it is an IDE, or are they all SATA, or what? 40gB sounds more like IDE, and 120-320's seem more like SATA... if my memory is correct, but im not sure?
Pretty sure sata. It's been awhile but I had a hd I got for my xbox cheap China one that didn't work on xbox so I took out and put in ps3 then put in the usb with the update from ps site and it all worked.
So the ps3 has 120 now. Got a 320 aftermarket for xbox that actually worked
I feel you did a great job of explaining everything.Thanks for taking the time out!
You rock!!! By the way you were the only one i could trust and it came out all perfect !! Thank you very much! I liked and subbed!!!
thanks! I put in the Intel SSD, works great! replaced my old OEM Toshiba 80GB HDD.
Thank you for not fucking rambling. Straight to the point and helpful.
Not sure. Most people will use either a usb drive or an external hard drive, I read about a guy that used an ipod classic to back up the data so it seems that their are a number of ways to do it.
i have a 60gb ps3 that is ps2 compatible and it still works to this day
I put a SSD in it, now it loads incredibly fast
Same
Whats a ssd?
@@asenciolosangeles6778 the thing he put in it
@@asenciolosangeles6778 faster type of hard drive!
@@asenciolosangeles6778 solid state drive its supports faster loading times for games
Thanks man your video held me a lot I just update it from 30gb to 1TB wow amazing 🎉🎉🎉 2022
I had the same thing happen, besides I was installing a 160GB, so if your issue is different im not sure, but what fixed that error for me was switching flashdrives from a 16gb to a 4gb. maybe try switching your flash drive to a smaller one, or just a different kind.
I'm going to attempt to Install my 320gb hard drive tonite lol great video.
really good and solid video going to try it today but be carefull because cats aren't good for your harddrives or anything metal it can produce static and its really bad
Thanks man, helped tons! Upgraded from 40 GB to 500 GB haha
i have tried to this so many times and failed until i saw this video so thanks :)
This was WONDERFUL! Thank you!
Delighted that this worked first time great vid, thanks
My PS3 is a fat model with no PS2 support and I wanna replace the HD with a 500GB HD.
Great Video.Clean, quick and in English. I`m Subscribing! Thanks!
PUP-file-s....often referred to Potentially Unwanted Programs. I know because my customers often have those files.....
Thanks a lot. I followed step by step and works really good
I got it, used pliers. Thanks this will be a huge help!
Thanks for quick answer! Now i can change the hard drive!
You didnt leave said link in the description. But thank you for the video, giving it a go right now with an old laptop Seagate 320g at 5400 rpms.
Just did this and still works. 2018
I'm assuming it's normal, as this video is over a year old.. but after sliding in the new drive and allowing it to format and restart the system, it booted up with my accounts in tact. I'm guessing that the accounts are saved in system and not on the HDD? Because that seems strange. O_o
Informative thanks!
The while time I'm thinking Can of Air, Can Of Air....
thanks for this man it was very helpful.
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If the update can't be read off your USB drive, make sure the USB drive is formatted to FAT32. NFTS and exFAT don't work. if your computer won't let you format back to FAT32, find an older flash drive or look for more solutions online. hope it helps!
Thanks for this mate, spot on throughout!
I hunted for hours to find a quality video of how to do this. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 
The HDD has nothing to do with the PS3 being backward compatible, it only has to do with how much memory the PS3 has.
Also, if the backward compatibility was built into the HDD, people would be trying to find the HDDs that came in the backward compatible models for the non-backward compatible PS3s.
Thanks. Very helpful video!
Believe it or not you don't need to download and update to an HDD when you are switching on the fat model.
Well i did it ! but i only heard the first beep and then nothing so had to watch the green light flicker.The PS3 Slim is a lot easier to upgrade(did a mates last week)
The screws in my hard drive tray are really tough to get loose.
very simple ....very cool..thanks buddy
He forgot to tell you guys if you are going to buy a Hard Drive ( Ebay . Amazon etc.) for it to be compatible with the PS3 it has to say 5400RPM is a measure of the frequency of rotation that is what Sony used for this model if you wondering I did this when I was 15 just type on EBAY: hard drive for ps3
nice well hope it worked out
Thanks for the info
Make sure you have a CLEAR USB if it has a bunch of stuff the PS3 won't find. The file I don't think
Why would you not dust that before putting new hard drive in. That's reckless my dude
Mine has the original 60gb hard drive all fixes did not work had it stored in the box for year's when the video went out now the hard dive won't read it got shorted on a guys tv when plugging it in.
I have a 55GB Fat PS3 that has a clip to pull on, and it slides to the right instead of a straight pull.
few things here, first off we have the same usb stick, secondly I really wanted to take a can of air to your hard drive bay that really bugged me, thirdly I didn't realize how easy this is its so simple it is as if they want you to do it, fourthly why am I watching this i don't own a ps3
Hey do you have to have Playstation Plus to be able to copy your saved data utility? Nice video, keep it up:)
You gave out your ip address toward the end. You might want to blur that out.
Holy shit man, clean it out. This is why people get the YLOD.
I did it and it worked but every time i turn on my ps3 now it needs the same process.
damn all that dust when you took the plastic plate off 🙈
the blue screw strips super easy
why am i watching this in 2023😅
Im in 2025 😂
Can't I let the PS3 format the new HDD and then use my computer to copy all the files from the old one onto it?
It won't take the update, my new hard drive is basically useless without it
Thanks man this tutorial is so easy
Didn't work for me because I controller cable is won't keep the controller on, it just flashes then turns off.
My PS3 won't even power on. I have the continuous blinking red light. Someone told me that all I needed to do was swap out the hard drive and that will fix the issue. Is that true or false? Also where did you get the USB cable that connects your controller to the console? Same question with the hard drive? Order it online or pick it up locally?
I just bought a new PS3 that is backwards compatible with PS2 games and I'm planning on getting a bigger hard drive for it will I have to go through this whole process even though I haven't used it yet?
i did everything in this video. but after i put the new hard drive in and did the safe mode start and it said "CANNOT START> THE APPROPRIATE SYSTEM STORAGE WAS NOT FOUND" what did i do wrong?
Nice tuto. It helps me alot Thanks ! Which software do you use to copy file on your pc? It seems cools. Thanks