How to Upgrade a PS3 Hard Drive - and keep all your game save data

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  • Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2024

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  • @clintthompson4100
    @clintthompson4100 2 месяца назад +3

    Just want to say thank you. Finally an actual step-by-step guide instead of like the other umpteen million ones that seem to skip the important information. Thank you for a real step by step tutorial.

  • @systemresponse
    @systemresponse 6 дней назад +1

    Extremely helpful. Managed to replace a corupted hdd that was making the console stuck in a restore loop, just with this tutorial and an old 320gb hard drive from an old laptop. I appreciate your effort. Cheers.

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  4 дня назад

      No problem. Glad it worked for you.

    • @AyakaxiOutfits
      @AyakaxiOutfits 22 часа назад +1

      can you help me? my ps3 is in the same state as your's im pretty sure and i really can't do anything as its just giving up after hours with the hdd and when i try to do the ssd upgrade it just refuses to even try and says it doesn't see the file to update

    • @systemresponse
      @systemresponse 21 час назад

      @@AyakaxiOutfits also make sure the USB stick is fat32 formatted.

  • @miszczmateusz
    @miszczmateusz Месяц назад +4

    The video is exactly what I've been searching for, thank you.

  • @VentusFury
    @VentusFury 11 дней назад

    It took until i looked at your video to see what i was doing wrong. Apparently when i got the recent update, it added the numbers to the file name and i needed to erase those numbers. 😅
    Thank you so much!

  • @artisimo5797
    @artisimo5797 2 месяца назад

    You know, I was thinking to myself "Man, it would be cool if Bytes N Bits uploaded a PS3 focused video." and right when I need it, here it is! Thanks a lot for the tutorial, my PS3 now has a 1 TB drive!

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  2 месяца назад

      Great timing. Keep your eye out for the PS3 hacking series coming next!

  • @brenfu
    @brenfu 2 месяца назад

    Good clear and concise demonstration. Thank you.

  • @Astra8676
    @Astra8676 2 месяца назад

    As always, well presented and easy tutorial!!

  • @Shorty_Hutch
    @Shorty_Hutch 2 месяца назад +5

    Unfortunately my original ps3 died :( a new update came out and it has me stuck in a loop now and seems to be no workaround

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  2 месяца назад +2

      If you think it's a software issue trying a new hard drive or reformatting the existing one in your PC may recover the system.

    • @karabothabelang8888
      @karabothabelang8888 Месяц назад

      Did you jailbreak it?

    • @jayleng9630
      @jayleng9630 16 дней назад

      Sorry too say but your have too format your system in safemode hoped you backed your data if not bye bye data😢

    • @Shorty_Hutch
      @Shorty_Hutch 16 дней назад

      @@jayleng9630 i tried to go in safe mode but nothing stops it from going straight to the update screen :(

    • @jayleng9630
      @jayleng9630 16 дней назад

      @@Shorty_Hutchformat your hdd with a laptop and sata cable or change hdd .maybe

  • @benviah
    @benviah 23 дня назад

    Wow, great instructions.

  • @Jessica-yo1uh
    @Jessica-yo1uh Месяц назад +1

    I have a question what happens if you just bought a PS3 and you just change the hard drive can the PS3 can recognize the hard drive without using the PlayStation website update

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  Месяц назад

      I think you need to reinstall the firmware if you swap the hard drive.

  • @dinocorreia1202
    @dinocorreia1202 6 дней назад

    Hi Bob. Will work cloning the disk to other SSD? Never did before. I mean, a real clone. There are some free software to do that as for Windows. Thanks

  • @DrLilo
    @DrLilo Месяц назад

    That framed Speccy motherboard is rad

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks. Have a look at the video of me making it.

  • @edwin5281
    @edwin5281 Месяц назад

    I did everything just like you, but when I click on start and select for it to look for the usb it tells me “No applicable update data was found” was formatted to fat32 its a 5gb usb stick

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  Месяц назад +1

      Make sure you've created the folders and filename exactly as in the video. They must all be in capitals. Make sure you turn on the file extensions in windows explorer so you can see the .PUP extension.

    • @edwin5281
      @edwin5281 Месяц назад +1

      @@BytesNBits I have also done all that and still nothing. I tried different usbs too.

  • @xxdsyrghostxxx6615
    @xxdsyrghostxxx6615 2 месяца назад

    I already have modded software on my ps3 and want to do this but do I have to put the official update from PlayStation on my usb? Or can I just use the modded software I already have on my usb.

    • @m1dnightcrisis
      @m1dnightcrisis 2 месяца назад

      You don’t need to update the software to change the HDD

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  2 месяца назад

      I think there is an option in the custom firmware that allows you to clone your hard drive to a new one. This will put all your content onto the new drive so it will be a simple drive swap. I haven't got that far with my videos yet so please have a look online for some advice.

    • @g4z-kb7ct
      @g4z-kb7ct Месяц назад

      @@BytesNBits There's no clone option. Basically due to the protection, encryption and custom HDD format all that stuff has to be re-built (silently) by the PS3 when doing what you did in this vid. It might be possible to do a bit-for-bit clone but it will have the exact same partition size as the old drive, which kind of defeats the point of putting in a bigger drive. So basically the answer is no, follow the standard update procedure. HOWEVER.... none of that matters if it has CFW. Just stick in a new larger HDD, use the same usb drive with the CFW on it and it'll re-install the CFW on the new drive and then you'll have a working+hacked PS3 with larger HDD. Do the user data restore and you're back to where you were before. I just did all this and it worked great. Why? Of course I was pretty excited about the CFW vid you did so I did it on my old 250GB hdd then put on a bunch of software, played it for a week then realised the hdd needs to be 1TB to get more out of it. And here we are.... full circle ;-)

    • @noswanson1982
      @noswanson1982 19 дней назад

      @@g4z-kb7ct So, you don't need to go into PS3Toolkit and reapply the patch? Just plug in the cfw update, and it'll be good to go?

  • @umutkayacan7659
    @umutkayacan7659 2 месяца назад

    Nice!!

  • @tonyheymunkets
    @tonyheymunkets 2 месяца назад

    If you don't want to update and you don't wanna save anything can you just switch out the hard drive

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  2 месяца назад

      Once you swap the hard drive you need to format it and add the system software. I think you might be able to download older versions if you need to, but I think you do have to put some system code on there.

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 2 месяца назад

    Thank you.

  • @dreamer_prince900
    @dreamer_prince900 Месяц назад

    Can't you just plug a hard disk through usb, I'd need a 100GB usb to back up my game saves and that's too much space

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  Месяц назад

      Yes. An external hard drive works great.

  • @DEXXXO
    @DEXXXO 10 дней назад

    THE PS3 BAckup is wherry Miserable if your PS3 goes Faulty the Backup will not complete be accepted for new Consoles PS3

    • @BytesNBits
      @BytesNBits  9 дней назад

      Yes. Thanks for the tip.