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[Vetteman94]

Aldro said:

Pristine20 said:

kowenicki said:
the sata dock supplies power to the drive and connects by usb to the PC/LAPTOP... then i presume it will appear as an available drive and you can just copy its contents to your laptop or pc

 

seriously? I wish I knew about this when my ps3 broke. The question though is: will the ps3 be able to recover from a back up created by a PC as opposed to encrypted by the xmb or at the very least, will save files be easily distinguishable from the rest of the clutter?

So all I do is take the PS3 HD out just like it is put it in the toaster XD XD , connect it with usb to the PC and start copying mai files? My dad has one and he is kinda smart and i belive we did try something like this although it didnt find the drive because PS3 has some weird format or something...

 

Are you just guessing or do you really think this will work? Because if i take it out and it wont work then i cant put it back (Since it will ask to reformat lol).

 

Your PC wont be able to read it,  I also have a 320GB hdd, just sitting around, waiting for someone to crack the encryption on the HDD and the files themselves. Even Linux wont read it and that is the file structure on a PS3. As far as I know, nobody has been able to crack that encryption yet, so you are stuck with a paper weight that looks like a 2.5"SATA HDD like me.   Unless you want to format it and lose everything. 

So, I'm sorry dude.   There are websites that talk about it,  and some people think they are close to cracking it.  But i dont have my hopes up.