Advice needed please concerning PS3 repair

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placidcasual said:

Thanks for the replies.

Sony are not budging so I'll scrap it I think. Would need to get the warranty with a refurbished one so for one year that would bring it up to £188. Was going to get uncharted 2 so might go for the 250gb option with uncharted on play.com for £269 and put it down to bad luck. Took really good care of the machine and dusted it regularly. Wasn't even on for that long - 30 mins maybe. No technical issues before and it was very quiet.

Does anyone know if the old 60gb hard drive would fit into a slim to retrieve saved files. Also I was playing infamous at the time. Is there any way of rescuing the disk from the broken machine?

Thanks again.

Unless you backed up your saves, you're screwed. If you insert the hard drive into another PS3, you'll just be prompted to format it.

 

There's some info here that may help you: -

 

http://whatconsumer.co.uk/faulty-playstation-3/