PS3 System Software Update (v3.56)... just a security patch.

[dharh]

mantlepiecek said:

dharh said:

Yes. It essentially refuses to recognize the drive. It was like when I first put it in the first place a year ago, it asks to format the drive and then asks for the current version of the software update on a flash drive. At that point it throws an error about corrupt data. Except I know better, its rejecting the drive not the flash drive because its the exact same flash drive that I used for the stock drive (which worked) _and_ I even went so far as to use an alternate usb drive "just in case".

I have a 500 GB Hard Drive and I checked just now, it works fine. I even checked how much space is remaining, its showing 325 GB.

There's no way for PS3 to tell if a HDD is upgraded or not. Even if you put the older HDD it asks you to format it and place a new update on it. Or on a flash drive. 

I upgraded using the flash drive though.

Yes, I alluded to that before. It's not refusing 'upgraded drives' per se. It's that something about many upgraded drives is being rejected. I've been looking around and it might even be something as mundane as how much memory is in the drive 8mb buffer vs 16mb buffer.