| dharh said:
SONY wishes you to believe that you can actually 'brick' your PS3 when in reality, most of the time whats really happened is your hard drive has entered a state that the PS3 can't recover from. You can fix a bricked PS3 most of the time by taking the hard drive out, poping it into an external (or interally if you want) dock. The PS3 uses a proprietary file system so your PC/MAC/whatever wont recognize the the file system, but that doesn't matter, just reformat the HDD to some variant of FAT.
Pop the drive back into your PS3. It will recognize that it needs to format the drive, will do so, and then ask for the update file. Because believe it or not an update doesn't just change the firmware on the PS3 it updates the software on the hard drive.
Which is also why you can downgrade a PS3 if you pop in a properly formatted hard drive of a lower version into the PS3 of a higher version.
Not sure if you just didn't read full what I wrote previously. But I have already, multiple times, even after getting the PS3 updated fully to 3.56 using the stock 80GB drive, tried to install a completely cleaned 640GB drive into the PS3 with zero success. This drive was previously perfectly fine.
Some people may not be having issues with their custom hard drives. Some other people _are_ having issues with theirs.
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