Putting an old HD in a new PS3 without formatting

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Bristow9091 said:

What I THINK you can do however (I'm pretty sure my friend did this, or something very similar), is buy an external HDD enclosure for your old PS3 HDD, use that to back it up onto your PC, then once it's all on your PC, put the 500GB HDD into the new PS3, let it format and stuff, once that's in happily, you should be able to put the 160GB HDD into the external enclosure , and use that to transfer data from your PC to your PS3, you'll obviously need to do it in multiple transfers due to the size of it though.

Yes, that's how I tranferred my data from my original 80gb HD to my current one. You don't even need to back it up onto a PC, you back it up directly from your PS3 to the external HD, then build in the new HD into the PS3 and let it format it and finally copy your stuff from the external device to the new HD.

That's how I gotta do it now, but I thought I could just put my current HD into the new PS3, I see no reason why this shouldn't work...