Problems restoring PS3 from backup please help :)

[homer]

Slimebeast said:

homer said:

Yeah I think I understand now.

All the data in his original 160GB HDD is intact, but it's essentially worthless since it's already moved out of his PS3.

So he has to save the back up data on the external HDD and hope it can be salvaged.

Slimebeast said:

homer said:

He could just buy an external hdd case and move it from his then external 160gb drive to his formatted 1 TB external drive if it came to that so it isn't useless per se. There is always a way as long as you keep it safe somewhere.

So you don't need a PS3 to copy the 160GB to an external? A PC can read that 160GB and copy it to another HDD?

No, I don't think so.

http://www.amazon.com/SATA-Hard-Drive-Case-Enclosure/dp/B001AAVA08/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1340653007&sr=8-5&keywords=external+hard+drive+case

This is what I meant. You can buy one of these and boom, your hard drive is now also external. Then you could copy it. I don't know if just putting it in your pc would work. I would assume that actually wouldn't work because isn't your computer's OS saved in the hdd? I don't know much about this stuff so I'm barely keeping up as is. I would keep it safe with externals.