Hard drive replacement question.

[Trentonater]

fatslob-:O said:

Trentonater said:

fatslob-:O said:
I don't understand your question.

I plug in the hard drive as an external drive then backup the data from the original drive into that external drive and then I place that drive into the ps3. Would it work?

I guess you can use your external drive to backup the hard drives data and then start to copy the files into the new hard drives. 

I want to know if the ps3 will recognize the backed up data if the drive is instaled as the primary ps3 drive.