Hello, my PS3 recently broke. I sent it in to Sony and they sent me another system back. I have the old harddrive but in order to play i have to reformat the drive. Is there any way possible I can recover the old pictures i had on there? I havent reformated yet.
believe that if you have an USB hard drive case for 2.5" hard drives you could transfer the data to the PS3's new hard drive
SONY will do it for you now... when my PS3 broke last month I went through the hassle to back stuff up on Memory stick turns out SONY had transferred it for me so I wasted alot of time deleting stuff :(
I took my 250 GB drive out of my dead 60 gig and put it into a desktop, Windows XP SP3 showed it as an empty unpartitioned drive as did Partition magic. I havent tryed it with a linux based partition manager like Qpart yet though.
If anyone has an answer other then "Sony" , I too would be interested.
The problem is you took the hardrive out. If you would of left it in SONY would of done it for you * They Start doing with the PS3 to PS3 tranfers update*
You're boned. There is currently no way to retrieve the data from your old drive. It is encrypted with a key that is specific to your old/dead PS3. If you buy the wires to connect it you a PC you will just be wasting money as the PC will only display an empty drive. Even Geohot gave up on cracking the encryption key.
Sorry for your loss =/
| Xxain said: SONY will do it for you now... when my PS3 broke last month I went through the hassle to back stuff up on Memory stick turns out SONY had transferred it for me so I wasted alot of time deleting stuff :( |
Really wish they had done this for me when my PS3 broke about a year and a half ago. I lost all my family guy and American dad episodes
| Epoch said: You're boned. There is currently no way to retrieve the data from your old drive. It is encrypted with a key that is specific to your old/dead PS3. If you buy the wires to connect it you a PC you will just be wasting money as the PC will only display an empty drive. Even Geohot gave up on cracking the encryption key.
Sorry for your loss =/ |
But Sata is Sata, why would I buy a "wires" when it just plugged into a spare Sata cable?
Xbox HD were locked to the console with an encrypted unlock key as well but there was a work around for that.
My PS3 is 3 years old in march an I have a Futureshop warranty why would I want to pay Sony $179 to get my saved game files when Futureshop should hopefully give me a gift card for $804.98, I will buy a slim 120 and have $500 left to buy games with.
Game saves or $500
Game saves or $500
mmmmm ........ $500
| Xxain said: The problem is you took the hardrive out. If you would of left it in SONY would of done it for you * They Start doing with the PS3 to PS3 tranfers update* |
NO WAYYYY,,,,, this kills me. Is this based off of personal experience?
Random Canadian said:
But Sata is Sata, why would I buy a "wires" when it just plugged into a spare Sata cable? Xbox HD were locked to the console with an encrypted unlock key as well but there was a work around for that. My PS3 is 3 years old in march an I have a Futureshop warranty why would I want to pay Sony $179 to get my saved game files when Futureshop should hopefully give me a gift card for $804.98, I will buy a slim 120 and have $500 left to buy games with.
Game saves or $500 Game saves or $500 mmmmm ........ $500
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Wires as in SATA to USB in case the OP wasn't tech inclined or owned a laptop that he didn't feel like breaking into to get acces to a SATA port.
I'd take the $500 btw =)
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