ok i gave up. I'm just gonna re-download all the stuff from the PSN

Why do you even need 1 TB of memory are gonna download lot of stuff from PSN if so I advice you to join the trophy league now

woah my new ps3 hard drive is only 500 gb. my 1 tb external is for my ps3 and my laptop.

Okay my external drive finally finished but I let it go over night and when it finished the PS3 turned off automatically (I set it to shut off automatically when nothing going on after a few hours) and I'm not 100% sure if it completed, Homer mentioned he got a corrupt file once and I'm hoping I didn't get one to and just didn't realize. So is there anyway I can check if everything on the external drive is on it and it actually got to 100%?

Its possible that that was my problem, why I couldn't restore my ps3 from the backup, because I had my setting to turn off in a few hours as well. The backup was 113 GB, even though I though I had a little bit more than that, but I fugured it might have compressed it a little bit. If you want to be completely safe, i would back it up again and change the settings not to turn the ps3 off after x amount of hours. But if not, make sure you have your save data backed up on a flash drive or something, so that if anything goes wrong, you will still have your save data. 

I've had problems restoring from my backup, so I'm just downloading everything all over again, and I have my save data on PS+ and a flash drive.

Yeh I probably should, I'll check see is the space is the same in the PS3 as the external.

Edit: Interesting, 135GB used on my PS3 and only 115GB on external drive....I'll do it again.

i'm having problems with my PS3. it won't play Resistence FOM, Metal gear: guns, and UC3. it just stop playing metal gear 1 wk ago. it laods for about 30 seconds then makes a sound like it's ejecting but the game but it doesn't eject.

Ok just finished copying my PS3 backup for the second time and I sat there to see it finish and it did, but the problem is it said yet again that 116GB worth of info is on the External but the PS3 says I have 135GB used up? Now I'm scared to try anything...

No thoughts guys? I'm stumped can't find info anywhere even Yahoo answers wont help, I'm gonna bump this one more time.

PS3 system software isn't on your backup.