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Forums - Gaming - It's a sad day - I have lost 5 years/300GB of my PS3 game installs and saves :'(

m0ney on 30 March 2017
COKTOE said:
I still don't understand how the data was lost though. Did your hd simply stop working due to wear and tear, or was there a technical reason?

I don't understand it myself. I didn't do anything to old drive, just connected to PC. Well I started cloning it sector by sector to the new drive, but it would have taken hours and it slowed down my work pc considerably which is quite an old pc, so I canceled the process.



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SonytendoAmiibo on 30 March 2017

May your dearly departed data rest in peace. It's gone to a better place, but unfortunately not to the cloud. My condolences.



   

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fluky-nintendy on 30 March 2017

Same happened to me. But you'll get over it I promise. After it happening to me, I started uploading save data to the ps+ cloud (yes, I had the thing but never used up until the hd broke).



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Intrinsic on 30 March 2017

sorry... there are so many different ways you could have avoided all this though. Now its all for naught.....

but even if you don't have PS+ to upload your saves t the cloud, using a simple 8GB USB flash drive you could have saved all your save data. Or even plugging your phone in as an external storage device...... sigh

sucks.



d21lewis on 30 March 2017

I feel you. When my OG PS3 broke, I felt like crying. Everything died with it because the HDD won't work on anything, else. You can and you must live on. Be strong, man.



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SegataSanshiro on 30 March 2017
m0ney said:

All lost like tears in rain. My 300gb hdd was full and I wanted to clone it to a 1TB hdd but unlike the third party software instruction turned out it was impossible because PC can't see PS3 data. I put the old hdd back in PS3 and nothing happened. I went to recovery screen but couldn't restore anything. I had plans for trophy hunting, at least a few platinums, now I can forget about that =( It would be a colossal waste of time to replay my games back to the old state.

PS+ from now on and USB drives.

Also still a chance to recover it.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

This program ha sbeen around for almost 30 years and he is trustworthy. Has a podcast on one of th ebiggest tech networks on Twit.tv with Leo Laporte. One of the best security guys around. It's an ugly site but trustworthy. It does cost money so it's up to you how much your data is worth.



theprof00 on 30 March 2017

Really sorry to hear that bro. I remember how heartbreaking it is to lose your save data.



asqarkabab on 30 March 2017

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0D0 on 30 March 2017

Sorry mate :(



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m0ney on 30 March 2017
SegataSanshiro said:

PS+ from now on and USB drives.

Also still a chance to recover it.
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

This program ha sbeen around for almost 30 years and he is trustworthy. Has a podcast on one of th ebiggest tech networks on Twit.tv with Leo Laporte. One of the best security guys around. It's an ugly site but trustworthy. It does cost money so it's up to you how much your data is worth.

That's interesting, but when you connect a PS3 hdd to PC, it simply shows as unallocated space, so even this wonder software can't help cos there's nothing to work with..



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