My PS3 is refusing to read the drive I have been using for the last few years (it says it requires formatting everytime I turn the system on). I have run HDD Regeneration on the drive and there are no physical errors, so before I format it, is there any way at all I can retrieve any of the 750GBs worth of data from the drive?
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Grant, no matter how techie the previous answer may sound, it can not be done. The PS3 uses a totally different file structure. Windows, OS X, and a lot of Linux flavors will not recognize a partition on the PS3 harddrive. Even if you clone or image the harddrive to another harddrive, only the original PS3 the harddrive came out of will read the cloned or imaged harddrive. It won't work in another PS3 without first being formatted (losing all data on it). That shows the importance of backing up files before anything happens to the drive.
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That's what I feared oldturkey, but the difference in my case is that my PS3 is fully functional - I just can't find any information online regarding my situation
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Its bit techi to do this but still by following the instruction you can achieve your purpose.
Firstly you may need to take your hard drive out. Once your detach it the check if its IDE or SATA. After this you need to get a SATA to USB or IDE to USB converter. You can order it online for few bucks or can also get it from some hardware shop. Once you get this converter then attache it with connector and then further with your PC via USB. In this way you would be able to manually back up all your data from all folders one by one.
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david chase , wrong. your PC software will not read the PS3 files.
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