PS3 Stuck Restoring For 17 Hours :-(

[Game Plan]

Hi guys

I bought a 250gb 5400rpm hard drive to upgrade the 40gb one that come with the ps3.

First i deleted everything in the game data folder on the old hard drive to speed things up than i made a backup. Then i fitted the new hard drive and formatted it.

The problem is that now it come to restoring my back up it keeps getting stuck at 22% with 24 minutes remaining.


I've tried cancelling it and reformatting the hard drive, fitting a different hard drive and making a new backup of the old hard drive and restoring from that backup.


It been stuck at 22% now for 17 hours and I'm running out of ideas.


Does anyone know of an easy fix for this ?


Thanks

[Game Plan]

I forgot to mention that I'm on cfw 3.55.

I've tried formatting the new hard drive in my pc before installing in in the ps3 but it doesn't make any difference.

When i first put the new hard drive into the ps3 i get a pop up saying that it needs to be formatted, after the format process everything seems to be working fine, its not until i go over the the backup menu and click restore that it hangs at 22%.

The first time i installed the hard drive it got stuck at 1% so i went in and uninstalled everything in the game data folder, and that when it went up to the 22%.


Is there a backup restore in any other application (multiman....etc) that will maybe to a better job than the one installed by sony?