Changing PS3 Harddrive

[phazonknight]

Hello everyone,

I have a ps3 slim running 3.55 Kmeaw cfw. I have the stock ps3 harddrive of about 120gigs and that's not enough to run jack. I was thinking of changing the harddrive to about a 640 gigs so my questions are:

- Changing the harddrive will cause me to have to reinstall 3.55 again
- Can all the apps be backed up

Any help or if this has already been asked and solved can just give me a link to the post and ill read it up. Thanks

[indirect76]

Only NAND fat PS3s can upgrade a hard drive without reinstalling the firmware. All apps, but not trophies, can be backed up with the official tool.

[phazonknight]

Only NAND fat PS3s can upgrade a hard drive without reinstalling the firmware. All apps, but not trophies, can be backed up with the official tool.

Damn, so if i change the harddrive ill need to find a 3.55 firmware and then reinstall the cfw all over again? trophies i dont care about really, but backup manager and multiman and all that good stuff, will that be backed up too? or will i need to reinstall the pkg files

[indirect76]

Yes. Grab 3.55 OFW here http://ps3scenefiles.com/category.php?id=10

It will back up everything, multiman, any installed pkg, even game backups.

[DEMON01]

C'mon everybody has have to learn this :
With Rebug CFW you can change your HDD without losing any data.
And I have done this almost 100 times.

Install Rebug 3.55.2/3 over Kmeaw
Go to Debug Settings
Select The HDD Change Utility
Connect your new HDD via Usb Box...
Almost 15-30 min. later you're done...
Change the hdd and play where you left off...

[phazonknight]

C'mon everybody has have to learn this :
With Rebug CFW you can change your HDD without losing any data.
And I have done this almost 100 times.

Install Rebug 3.55.2/3 over Kmeaw
Go to Debug Settings
Select The HDD Change Utility
Connect your new HDD via Usb Box...
Almost 15-30 min. later you're done...
Change the hdd and play where you left off...

Ooo that would make my life a whole lot easier, ill take a look into that, thanks!

[DEMON01]

I'm glad if I can help.
Here is my new tutorial page :
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f177/tut...3/#post1016331 (TUTORIAL : How To Change Your PS3 HDD Without Losing Any Data (With Rebug CFW))

And my bad, I should wrote that tutorial for ages ago.
I cannot think that is necessary

[BahumatLord]

I'm glad if I can help.
Here is my new tutorial page :
http://psx-scene.com/forums/f177/tut...3/#post1016331 (TUTORIAL : How To Change Your PS3 HDD Without Losing Any Data (With Rebug CFW))

And my bad, I should wrote that tutorial for ages ago.
I cannot think that is necessary

I've been meaning to look at that. I had thought that a 1 TB internal drive would be big enough but I've been fighting for space for a while and I've got a bunch of internal only games stored on my external drive. Are there any drawbacks to doing that? Does everything get copied or just what's in your home folder and dev_hdd0/game?