Fat PS3 stuck in loop

[jbowie]

I had a 640gb in it when this happened and I took it out and tried the 80gb that came with it and no luck. Both hard drives work fine on pc.

[mkkid28]

I'm having a similar issue. My hard drive said it was corupt the other day, and kept being in a loop of restoring. So I took hard drive out and completely wiped it through PC. Now when I try and reinstall through PS3 system menu, it says The Data is corrupted. (8002f2c5) when I put in USB stick with update file on. I've tried with two different USB sticks so don't think it's that.

[jbowie]

I'm at a loss here, I'm wondering if I should just trash this thing and buy a new one. Surely someone on here has had this sort of problem before, guessing it's a hardware issue. Someone have any ideas on what I can do?

[No0bZiLLa]

what model is it?

[jbowie]

CECHL01

[mkkid28]

Have you tried the update on a Disc?

[jbowie]

the ps3 won't boot, can't get game discs to work.

[jbowie]

I guess you meant burning the update to a disc so I tried that and it still didn't work, installs 100% then reboots back to the screen that says to install 3.55 or later firmware.

[mkkid28]

Ah right, that worked on mine so thought I'd just suggest it. Can't think of anything else, sorry

[jbowie]

Thanks for the help anyway. I am thinking it's probably a hardware issue, I was just hoping that maybe someone on here knew what it could be, in hopes that I could fix it without getting a new system.