Semi Bricked + Update Fix Failed

I am having issues with this ps3.
What happened was my friend bought a ps3 and told me to hack it. I told him sure, and had no idea about the blu-ray not working.

So I went to update from 3.30 OFW to KMEAW BDB SDC 3.55 FW and it went into a update loop, and it originally always stopped at like 60-80%, but after a few times of trying to update in the loop it got to 40%.

What I did was format the HDD to FAT32 directly into my computer - Remove the CMOS Battery

Then Stay on for 30 SEC Then go off

Went to Recovery then update - Tried updating with 1 of the Patch updateBDB but always come up with a message different 800... I even tried a new hard drive.


PS: WHEN I DO UPDATE FROM THE RECOVERY IT TAKES ABOUT 30 MINS TO "CHECKING ...." THEN START TO UPDATE AND FAILS.

Any Idea Anyone cheers

Have you formatted the HDD on your PS3? It can't use the HDD if it's FAT32, you know, it needs to be formatted prior to installing firmware.

If the bluray drive doesn't work, you'll need to create your own firmware w/ MFW that has the bd-rom check disabled

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Originally Posted by chesh

If the bluray drive doesn't work, you'll need to create your own firmware w/ MFW that has the bd-rom check disabled

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That, too, but he needs to format the HDD back to PS3 native format first. He says he formatted it to FAT32 which obviously will not work on the internal HDD.

Yh I did format it to FAT32 which I thought was right, but how do I format it to the PS3 format? Cheers

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Originally Posted by AbarthGT

Yh I did format it to FAT32 which I thought was right, but how do I format it to the PS3 format? Cheers

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PS3 internal format is not FAT32, FAT32 is only used on external devices. That's the issue.

As to how to format it: start up Recovery Mode on your PS3 and do 'Restore PS3 System', this should re-format the drive AFAIK.

Do note that you'll still need the firmware update, too, when you do that. You should download a program called PS3MFW and create a custom firmware with that with BluRay checks disabled. It's quite easy to do a custom firmware image with PS3MFW, just go ahead and try it.

Good luck fixing your system.

Thaanks for your help im going to give it a try and post back when I have more new for future use .cheers