YLOD CFW PS3- swap HDD to another CFW PS3?

[role2682]

My 1 TB CFW PS3 died yesterday. I have 2 others PS3's, one that i have the OFW 3.60 on it and I have a backup that still has a really old OFW (not sure which one but hasn't been online in 2+ years) I would like to take my 1 TB HDD out of the broken one and put it in my old PS3 and put CFW 3.55 on it but I don't think I can just swap the HDD, right? Is there any way to swap the HDD with out loosing all the data on the HDD? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mothmanex]

For what I have learn, you can not recover that data. The HDD is encrypted, so other PS systems and the PC will ask you to format it. The only way to recover everything will be by decrypting it (if I am correct, there is no way for that) or to repair the PS3 in question and backup the data.

I think there is a way to make a unecrypted HDD but you will need to start from zero.

[patmorita]

Use Rebug CFW. There's an option to do something like this. I haven't tried it but you can ask in the thread of Rebug. The devs are cool guys.-

[Traybourne]

I read somewhere that you can change the hdd serial number the ps3 will accept in the xregistry.sys and you can swap out that way.

[role2682]

I read somewhere that you can change the hdd serial number the ps3 will accept in the xregistry.sys and you can swap out that way.

For what I have learn, you can not recover that data. The HDD is encrypted, so other PS systems and the PC will ask you to format it. The only way to recover everything will be by decrypting it (if I am correct, there is no way for that) or to repair the PS3 in question and backup the data.

I think there is a way to make a unecrypted HDD but you will need to start from zero.

Use Rebug CFW. There's an option to do something like this. I haven't tried it but you can ask in the thread of Rebug. The devs are cool guys.-

Thanks for all the quick replies, I will look into all and see what works. I'll update what works. Probably wont be till this weekend till I get a chance to mess with it.

Don't you hate having to be an adult sometimes. I wish I could just say screw work, stay home and play with my PS3/PCs but then i would have no life...wait I don't think I do anyways.

[cookie42]

Use Rebug CFW. There's an option to do something like this. I haven't tried it but you can ask in the thread of Rebug. The devs are cool guys.-

Uhh, pretty sure there is no feature like that.

I read somewhere that you can change the hdd serial number the ps3 will accept in the xregistry.sys and you can swap out that way.

That is complete nonsense. Every ps3 hdd is encrypted with a ps3 specific key another ps3 will not be able to decrypt it. I know what thread you're talking about, and the person behind it does not understand anything about the ps3. He is an idiot. Don't waste your time on that one. Some people even said it forced a silent format, ie it formatted without telling them. Once again, the guy behind that thread is an idiot.

[ufoblue84]

You mean this dude aka Graf Chokolo

PS3 Internal HDD Encryption is Disabled by Graf Chokolo - PS3 NEWS - PlayStation 3 News - PS3 Hacks - PS3 CFW

MaxConsole - Hacker removes security encryption on ps3 HDD

I thought his work was real or I'm I wrong?

[cookie42]

No, of course I wasn't referring to graf. He's awesome! Huge fan of the guy.
I was referring to a bullshit thread on my least favorite forum that I won't mention because well, it's crap.
Read the posts again, the method he was referring to for swapping hdd's was a very stupid one that doesn't work.
What you are referring to does in fact work, but you can't swap the hdd if it's had a ylod unless you backed up the "key" before hand, because you need cfw and graf's linux to recover that "key" in the first place.

[ufoblue84]

No, of course I wasn't referring to graf. He's awesome! Huge fan of the guy.
I was referring to a bullshit thread on my least favorite forum that I won't mention because well, it's crap.
Read the posts again, the method he was referring to for swapping hdd's was a very stupid one that doesn't work.
What you are referring to does in fact work, but you can't swap the hdd if it's had a ylod unless you backed up the "key" before hand, because you need cfw and graf's linux to recover that "key" in the first place.

Its cool.

He shoud fix the ylod first then and go from there

So was Graf Chokolo the first hacker to removes security encryption on ps3 HDD?

Did he ever release any of his work so we can have a go at removing the encryption on our ps3 HDD.

Or is that a NO NO due to open court case?

[cookie42]

Yeah, it was released, but only for linux, and it's not really user friendly, mainly for testers and developers, you won't find a tutorial on how to do it, at least I haven't seen one anywhere.
There was actually a trick ages ago to sort of get an unencrypted hdd if I remember correctly, but yeah that was ages ago and would be patched. Marcan, you might know him from fail0verflow, was the first person I know of to truly disable encryption, but as he admits in his source code, it was a hacky way to do it (he said "horrid hack"), not desirable as a permanent solution. Anyways, this only related to linux and not to gameos, in-fact gameos wasn't even on his hdd, and the firmware wasn't on his ps3, it was a purely a linux box at the time. This also wouldn't really enable swapping hdds between ps3s.
So yeah, I think I answered everything.