Any possible way to retreive data from dead ps3?
 

PS3 died. RSX is dead. It had 15 years of saves on it. Thanks to sony's awesome design choices, I can't just pop the HDD into another ps3. I found a trick on youtube that claimed you could bypass the formatting by going into the recovery menu and swapping them then restarting. But it didn't work.

Are there any CFW apps or ANY POSSIBLE way to get this to work? I will do anything to get my stuff back...

Thanks...

WOW I thought the PS3 was only 5-6 years old... do you have a Delorean too?:laugh:

I dont know of a way to restore a ps3 hdd, plugging it into windows/enclosure wont work, and plugging into a new PS3 doesnt work. I have no idea :dontknow:

I had saves from the ps1 and ps2 era on it.

Short of reballing/replacing the RSX I have no idea mate.

How to Swap Ps3 HDDs without Formatting Part 2 - YouTube

What do you make of this video?

Hmm, do you have a phat to try with? I didnt watch "part 1" but does he prove the second hdd wasnt from that PS3?

EDIT: ok watched part 1, he could have a trick, I dont know, but if the other hdd was already formatted with his ps3 it would work, and "appear to be swapped" .... there is only one way to find out, or did you say you tried it??

Yes I tried it on a 160gb fat. But I was thinking...

I read in another topic, the latest fat models and the slims store part of the OS on the hdd. The older fat models store it on flash memory. Wouldn't it make sense for it to work on older ones?

Also, he ain't the only guy with a video on it.

You are right... but what firmware did they bring in the feature of storing it on the HDD? The video guy was using 3.73 (because the PS3 was asking for it) 3.73 wasn't that long ago... I would have thought it was implemented a while back...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/0...ly-impossible/

found this, not sure if its relevant.

EDIT: derp: you mean NOR based phats and all slims (all slims are NOR) CANT do this trick, regardless of FW, so your 160gb phat is a NOR? or am I suffering from heat stroke here?

I believe the OS thing is model specific and not firmware specific. He said it works on any firmware has long as both ps3s were on the same firmware

Yeah gotchya, what FW is your PS3 on? all you need to do is find someone locally who has the same FW on an old phatty boom boom...