[jazzybazz]

I had managed to downgrade my OFW 4.31 phat to rogero 4.30 2.03 using e3 flasher and playerkp420's tutorial. Everything was fine for 2 weeks until yesterday when it started crashing and giving all kind of errors (system storage not found, press start+select to restore the firmware, etc..). I pressed start+select, the update got stuck at 99%. I think my HDD is faulty.

I have nor dumps of rogero 4.30 v2.03 (taken with e3 flasher), I was wondering if I could flash them to my ps3's nor to get out of the update loop? Do I have to patch my dumps before uploading them back to my ps3's nor? (I read something about e3 dumps being byte-reversed....)

I also read about Rogero PS3 Nor Auto-Patcher....do I have to apply both the byte-reverse and rogero nor auto patcher? or only one? or none at all?

Anyone can give me more information about what to do exactly?

thank you

[digiprog]

if u don't need any files to get them out of ur hdd .. just simply swap ur hdd and place another one and make sure its the same rpm of the hdd then try to install firmware it should work

[donkey-punch]

Originally Posted by jazzybazz I had managed to downgrade my OFW 4.31 phat to rogero 4.30 2.03 using e3 flasher and playerkp420's tutorial. Everything was fine for 2 weeks until yesterday when it started crashing and giving all kind of errors (system storage not found, press start+select to restore the firmware, etc..). I pressed start+select, the update got stuck at 99%. I think my HDD is faulty. I have nor dumps of rogero 4.30 v2.03, I was wondering if I could flash them to my ps3's nor to get out of the update loop? Do I have to patch my dumps before uploading them back to my ps3's nor? (I read something about e3 dumps being byte-reversed....) Anyone can give me more information about what to do exactly? thank you

I don't think you will need a flasher just use a new HDD and the rogero pup you are on.

[jazzybazz]

Originally Posted by donkey-punch I don't think you will need a flasher just use a new HDD and the rogero pup you are on.

I think I need it because ps3 is stuck in update loop.

[donkey-punch]

Originally Posted by jazzybazz I think I need it because ps3 is stuck in update loop.

Surely that is just because your HDD is goosed. Have you tried a new HDD?

[3absiso]

Originally Posted by donkey-punch Surely that is just because your HDD is goosed. Have you tried a new HDD?

Triple That,
Your HD is saying goodbye to you, just put a new one.

[jazzybazz]

I tried 3 different HDDs...same problem after the first time of being stuck at 99%...now it is stuck at "Checking... Please wait."

[carldenning]

Originally Posted by jazzybazz I tried 3 different HDDs...same problem after the first time of being stuck at 99%...now it is stuck at "Checking... Please wait."

any error code ?

[donkey-punch]

Originally Posted by jazzybazz I tried 3 different HDDs...same problem after the first time of being stuck at 99%...now it is stuck at "Checking... Please wait."

Did you format HDD in pc to fat32?? it has to be fat32 file system.

[3absiso]

Originally Posted by jazzybazz I tried 3 different HDDs...same problem after the first time of being stuck at 99%...now it is stuck at "Checking... Please wait."

did you put FW on a USB and put it in the PS3?