[elunesgrace]

I got a bit of a weird question.

I upgraded my hard drive yesterday, however, I wanted to make some edits to the old hard drive.

Can I safely swap them once just to make modifications without messing up the settings and stuff on the new drive? Or will I have to do the whole process again twice (once for each drive)?

I just want to remove my username and game data, but want to keep it jailbroken.

[oPolo]

Originally Posted by elunesgrace I got a bit of a weird question. I upgraded my hard drive yesterday, however, I wanted to make some edits to the old hard drive. Can I safely swap them once just to make modifications without messing up the settings and stuff on the new drive? Or will I have to do the whole process again twice (once for each drive)? I just want to remove my username and game data, but want to keep it jailbroken.

There is no need to remove the user and savedata on the old HDD. Each hdd is encrypted anyway, and can only be decrypted by the ps3 it was used in before.

Also, your "HDD isn't jailbroken at all", its your ps3 that is... The HDD plays no role here in terms of jailbreaking..

[HomeDope]

So basically If I would throw my HDD out of the window and swap and SSD in there. It would be still JB. Where is the information hold, in the Motherboard or somekind of Flash memory?

~Home

[DEFAULTDNB]

Originally Posted by HomeDope So basically If I would throw my HDD out of the window and swap and SSD in there. It would be still JB. Where is the information hold, in the Motherboard or somekind of Flash memory? ~Home

Derp: In the NOR or NAND.

If in the NOR you will need to reinstall the CFW on your new SSD because the FW files are 200+mb and the NOR is only 16MB. Enough is store in that NOR to ask you to reinstall the O/M/CFW you were on to allow your PS3 to boot as normal again.

Not sure if you still have to on NAND Phats (256MB), I would assume not... but I dont know.

[HomeDope]

Originally Posted by DEFAULTDNB Derp: In the NOR or NAND. If in the NOR you will need to reinstall the CFW on your new SSD because the FW files are 200+mb and the NOR is only 16MB. Enough is store in that NOR to ask you to reinstall the O/M/CFW you were on to allow your PS3 to boot as normal again. Not sure if you still have to on NAND Phats (256MB), I would assume not... but I dont know.

I have NOR And thanks for clearing up!

~Home

[haz367]

aslong both HDD's contain the same CFW u can safely swap for eachother, lets say the new upgraded hdd has nothing on it, when u swap with old hdd all ur content is ofcourse on the drive and u could edit/remove data from it as the part on the NOR flash > coreos has nothing todo with that, it boots each drive like normal when swapped i know cuse i had 320gb hdd that needed fixing..tested it on rex3554, switched for 320gb hdd, installed otherospup for linux partition, installed rex3554 again on the new drive, swapped with the old one and working fine

[elunesgrace]

Interesting so if I threw away this ps3 drive, no one else can access the content inside?

[R3QU13M]

Can you swap hardrives on 4.xx Rebug firmware?

(By going through backup and restoring process)

[oPolo]

Originally Posted by elunesgrace Interesting so if I threw away this ps3 drive, no one else can access the content inside?

Nope
They can still format the hdd by inserting it into their ps3 and use it as their own though. It will have to be formatted/cleaned and used as a new hdd though, since the old is encrypted with your ps3's keys.

@DEFAULTDNB The old NAND ps3's dont need to have a medium with the matching (or higher) firmware files connected, when the disk is changed. They can restore the whole firmware from the NAND. I dont think that has changed.

[DEFAULTDNB]

Thanks for the confirmation @oPolo