[AWDdsm]

Just last week I got the yellow light of death on my launch day 60gb ps3. Now it will not turn on and my dumb ass never backed up my hard drive. I had a ton of music and pix on there and most importantly about 11 psn games, most of which cannot be re-downloaded due to being bought in group buys. So it is important to me that i try to get that info of my hdd before I even think about sending my ps3 to sony for repairs. Now I have tried putting the hdd in my friends ps3 but it asked me to reformat it which would've cleared up my hdd (so i think). Im hoping some of you guys can help me out here.

[Pirate]

You can't backup, your files are unfortunately gone, no way to restore unless you get your dead PS3 working somehow.

The HDD is locked to a PS3 so you can't swap and make it work on another PS3 without formatting.