PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[LittleBigDes]

Hi, I‘m down to the last few gig of space on my HD (alas a rather small pathetic 40gb original FAT PS3 hard drive). But I’ve been finding a lot of conflicting info on forums and the web. So I’m hoping by being on the official Sony forums will give me better results.
 
My questions are below:
 
1. What’s the best procedure to upgrade my HD, is there an up to date guide for this? (I’ve seen various things but very old ones, so this may have changed with the new update 3.61) I have a 500gb HD to put in it.
 
2. I have the odd protected game saves, such as Fat princess and Heavy Rain which I want to keep playing and keep earning those trophies. Do these saves get transferred properly from the back-up I do onto my portable external USB hard drive? I don’t have an option to copy them when I try to do it manually.
 
3. If I do a disc-image of the back-up on my PC does this help with the protected saves I have? Can I restore from it.
 
4. Does my PSN profile copy over as well as my game profiles for Little Big Planet 1 & 2 without getting the so called ‘copied save warning message’ that I’ve seen from other people online?
 
5. Is PS+ (ok it’s free for 30 days due to the PSN outage) the only way to unlock my protected saves?

I need some decent answers from peopl ethat have done this before. Thanks in advance.

[BIG-LENCH]

Number 1 - There really is no guide needed for this mate... its really really simple. A torx screwdriver and you are sorted. Simply get yourself a new 2.5 sata drive. Remove the old one and replace. A simple Google search would suffice if you are stuck

Thats basically a quick summary of what you do but it really is simple. I only swapped harddrives, I didnt bother about saves etc so I cant answer your other questions re: data etc.

[LittleBigDes]

Like I said previously, been finding lots of conflicting info on forums and the web. My data is important to me so I'm hoping for more feedback from others on here. Thanks anyway. I'll get my torx screwdriver out.

[ChambyR33]

have a pair of pliers handy too just incase

my screws were a dog to get out as they were so tight and i rounded one off so the only way to get it out was to turn it with some pliers untill it was loose enough for me to turn it with my fingers

not to say there all the same but just a heads up on what happened to me

[McNeilio]

most r the same m8 the needle nose pliers are great and also when u put the new drive in dont tighten the screws right up

[RUBBERDUCKZlLLER]

why on earth would someone use pliers?

[McNeilio]

trust me they save rounding those pesky screw heads lol

just pinch the head with the tips of them and twist and tada screws out and head is intact

[RUBBERDUCKZlLLER]

that kills the warranty though

[McNeilio]

what does changing the hard drive ??

[RUBBERDUCKZlLLER]

changing the HDD is fine, but using pliers to take out the screw is a bad idea xD