Technical Help

[Walsh213]

Original 40gb with 250gb installed.

This is a refurbished model.

Recently the console has been freezing or stalling before starting up. I click on my user to log in and its almost 1 out of 3 that the console will simply stall and refuse to load up the XMB icons. (sometimes it loads up some icons, while others are missing) Needless to say, I am stuck on this screen and the only option is to switch it off on the back stitch.

So rather than switching it off constantly, and adding further damage, I read that getting the System Restore options was the way to go. So I clicked on Restore File System and eventually I get to a screen saying

'Your Hard Disk is corrupted and will be restored'

So I think, great, now i'm gonna lose all my data. So I click OK and the progress bar begins to fill. It took roughly 30 minutes to hit 50 percent and then suddenly shot up to 100. The console rebooted, and I get back to the SAME screen saying

'Your Hard Disk is corrupted and will be restored'

So I go through it again, this time its much faster. It hits 100 percent and reboots. Back to the same screen.

There is no way to cancel this restore option. (unless I turn the console off and see what happens next)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. And no, it's not under warranty anymore.

Thanks in advance.

[TTDegs]

sometimes taking the hard disc out and putting it back in helps.

either that or try to force it into safe mode again, and choose option 4 this time - has potential to loose some (minor) data
http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?message.uid=43684789

[TTDegs]

or this link
http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Technical-Help/Stuck-in-system-update-loop-error-8002F1F0/m-p...

is a pretty ultimate big hammer - but involves opening the PS3 up and fiddling with the internal battery, so is not for the faint hearted, and has the POTENTIAL to do more damage...

[Walsh213]

thanks for the reply. I can get back into the Safe Mode, but I must stress, I need to get my save files, that's if they have not been deleted already.

Is there anyway to do this? I don't have a 2.5 SATA enclosure, I just have USB flash drives, but I cannot get back on the XMB!

I should have just left it alone, but I thought sorting it out would have been better in the long run. Looks like I was wrong.

Getting the save data is a number one priority right now. I would go round to my friends and put this HDD into his PS3 if I knew it would work. But i've never replaced a drive before, as easy as it might be.

[Walsh213]

Just tried to select option 4: Rebuild Database.

A message comes up saying HDD cannot be accessed.

Is there anything I can do to salvage my game saves? Hundreds of hours on Oblivion and Fallout 3.

[TTDegs]

unfortunately, putting your HDD into a different PS3 will force it to be wiped

the SATA enclosure wouldn't work, as the PC would be unable to read the PS3 format

your only real hope now is to take the HDD out of your PS3 and then put it back in - HOPEFULLY there is a dodgy connection going on, and re-seating the drive MIGHT clear this...

[Walsh213]

In the end I had to reformat.

Lost all my data.

For the people reading this, let this be a warning to us all. Back up your data from time to time, epecially the BIG games like Oblivion, Dragon Age and Fallout 3.

Do yourself a favour and don't let it happen to you. This is twice in the past 6 months i've had to deal with this on Oblivion. I won't be playing the game again for long time.

[gb9876]

to be honest oblivion sucks on the ps3 i got it on there first but then bought the pc version as u can mod (make ur own spells,weps, armor,buildings,creatures etc

and yes u should back up from time 2 time my last one was last month