How to Change A PS3 Hard Drive

How to install a new hard drive into your PS3

Just a quick recap on the hard drive installation

1. turn off and unplug your ps3 then take off the HDD cover on the bottom
2. unscrew the blue screw
3. flip up the latch and slide it to the right
4. pull out your hard drive and unscrew all four screws (try not to strip them)
5. swap your hard drive with the new one (put the new HDD in the case the same way as the old one was
6. screw all of the screws back in
7. put the hard drive back in the ps3 and slide it to the left with the latch
8. screw the blue screw back into your playstation

I hope this helped you install your hard drive, oh and a quick reminder, you need a SATA 2.5" Laptop HDD.

If you want the same HDD i got here you go : )
http://tiny.cc/4kGnv

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[XVANILLATHRILA]

i followed all the steps correctly. i went to restore clicked on my usb device and it sayed there is no backup data. i plugged the usb device into the computer and i know that the data was copied onto it.

Any ideas?

[bskdopeboy]

@lokalllize He's Australian. Same as Americans say "dayda" and Ewoks say "naknunak". You say 'then' rather than 'than'. Meow.

[lokalllize]

hmm you say da ta rather then day ta

[monhogee97]

umm will sony make you pay if the blue screw is damaged like scrapes.

[SAYSAFEL]

@xxxDeMiSe  you need to take it to sony blue screens arent common

[xxxDeMiSe]

can changing the hard drive disk stop the bluescreen on my ps3 80gb?!?!? somebody?!

[shadow7945]

@shadow7945 by the way the one with all of my data is the 60 gig

[shadow7945]

hey i was wondering if you could put 1 ps3 hard drive into another and keep all of youre data or if there was another way because i just got the YLOD and im trying to get the hard 60 gig har drive into a ps3 that came with an originally 80 gig hard drive, it said i needed to format the hard drive, and to do that it wud hav to delete all of my data, and i want to keep it all and put it in another ps3, so idk if i have to get an originally 60 gig ps3 and try it or wut, plz help me

[Imdabossou]

Wtf i took it out to see how many gb it was and put it back in after 10 seconds and it says hard drive needs to be formatted!! how the hell do i fix it i dont want to delete all my games

[HecticxViSiONz]

do you keep the accounts or do you have to re-add them to the system?