How To Update A Hdd Jailbroken Ps3

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With a few unproblematic steps and less than a hundred dollars you lot can upgrade your PS3's internal hard drive to any desired capacity. Within minutes you can turn your twenty, 40, or 60GB PS3 into a 120, 250, or fifty-fifty a 500GB+ machine for all your multimedia needs.

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Purchase a 2.5" mobile hard drive of desired chapters.
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Support whatsoever data already stored on the PS3.
1. Plug the external USB hard drive into i of the PS3's USB ports.
2. In the Xross Media Bar become to Settings > Arrangement Settings > Fill-in Utility.
3. Follow the on screen directions and select "Back up" to support all game saves, downloads, media and game installs to the USB drive.
4. Disconnect the USB bulldoze when fill-in is complete.
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Plough off the PS3 and unplug the power cable.
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Detach the plastic cover on left side of unit by inserting a small flathead screwdriver into indentation and gently pry outward.
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Remove the screw toward the middle bottom with a Phillips head screwdriver. Mine is a bit larger than the other visible screws and colored bluish.
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Use the retractable sparse metallic handle to slide drive to the right then remove the drive from the system.
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Remove the small Phillips head screws from the sides of the drive harness and so extract factory installed drive.
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Replace it with the new difficult drive and fasten it into the harness with the small screws. So insert it into the PS3 and slide to the left with the piffling handle until information technology pops into place. Y'all tin then fasten information technology with the first screw you lot removed and replace the plastic cover.
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Insert the power cablevision and turn the ability on. You lot will exist prompted to format the new hard drive. Information technology will ask you lot if you are sure and only click aye until it begins the formatting process. Wait patiently during the formatting procedure. It may accept several minutes. At this signal, on occasion, the console may refuse to run due to the appropriate firmware non being present, only download the firmware from the official Sony Playstation site, save it to a USB stick in a file called UPDATE, itself in a file called PS3, and so plug the USB stick into a USB socket on the console
- Once formatted, yous have completed the process and you tin utilize the greater storage capacity.
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Restore your PS3 data (saves, media, downloads etc.)
1. Reconnect the USB bulldoze to a USB port on the PS3.
2. Go to Settings > Arrangement Settings > Backup Utility in the Xross Media bar. Select Restore from the onscreen menu.
3. All backed up material should now be restored from the external USB drive to the new difficult bulldoze yous only installed.
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Generally any make or size of 2.5" mobile hard drive will be uniform.
If y'all're having issues finding a hard drive, or aren't quite certain if what y'all found volition work, ask or search for a laptop hard drive. These generally are ii.5" drives.

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Small screws may be decumbent to stripping, where the screwdriver tears the metal head of the screw, making it incommunicable to tighten or loosen. Support the bulldoze firmly and use the proper size screwdriver to help avoid this trouble.
Warranty issues may arise if they discover that you replaced your hard drive. Retain the original drive so that you tin can reinstall it in case of a warranty claim.

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