PlayStation 3 Hard Drive Replacement Tutorial
Vložit
- čas přidán 17. 10. 2014
- This video shows you how to replace the hard drive in a PlayStation 3. This video shows you how to replace the hard drive specifically on a PlayStation 3 slim. The method for opening up your PlayStation 3 to remove the hard drive might be different for you depending on the model of PlayStation 3 you have.
It has come to my attention that Sony used JIS screws on the hard drive cage inside of the PlayStation 3. All guides I researched for this video mentioned that these screws were phillips screws and that a phillips #1 screwdriver, like the one I use in the video and tell people they need to replace the hard drive, would be all they need to replace a PlayStation 3's hard drive.
You might be able to take out these screws using a phillips #1 screwdriver like I did. But if any of the screws won't budge, you shouldn't force the screws out as you might end up stripping them. You might need to acquire a JIS screwdriver if you don't have one already to remove the screws from your system's hard drive cage.
This video does not cover any homebrew related software on the PlayStation 3. I cannot answer any questions regarding jailbreaking or custom firmwares as I do not have any experience with PlayStation 3 modding.
Keep in mind that this video was recorded in 2014. While the methods shown in this video for replacing your PS3's hard drive still work, including replacing the hard drive in your system with a SSD, the links featured in this description might not work like this used to. I update these links as often as I can, but sometimes these links may not be working as sites change over time.
Links:
Guiformat: www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/inde...
Playstation 3 Firmware: www.playstation.com/en-us/sup...
Twitch: / sonicghost64
Twitter: / sonicghost64
Instagram: / sonicghost64
LPerLeague (Collab Channel): / lperleague
Livestream Archive Channel: / @sonicghoststreamarchives
#PlayStation3 #Tutorial #SonicGhost - Hry
It has come to my attention that Sony used JIS screws on the hard drive cage inside of the PlayStation 3. All guides I researched for this video mentioned that these screws were phillips screws and that a phillips #1 screwdriver, like the one I use in the video and tell people they need to replace the hard drive, would be all they need to replace a PlayStation 3's hard drive.
You might be able to take out these screws using a phillips #1 screwdriver like I did. But if any of the screws won't budge, you shouldn't force the screws out as you might end up stripping them. You might need to acquire a JIS screwdriver if you don't have one already to remove the screws from your system's hard drive cage.
Thank you!!!!!! I bought a "broken" PS3 for $20 and after swapping the HDD and following your steps, I have a new PS3 with 500GB.
FOR 20$!?!?!?
i bought one too for $20 cad :)
I keep getting "No applicable update data was found" message. But before I put in the usb I made sure it said Folders: PS3, UPDATE & A then FILES: PS3UPDAT
What am I doing wrong?
did the exact same thing except it was a broken PS3 at the Transfer Station (only paid for HDD)
@@truestdude same i been stuck for 3-4 months
Still working like a charm in April 2024! So instead of an external hard drive, I did use a PNY 256Gb thumb drive to save everything from my old hard drive and it worked just fine. Also, my restore took a few hours less than my back-up, which was a pleasant surprise. This video is excellent, thank you very much!
do you still have your hdd in your console or did you replace all of that with the thumb drive hdd
@@bynxtypebeat So I had the original HDD in the console and followed these instructions to a "T" with one exception -- he says to use an external hard drive with its own power source to back-up your old PS hard drive onto before you switch it out, rather than a thumb drive. I didn't have an external hard drive with its own power source, but I did have a 256 GB thumb drive so I figured I would try that first before shelling out money for a new external HD. I did, and it worked like a charm! My original HDD was still in the PS3, 160 GB, and it took about 8 1/2 hours to back up from the original PS hard drive onto the thumb drive. Then I switched out the original 160 GB PS hard drive with a Western Digital 500 GB hard drive, went through the process as described in the video and then restored all of my stuff from the thumb drive, which took about 5 1/2 hours (in the video, it took him longer to restore than to back-up, for me it was the opposite). Once I restored to the new PS HDD from my thumb drive, I removed the thumb drive and the system works like a charm. I hope that helped clarify what I meant
@@HlotSfandid you use the same thumb drive to load the new software update onto the ps3 upon startup? Or did you use a seperate one?
@@JoshDambuleff No, I used a second, small thumb drive that I had saved the update onto. The update itself is a pretty small file, so I used maybe an 8GB or 16 GB to store the update. And then every so often I will go and update the update on that thumb drive, just in case I ever need it again.
Awesome vid man, but just an FYI for everyone you actually don't need an external hard drive with a power source to back up your data. I used a Seagate Slim 1TB and it worked just fine.
A complete, "no-surprises" approach to backing up and restoring your PS3. Awesome, Awesome, Awesome job on the video. Thank you so much! Im at the final step of restoring the backed-up data to my new 1TB HD
This is the best, most comprehensive, and professional HDD replacement guide - thank you!
There are so many garbage videos on CZcams that explain all of these steps but make it way more complicated than your video does. Thank you from 2020.
Awesome! Just got my PS3 back up and running. Just took the harddrive out of an old laptop and followed your instructions. Thanks so much!
Fantastic video, was having issues trying to install the new firmware but you walked me right through the service settings. My ps3 is now working well with my new hard drive. Thanks you so much.
Video is still helping even in 2019! Thanks SonicGhost!
Max Cooper 2020
Ah yes the ps3 changes over time
Yup!
@@T-Fyre xxx hi
This shit is kicking my ass man!! Lol!! I been @ this since last night. So do u copy & paste to the PS3 folder 1st & then to the UPDATE folder? Or do u just create the PS3 folder & paste straight to the UPDATE folder?
Nothing I've tried works. I keep getting the "no applicable update was found" message. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
This is by far the easiest and most detailed video on this tutorial! I literally watched 20 different videos that were crap.
Very useful and easy to follow instructions! Well done!
This is a very helpful video you did grreat. I just got ps3 in 2021 and this is great to know. I will follow this guide and thank u so much for bring this awesome. You kill this tutorial in 2014. man i hope you still do videos
Gotta sub, because thats what i was searching for, and you gave me even more, very detailed, very good content, thank you
This video is still helping even in 2021. Thanks
thank god you said this, I just decided I'll try to enhance my ps3
Painless and effective. Works like a charm, had fun doing it too! Thank you for this detailed video.
Is it normal to be stuck at checking please wait after installing the flash drive it's taking forever
@@stylewithaltitude-mensstyl2295 it doesn't sound normal, maybe start over and try again
@@rMachete I got through... still getting the error on multiplayer saying ea connection to the server was lost. Do I need to sync ea with psn?
Hey SonicGhost. Great great video. I posted another comment 7 days ago but I finally got a hard drive with independent current connection. Following your tutorial was super easy. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this. I was trying to get to upgrade my old ps3 hard drive and couldn't find any decent tutorial, your held my hand all the way thru like the nob i am at this lol
Sigh, back when CZcams was still worth it. Who knew that a ps3 hard drive replacement video could be almost 20 minutes of full content and no ads. What has the world become[facepalm]
:-/ you are so right two unskippable ads are just stupid
Thanks for the great video. Mine worked out exactly like you said. This video was way more in depth then others that I watched. I'm glad I found your video before I started this operation.
Here we go with new PS3 and new drive. Thanks for the guide. Really good one!
Awesome--this video had the extra info that I needed, after struggling with some more mainstream instructions.
"Mainstream instructions" - you mean official instructions? Lol
Thank you so much for this! It was extremely helpful, worked flawlessly :)
The best tutorial I've seen so far....i've used it to upgrade to a SSD drive. Congratulations Sonicghost!
I heard SSD drives are useless in a ps3 and that speeds are severely limited, is that true?
Kosm _ depends. Some games it improves performance and it also improves loadings and installs
I will try an SSHD tomorrow. Let's see how that goes.
what if you have game installed on your old HDD, can they be transferred?
@@TheEndofThis Not really useless, but you're not going to get full ~500MB speed that SATA SSDs are capable of.
Speed is limited to 150MB as it's a SATA gen 1 connector.
For comparisor regular mechanical drives have a max speed of 80-120MB. So you do get a ~25% speed boost.
SSDs have another advantage though, no "seek" and "spin-up" times which makes the whole console feel a bit more responsive.
The difference is not huge but it's there.
Man I cant say it anyway else but Thank you, I wish you much success!
Man! Thanks alot, I had a dead PS3 and you helped a lot to make it come back alive! really thankful mate!
Thanks for this vid. Got my PS3 via a recycling site as a non-starter, so zero cost and was then given a 500Gb disk for free too.
The original disc was dead, so followed your process for the physical replacement up to the 'two button press and hold to power up'.
Because the replacement drive wouldn't boot as it was from another device and since it didn't have valid code on it, the PS3 menu allowed me to format the disk in-situ and then after the usual 'no-way-back' warning, proceeded to load up the new system software.
The only glitch, which was very minor, was the system didn't advise the user to press the X to proceed when the EULA was shown on the screen, so made the assumption I needed to and now we have a happy PS3 user.
Just fixed and upgraded drive in PS3 with this video, great work , thanks
Thanks bro that’s was well don I got my to work. I watch a lot of videos and non tell us to format the hard drive in the ps3 and how to do it you. That’s nice of you
Thank you so much I upgraded in 2019 to a new one terabyte drive and this video still works fantastic. and it fixed my problem I had super lag because I had the original hard drive on the original PlayStation 3... And the dreaded clicking
I cant just put in a new SSD on a bad HDD? My HDD is clicking and not able to get on
Thanks , this helped alot I just upgraded to a 500 GB drive from a very full 160 on my ps3 slim. Trying to do this getting everything i needed prepped for more than a few months now. watching many instructional videos.finding a way to format to fat32 for my backup of my firmware and HDD. It has been quite a mess and fighting me all the way. When i finished the restore process i got a error.that it couldnt finish, although it did complete to 100 percent. SMH. I resigned in to PS account restored my trophys. But was unable to go into the PS Store without it freexing up and having to do a hard shutdown. I had to delete the PS Store and redownload it, Although, every time i finally figure out a process to solve a problem,and thank someone.... another problem arises. Hoping this time its for good. I am quite computer savy but this whole indepth process has really pushed my patients to its limits. The videos made it look so easy. I have had to repeat all the steps of the upgrade process multiple times till it finally worked. Even to the point of formating the drive for the backup down to within 10 GB of the backup space required. So my ps3 would recognize it. Thanks again, Wayne
Bro your a legend thanks bro u saved me a lot of money for having it repaired i did it myself for next to nothing u made it simple short and sweet
Thank you so much for breaking it down so simple! I just did it as you explained and it worked perfectly! This past weekend, I bought a PS3 at a yard sale for $3 because it didn't work. With one $2 500gb hard drive from Goodwill, and it's as good as new! :)
hello i cant get it im looking at comments because it always says "no applicable update data was found" i feel he wont reply so can you help me out i have the version 4.88
@@bubblestruly6244 No probs dude, I gochu. What's going on is that your thumb drive isnt formatted to FAT32, which is the only format the PS3 reads. Check this video and follow what the guys says, depending on what size thumb drive you have. Mine was 128gb, so I had to go through the extra step of installing rufus, but it worked perfectly for me. Once you have your thumb drive formatted to FAT32, copy and paste the folders and file as originally directed here, then go through the installation steps. It will work! :)
czcams.com/video/xJNAS505vVU/video.html
finally had time with COVID out there to update mine just today, still helping in *2020*! Thanks SonicGhost!
Fo real bro!!!
what covid? out where?
Thanks for the video, perfect explanation! The other videos/sites I looked at were garbage compared to this one as they didn't give all the info that I needed. So thank you!
Hey guy after watching loads of vids on this got to say yours is the best one i found thanks guy changed my HD to 1 TB works perfect thanks for your time
Mate I'm watching this in 2021 almost 2022 and it STILL WORKS
Bro 6 years later you still helped me lol
hello sonicghost, although I primarily use the PS3 as a Blu-ray DVD player. I went to download a game for my granddaughter and needed an additional 6.7 GB of disk space. I replaced 160 GB drive with a 1 TB drive following your, explicit excellent instructions. Thank you for the detailed video and in-depth explanation of each step. The replacement was flawless. The only difficulty I encountered was the agonal amount of time it took to both back up and restore the original disk. But you have no control over the Sony application that does that. thanks again. I appreciate you posting such a helpful video.
Best regards; FreeLance-Rider
Hello, does the PS3 still has access to the store? My brother have a PS3 and I bought several games on it, he is in another country, if I get a PS3 now. I would install a 1TB drive. But… can I access my purchased games? Can I download them? Can I buy new games?
@@CRJ08 Yes, it still has access
Thank you SonicGhost, my buddy got a ps3 slim from a guy for $5 with a piece of tape on it that said "doesn't work". We had everything we needed to install a new harddrive except the fat32 formatter, we'd used another one but it didn't work. your link and instructional steps near the end of the vid were very helpful. also i was wondering, is the panflute in the later half of the video "The Great Zamfir," master of the panflute?
Was having issues with stock HDD so I grabbed an old laptop which had 500gb and 7200rpm. PS3 is running so smooth again. It was freezing so much and taking years to boot internal games. Thanks for the video! 🎉
Cheers Sonic! Just installed a new HD and reinstalled PS3 SW. All worked OK.
I followed this guide and used some tools, and it worked! My old HDD was clicking, booting me out of games, having problems starting, etc. I thought I was toast, so I quickly ordered a new SSD and didn't proceed to use it to do any more damage until it was replaced. Shortly thereafter, my SSD finally arrived in the mail from Amazon. Here's what I did:
I used IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free to format my new 1tb SSD (Crucial brand, if you're wondering) to FAT32 Logical partition.
Then I used HDD Raw Copy Tool to make a perfect 1:1 clone of my old HDD to my new SSD. It was pretty straightforward.
Just popped it in, turned it on, and bingo... works perfectly. :)
When you cloned it, what happened to the extra space with the SSD? I don't get how the PS3 will even recognize it as it uses a file system other than FAT32.
This is a great tutorial! I backed up my PS3 to a flash drive and then restored it all to a new SSD without issue. Windows limits FAT32 partitions to 32GB which wasn't enough to backup my data so I used fat32format to get around that. I also put the bios on the same flash drive as the backup which worked.
Amazing !!! Even in 2020 your Information still VERY USEFUL ........ I just UPDATED my PS3 into 1TB ..... THANKS for the UPDATE \O/
Hey dude, fantastic tutorial on how to do this. My PS3 is better than ever thanks to you.
Awesome worked like a charm for me great instructions....Thank you.
i like these tutorials. do it nowadays and the UI looks complete different
lots has changed in the past 8 years
Hay man thank you for the great video. This video has helped me out a lot.
i accidentally updated my jailbroken ps3, and bricked it. i eventually took apart of 20gb xbox 360 hard drive, got out the mini hard drive, and put it in. then i just followed theses steps, and its updating right now! thanks so much!!!!!!
When you get a new hard drive (cuz 20gb is really not enough) (i suggest)
Jailbreak your ps3 but after you did that DO NOT TOUCH the system update setting
BEWARE OF IT!
@@denisdavid1339 its been a while since this happened lol but yeah stay away from the system update if youre jailbroken it will not be a good time
Thanks for helping me out! Tutorial still works 2021
Just did mine yesterday and it went so smooth !!
Great video, it helped me to change my disk.
I know PS3 is obsolete but I am still using it. Decided to upgrade the HDD. Fantastic tutorial. Thank you.
Same here man, mine still works great. No need to hang er up yet. Still lots of fun games out there
@@captawesome11 Got sucked into Lego Dimensions. Will take some time.
Beata Nozka You're PS3 is NOT obsolete. Lol don't believe the hype.
Ps3 is old, not obsolete. Old you can come back to it and enjoy it. Obsolete is something you never want to return to.
Worked like a charm.
For those without a flash drive on deck, you CAN use an SD card in the same manner, just use a usb sd card reader and you're golden.
Thanks I put an SSD and I love it and all the other videos was all mixed up yours is on track and explaining step by step 😂😉😁
Very clear video, works well - Thank you!
This video has been a great help thanks
Still helpfull in 2021!!! Thank you very much!
Finally got round to upgrading my PS3 HDD after living on the edge (less than 2GB) for quite some time! haha. Great tutorial! Won't know what to do with all the space (upgraded from 120GB to 1TB)
Great Tutorial, recommended! And thumbs up for the background music, Aquatic Ambiance from the Donkey Kong Country OST is always a blast ;-)
Looked for this comment!
you all prolly dont give a shit but does someone know a way to log back into an Instagram account??
I somehow forgot the password. I love any help you can give me
@Nikolai Gerardo Instablaster :)
@Wilson Deshawn Thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site through google and Im trying it out atm.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Wilson Deshawn It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D
Thank you so much you saved my ass :D
this video was a great help, thanks
This tutorial is perfect, appreciate it
Here in 2021 still with my PS3! Just installed a 240gb ssd. Thanks SonicGhost!!
Very, very helpful video! Thank you very much 🙏🏼🙏🏼
OMG it worked great! The only thing it didn't transfer was my trophies. Thank you, Thank you
Still working in 2021; many thanks!
Thank you very much! Excellent Video easy instructions. I Finally Got to use my PS4 500gb drive after upgrading for more storage. Cheers. 🍻
dude you are awesome man saved me I couldn't get my ps3 to un freeze unfortunately lost all data and games didn't back up any of it so. but it was the hard drive
It works, I'm noy a native english speaker and also I understud everything you said in this video, this tutorial helped me a lot, so Thank You!!
Thank you. Great video. Changed my HDD
You are a life saver i brought a ps3 slim that had 16gb but wanted to put my old ps3 super slim harddrive in it bc it was 500gb
Thanks your tutorial helped just installed wd blue 1tb 2020 i have lots of ps3
Thank you,, It was helpful.
Well explained
Thank u
i still need to get the cable to connect it to a pc, but this was rly informative for when it comes in?
question: what’s the music in the video? i was bouncing throughout lol
I definitely heard the old midi tracks to Donkey Kong Country’s water level in there so it’s some kind of remix of midi tracks I think
Hello, I really want to thank for sharing this instruction video, it helpt me to have a fine working ps3 with 1 TB, plays as new. Greetings from The Netherlands
Guys, this is a great tutorial but in order to save 9 hours of your time, just clone the drive. Takes less than 20 minutes and you are good to go. Tried and tested on mine. Thanks.
that if the hard drive still works.
Thnx
The 2nd way worked for me
Thanks mate in 2021 this helped me alot
Great Video, Did everything you instructed, I can play demos online, but will not pay a game disc ? any suggestions ? Thank you
Thanks so much for the help! This made the process so simple even for the technologically illiterate like myself :)
Thx, wanted to know about the update process :)
Thanks you. well detailed explanations.
Thank you this is the only game system I have and i thought i broke it and i was upset thank you for the help
2021 info: With the PS Store closing for the PS3 in July, I've decided to upgrade my internal HDD from 500GB to 1TB.
I was able back up my PS3 files with the PS4 Game drive (2TB external HDD) by formatting it to FAT32.
The video titled 'Format any size drive to Fat32' helped alot.I then installed a new WD Blue 1TB HDD (for laptops, not desktops!) to my PS3 slim, and downloaded the update software 4.87 from the Sony webpage, and still works! Great video dude!
Hope this is helpful to anyone and everyone.
I like to ask, how is that PS4 game drive going on the PS3? It’s USB powered, right? I’m trying to figure out what external hard drive is good enough for the PS3 and not buying something that doesn’t work as this guy says to buy an external hard drive with its own power source or adapter. Thanks.
@@BossBig709 For the PS4 game drive, first I connect to my PC, and format it to FAT32. Once completed, I then connect it to the PS3 and see it if reads it. I used it to backup my files mostly. And, it is usb powered.
@@Grayfox82 Alright, I’ll try that when I get one. Thanks for the response.
@@Grayfox82 I almost forgot to ask, will a external hard drive backup my themes and game installs?
You can also clone the disk to prevent from doing that extra step on backing up everything.
Thanks for video, I slapped a 1TB in PS3 Slim 👍
Is it enough 1tb for games?
When I formatted the drive it restarted with a blank screen and now I can't fix it I tried holding it down for safe mode and it still shows a blank screen:( help
Hey nice video! Do you know if this will work on the newest 12gb PS3 consoles that from 2014? I would think they wouldn't sell such a small capacity system for cheap if the HDD could be replaced so easily, wouldn't everyone do that instead of buying a 500gb for more $$$?
Thanks for the video it helped a lot...Would it be possible to connect both hard dives to the computer and copy the old to the new. making the backup drive and flash drive with the firmware unneeded ?? Most informative video i have seen for PS3 upgrade.
The PS3 uses an encrypted drive with a proprietary boot format that shouldn't even load on a Windows PC.
Thank you, very informative.
If I don't have a flash drive, I just hope it is be able to it with a external H.D for backing up and restoring I also have an SD card in the original backwards compatible model so maybe it'll boot from there as well. Let me know if you know.
Using an SD card is fine, just use a USB SD card reader. That's exactly how I did it, I don't have a flash drive on deck.
Very helpful. Thank you.
dude THANK YOU
my ps3 has been broken for years and now i can fix it! you are a fucking LEGEND my guy
If you are on CFW, do you have to repeat the same steps ( providing you backup-restore the cfw instead of ofw) or do you need to do something different?
I'm doing this aside from the back up on Saturday
What is the song playing in the background? It sounds very familiar
THANKS 2021 STLL WORKING :D
video is so helpful even in 2022
Video is so helpful even in 2023