Is there a program to allow you to directly clone a hard drive from a PS3 to another drive, rather than having to reinstall everything from scratch? I want to upgrade my PS3 to a SSD but I don't want to have to re-download all my games again.
Is there a program to allow you to directly clone a hard drive from a PS3 to another drive, rather than having to reinstall everything from scratch? I want to upgrade my PS3 to a SSD but I don't want to have to re-download all my games again.
Yeah, I have one, I just don't think Windows 10 (maybe Linux, but definitely not Windows 10) would recognize the PS3 hard drive without help.You probably need an usb hdd docking station
Yeah, I do have custom firmware on my PS3, so all I would need is to hook up the new drive via a USB to SATA adapter and run Multiman to copy to it?Clonezilla, and use the byte-per-byte transfer. It's slower, but it will be guaranteed to copy everything.
Or, if your PS3 is hacked, Multiman should be able to format the new drive and copy the files over.
Well I think either the PS3's stock OS or Multiman should have a copy utility in them. But it's been 10+ years since I've had a hackable PS3.Yeah, I do have custom firmware on my PS3, so all I would need is to hook up the new drive via a USB to SATA adapter and run Multiman to copy to it?
Yeah, I have one, I just don't think Windows 10 (maybe Linux, but definitely not Windows 10) would recognize the PS3 hard drive without help.
It's because it's doing a sector by sector copy for the entire drive. If it also didn't need to clone the free space it wouldn't take as long but since it needs the entire drive and file system to be cloned with the PS3 it's going to take a while with an old 5400/7200rpm drive. Going from SSD to SSD would be a bit quicker.I see some youtube videos about this and it's take really long times for just only 250gb , imagine with really big drive
It's because it's doing a sector by sector copy for the entire drive. If it also didn't need to clone the free space it wouldn't take as long but since it needs the entire drive and file system to be cloned with the PS3 it's going to take a while with an old 5400/7200rpm drive. Going from SSD to SSD would be a bit quicker.
It would probably work but the extra space would most likely be inaccessible when doing a clone of the old drive.Does it work if the SSD is larger than the HDD?
Hmm, they don't even make 320GB SSDs so I guess I'm stuck with unusable space or re-downloading all my files...It would probably work but the extra space would most likely be inaccessible when doing a clone of the old drive.
The backup and restore feature built into the XMB may work or if you already have custom firmware it seems that there may be a backup feature within it as posted above. If that's not an option and you still haven't purchased the SSD than you're best bet would be to probably get a 350gb since the space loss would be minimal when doing a clone.Hmm, they don't even make 320GB SSDs so I guess I'm stuck with unusable space or re-downloading all my files...
Yes you can clone with a pc but drive size must match or you are wasting money on space that can't be used in the ps3 due to the nature of cloning the ps3 hard drive.You can clone it with PC ?