Hardware PS3 Fat HD Change

[Gabe1979]

Hello
I have a Fat PAL 60GB PS3
As far as i have learnt the only PAL PS3 model to support PS2 games it the one i have.
I have tested it and it ran a PS2 game.
It has software emulation not physical hardware like the NTSC ones.
Now my question

If I swap over the hard disk to a bigger one, will I lose the software that emulates the PS2?
Or is the PS2 software written on the flash memory or something else I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[darkgunsou86]

you will not lose the backwards compatibility. it's in the firmware and it does not reside in the harddisk. the old phats keep their firmware in the nand and you can just replace the harddisk without having to reinstall the firmware/cfw using an usb stick. it will detect a new harddisk and goes to the setup screen.