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- Conza_No1
Alright, so now that I'm updating to 2.02 (from 2.0/2.01, 4th of December whatever was latest then), let me tell you a story of how fragile my slim 250GB PS3 actually is.
So I'm playing along, and suddenly power goes out, we're in a fairly prone area, I get it going again, and oh no, power out again. Some time passes, power is back on a second time, I leave it more than 5 minutes this time before going back, and I do.
['Playstation hdd is corrupt, its going to fix itself ok?' - X]
That above happens... I don't know, 3 times in a row, before I decide, ok its screwed.
Take out the HDD, plug it into an external usb 2.0 enclosure, plug it into my laptop (Windows 7), and start hard formatting it using Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management
Oh, and I had difficulty getting it to appear there, so I went in to Devices and Printers first, went to the enclosure device (ATA/ATAPI or something), and populating the drive somehow in one of the tabs there made it appear in Disk Management.
SO. That finally completes, I reconstruct my PS3, plug the HDMI and power back in, and simply turn it on - recovery mode by default (one press, none of the hold and wait for on beep, then video beep, then double beep).
I had backed up my total PS3 data (30GB) onto an external on the 4/12, so that was ready, I had backed up my GT5 more recently (earlier that day), and I downloaded version 4.00 of the firmware from sony on my laptop.
So, created the 'PS3 > UPDATE' folder on an external, placed the *.PUP file in there (this is the firmware file from sony); the 'PS3 > EXPORT' & 'PS3 > SAVE' folders had already been created.
I'm prompted 'ok, give me 4.00 firmware' it resets, finds the hdd, and copies/installs the firmware. Then it acts as though its a brand new PS3, which is a sign of relief, do the minimum compulsory settings, and then immediately go to restore my data.
The restore completes after 1.5-2 hours, and everything is exactly as it was pre-power out, except I hadn't updated to 2.02, it thought I last played GT5 on the 4th (easily fixed by overwritting it with my latest GT5 save), and I didn't check, but I should've lost all my inbox/outbox messages on my PSN.
Now, as I write this, I deleted my old back up on the external (with another copy on stand by on my laptop still), and I'm backing up this 'hopefully' stable version of my PS3, which has completed 18% and it thinks it'll take another 1.05 hours before its finished.
Moral of the story... Well, buy an Uninterruptable Power Supply if you can afford it and you're in an area like myself, but more importantly BACK UP (after) every time there's an update of your most recent games or the PS3 itself, I probably would've had to download GBs of data for GT5, let alone all my other games that might have updates, and my saves, aparently I had played 1046 days worth of GT5 (I don't know how thats possible I bought the game in March, anyway) by the 4th of December.
I hope my walkthrough/story assists anyone who is in need of any help, or provides comfort to those that haven't experienced this yet, that when/if you do have a similar problem, with the proper safeguards and steps, it only requires several hours of your time and it will be fixed.
So I'm playing along, and suddenly power goes out, we're in a fairly prone area, I get it going again, and oh no, power out again. Some time passes, power is back on a second time, I leave it more than 5 minutes this time before going back, and I do.
['Playstation hdd is corrupt, its going to fix itself ok?' - X]
That above happens... I don't know, 3 times in a row, before I decide, ok its screwed.
Take out the HDD, plug it into an external usb 2.0 enclosure, plug it into my laptop (Windows 7), and start hard formatting it using Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management
Oh, and I had difficulty getting it to appear there, so I went in to Devices and Printers first, went to the enclosure device (ATA/ATAPI or something), and populating the drive somehow in one of the tabs there made it appear in Disk Management.
SO. That finally completes, I reconstruct my PS3, plug the HDMI and power back in, and simply turn it on - recovery mode by default (one press, none of the hold and wait for on beep, then video beep, then double beep).
I had backed up my total PS3 data (30GB) onto an external on the 4/12, so that was ready, I had backed up my GT5 more recently (earlier that day), and I downloaded version 4.00 of the firmware from sony on my laptop.
So, created the 'PS3 > UPDATE' folder on an external, placed the *.PUP file in there (this is the firmware file from sony); the 'PS3 > EXPORT' & 'PS3 > SAVE' folders had already been created.
I'm prompted 'ok, give me 4.00 firmware' it resets, finds the hdd, and copies/installs the firmware. Then it acts as though its a brand new PS3, which is a sign of relief, do the minimum compulsory settings, and then immediately go to restore my data.
The restore completes after 1.5-2 hours, and everything is exactly as it was pre-power out, except I hadn't updated to 2.02, it thought I last played GT5 on the 4th (easily fixed by overwritting it with my latest GT5 save), and I didn't check, but I should've lost all my inbox/outbox messages on my PSN.
Now, as I write this, I deleted my old back up on the external (with another copy on stand by on my laptop still), and I'm backing up this 'hopefully' stable version of my PS3, which has completed 18% and it thinks it'll take another 1.05 hours before its finished.
Moral of the story... Well, buy an Uninterruptable Power Supply if you can afford it and you're in an area like myself, but more importantly BACK UP (after) every time there's an update of your most recent games or the PS3 itself, I probably would've had to download GBs of data for GT5, let alone all my other games that might have updates, and my saves, aparently I had played 1046 days worth of GT5 (I don't know how thats possible I bought the game in March, anyway) by the 4th of December.
I hope my walkthrough/story assists anyone who is in need of any help, or provides comfort to those that haven't experienced this yet, that when/if you do have a similar problem, with the proper safeguards and steps, it only requires several hours of your time and it will be fixed.