Please help might have lost everything - SSD install

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Ballist1x
Hi, so I just installed an SSD and tried to copy my GT6 save game file over from my normal HDD and it says I have a different username. I cant remember my username from my old HDD. So I put my old HDD back in and ... it wont boot it has to reinstall the firmware again, which will also wipe my usernames and everything on the disk?!

Am I royally screwed?
 
That's what I thought but the game says that's NOT my username and wont match the save game file!

Is there a different between your profile name, and your log in name for PSN etc? And which wone would be the saved game file be linked to?
 
nickg07
That's what I thought but the game says that's NOT my username and wont match the save game file!

Is there a different between your profile name, and your log in name for PSN etc? And which wone would be the saved game file be linked to?
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You forgot to back up your PS3 to an external device with the FAT32 file system, which would allow you to restore your original PS3 keys to the new HDD and thus allowing you to use your save. Installing a HDD the PS3 will format it for use, but you are supposed to use the restore function coupled with your external storage device to import your original PS3 data thus keeping everything as it was before the HDD swap.

Sorry but you may have just lost everything from the HDD, but all your information is tied to your PSN account so you can always get that back but game saves might not work, you may have to link back up to your PSN then attempt to open the save. Not certain it will work but it is worth a try. I am not certain about the reinstall firmware business though.
 
SavageEvil
You forgot to back up your PS3 to an external device with the FAT32 file system, which would allow you to restore your original PS3 keys to the new HDD and thus allowing you to use your save. Installing a HDD the PS3 will format it for use, but you are supposed to use the restore function coupled with your external storage device to import your original PS3 data thus keeping everything as it was before the HDD swap.

Sorry but you may have just lost everything from the HDD, but all your information is tied to your PSN account so you can always get that back but game saves might not work, you may have to link back up to your PSN then attempt to open the save. Not certain it will work but it is worth a try. I am not certain about the reinstall firmware business though.
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Hi yes I went down from a 250gb slim to a 60gb ssd so didn't want to back up all that junk. I just wanted GT6 and KOF XIII on my SSD nice and smoothly.
 
nickg07
Hi yes I went down from a 250gb slim to a 60gb ssd so didn't want to back up all that junk. I just wanted GT6 and KOF XIII on my SSD nice and smoothly.
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You should have asked for help before setting off to do the swap. All you needed to do was back up the core system files, not the game data. Game data comes from the BluRays you install and updates. Core system data is created by the machine itself and is keyed to the HDD so if you swap a HDD the system will give that HDD a new key which won't work with the old one that is why you had to do a back up and restore the backup to the new HDD so the system would recognize the drive as the old drive just with a different capacity.

Next remember back up only key data(I think it asks you what to back up), if not just empty game data since you'll have to reinstall that on a game by game basis anyway.
 
SavageEvil
You should have asked for help before setting off to do the swap. All you needed to do was back up the core system files, not the game data. Game data comes from the BluRays you install and updates. Core system data is created by the machine itself and is keyed to the HDD so if you swap a HDD the system will give that HDD a new key which won't work with the old one that is why you had to do a back up and restore the backup to the new HDD so the system would recognize the drive as the old drive just with a different capacity.

Next remember back up only key data(I think it asks you what to back up), if not just empty game data since you'll have to reinstall that on a game by game basis anyway.
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Thanks, all maybe not lost. I installed the firmware to the old hdd and all my profile is still there. Im deleting some game data now to see how small I can get it as I'm not sure the PS3 gives the the option to only partially backup say account data.
 
Clear out all game data in the folder everything else shouldn't be too large. Your back up should just be main system files and nothing else, as long as your game data is cleared back up should be a lot smaller.
 
nickg07
Thanks, all maybe not lost. I installed the firmware to the old hdd and all my profile is still there. Im deleting some game data now to see how small I can get it as I'm not sure the PS3 gives the the option to only partially backup say account data.
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Or simply copy the savegames...
 
Not the same problem, but I did loose all my progress in gt5 on my old phat ps3.

Console broke, no warranty so I canned it and bought another. I thought I could just put old hdd into new one and have everything back, no luck, hdd was somehow locked to old ps3, only option was to reformat.
 

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