Ylod game save problem

[pstar]

Hi everyone. Im not a regular poster.

I have a particular problem. My ps3 ylod a while back I got myself a new ps3 slim .
However I don’t have back up game saves for most of my games F1 2010, F1CE, FIFA etc and importantly gt5…..(gt5 I have an older save on memory stick but nothing recently).

I have an impressive collection of cars I have nearly 2000 cars, 6 level 35+ bobs with tons of wins and loads of other items (been playing gt5 since release) on my rececent save on my ylod ps3 harddrive. I have found an electronics repair company that will REFLOW not REBALL my gpu. However im worried about sending my ps3 fear of them formatting the hard drive after fixing the YLOD and me losing all my saves

So I was wondering whether I should send it to them with the hard drive inside the ps3 or should I send without hard drive and wait for them to fix YLOD then when I get the ps3 I insert hard drive back?

Your thoughts please.

 

[Schwartz]

Take out the hard drive?

 

[pstar]

Take out the hard drive?

yeh taking the hard drive out of the ps3.

 

[GTP_Monkey]

Pretty sure if you try to put hdd into another machine it will format it, taking it out and sending it back should be ok putting it back in same machine. Then do a save and then decomission it thansfer your account to new PS3.

 

[Bluntified]

Why not just get the electronic repair guy to fix it? It's a pretty common issue that most repair stores fix. All they do is, re-do the thermal paste on the cpu. This will save you time and loads of money.

 

[Gejabo]

Take out the hard drive?

That won't work.
As soon as you place a harddisk in your PS3 and start it up the PS3 automatically formats the drive.

But in this case as the hard drive already been in this PS3 it might be recognized but I wouldn't bet on it.

Can't ask the company how they go to work?
Maybe they make a back up of the save data for you.

Edit: Didn't read the reply from Mark yet.... but ... what he said

 

[hairystig]

If you send the repair company ylod ps3 without a hdd they won't be able to 'test' it after repairing it unless they put in a new/temporary hdd in which case you then won't be able to put the original back in without the ps3 formatting it and wiping everything from it, so i say leave the original hdd in it, speak to the repair company tell them your circumstance. I used to work for a console repair company and we never routinely formatted a drive for a reflow job so all the saved data is preserved but only if the original hdd came in with the console that needed to be repaired.

 

[NjLowrider]

I've brought many ps3s back from the dead.

If you try to put the hdd in anything but the ps3 that wrote it, it will wipe it clean and start fresh.

I would open it up (YouTube guides), get the main board out, wipe all the thermal paste off the 2 big chips, heat the 2 chips with a heatgun, buy thermal paste from RadioShack, re-apply paste on chips, put it all back together and it should turn on long enough to atleast get your saves on a USB.

I've done this to about 5 of my friends ps3's and all turned on afterwards.

Clean the dust and keep it cool. The original thermal paste is inferior.

 

[GTP_Monkey]

This ^ really look into this its not to hard a job and like the guys says you only need it to boot up and get your save data.

Also once you have got your game save go into your account and de-activated it then load all details exactly the same on new PS3 after you have installed game and updates.

 

[hairystig]

isn't there a setting on ps3s to transfer everything onto a new ps3? Id fix broken ps3 then use that to 'clone' old console over to the new one.

 

[GTP_Monkey]

isn't there a setting on ps3s to transfer everything onto a new ps3? Id fix broken ps3 then use that to 'clone' old console over to the new one.

Yes there is but given the severity of his problem and if he does a makeshift repair the machine might not stand up to a good hammering transfering all his data, In this situation I would get my game save first then try it or just reload on new PS3.

 

[hairystig]

Yes there is but given the severity of his problem and if he does a makeshift repair the machine might not stand up to a good hammering transfering all his data, In this situation I would get my game save first then try it or just reload on new PS3.

Fair enough, i didn't think saves were transferable between consoles though.

 

[opelgt1969]

Not a Xbox fan here but Sony could try doing the same as Xbox does and allow the HHD to be installed into another PS3 without a reformat being done, I'm sure its not that hard. I would be against this if Sony made a better quality product but since they can't they need to add this feature with a update instead of trying to sell the PLUS membership to save game saves online (only for one user per console).

 

[GTP_Monkey]

Fair enough, i didn't think saves were transferable between consoles though.

Saves are transferable to another PS3 as long as you use identicall login and user details hence de-activating the older machine.

Not a Xbox fan here but Sony could try doing the same as Xbox does and allow the HHD to be installed into another PS3 without a reformat being done, I'm sure its not that hard. I would be against this if Sony made a better quality product but since they can't they need to add this feature with a update instead of trying to sell the PLUS membership to save game saves online (only for one user per console).

Cant be done because every PS3 has it own encrypting, No 2 are alike. But yes would save a lot of hassle if could be done, Just take old hdd out of machine pop it i new one and enter a code, Not sure how feasable it could be.

 

[HeXoSKEL3t0n]

Simply put, the only way to recover your data is to find a way to turn on that YLOD PS3 first, by reflowing/reballing (or even using the hairdryer method)

Because the only thing that can read the hard drive is the PS3 from which it came from. The PC can't read it's contents, while installing it on a new PS3 would just cause the hard drive to reformat itself (thus deleting all it's contents)

Hope this helps

 

[hairystig]

Saves are transferable to another PS3 as long as you use identicall login and user details hence de-activating the older machine.

in that case then a playstation plus subscription could be really useful in that case, ok its going to cost but you wouldn't have to worry about using the exact same details when creating user profile on the new system, you'd only need need login details (email and password) for the playstation plus account.