tscards wrote:Had an incident this weekend with our PS3. It all of a sudden stopped reading discs. We did purchase the Best Buy replacement plan for just under $60 earlier this year. I tried to figure out how to backup games/songs that I've downloaded & didn't have any cards that were large enough for the games & couldn't figure out how to get the songs backed-up.
Took it to Best Buy & with the replacement plan they said to just go pick one out, bring it back & they'll refund my money & apply it to the new one. They did not have any 40gb ones anymore (which is what we had), so I picked up an 80gb one and paid 32 cents for it.
I'm so glad we went with the replacement plan!! But, I now have to re-download everything I've purchased from the playstation store - kind of a hassle, takes a lot of time, but in the end, we have twice the storage now. Now I really need to find out how to backup the hard-drive to save time later ....just in case we have problems again.
My son bought a Maxtor one touch USB drive with 160GB for backup. The problem with these is they come preformated with the NTFS file system, and Windows XP doesn't even give you the ability to format the drive in FAT32. So we had to download a utility called SwissNife or something like that, and formatted the drive as FAT32.
At that point, just plug it into your PS/3 and it sees it. Our problem is that there is a corrupted file on the hard disk that is preventing him from doing an entire backup, but he is able to just individually pluck things off.
My son is sending the internal HD back and sticking with the 60GB in the system. He has several games that he plays once in a blue moon when friends come over, so he just saved the game data and deleted the game to free up space.
But another stupid PS3 thing we found ... some of the games have protection on the saved game data and do not let you copy them to the backup drive. Absolutely insane.