Thank you soooo much. Everything worked great, and actually lost nothing. Was stuck trying to just restore with no luck, kept getting the same message. So I followed this video and my kids are very pleased. Thanks again!!!
YES THANKS SO MUCH MATE HAD THIS PROBLEM 2DAY JUST ABOUT TO GIVE UP ON MY PS3 THEN I FOUND THIS VIDEO AND CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH . WHEN I TOOK MY HARD DRIVE OUT IT ONLY TOOK 1 MIN BEFORE THE FORMAT QUESTION CAME UP IT WORKED GREAT AND MY PS3 IS WORKING GREAT THANKS AGAIN.
You are a life saver man. da just happened to my ps3 and i followed all ur instructions and it work now am bac on track. i just lost all my data but my contacts are still der. i wish i would pay u but am in the Caribbean. too far.
I did this today on my ps3 slim and it fixed the corruption loop I was stuck in. I tried pushing x at the restore screen and taking the hard drive out after but found it only worked by taking the drive out at the restore screen than pressing x. It didn't take very long for the format question to come up. Thank you very much mate.
I have been on the fone to sony to be told $350 to fix and there is no other solution, appart from purchasing a new hard drive..$150.... you sir are a saviour. and your theory definately worked ...Well done Geeza.
Thanks alot man! I have had my ps3 for 2 years. i called sony, but they would have charged me $150 to fix. This tutorial was easy to follow and worked great. This saved me time AND money. -Thanks again
@Makurou I understand what you’re talking about. But this is when nothing is working on ps3. Even the backup does not work. This has happen to me before. Luckily I didn’t have anything important on my ps3. So whatever you put on the ps3. Keep backup files of them right away. I recommend this video to anyone with this problem on their ps3. It saved my ps3. I didn’t have to waste my time or money. I am so thankful for this video.
@JonAA0880 u need to pop off the thing covering the HD on the side of the PS3. U should see like a little rectangular hole on the side, you can use a Flat Head to pop that off. Then unscrew the little screw keeping the HD in. Turn on the PS3, then as soon as that loading bar appears on the screen, make sure u carefully take out the HD, but fast. You wanna get it out when it says 0%. Wait for a few mins, it should say something like do u want to clear HD or somthing, press yes and put it back in
hey DL323, thank you so much. i dont know how much i can repay you, you just saved me some money. at first i was kinda iffy about from all the comments i saw but it really works trust me! THANKS AGAIN!!!!
Clean And Simple Video. Worked For Me First Time. Thanks A Lot. Didn't Take 45 Mins For The Message To Come Up Mine Popped Up Instantly. Big Thumbs Up From Me.. x
Right on Brother Me and my son tried it just twice second time worked!!! but not because your way does not work, but because we didn't do it right I removed the hard drive when it was at 4% restore. second time we did it right on 0% very important! Thanx again very useful tip! RECOMMENDED!
To restore a corrupt hard drive turn on the system in the back, then on with your finger in the front. Then off in the front and then use your finger and hold down the on button in the front. it will beep once then three times then a new option will appear on your screen reconnect your controller and select the third option from the top, it will then tell you if your hard drive is corrupt and then it will clean up corrupt files for you. Good Luck, this did work for me.
@villamayor83 if you have a playstation plus account you can save all game save data to their online storage, even copy-protected save data. or you can save your data to a usb drive or sd card and reformat then, or do a ps3-to-ps3 data transfer
Good advice, it took about 6 attempts but be patient and take the hard drive out smoothly on 0% - the option to format hdd came up after about 10 seconds.Many thanks :)
worked like a charm. I did not have backups, too bad. It took the system like an hour and a half to give the message of the formatting. I tried first once and took the HDD out at 6% and left it all night, it did not show the formatting message. You HAVE to take it out before clicking "ok" to the restoring, otherwise you wont be able to take out the HDD in 0%. The formatting message WILL NOT APPEAR unless it stays at 0%
I just did it. OH MY GOD IT WORKED!!!!! Now I hope it lasts. And the 45 minutes wasn't necessary. I gave me the format option in 3 minutes. Thank you!!!!!
Thanks alot for this man, it worked exactly how u said it would..i spent along time fucking around wit it and this was my last hope and it worked, thanks again.
This video works 100% for the PS3 Original. i dont know about the new slim one, but it definately works for the original. thanks so much for uploading this video... otherwise i would've had to pay £200 or something :P
Yes, you can do that, When you put the 60 gig HDD to the new ps3, make sure to save the games on a flash drive or something. Then take the HDD out agin, put the 160 gig HDD in. Insert your flash drive and put all the information in. If you run out of space in your flash drive, delete all the save data in it, and do the same process again. Make sure when out take out the save data from the flash drive to have it on your computer so you wont loose the files and stuff.
thanks bro!!! this helped me out so much!!! hahaha. i'm a little mad i couldn't keep my stuff cuz i had rockband and rockband 2 stuff, I was like 100th in the world on guitar and drums. :/ but it's w/e. i'll get those scores back eventually
Is there ANY other way to do this and keep my saved stuff on my ps3.? Did this happen becuz I would sometimes flick the power switch off instead of holding the power button till the green screen turns red?
I wanted to say thank you. I tried everything and the so called "safe mode". None of it worked. So i came upon this video. It worked 100%, but i had to try two times. This first time it did not work. Went to restore up to 50% and went blank. So i try one more time. Then it finally work and only took a minute. I was so freaking happy. Cause i read all the horror stories. Of having to get a new hard drive. But now i dont have to worry about that no more. But a reminder, you will lose everything.
Thank you sooooo much thought i was stuck buying a new system.... Worked like a charm. at 1st it didnt work i just restarted it and the same format option came back on and it went thru and now its working like nothing ever was wrong. I would like to know how it happened to begin wit cuz Ive had this system since it came out and this never happened b4...
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! I was worried because I can't afford a new hdd. and the screws on it are busted so I can't get it out of the case....thank you!
the corruption that im teaching to fix is when you turn on your ps3 and this message comes up that says your ps3 is corrupted, click here to reformat it. so you click reformat and than it finishes, restarts and the message apperas again. it will keep doing the same thing over and over again
This really did help. At first my PS3 wasn't even showing anything on the screen, then when it did, it just did an infinite loop of restoring. The trick of pulling it out at 0% did the trick, but mine only took a few second to format. Thanks
if its your new hard drvie with the same problem, just follow the steps in the video. since its a new hard drvie you shoundt worry about loosing saved data cause your new hard drive is completely empty
holy fuck man i love u !!!! i tweaked on my ps3 for the past 5 hours when i was done with workk...... and i finally came accross a legit person like u to show me the right way and now my shit is fixed with out even using the new harddrive i bought shiiiii man wen u get a chance to come to HAWAII hit me up man lets have a drink...... SHOOTS MY BRAHDA THANKS BRO !!!!!!!
i was actually skeptical that anything besides buying a new harddrive or stata thing wouldnt work but i dont have money or time for that , but this actually worked! i am so happy lol i sold all my ps3 games unfortunately but time to re-stock lol i thought id b a really long time before i got this fixed its been broken for months n now finally i can use it memory gone but o-well lol
Nah! I don't think you'll loose everything unless you know how to clone it to another hard drive. you'll have a greater chance of saving everything you think you'll lose.
Point taken. Slowly, but taken XD I was looking at your vid to fix a mates corruption problem, but he doesn't have this message u speak of so my apologies for that point. I just noticed he has a music directory that says 24 files, but when u open it there's only 4 or so for example.. This you can correct by checking the file system with a PC. Even if you have the message about your console's HDD being corrupted, you can most likely use your PC's disk checking program, whatever OS that be.
Good shit, this works just fine, took my ps3 less than 1 minute to ask me to re-format, that process to 10 seconds. Whole process takes less than 5 minutes. problem is, you have to delete all stored data...
@d1versify same here :/ mine got fried in a power surge and all i get is a blak screen, i called ps3 people and im out of warranty, and they said it might be just a bad hardrive though...
yea, but sometimes its not because you lay on the carpet because i have my ps3 on a stand and it got corrupted, but also, i guess it can happen if you put it on the carpet. i also heard its bad
OK so... i think my hard drive is corrupted, because the when i do an override (hold standby for 10 secs) and go to "Restore File..." it says its corrupted and needs to be restored. But, my screen stays black when i turn my ps3 on. Can a hard drive corruption do that? Im gonna try taking it out and see what happens.
Yea, maybe that will work. Since you did it your way it might work for others. But also its not hard to take it out. There is this little clip that you have to pull up . Then when its at 0% you grab the clip and take it out
You go to setting and there is going to be thispicture of this hand holding like battery thing click on that and click controller settings. then you change it
@Clairelover23 whenever I play my nba 2k12 it looks like all the players are attached to strings at the center of the court (sometimes also their arms legs or heads too) it is very weird but no clue whats causing it. my ps3 is loud..took it apart and no dust and every other game plays just fine on it except my nba 2k. i can still access the ps screen and hear the music playing while its loading (and quit the game from the ps screen), but it wont let me get any gameplay in on any form of the game
Oh, thats easy. I had the same problem to. The blue screw needs a smaller star head screw driver to open it. What I did is I went to the dollar store and got a mini screw driver. Just say if you can have a glasses screw driver and they will have it. All dollar stores have it. Once you get the screw driver, its gonna be hard to take out the blue screw since it was screwed in hard. What I did was that I got a plier and put it on the little screw driver and then unscrewed the blue screw.
BRO once again thanks.. thats the second time ur vid helped me fix my ps3
Thank you soooo much. Everything worked great, and actually lost nothing. Was stuck trying to just restore with no luck, kept getting the same message. So I followed this video and my kids are very pleased. Thanks again!!!
Thank you!! This video just got my PS3 working again! Saved the lives of many people, I was about to go on a rampage.
YES THANKS SO MUCH MATE HAD THIS PROBLEM 2DAY JUST ABOUT TO GIVE UP ON MY PS3 THEN I FOUND THIS VIDEO AND CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH . WHEN I TOOK MY HARD DRIVE OUT IT ONLY TOOK 1 MIN BEFORE THE FORMAT QUESTION CAME UP IT WORKED GREAT AND MY PS3 IS WORKING GREAT THANKS AGAIN.
You are a life saver man. da just happened to my ps3 and i followed all ur instructions and it work now am bac on track. i just lost all my data but my contacts are still der. i wish i would pay u but am in the Caribbean. too far.
I did this today on my ps3 slim and it fixed the corruption loop I was stuck in. I tried pushing x at the restore screen and taking the hard drive out after but found it only worked by taking the drive out at the restore screen than pressing x. It didn't take very long for the format question to come up. Thank you very much mate.
I have been on the fone to sony to be told $350 to fix and there is no other solution, appart from purchasing a new hard drive..$150.... you sir are a saviour. and your theory definately worked ...Well done Geeza.
Thanks alot man! I have had my ps3 for 2 years. i called sony, but they would have charged me $150 to fix. This tutorial was easy to follow and worked great. This saved me time AND money.
-Thanks again
Thanks brother. Stuffed up my ps3 and was gonna get a new one.. after watching this u saved me a lot of money ahah.. LEGEND
@Dils01753 Nope. HD removal doesn't void the warranty, and is in fact promoted in the manual. Notice it doesn't affect the warranty sticker.
you have saved my life. i had tried technicias... i was on the verge of tears. now i i'm jumping like there is no tomorrow. thank you soo much
It works it really work thanks man you just saved me some money I was about go and buy another hard drive your a life saver.
@Makurou I understand what you’re talking about. But this is when nothing is working on ps3. Even the backup does not work. This has happen to me before. Luckily I didn’t have anything important on my ps3. So whatever you put on the ps3. Keep backup files of them right away. I recommend this video to anyone with this problem on their ps3. It saved my ps3. I didn’t have to waste my time or money. I am so thankful for this video.
Thank you so much!!!!! It worked right away! My husband and son are SO HAPPY!!!!!
dude i love u this actually works the day i get to 10th prestige on MW2 it happened and this works i love u
@JonAA0880 u need to pop off the thing covering the HD on the side of the PS3. U should see like a little rectangular hole on the side, you can use a Flat Head to pop that off. Then unscrew the little screw keeping the HD in. Turn on the PS3, then as soon as that loading bar appears on the screen, make sure u carefully take out the HD, but fast. You wanna get it out when it says 0%. Wait for a few mins, it should say something like do u want to clear HD or somthing, press yes and put it back in
bro you a genius. i couldn't believe it was so easy. i was strugglin with that forever
It worked perfect for me in less than 4 min, I'm really appreciated for your help
Man u really r a life saver. i fixed it and its all thanks to u i wish i could pay u but i live in the caribbean. thanks alot man. GOD bless u.
hey DL323, thank you so much. i dont know how much i can repay you, you just saved me some money. at first i was kinda iffy about from all the comments i saw but it really works trust me! THANKS AGAIN!!!!
You mate, are a genius!! saved my PS3 and no mistake. Thanks a lot!!!
Clean And Simple Video. Worked For Me First Time. Thanks A Lot. Didn't Take 45 Mins For The Message To Come Up Mine Popped Up Instantly. Big Thumbs Up From Me.. x
Right on Brother Me and my son tried it just twice second time worked!!! but not because your way does not work, but because we didn't do it right I removed the hard drive when it was at 4% restore. second time we did it right on 0% very important! Thanx again very useful tip! RECOMMENDED!
Now im playing again MW2 I love you bro!
thanks alot again, u saved me so much money!
To restore a corrupt hard drive turn on the system in the back, then on with your finger in the front. Then off in the front and then use your finger and hold down the on button in the front. it will beep once then three times then a new option will appear on your screen reconnect your controller and select the third option from the top, it will then tell you if your hard drive is corrupt and then it will clean up corrupt files for you. Good Luck, this did work for me.
Even on the ps3 slim it worked! But i didnt have to wait 45-50 mins, it just happend on the spot. Thank you for this wonderful soulution! ^^
dude i love u second time i used u to fix ps3 god bless u a ps3 god fixer
@villamayor83 if you have a playstation plus account you can save all game save data to their online storage, even copy-protected save data. or you can save your data to a usb drive or sd card and reformat then, or do a ps3-to-ps3 data transfer
THNK U SO FUKKIN MUCH!!!!! FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT I HAD TO BUY AN XBOX!!!!! UR THE BEST!!!!
Good advice, it took about 6 attempts but be patient and take the hard drive out smoothly on 0% - the option to format hdd came up after about 10 seconds.Many thanks :)
worked like a charm. I did not have backups, too bad. It took the system like an hour and a half to give the message of the formatting. I tried first once and took the HDD out at 6% and left it all night, it did not show the formatting message. You HAVE to take it out before clicking "ok" to the restoring, otherwise you wont be able to take out the HDD in 0%. The formatting message WILL NOT APPEAR unless it stays at 0%
I just did it. OH MY GOD IT WORKED!!!!! Now I hope it lasts. And the 45 minutes wasn't necessary. I gave me the format option in 3 minutes. Thank you!!!!!
Thanks alot for this man, it worked exactly how u said it would..i spent along time fucking around wit it and this was my last hope and it worked, thanks again.
This just saved me almost $400. This was very helpful.
your a life saver, and wallet saver. thanks man much appreciated
Thanks a lot....this really works. Last time this happened I had to pay $150 to get it fixed by sending it back to sony.
Again Thanks!!!!!!
thanks this tutorial got me some free buds for fixing someones PS3 cos now i dont need to buy another hdd thanks much
This video works 100% for the PS3 Original. i dont know about the new slim one, but it definately works for the original. thanks so much for uploading this video... otherwise i would've had to pay £200 or something :P
I just tried it on my ps3 and now its working! Thanks!
Yes, you can do that, When you put the 60 gig HDD to the new ps3, make sure to save the games on a flash drive or something. Then take the HDD out agin, put the 160 gig HDD in. Insert your flash drive and put all the information in. If you run out of space in your flash drive, delete all the save data in it, and do the same process again. Make sure when out take out the save data from the flash drive to have it on your computer so you wont loose the files and stuff.
this guy is a freakin genius! omg! no homo but i havnt played my ps3 for like 3 4 months...and its working now
thanks bro!!!
this helped me out so much!!!
hahaha.
i'm a little mad i couldn't keep my stuff cuz i had rockband and rockband 2 stuff, I was like 100th in the world on guitar and drums. :/
but it's w/e.
i'll get those scores back eventually
your instructions saved my ps3 thanks
Is there ANY other way to do this and keep my saved stuff on my ps3.?
Did this happen becuz I would sometimes flick the power switch off instead of holding the power button till the green screen turns red?
thank you so much, i was getting ready to buy a new ps3 :D, plus the same thing happened to my friend so ill tell him about this quick and easy fix
Wow....It realy works...Make sure you blow off any lint or dust that has gathered on the hard drive. It took 2 minutes.....
I wanted to say thank you. I tried everything and the so called "safe mode". None of it worked. So i came upon this video. It worked 100%, but i had to try two times. This first time it did not work. Went to restore up to 50% and went blank. So i try one more time. Then it finally work and only took a minute. I was so freaking happy. Cause i read all the horror stories. Of having to get a new hard drive. But now i dont have to worry about that no more. But a reminder, you will lose everything.
Thank you sooooo much thought i was stuck buying a new system.... Worked like a charm. at 1st it didnt work i just restarted it and the same format option came back on and it went thru and now its working like nothing ever was wrong. I would like to know how it happened to begin wit cuz Ive had this system since it came out and this never happened b4...
THANK YOU ALOT THIS REALY WORKED YOU SAVED ME ALOT OF MONEY!!!!!!!
DUDE THANK YOU IVE BEEN WITH OUT A PS3 FOR 2 YEARS CAUSE OF THIS YOUR THE MAN!!!!!! BTW how'd ya know what to do
dude you are amazing!!! this thing really works!!! if I ever meet you I'll buy a beer!!! lmao!
This worked for me, i used a sata link to save all data so didnt losse any of my data. thanks
you are a genius sir!!!!! U saved me some money
your da man it works i didnt play with my ps3 for about 1 year! and now im so fuking happy!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
I was worried because I can't afford a new hdd. and the screws on it are busted so I can't get it out of the case....thank you!
the corruption that im teaching to fix is when you turn on your ps3 and this message comes up that says your ps3 is corrupted, click here to reformat it. so you click reformat and than it finishes, restarts and the message apperas again. it will keep doing the same thing over and over again
@frylock1998 the campaign data is saved directly to your HDD but the online is saved online so it can recover it.
Dude- WTF?? That actually worked!! Thank you so much. I don't know how on earth you figured that out, but thanks. I -3 you dog.
thank you so much man i was so piss that my ps3 wasnt workin know thank to you im happy again
This really did help. At first my PS3 wasn't even showing anything on the screen, then when it did, it just did an infinite loop of restoring. The trick of pulling it out at 0% did the trick, but mine only took a few second to format. Thanks
Thanks for the video this helped me a lot Now I dont have spend another 600 on a new ps3 Thanks
if its your new hard drvie with the same problem, just follow the steps in the video. since its a new hard drvie you shoundt worry about loosing saved data cause your new hard drive is completely empty
um, there can be some special tool that can take out busted screws. either than that its hard to take it out, how did you bust it?
holy fuck man i love u !!!! i tweaked on my ps3 for the past 5 hours when i was done with workk...... and i finally came accross a legit person like u to show me the right way and now my shit is fixed with out even using the new harddrive i bought shiiiii man wen u get a chance to come to HAWAII hit me up man lets have a drink...... SHOOTS MY BRAHDA THANKS BRO !!!!!!!
THANKS MAN!!! U SAVEd MY TIME!!!
THANK YOU ...worked but my one said something about deleting all files but still works :D
i was actually skeptical that anything besides buying a new harddrive or stata thing wouldnt work but i dont have money or time for that , but this actually worked! i am so happy lol i sold all my ps3 games unfortunately but time to re-stock lol i thought id b a really long time before i got this fixed its been broken for months n now finally i can use it memory gone but o-well lol
Thank you for your help! This really really worked! :) And I have no idea how to do this kind of stuff!! :)
Nah! I don't think you'll loose everything unless you know how to clone it to another hard drive. you'll have a greater chance of saving everything you think you'll lose.
Point taken. Slowly, but taken XD
I was looking at your vid to fix a mates corruption problem, but he doesn't have this message u speak of so my apologies for that point. I just noticed he has a music directory that says 24 files, but when u open it there's only 4 or so for example.. This you can correct by checking the file system with a PC. Even if you have the message about your console's HDD being corrupted, you can most likely use your PC's disk checking program, whatever OS that be.
Good shit, this works just fine, took my ps3 less than 1 minute to ask me to re-format, that process to 10 seconds. Whole process takes less than 5 minutes. problem is, you have to delete all stored data...
holy crap it worked you saved me 150 bucks
thanks
OMG i love you dog! saved me a whole lot of money!
Thank you. You saved my PS3!
Dude you are the best!!!! Genius!
thanks bro!
Thanks man it worked!! But it's too bad the memory gets erased...I was in the middle of Assassin's Creed 2 :(
Dude thanks alot you just saved me alot of money ..
i think its under systems settings were you can choose what you delte, but you have a 60 gig and it says 80 gigs left how?
what a genius .... U ARE MY HERO !!
maybe it got to dusty inside and it broke, or like wat itouch said, the static from the carpet can damage your hard drive
thanks man your a life saver, much appreciated
do I just hold the power button till it beeps twice?
than find the recovery than take the hard drive on 0%?
@d1versify same here :/ mine got fried in a power surge and all i get is a blak screen, i called ps3 people and im out of warranty, and they said it might be just a bad hardrive though...
yea, but sometimes its not because you lay on the carpet because i have my ps3 on a stand and it got corrupted, but also, i guess it can happen if you put it on the carpet. i also heard its bad
thank u very much you saved me alot of money. U r a great m8.
OK so... i think my hard drive is corrupted, because the when i do an override (hold standby for 10 secs) and go to "Restore File..." it says its corrupted and needs to be restored. But, my screen stays black when i turn my ps3 on. Can a hard drive corruption do that? Im gonna try taking it out and see what happens.
Yea, maybe that will work. Since you did it your way it might work for others. But also its not hard to take it out. There is this little clip that you have to pull up . Then when its at 0% you grab the clip and take it out
do you un screw the silver screws also ? sounds like a stupid question but dont want to reck it
to start on what? x? cause I have a red screen of death means that my hard drive is corrupted
You go to setting and there is going to be thispicture of this hand holding like battery thing click on that and click controller settings. then you change it
@Clairelover23 whenever I play my nba 2k12 it looks like all the players are attached to strings at the center of the court (sometimes also their arms legs or heads too) it is very weird but no clue whats causing it. my ps3 is loud..took it apart and no dust and every other game plays just fine on it except my nba 2k. i can still access the ps screen and hear the music playing while its loading (and quit the game from the ps screen), but it wont let me get any gameplay in on any form of the game
MAN, YOU ARE THE BEST!
yo i was so fucking pissed that my ps3 was broke but i got this shit to work using ur tutorial thanks..
Oh, thats easy. I had the same problem to. The blue screw needs a smaller star head screw driver to open it. What I did is I went to the dollar store and got a mini screw driver. Just say if you can have a glasses screw driver and they will have it. All dollar stores have it. Once you get the screw driver, its gonna be hard to take out the blue screw since it was screwed in hard. What I did was that I got a plier and put it on the little screw driver and then unscrewed the blue screw.
@Chipmonk171 Just get a PSP and put your stuff on the Computer or get a back up Utitly to store your stuff on
No it doesn't void the warranty because the warranty sticker isn't on the hard drive cover its above it.
This shit works for real, deletes game play data, but it saves you a lot of money...just have to replay all my games again, thanks
what kind of USB device do I need to get it on there so that I can fix the red screen of death? which is also a hard drive corruption too right?
Yea you can save your games to a flsh drive and idk if u loose trophies cuz i have no games that have trophies, exept pain which i dont play much
awesome, it works. thanks!
just do exactly what the video says