Not that will port the drive into a format that the PS3 will accept, It'll format it again. My big problem being that due to a crash during...
One thing I learnt after messing about with the ps3 for quite sometime was that if you're getting power then there's life in there somewhere. I'm...
Yeah sorted now... basically it was part of a long running problem. The format had seemingly stuck at restoring system defaults despite looking...
OK BACK UP AND RUNNING! :0) Firstly, thanks to colinjest and everyone else who's helped. My HDD was left on system restore for about 27/28...
Has anyone tried to do a full format of an internal drive? If so how long did it take? I'm on 24+ hours and don't want to turn my machine off if...
Hmmmm I've had a similar issue with my machine starting up staying on the green light for a while, then shutting down to the red light. However I...
Because I could only access the system recovery menu it's still going! Apparently it can take anywhere upto the best part of a day, due to not...
@rage2kill - can you get into the system recovery menu? Sorry if you know this but press and hold the power on button, it will beep once then...
Yeah I can boot into the recovery menu fine. When I try to boot up as normal I get no video output and the machine shuts down after about 10-12...
Well the ribbon works fine but problems persist. Really gutted!! Still getting cannot access hard disk errors or 8002F281 - Sony says this is a...
Cheers Colin. I'll give it a whirl and post the results.
@Colinjest... Have you come across any problems post re-flowing with HDD's? I reflowed and it got me to my main menu in the xmb. I then...
I'll give it a go. I'm wondering if it will be any help though as if I try to start up without a hdd installed I don't get the main start up...
**Update** Tried the reflow again with flux. Yet I still have the problem with the menus not performing the tasks they should. Either they...
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