I know how to replace my PS3 HDD but I wanted to know something else about when I replace it. I wanted to temporarily replace my PS3 HDD with a 120GB HD from my laptop to try out Linux. After I do that I wanted to be able to take out the 120GB and put it back in my laptop, which I know I can do after reformatting it. Now my question, if I put my original PS3 HDD back into the system, will it ask me to format it?
Man I never thought of that! I would think since it's already formatted, that it wouldn't ask for it. You know you could just backup your data on the HDD if you're afraid of losing anything.
I've actually tried Linux on the PS3 (I actually wrote the Tut so long ago for YDL), and I dunno, I really didn't like it a whole lot, but I hear you can use the PS3 blu-ray drive as a dumper, if linux is installed, so that's something cool.
I'm not the best with linux, so that's probably why I didn't like it as much!
I'm not that good with Linux either but I got friends that love it. I was thinking that it may format it because the PS3 might lock the firmware to the HDD serial number. The only reason I would try another hard drive is because I didn't want to go through the work of reinstalling everything. I have atleast 1 days worth of game updates that need to be redownloaded if I do reformat.
The PS3 should accept its own drive back without formatting...its only if the drive has been formatted in a different PS3 that yours would want to format it.
I know that but does the PS3 write a code to the hard drive or is the hard drive's serial number integrated into the PS3 flash? Depending on which one it is, it may ask to format the drive again.
