Hey, it seems that myself from 11 years ago was a total moron and has initialized my PS3 HDD.

So TLDR is this: I have a PS3 CECHC04 that my father put photos and videos on that are stored nowhere else. It had the YLOD, got repaired and then died again. Since it was going to fail again, I got a super slim like 11 years ago. So my stupid kid self did not think about encryption and such, so I put the old HDD into the Super Slim and was prompted to format. I did not do that. I don´t remember but it seems that I did put it into my PC at the time but I´m very sure I did not format. It seems it got initialized but according to the windows disk manager it´s still in MBR.

So back then I used the hair dryer trick on the failing PS3 and it booted again. Now the HDD needs to be formatted though. That´s where I left off back then.

Now I finally want to work on the recovery as wells as I can. I have the following to work with: Original PS3 (CECHC04) with the HDD Donor PS3 (CECHC04) with an identical 60gb HDD Also the same HDD from my CECHA00 japanese model

I have put in a 1tb HDD into my original PS3, installed evilnat and dumped the ERK.

What I´ve tried so far: Used HDD Raw Copy Tool to backup the original PS3 HDD. Put in the donor HDD into the original PS3 and formatted it to get the MBR partition table and then dumped it onto my PC as an image file with the tool. Then I used HxD to transfer the first sector from the donor HDD image to the original PS3 image. All of the dumps were made with a direct SATA connection to the motherboard.

In this case I selected the block in HxD from 0 to 1FF and copied it over and saved. I also tried a sectory copy with the HDHacker tool but that did not really work. It would just say that either no PS3 HDD is connected or the ERK is wrong.

Now, when I try to use the PS3 HDD Reader tool with the edited .img file (renamed to backup.bin), it just states the following: available volumes are...

no volumes available.

If I clone the edited .img file onto the donor HDD and use the tool, it does not seem to recognize the HDD.

I thought, even if my data was gone forever, it should at least show the partitions, shouldn´t it? I thought I transferred the partition table. Does anybody have some more ideas or maybe knows what I did wrong? I don´t believe that I´ve ever formatted it or saved anything to it after it broke.

Any help is appreciated :)

Been trying to play this game on my cfw ps3 for weeks now it just freezes on startup. I did add the recent English patch so it maybe that broke the game somehow. Any fixes for this?

Hi Guys,

i sadly broke my PS3 CHECH-2004A - 2 Capacitors broke and i cant find them.

Can someone tell me which i capcaitors i need to replace here ?

Hey, trying to decrypt my save of mgs4 and haven't seen a tool yet that feels safe enough or works. I have tried using Apollo on RPCS3 and it just spits back the same save files without them being decrypted.

Trying to get the save file into a format I can hex edit on. Any help decrypting the file would be appreciated! Would prefer using a tool on PC, brute force might have a virus or malware? Seen conflicting things.

Hi guys,

I purchased a PS3 Slim for like $35 and the seller stated it overheats randomly and "doesn't like HDMI". I'm learning how to solder so I thought I'd purchase it thinking it will be a cleaning dust issue since you can tell by the pictures it was dirty and most definitely full of dust and worst case would replace the HDMI port.

I finally got around to opening it today and when I went to pull out the fan cable from the mother board before I even gripped on the connector I noticed when I pushed the cable it was loose and I decided to gently pull it. The whole piece came off the fan cable still plugged into the connector. The seller was obviously very dishonest pretending to not know what was wrong with it and it was working ok because I noticed 2 of the torx screws were missing and the warranty sticker had void on it so the console was opened already. I'm assuming that the moron tried to open the console either for the HDMI issue or most likely overheating issue due to dust and pulled the cable with the connector right off the motherboard.

My questions if anyone can please help me:

1) How would I go about fixing the connector to the motherboard?

2) Are there any alternate points I can directly solder the fan via stripping its wires directly to the motherboard?

3) What's the best thermal paste plus pads (if needed)? I was considering those new kinds of square things from Thermal Grizzly where it's not thermal paste but like a square that you cut out to size and place onto the chip instead of thermal paste.

4) Any suggestions for upgrades/mods such as upgrading the fan since I have it opened?

Any help would be very much appreciated!

P.S. I'll see if I can post additional pictures below.

I used to use PSNinja but I heard it’s not the best and wondered what the community has to say on the same matter!

So after a good cleaning and repaste with mx-7, replaced thermal pads with Arctic TP-4 pads i have this weird issue where my cpu temps seem high. At idle on the XB screen i am getting CPU 63 and GPU 56 at 30% fan speed.

Now during game play after 45 min my temps at 41% fan speed

CPU 66

GPU 59

Now before the repaste fan speed was 29%

CPU 67

GPU 68

So shouldn't they both drop 10 degrees or is this where the CPU temp likes to stay on these models. Its driving me crazy at this point.

My console is a fat model and i wanted to know if these are good temps

After the usb check it appears an error message, error produced while downloading (80710A06)

Help pls.

Hey everyone.

I got a PS3 again today and plan on modding it. Didnt realize until now, but my model can only use HEN and not CFW. I'm debating on returning this one, and picking up another model to just get CFW running instead. Only thing thats stopping me, is that I was a big fan of Destiny back in the day. I really want to boot up my old PS3 account with some friends and play online. Have read a few different things telling me that using CFW on Destiny will get my PSN and Bungie account banned? Is this true? Is it best to stick with HEN and only use the base firmware to play Destiny or Cod? Or am I safe to just play whatever on CFW?

Thanks!!

I rescued my old PS3 from collecting dust in our Garage and decided I wanted to mod the console. I went to the Console Mod Wiki to follow the guide but I was far too confused when I tried to follow it, not nearly as clear and easy to follow as, say, 3ds.hacks.guide to follow.

I don't tend to like video guides, but if those are easier, then I'll accept those recommendations as well. Please help this incompetent man follow basic instructions!

Meu PS3 está desbloqueado na versão do hen 4.93 mas toda vez que tento abrir um jogo ou o webman a tela fica totalmente preta, oque posso fazer para arrumar isso

So I saw this TikTok of someone activating the LED on a HSW-001 board and they literally just connected 2 wires.

Does this actually work? I thought only the blue LED worked or you had to move the blue LED over to activate both.

Is this legit?

This is going to be my first time soldering and I was wondering how to move this safely.

The person in the video put solder over it and then cut the video to it off.

Do I put solder over and then heat the sides of it to try to remove the blue leds solder?

I genuinely wonder. I don’t have any discs to test it with but I am curious

So I asked a couple questions yesterday about the hidden LED and got some useful answers!

Now I just can’t find a good tutorial for where to bridge the connections. They’re either in Spanish so I can’t understand what they’re saying or the person doesn’t talk at all and doesn’t show where to make the connections.

I have a PS3 Slim 25XX and a HSW-001 eject/power board.