Recent content by i0sen

Ok, I'll give linux a try and see how I go. Thanks for your help

My plan was to DD it again just to make sure I've got a good one. I didn't see a section in your guide on how to repair the logic structure, is there something you could point me to?

Ok, I'll give that a shot. Is there a good way to work from the image I took rather than the drive itself? I'd prefer to not stress the drive if I can. Well, gave the windows tools a try, and dev_hdd0 is completely missing. I'm guessing the part is too far gone. Any ideas on how to recover it?

Copy that. I don't think the HDD itself is dying as I was able to image it without too much trouble, but the partitions are definitely somewhat damaged as the system would boot, and immediately try a file system repair, fail almost as fast, and then say that the drive needed to be formatted. Not...

I gave this a read before posting here, and I'm worried that with the HDD unable to be read by the system it won't be repairable on a PC. That was the core of my question here I guess. Is there a way to repair the HDD if the PS3 itself can't or refuses to?

Hi all, I've been running my PS3 CECH-2501A on EVILNAT 4.92.2 for quite some time now, but after it locked up one time, it seems like the HDD is corrupted beyond repair. I've installed a new HDD and reinstalled CFW from recovery mode, and all seems well again, but I'm wondering if there's any...

Ok. I do want to keep the source console on OFW. I will make a block backup onto my PC and then give the TDU a try. Thank you both for your help.

Ok. Good to know. Is there a reason NOT to use the system transfer tool that's part of the OFW? Seems like it would save me time and just migrate everything over.

Hello everyone! I'm getting ready to install CFW on my CECH-25XX console (I have confirmed that it supports CFW using the toolset) and have a few questions and requests for those who've done this before. First of all, I currently use my old fat model (A CECHA01) which has all of my game saves...