Recent content by TheLightningStrikes

Hi! Sorry for the late reply, I didn't get an email this time. That's too bad! But I thank you very much for all your effort you have put into this <3 It's good to know that a format makes it irrecoverable, and people should never do so.

Oh, I did do it on the mapper! I basically went through the steps you listed before to mount the HDD, then tried PhotoRec on one of the mappers. From what I can remember it wasn't PS3HDD2, you can try out all the mappers you have in TestDisk and it will tell you it detected a partition. If...

Did some investigation myself and wanted to share my findings: I've come across TestDisk and respectively PhotoRec. Let them do their thing on the mounted PS3 HDD that I mounted through the shell script. It found a lot of media! All the MP3's I had on my PS3 for example, and the screenshots I...

I tried to mount DMDE first, but like I said, probably user error ^^ as long as the IsoBuster one works it's fine. Have a great weekend! Thank you again for your help so far.

Thanks for the instructions! They were great and clear and I was able to navigate the disk image a little when mounted. Indeed not seeing much as you said :) all looked quite empty. Haha yes, PS3HDD2 is sitting nice and comfy in their new CFW environment :) I'll say, for some reason I...

Alright, I managed to get myself some free time today and got to work on the CFW. I can now say I am the proud owner of a ERK dump! :) and of a cool PS3 with new features. I have created the disk image of the PS3HDD with IsoBuster. And to not make the same mistake twice, I also created an NTFS...

Cool, I'll be doing this. Thank you for your thorough explanation and instructions, it's really appreciated. I am savvy enough with Linux to make copies to another drive, but I think it will benefit a lot of people if we stick to Windows :) like I said, for putting in effort to help me I want...

Small note: as I am new on the forum, my posts are withheld by the system until a moderator improves it. Totally fair since this keeps spam out, just saying it so you know my responses can be delayed! Oh yes I meant to talk private in terms of the money :) would love to give back to the...

Wow, that's amazing news! It does sound complicated. I am willing to pay a fee, as it has some precious save data and memories on it. Please let me know how much we'd speak of (don't know if you can DM in this place? if you want to discuss that privately that is). Yes, I have only done a quick...

Thank you for your answer and the helpful links! Ah, I thought per this post it could be possible to retrieve deleted data. I can access the PS3 just fine with a different drive, so I am able to get the EID if I CFW it. Obviously I mostly want the save data back, I luckily didn't have a lot of...

Welp, turned on my PS3 after a long while and seemed like the data on the HDD was corrupted. Sadly, the PS3 failed to restore it, so I thought I'd be smart to put the HDD in my PC. Wrong: my PC changed the partition table to MBR, I can't see any data and on putting it back in the PS3 I had to...

Think like many I have come here to solve some problems I got. But hopefully will enjoy the rest of what this place has to offer as well!