hard drive

I've been sharing information with users on discord, and many have found it helpful - so I felt posting on psx-place to be a good idea. Throughout this post, are dozens of links to information, hardware, and tools recommended in 2025. I will continue to update this post as things continue to...

So, while checking out the schematics and datasheets for the mainboard. (I have the CECHG01 btw.) I noticed the blue-ray is handled by a SATA to IDE convertor chip. EEPROM for the blue-ray is handled separately. So, in theory the chip could be pulled and a sata connection could be added through...

I am currently in the process of trying to mod my fat ps2 so I can run games on the hard drive. I bought a 2tb hard drive that is listed as compatible and formatted it and installed freemcboot on it all from the PS2 Ulaunch. The tutorial video I was watching wanted me to then use HDL batch...

Hello all, Apologies if this has already been answered, but just a quick query. I use OPL to launch the majority of my games from the hard drive I have connected to my Fat PS2 via the Gamestar adapter. I'm using OPL MX4SIO at the moment, but I also have access to HDLoader on the FMCB v1.966...

What are the contents of a PS3 USB drive root directory? can someone tell me?

If I remove a hard drive and I do not format it and I put another hard drive on the PS4 and format it, is there any way I can use the removed drive again without formatting it? I am not sure if this is the correct place to discuss it but I need an answer please.

What is your internal ps3 drive a 500GB or a 1 TB? What type of setup do you have to store your games? Do you have a large 10TB/20TB drive? Or do you use many drives in the 500GB to 2TB range? How do you organize your games? Alphabetical/Year of Release date/Genre/Games you play the most?

It is the same process like with the interal one or not? because I know I will need the EAP key first

So, I've been trying to get my PS2 all kitted out to run games directly off of the hard drive. Which is cool, except...the hard drive doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Not fully, anyway. I (somehow) managed to get a handful of games onto it, but I can't seem to access it at all anymore on the...

Is there a Scandisk type program for the PS2, something that will scan the PS2's IDE hard drive for corrupted or broken game files, please? Preferably a program that runs natively on the PS2, to save having to remove the hard drive from the console and plug into into a PC with still has IDE...

hi guys, so recently i bought a new ps4 because my old one broke down but i held into it and my old harddrive. when i got the new one it had an old firmware so i checked if i can jailbreak it and i did with 9.00. i decided to keep the new hardware jailbroken and the old one just normal so i can...

First of all i already have CFW Evilnat on the ps3. Pretty sure my firmware is 4.75. I have a couple of questions. 1. Do i have to install OFW first, and then jailbreak it after? Or do i install CFW directly? 2. Right now it says "Firmware 4.75 [SC-35 | PL3]". What version do i get on my usb...

Hello all! I swear I tried to fix this on my own for hours before coming here for help! I took the time to re-rip my PS3 collection and I put them all on a 5tb external laptop drive (I also have my PS1 and PS2 collection on it too). I am using Rebug REX 4.84 and I have cobra mode enabled in...

My external hard drive with all the stuff needed to jailbreak my ps3 and all the games got corrupted. I have Hen and multi-man already downloaded on my ps3 but I don't know how to play games off my external hard drive anymore. I made a "GAMES" folder and dropped all the games files in there but...

I bought a ps3 super slim for cheap the guy said it only needed a hard drive and I had a 500gb laying around but it won’t accept the new hard drive when I try to update it says data corrupted and the error code is 8002F225. Any ideas

Update: picard (a.k.a. 3141card) has released a homebrew app (available here) that changes the reserved space from 8% to 1% automatically. Running the app again will revert the changes. https://mega.nz/file/zdk1lKqZ#aj4WFdOeosH_ncIB5flNtUxPs341PSYaXdLF2DdA45A PS3 Unlock HDD Space by picard...

Title says it all is there any way to upgrade hard drive and also keep game saves and the actuall games? Keep in mind i have 1 backup game and the rest are pkgs. Please help asap. Trying to replace because 160gb is terrible. Also kind please explain fully and detailed. Also already have the...

In the interest of game preservation, I opted to try saving PS4 game patches \ updates onto my external hard drive, so that theoretically, when the day comes that PSN is shut down, I'd still be able to play the games with the latest patches installed. I've found that unlike the PS3, which let...

I recently purchased a ps3, DEX, firmware 4.81, COBRA 7.50, and did everything, but I did not recognize my external hd, I tried different formats and allocations, but nothing to recognize, and different hard drives also only recognize pen drives.