PS3 Dead HDD?

i0sen

i0sen

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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 way to recover any of the data on the old HDD, even if I have to plug it into a PC to perform more advanced file system checks or something. Recovery mode would just freeze when I attempted to check and repair the file system.
Thanks in advance for any help =D
 
Berion said:
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@i0sen If HDD dying, dump it by ddrescue first.
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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 sure if there's a way to repair the drive at this point, but figured I'd ask.
 
If you was able to make HDD image with non dedicated tool then yes, it is fine.

You could attempt to repair it on PC but I'm not sure if it is worth the effort (a lot of effort ;]). Just retrieve data and format it.
 
Berion said:
If you was able to make HDD image with non dedicated tool then yes, it is fine.

You could attempt to repair it on PC but I'm not sure if it is worth the effort (a lot of effort ;]). Just retrieve data and format it.
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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?
 
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Have you tried a SMART check with CrystalDiskInfo? Anything other than GOOD should be backed up and binned.
 
You don't need to use real device.
Code: 
sudo losetup -f ${HOME}/test.img

PS3 HDD Reader is not for data recovery from damaged logic structure. Use Linux. :P

And BTW, in what form is your image? It must be sector by sector, non compressed, non encapsulated, non trimmed raw image. Any other are useless or needs extra steps to be used for decryption.
 
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Berion said:
You don't need to use real device.
Code: 
sudo losetup -f ${HOME}/test.img

PS3 HDD Reader is not for data recovery from damaged logic structure. Use Linux. :P

And BTW, in what form is your image? It must be sector by sector, non compressed, non encapsulated, non trimmed raw image. Any other are useless or needs extra steps to be used for decryption.
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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?
 
You cannot repair or create PS3PT and don't need to. You can repair FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 (it will not be exact the same but still works). You can repair UFS2 only on NetBSD 6.0 but probably you don't need too either.
 
What's the story with the password protection on the MBR partition an other non PP partitions, is this a childlock or Sony content protection?

I can see the password & MBR contents with IsoBuster but it's hidden to uLE, every format in uLE or other homebrew creates a different set of passwords to the ones used by Sony, is that the reason for the dnas & atad patcher?

Edit: ooops PS3 HDD, still the PS2 HDD question remains.
 
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Berion said:
You cannot repair or create PS3PT and don't need to. You can repair FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 (it will not be exact the same but still works). You can repair UFS2 only on NetBSD 6.0 but probably you don't need too either.
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Ok, I'll give linux a try and see how I go. Thanks for your help
 
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