ConstantineJC
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Good afternoon, friends
I'll explain in as much relevant detail as I can, but I'll also put a TL;DR at the bottom.
I've tried my best to resolve this on my own, but it seems it's time to ask for help. I have a CECH-25XX running Evilnat Cobra 4.70 on its current hard-drive. There was a sale recently on SSDs in my area and I got an ADATA SU630 480GB to give the console a little upgrade. I didn't need anything backed up off the hard-drive that was already in, so I just popped it out, put the SSD in, put a new PS3UPDAT.PUP on a FAT32 MBR formatted flash drive and turned the PS3 on.
Here's where the odd heaviour begins - at first, it would simply refuse to accept the SSD. It'd turn on, stay on a black screen for up to a full minute, then spit out an error saying:
"Cannot start.
The appropriate system storage was not found."
I read a bunch online and some people were saying that the PS3 can be a little iffy with brand new storage, so I used a SATA to USB adapter to format it (using fat32format gui, and rufus on 2 separate occasions). fat32format didn't do the trick, but once Rufus was explicitly told to convert to MBR not GPT, the PS3 recognised the SSD and gave the usual error that there's on OS on there. Great - I went through the usual SELECT+START installation process and all went well. The progress bar gets to 100%, the system restarts as usual, but then spits out the same error as above about appropriate system storage not being found. What's really odd is that if I restart it a bunch of times, it recognises it without issue and will go through the install (I've tried a bunch of CFWs and OFWs), but once it restarts afterwards - error.
I tried booting into recovery mode, which only works about 50% of the time. Once I successfully booted into that, I tried pretty much all the options there one by one, nothing helped.
The SSD is seated well in the slot in the PS3 and I've checked it for any errors on my PC - nothing unusual was found, it works as expected. I'm kind of lost as to what to even try next. If I plug in my old HDD now, it works completely fine as if nothing's ever happened.
I'd appreciate any input whatsoever. Thanks guys.
TL;DR: PS3 won't accept new SSD, occasionally detects it as it should, but if any firmware install is attempted, it'll go through successfully, restart and stop recognising it once again.
I'll explain in as much relevant detail as I can, but I'll also put a TL;DR at the bottom.
I've tried my best to resolve this on my own, but it seems it's time to ask for help. I have a CECH-25XX running Evilnat Cobra 4.70 on its current hard-drive. There was a sale recently on SSDs in my area and I got an ADATA SU630 480GB to give the console a little upgrade. I didn't need anything backed up off the hard-drive that was already in, so I just popped it out, put the SSD in, put a new PS3UPDAT.PUP on a FAT32 MBR formatted flash drive and turned the PS3 on.
Here's where the odd heaviour begins - at first, it would simply refuse to accept the SSD. It'd turn on, stay on a black screen for up to a full minute, then spit out an error saying:
"Cannot start.
The appropriate system storage was not found."
I read a bunch online and some people were saying that the PS3 can be a little iffy with brand new storage, so I used a SATA to USB adapter to format it (using fat32format gui, and rufus on 2 separate occasions). fat32format didn't do the trick, but once Rufus was explicitly told to convert to MBR not GPT, the PS3 recognised the SSD and gave the usual error that there's on OS on there. Great - I went through the usual SELECT+START installation process and all went well. The progress bar gets to 100%, the system restarts as usual, but then spits out the same error as above about appropriate system storage not being found. What's really odd is that if I restart it a bunch of times, it recognises it without issue and will go through the install (I've tried a bunch of CFWs and OFWs), but once it restarts afterwards - error.
I tried booting into recovery mode, which only works about 50% of the time. Once I successfully booted into that, I tried pretty much all the options there one by one, nothing helped.
The SSD is seated well in the slot in the PS3 and I've checked it for any errors on my PC - nothing unusual was found, it works as expected. I'm kind of lost as to what to even try next. If I plug in my old HDD now, it works completely fine as if nothing's ever happened.
I'd appreciate any input whatsoever. Thanks guys.
TL;DR: PS3 won't accept new SSD, occasionally detects it as it should, but if any firmware install is attempted, it'll go through successfully, restart and stop recognising it once again.
