PS3 Stuck in update loop after trying to update from Evilnat 4.91 > 4.92

SeanRanklin

SeanRanklin

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Hi, I have been using and updating CFW for almost a decade now and have never run into this problem before.

Last night i had just completed transferring some more games onto my 750gb HDD (almost at the 75% full mark) and decided before i shut the unit down for the night, i would quickly update to the latest CFW to be able to go online. I found the mediafire links from this website and downloaded it and placed on my USB and inserted it into my PS3 and it was detected immediately.

I then let the updater do its thing, and it eventually took me to the safe mode style screen and it started updating... until it reached 45% then it returned an error (8002F334) and basically just loops over and over. I cannot even get into safe mode.

I know that i can format the drive or insert a new drive to get it going again, but i am concerned about my data. I have almost 500gb of games and saves as well as cfw apps which i dont want to lose. Is there any way i can retreive this or save my original drive?

I was using filezilla to transfer things accross.

Please any help is appreciated.
 
Psdevwiki classifies that as a hard drive error. You can get your stuff off of it with the erk. If you don't have it, insert a new drive, dump the erk, then read the original HDD, using the erk, on your PC. Dump your stuff then.
 
fun fun fun ! NOT. I had something similar happen to me 7 years ago, where i got stuck in a loop and couldn't even get in safe mode.
The legend Devs here helped me thru it as i kept working on it.
In end someone advised to use this Ferrox cfw update on a flash drive,
which got me back into the xmb, then install latest rebug over that, then retrieve the erk (Eid root key)

After that i opened the PS3 drive on my ps3 and used cloning software to copy the whole hard drive onto a bigger 2TB hdd,
as they were concluding its probably because my hdd was at fault and going to fail, same as youve been advised with your error.

Now i still use that 2TB internal to this day, and its identical to the last one just much bigger,
and everything still working great, 6-7 years on. Might have to do it again one day :/ Hope not. Lot of work
 
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