PS3 Swapping hdd without losing data

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Kuppi

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I have a jailbroken PS3 slim with a 1TB SSD, which I've recently come to learn is not a good idea, SSD's don't really work well in PS3's.

I got a 1TB HDD which I'll use from now on. How can I properly swap to it without losing all my data? I tried the HDD exchange utility, but it has gotten an error twice now, the other one at 93%.

I have already backed up the saves and trophies, so I can just reinstall everything and move them over if I have to, but I'd like to just copy everything at once. What would be the best course of action?

Also, if I have to reinstall, can trophies just be copied to the correct folder or are they signed to users or something? I haven't logged in to PSN on the user.
 
Why You thinking it doesn't work well? What are the symptoms?

If any of filesystems is potentially broken, then cloning by sector by sector copy is not good idea. Better be manually copying data:
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/ultimate-userdata-backup-guide.29037/

If You are sure that whole logic structure is intact, then clone drive on PC. But remember that 1TB can be not equal to 1TB. It is because marketeers don't using exact size. It is possible that SSD is larger than Your HDD and in such case You cannot clone drive. How large size is any disk manager can tell You by displaying exact bytes or sectors count. If You will be doing that on Windows, remember to NOT agree for disk initializing, or else it will overwrite PS3PT by GPT.
 
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