How to Upgrade a Fat PS3 Hard Drive

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[ViewtifulSkies]

It sort of shocks me that you did not even bother to blow the dust off before inserting the replacement HDD.

[icoombs]

My PS3 was flashing access error and locking up. I swapped in a new drive and followed these instructions. PS3 is now working great. Thanks for making this

[ricovelas]

Thanks for explaining how to get to safe mode. Most of the currently tutorials on how to upgrade fat PS3s were written when this model was still relatively new and didn't have issues with simply popping in a new HDD, which can cause issues after pressing the pwr button. Much appreciated man!!

[airhunter]

8 years ago, and i thank you now. This was very simple. Thanks again.

[johnnyavina]

Thanks a ton I had been stuck with a 40 gb ps3 for 7 years thanks so simple

[aben]

This video just saved me from a total headache. I didnt know how to access the Safe Mode on the PS3 nor i did I know about making folders for the software update on the USB drive. I just installed a 500GB on my system it all went well. Thanks

[Chabacca]

Thank you sir for the video, it helped a lot. Been struggling with the stock 80GB for the past few years. Just bought a 500GB HDD, now I can install and finally play GT6.

[Tarzan]

I just put in a new hard drive into my 60gb backwards compatible ps3. it just booted up with updated firmware. didn't need usb stick. awesome.

[Haggard]

Make sure you don't bother cleaning the dust from the hard drive slot in the PS3. New Harddrives LOVE tons of dust all over their connections.

[Sunwolfy]

Just used this video to put in a 1TB hard drive (Western Digital) into my 1st gen PS3 (CECHA01) and had no trouble whatsoever. It recognized it easily and the whole process was very easy to do. Thanks for a great DIY vid! :)

[batuhan_akdeniz]

Just upgraded my 500 GB PS4 to 2 TB and put the 500 GB hard disk to my PS3 by watching this video. Thanks a lot!

[JesterGP]

10yrs past and this video is still helping folks like me out👏😁

[ajskillz]

had a little trouble getting my ps3 to read my flash drive but once it finally picked it up everything flowed just like the video thanks Peyton you know your stuff man and made it easy to follow cool vid

[MrSupersonic]

I know this is really old, but I appreciate this tutorial. My PS3 is an oldler PS2 BC model. It has a 500GB hard drive installed (bought it used on eBay a couple years ago.) The large space has been nice and I've been able to fit a lot on it. Recently with the announcement of the store closing I've decided to buy some more digital games in interested in before they're gone forever. But I can't download them for some reason. So I might need to change the hard drive.

[trademarkofaz]

New WD Blue 1 TB thanks to this vid. Never knew I could change my HD. Now I'm not so eager to buy a PS4.

[jeffescortlx]

This old video helped me out. The official playstation website doesn't go into detail about the two file names.

[cryhavok]

This video was a great help to me. Just upgraded my PS3. Thank you so much. I just wished that we were capable of saving full games onto a flash drive, too not just saved data.

[Nerodia]

Thank you so much this really helped me in upgrading my ps3 hard-drive I could not have done it with out watching this video. This is the best step-by-step video out there!!!

[IsMelonMaster]

I'm assuming it's normal, as this video is over a year old.. but after sliding in the new drive and allowing it to format and restart the system, it booted up with my accounts in tact. I'm guessing that the accounts are saved in system and not on the HDD? Because that seems strange. O_o

[kevinhodge]

Just used this to upgrade an 80GB PS3 to 500GB in 2021. Thank you so much!