connect ps3 hard drive to pc??

[vn_v6]

hi all, i have a playstation 3, with a SATA hard drive, and it has ALOT of music and movies on it, but the ps3 is gone, the hard drive is functional, now how would i connect this to my computer to get all my crap off it?? yes my computer has SATA ports, ive plugged it in and it apears in BIOS but doesnt show up in My Computer

regards alex

[ParkwayDrv]

hey man, i have heard this thing works USB 2.0 to SATA, 2.5", 3.5" IDE Adapter

[vn_v6]

why would i spend money when i can just plug it in already?? just need to know how to get my pc to read it,

[ari666]

lol, just plug it in...

sata will pop up as a new drive through windows. and if not, restart, press delete to enter bios and change your ide settings

[ParkwayDrv]

ahh my bad, didnt see the bit where you said said you had already plugged her in

[vn_v6]

what IDE setting do i fiddle with??

[TheForgotten]

if it's SATA don't touch IDE settings, there's no point

if BIOS can see the hard drive, windows should.

tried using command prompt?

[Uber_Flacky]

umm, PS3 formats it to its own settings IE. not NTFS or FAT, I changed my hardrive over in the ps3 from the 80 to a 320 and to copy my save over I had to use a USB cause I could read the HDD on my computer. So I am 99% sure that you can't read a PS3 HDD via PC. Someone please prove me wrong as I would love to copy plug my drive in and copy stuff to it

[Astranomical]

If I'm correct, the format that the PS3 uses for its hard drive is not compatible with Windows. Windows only allows you to access disks formatted in either FAT, FAT32, or NTFS, which the PS3 doesn't use. Unless you try booting the computer off a Linux LiveCD, and see if Linux can mount the drive, your best bet might be to put the drive into another PS3 and get your stuff off it that way.

[dijm8]

best bet is to head over to the ps3 forums usa or aust forums, you will get much better and straight forward replies ther mate

[ari666]

my mate has his external formatted to fat32 and it works fine on his PS3/windows. some bios's need to have the sata function enabled if you are using the old pata style HDD's

[Uber_Flacky]

yes but thats an external, ps3 can read fat32 aswell, but the internal harddrive they use to store all the important stuff on (ie installing games, settings etc.) is in the ps3 format

[acex1138]

ok bro. short answers is your screwed. long answer is if you wait a bit you might not be but dont hold your breath.

The ps3 encrypts all data to the exact ps3 it is being used on, if it is the internal drive from your ps3 it is formatted in a kind of fat file structure that even if your pc could read you would need heavy encryption breaking skills which the world hasnt really come up with yet.

There is however light in the tunnel but its a way off, the ps3 was recently having some progress with hacking, geohotz who cracked the iphone recently made heavy progress and hte hypervisor (one of the big obstacles which prevented anything non-sonyish running - im tryna make this explanation simple was recently dumped and will hopefully be cracked soon) and with that hopefully a hard drive decryption tool will become avaliable.

Im praying for it, EA were complete tools when it came to save games, i had a Fat ps3 and was loving nfs shift..... i went to a ps3 and it delieberately wont recognise my save games due to the hard drive change. the level of encryption on it is so dense its not funny.