Comments on: PS3 : How to backup PS3 game save files to memory stick / sd / cf

By: seamonkey420

seamonkey420 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:37:27 +0000

did you try to activate the new hdd?

By: seamonkey420

seamonkey420 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:35:34 +0000

have you activated the new harddrive?

i've now upgrade my hdd about 3 times and each time i have not lost any data. i always go to Network > Account Management > Activate System after i restore my data. this should re-enable any copy protected save data and other drm locked media.

i have not upgraded since the 3.00 updates though. a reader over at my blog said that he had problems w/activating his restore data from a phat to a new slim but after about 4 days of trying it finally activated and he was good to go.

http://blogs.tech-recipes.com/seamonkey420/2008...

By: bigsimms

bigsimms — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:16:43 +0000

I just upgraded from a 40g to a 320g ps3. All my saved game data,pics,movies, and music restored. But the games iv bought,user profile, and psn data didnt. why?

By: lukeyboii

lukeyboii — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:13:40 +0000

thank you sooo much u helped me alot tonight :)

By: refan

refan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:26:31 +0000

I played Resident Evil 5 then I unlocked all the mercenaries characters, except for Sheva 2 costunes, then the PS3 turned off while saving, now I am playing it again, so when it corrupt again will I be able to back it up again using the second method ?

then What ? do I have to back up the full hdd each time I unlock a character ? it takes up to 2 hours for 26 GB

please help !!

By: calamari1122

calamari1122 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:46:32 +0000

Umm make sure it is not partioned and have set up all the files that would have been on the XMB……. if not then try to reset the hd…..

By: felix rouch

felix rouch — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:36:22 +0000

well my external hardrive wont backup i cant think wot im doing wrong…….its 250gb and format is FAT32 help!!!!!

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:21:55 +0000

For some reason my PS3 has been glitching and just freezing up so i'm going to reformat my whole hard drive, and so i had this external hard drive and i'm goin to put everything on there. It was originally NTFS but you have to convert it to FAT32 for it to be able to recognize your external hard drive and for you to be able to do that, you have to download an application called SwissKnife. I just followed this guys instructions… http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/boa...

By: Nospheratus79

Nospheratus79 — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:57:42 +0000

I have had same problem.

PSN does not work to play online, I format my PS3, PSN starts to work. Restore the backup, PSN stops again.

My worst nightmare comes with the SFIV saved game what is copying protected. Ironically, who's corrupted my PS3 system file was the latest SFIV update.

I related to Capcom my problem, and I'm looking forward their answer here (user Nospheratus79):

http://www.capcom-unity.com/tech_support/go/thr...

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:11:57 +0000

Um, yes it does, but I need a way to copy just my Save Data because something in my system is causing my PSN to not function properly. I won't go into it, but regardless if I format my HDD and start the PS3 fresh everything works, but as soon as I restore my backup, it doesn't get online properly anymore. But my game data and save data are there. I'm thinking I may have to use Windows and pull the drive out of the PS3 and copy to a PC my Saved Data, then format the PS3 drive again, then pull it out again and copy the Saved Data back. I wonder if that will work ? I hope so.