Corrupted Ps3 HardDrive. Anyone else Here Had this problem?

[Spudgun Man]

Imagine the scene, There i was going to play Fallout 3 (of all times for this to happen ):<). Waiting to gaze upon the long awaited title. and lo and behold... i get a message reading 'the hard disk's file system is corrupted and will be restored'. after 3 tries of 'restoring' the PS3 i Give in.

anyone Else plauged by this. And has anyone got a way to fix this?

 

[Syphonz]

nope. i think you're just unlucky.

I've had one issue where my brother (dumbshit that he is) switched off the PS3 because he got impatient waiting for an update to install. turned it back on Harddrive was corrupted, but i was able to go to the system settings and reformat the drive, problem solved.

 

[Vortigar]

I've seen this problem, the message came up after an update. My heart started beating again after the restoration bar went up to 78%, the machine restarted and after a long load time (the opening theme came out jittery, was really weird) it was fine again.

This was about four months ago. Haven't had any problems since. European 60gb launch system.

Advice?
Search around the internet, thoroughly, someone's bound to have run into this problem.

 

[Serious_Stalin]

that sucks, long shot but try turning off your PS3 at power switch, turn on again and then turn it on at the PS3 on/off button rather than controller but press the button for 5 seconds.

Err I also just read this on a forum, but don't hold responsibility for it as a means to fix it.
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I fixed my ps3!! All you need is a friend with a ps3!! Swap the hdd's and boot up your friends ps3, format the hdd, put it back in your ps3 and you may need to format it again.

After that though... Voila!! Sure beats getting a second hand ps3 IMO.

SS- If you were to do this then its easy enough, click out the side of the PS3 (you might need nails, the ones on your fingers that is!) and use a small screw on the blue screws and it will slide out. Simple enough

Sucks man, I hope one of those works but perhaps your PS3 is trying to tell you that you don't want to get addicted to fall out ^^

 

[MrGFunk]

And has anyone got a way to fix this?

I've seen a few instances of this on the Net. Some people keep trying to restore and it works after a while, keeping your game saves or others, when unable to reach XMB, have removed harddrive and reformatted via a PC.

This is a bad break though.

Did this occur when downloading an update, machine switch off while saving to HDD or was it random?
I want to avoid this happening to me.

 

[Tyrant55]

Did you download any type of beta recently? I'm not really sure how you would fix it, but I've heard that many of the new game betas have been making PS3s' fail.

When all else fails, call Sony.

 

[Simalacrum]

my PS3 has very little problems, but it does on occasion freeze if i've been using it for a long period of time in which i have to restart it again. nothing wrong with the harddrive though...
anyone else have freezing problems?

 

[Serious_Stalin]

my PS3 has very little problems, but it does on occasion freeze if i've been using it for a long period of time in which i have to restart it again. nothing wrong with the harddrive though...
anyone else have freezing problems?

Yeah, thats probably to do with the disk i get that as well.

 

[demon lord 2037]

I had this problem when I got a ps3 so I just took it back to where I bought it and they gave me a new one.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Thats the thing its not connected to the net. I Personally Belive that GTA4 is resposible for the fault, a while back while playing I finished that mission where you kill the guy who has been hospitalised. After finishing it saved as usual but then froze and turned off. I thought nothing of it as it was not affected in any way. (apart from the fact GTA4 has never worked again) then... Voila kaput...

Luckily those nice peeps at sony are sending me a new machine. just gotta wait a week. I can make it right?

 

[klc0100]

Thats the thing its not connected to the net. I Personally Belive that GTA4 is resposible for the fault, a while back while playing I finished that mission where you kill the guy who has been hospitalised. After finishing it saved as usual but then froze and turned off. I thought nothing of it as it was not affected in any way. (apart from the fact GTA4 has never worked again) then... Voila kaput...

Luckily those nice peeps at sony are sending me a new machine. just gotta wait a week. I can make it right?

I thought it would of been easier of them just to send a new hard drive.

 

[Laughing Man]

Thats the thing its not connected to the net. I Personally Belive that GTA4 is resposible for the fault, a while back while playing I finished that mission where you kill the guy who has been hospitalised. After finishing it saved as usual but then froze and turned off. I thought nothing of it as it was not affected in any way. (apart from the fact GTA4 has never worked again) then... Voila kaput...

Uh yeah, GTA4 had issues with corrupting save files as a result of it trying to connect to the dodgy servers for the multiplayer but for what ever reason not being able to complete the connect correctly. The result was that the game wouldn't load and recent saves became corrupt. Mind you it was easily solved. Delete the most recent saves and dis connect from the access point prior to loading GTA4.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Wow, PS3s don't break no matter what you do... that's really a load of bull.

Sorry, had to say that, because fanboys don't realise mistreatment causes a death of a console (OK, launch 360s don't count).