That's exactly what i did... but popping the old PS3 hdd in the enclosure don't do it. The PS3 will not recognize it, the computer will not give a drive letter for it...

couldn't agree more! YLoD eh? That's funny

I thought the same about Pixy until he replied to one of my posts this morning.

Then what the heck to do you do?

It seems extremely annoying that they'd make it a pain to port over your saves if they've given you the option of upgrading your drive.

RocShemp: if you upgrade your drive by first doing a system backup on an external drive, and then do a restore from that drive on the same PS3, you'll be fine.

The problem comes when your system dies before you can do a backup, or if you have to switch to a new PS3.

Okay, so I gotta either borrow or buy an external drive and buy a new drive in order to upgrade my PS3?

You can get a flash drive for under 10 bucks these days...just use one of those.

= J

A 60GB (well, all I really need is 40GB) flashdrive for under $10? Huh? Do they even come with that much storage?

^ it depends how much contents you have on your PS3. If less than 2gb, then yeah, an inexpensive flashdrive will do the trick. If you have 40gb PS3, you don't need a 40gb or more external hdd to do backups, unless you used up all the space...

Errrr, i wasn't trying to upgrade my hdd, i already did that. The pain is pretty much what D Shea is going through now, just less, because i had way less content than him back then.

What i was talking about is to make use of the old PS3 hdd that i took out... You can basically convert it to an external hdd. A portable 40gb external hdd for $7, not bad eh?

Man you guys are making me worried my PS3 will spontaneously combust when I play tonight

Time to schedule a weekly backup, like I do for my laptop...

Ratchet & Clank Future:
Quest for Booty Price Drop (now $9.99 )(*Limited Time Offer)

For the ones that were waiting for a price drop, like me.

Damn that's tempting. That is stand alone right? No need for the disc, correct?

Totally stand alone! Well worth $9.99

Did anyone download Wheel of Fortune?

Thats the price I've been waiting for. Hope it's worth it. Thanks

Thanks. My credit card can't take it, but it's going to.

Now if only Soldner-X would go on sale, I'd have every PSN title that I've been wanting.

The shitty thing is that although you backup your data if you were forced to install it to another system because yours broke you would lose all copy protected data (saves, videos, etc). This is the real pain that I'm pissed with Sony about right now. Plus, I was told they double encrypt every file on the internal hard drive making it nearly impossible to crack just to get your files back. The ability to do a simple hard drive swap would solve all of these problems.

As far as Wheel of Fortune goes I bought it and it is fun. Get it, get on and have a good time!

the shittiest part that has no explanation is why SOME games copy protect their save data - I'm looking at you RockBand!

Street Fighter 4 and Resident Evil 5 too

I played level 7 of Savage Moon last night on Vengeance mode and lasted 91 minutes (perfect way to get the last trophy I needed!)

The waves get pretty nasty an hour in. Even with three overlapping Repair towers, those flying shooters can take out a tower in a single shot!

wow, awesome, for $10, i'll buy it. Wheel of Fortune? i wonder how's the control...

i have soldner-x, man, i'm telling you, if you're not good with shoot'em ups, don't get this. It's very anal, very difficult! The control is a bit off too, since your vehicle has force shields, it's not one hit you die kind of thing. Then you might ask, if it's a force shield thing, how hard can it be right? I don't know, it's pretty hard for me... but it has co-op, so i guess it's an okay buy (i paid $10 for it). The PC CE version is only $10...

The way you described the game play, it sounded like one of those defense tower kind of game, like PJ Monsters. Is it something like that? I never really read up on the game, so i have no clue other than it's on the moon...