Hello guys I decided to get a new drive as I once went on to safe mode and restored FILE SYSTEM, it came up with the message hard disk is corrupted needs restoring and it restored fine, so I double checked and it said same message and then it restored fine again. Hmm so I bought a new hard drive and went straight to RESTORE FILE SYSTEM and the dreaded message popped up THE HARD DISK IS CORRUPTED now I have not even played a game with this ps3 never froze. Brand new it was I'm thinking is this a default message to every hard drive it checks good or bad What happens if you guys have done it out of curiosity or they know of this cause it's like I've wasted and got a new hard drive for no reason?????
its not so much the drive is corrupted its that the drive is blank. the ps3 will read the drive and look for the file system and it will then load it up and you will be in the xmb but when you put in a brand new drive it tried to read the drive and it couldnt find so it said it was a corrupted. corrupted is only a data problem it doesnt mean your hard drive is broken or faulty. my guess is the ps3 has the 1 throwback for this. either the system loads fine or it doesnt and it hits you with the corrupted. it would seem like an awful wate of time to program in all this error coding for the hard drive.
im not sure how the ps3 deals with the hard drive and how the os works but im guessing the system stores the info about the hard drive and how much free memory there is the drive model and all that stuff so when it spotted there was a data mismatch it could have also given the message.
either way its nothin to worry about. if it starts happening often start worrying but otherwise it doesnt seem like a problem
no as far as i know its the actual OS thats the problem its nothing to do with the user data its the data the ps3 uses to actually work which is data you will never need to worry about, your game saves and all should be perfect but if its a case that the ps3 cant repair the problem your data will be gone as you will not be able to load the system up and the stuff on the hard drive is encrypted and cant be read by a pc
I just change my harddrive yesterday from the original corrupted toshiba (thanks sony for being cheap).......... to 500gb Western Digital brand... so far run smoothly......
I changed my harddrive like 3 months ago upgraded from a 40 gi to 500 gig and when i put in the new HD in my ps3 it said the harddrive or data was corrupt. What i did to fix that problem was I watched some Youtube videos on "corrupt harddrives" and there is this way to fix it.
Bottom line is ur HD isn't broken i thought mine was when I got that msg. Just youtube "new harddrive is corrupt on youtube" and you should be good. thats what I did...
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