Help My Brother Formated My PS3!!!

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#1 Nelius88
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Is there a way to get all my data back or do I have to start from scratch as in Trophies and completing painful task like God of War 3 on chaos mode? Please help if you know anything about restoring data.

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#2 TheEldestGod
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Your trophies are saved on the psn servers and will come back after you sign in again with your profile. Your save data, however, is gone forever. ......... now, go kick the crap out of your brother!
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#3 ryrulez
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Any trophies that weren't synced will be lost so will all your saves. Yeah go beat the crap out of your brother.
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#4 Nelius88
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Any trophies that weren't synced will be lost so will all your saves. Yeah go beat the crap out of your brother.ryrulez
when you say synced do you mean while signed in online? It's painful that I have to do all of this lol and even more painful of the thought that I have to get all of my guns back from modern warfare 2 damn this sucks lol.
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#5 mmofnbs
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[QUOTE="ryrulez"]Any trophies that weren't synced will be lost so will all your saves. Yeah go beat the crap out of your brother.Nelius88
when you say synced do you mean while signed in online? It's painful that I have to do all of this lol and even more painful of the thought that I have to get all of my guns back from modern warfare 2 damn this sucks lol.

In the "games" section you actually have to select for it to sync to PSN servers.
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#6 Zed_11
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[QUOTE="ryrulez"]Any trophies that weren't synced will be lost so will all your saves. Yeah go beat the crap out of your brother.Nelius88
when you say synced do you mean while signed in online? It's painful that I have to do all of this lol and even more painful of the thought that I have to get all of my guns back from modern warfare 2 damn this sucks lol.

You won't lose any of your guns if you're using the same PSN ID.

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#7 Nelius88
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Oh do you know if I have to pay for the games I had to buy on psn again?
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#8 Zed_11
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Oh do you know if I have to pay for the games I had to buy on psn again?Nelius88

You can re-download them once you sign back in to your account.

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#9 Nelius88
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cool thanks guys.
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#10 SoraX64
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That sucks man, reminds me of when my old GameCube memory card had to be formatted and I lost all my data. :(
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#11 Floppy_Jim
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Unfortunately you're screwed now but my advice is use a USB stick to back up your saves in the future, it takes about 2 minutes. Every PS3 owner should be doing this. Also take a belt sander to your brother's family jewels at some point..

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#12 GTR12
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Well you can technically recover the saved data, formatting only tells the OS that the area can be written, it doesn't actually remove any data. Its a bit of a pain but if you connect your PS3 HDD to your PC and use recovery software on the HDD, it should bring back most if not all your data.

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#13 EpiphoneMan2008
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Unfortunately you're screwed now but my advice is use a USB stick to back up your saves in the future, it takes about 2 minutes. Every PS3 owner should be doing this. Also take a belt sander to your brother's family jewels at some point..

Floppy_Jim
LOLOLOLOL ( I actually did LOL )
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#14 MusashiSensi
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Unfortunately you're screwed now but my advice is use a USB stick to back up your saves in the future, it takes about 2 minutes. Every PS3 owner should be doing this. Also take a belt sander to your brother's family jewels at some point..

Floppy_Jim
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#15 AmnesiaHaze
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unless the ps3 formats with low level the data should be still physically on the disk (files are marked to be rewritten), maybe you can try to remove the hard drive from your console , hook it upto a pc and run data recovery on it , backup the saves and copy them back with a usb stick, not sure if it works but its at least worth a try

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#16 oajlu
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you could restore data, but it depends how PS3 format disk...

take hdd out of ps3 and try some data recovery software, see if you can save it.

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#17 Floppy_Jim
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[QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

Unfortunately you're screwed now but my advice is use a USB stick to back up your saves in the future, it takes about 2 minutes. Every PS3 owner should be doing this. Also take a belt sander to your brother's family jewels at some point..

MusashiSensi
What's that in your sig?

That is Killzone 3 :)
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#18 MusashiSensi
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[QUOTE="MusashiSensi"][QUOTE="Floppy_Jim"]

Unfortunately you're screwed now but my advice is use a USB stick to back up your saves in the future, it takes about 2 minutes. Every PS3 owner should be doing this. Also take a belt sander to your brother's family jewels at some point..

Floppy_Jim
What's that in your sig?

That is Killzone 3 :)

Thanks.