need help, friends ps3 hard drive problems

we was playing black ops last nite and he feel asleep and his son came down stairs and we tried to play zombies for like a half hour. it wouldnt let me join him and it wouldnt let him join me. so i get a message saying he was gonna play it on on his slim up stairs. so im guessing he just ejected the disc from his dads ps3 without shutting down the game or turning off the power because he logged on while his dads ps3 was still on. we still couldnt join each other so i got mad and went to bed.

this morning the dad calls me and says he cant do anything on his ps3. said that his ps3 is telling him that files are corrupted and he needs to restore the hd files. so he runs the restore process and it gets to 100% and then he gets the same corrupted hd files message over and over....

im thinking his hard drive went out? anyone got any advice on what he should do? im thinking of taking my old dead ps3 over his house to see how to remove the hd without moving his ps3 all arround to practice finding the hd and how to remove it .

thanks to everyone in advance for any help!!

bump.his menusor dash bars.the ps3 wave comes up as he startshis ps3 then it tells him he needs to run the restore.he does the restore and it says it again.

anyone ever have this happen to them?what did you do?im going over his house tonite to try and help him fix it. i told him he might need a new hd.how much are hds and what kind should we order?

anybody?

Sounds like more happened than what is being said. Corrupt HDD obviously, remove and replace.budboarder

Yeah. First, try removing the HDD and replacing it like the person above said. It could just be loose. If that doesn't work, you might have to get a new HDD. Gamespot has a nifty article on how to do it here. There are plenty of other articles around on how to do it. It's a pretty painless process.

Yeah. First, try removing the HDD and replacing it like the person above said. It could just be loose. If that doesn't work, you might have to get a new HDD. Gamespot has a nifty article on how to do it here. There are plenty of other articles around on how to do it. It's a pretty painless process.

RurouniSaiyajin

If it was ejected during a game that would likely have constant save points, it's corrupt.

You might be able to get away with formatting it. If you put in another hard drive, it'll format itself by default.

Hopefully it'll replace boot sectors and partitions.

update, friend just called me and said he removed the hd and blew in it and put it back in and it still doent work.

now i need to know what kind of hd to order?

update, friend just called me and said he removed the hd and blew in it and put it back in and it still doent work.

now i need to know what kind of hd to order?

monson21502

SATA 2.5"

PS3 has a maximum of 500gigs of space and 7200RPM

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update, friend just called me and said he removed the hd and blew in it and put it back in and it still doent work.

now i need to know what kind of hd to order?

SATA 2.5"

PS3 has a maximum of 500gigs of space and 7200RPM