New Ps3 HD installed today...

Well, the title says it all.

Here's my experience - one that wasn't as awesome as i thought it would be.

Opened the case and the dreaded blue screw popped right out with ease. Now to the 4 screws on the casing... nope, 1 came out without too much trouble, the other three caused me to run out for about an hour to hunt for an appropriate philips head that wouldn't strip the screws.

On to Best Buy - nope, their kit wasn't any better than what I had. I discovered they do not sell replacement screws like the ones found on the casing - they are the same as those found in many pc's HD casing. 0.o ...now that Comp USA has disappeared from my area, can't go there.

I went to Lowes and found a precision philips set, ah ha! To make sure things would go well I bought a stripped screw remover.

Came back and tried the precision set, well the precision set might have been precise but it wasn't indestructable. I broke 3 of the dang heads. Can you believe the luck?! Well... my girlfriend has a pair of cuticle clippers (resemble plyers) well... i didn't have any on me at the time and after being out an hour they looked rather inviting. I went at the 2 remaining screws with a pair of cuticle clippers 0.o ...

Well, Murphy's Law has an office down from mine - but he wasn't in today! Yes, these inconspicuous cuticle clippers did the trick. Both came off - but not after 2 of the screws had been stripped.

The WD 250gig Scorpio drive is now in and I am restoring the data.

You think they could have tightened those screws any more? I doubt it.

Good for you who cares that you got a new hdd.discomputer

Apparently you cared enough to come and post about it.

Anyways, so is there any data that you end up losing? Or were you able to transfer everything to a PC and then go back? Pain in the butt or what?Pablo620

I did have some trouble getting the trophies back on the xmb, for some reason the system doesn't want to download all of them. Wipeout HD and some of Warhawk came back but none of the others. I've tried syncing, comparing to friends... etc

No other problems. I didn't lose any of the other data. I didn't put the data on a pc, i left it on the ext. HD.

btw - i posted to relate to others. :)

[QUOTE="Pablo620"]Anyways, so is there any data that you end up losing? Or were you able to transfer everything to a PC and then go back? Pain in the butt or what?Cyphus07

I did have some trouble getting the trophies back on the xmb, for some reason the system doesn't want to download all of them. Wipeout HD and some of Warhawk came back but none of the others. I've tried syncing, comparing to friends... etc

No other problems. I didn't lose any of the other data. I didn't put the data on a pc, i left it on the ext. HD.

btw - i posted to relate to others. :)

Did you play the games in question? I think it just syncs the game last played but could be wrong.

[QUOTE="Cyphus07"]

[QUOTE="Pablo620"]Anyways, so is there any data that you end up losing? Or were you able to transfer everything to a PC and then go back? Pain in the butt or what?CorporateHammer

I did have some trouble getting the trophies back on the xmb, for some reason the system doesn't want to download all of them. Wipeout HD and some of Warhawk came back but none of the others. I've tried syncing, comparing to friends... etc

No other problems. I didn't lose any of the other data. I didn't put the data on a pc, i left it on the ext. HD.

btw - i posted to relate to others. :)

Did you play the games in question? I think it just syncs the game last played but could be wrong.

Yeah I thought that might help, so I tried that. Worked for Wipeout HD, but not Warhawk. 0.o who knows.

I used this wonderful invention that my dad bought me for christmas.....i call it....a powerdrill

hahahahahaha

it worked instantly, no cubicle clippers required