think that a mac would help me to back up from broken ps3????

OK, long story short; i'd 60gb ps3 it broke bought 40gb, i want to back up my data, tried almost everything, conect it to the pc as a hdd or as an external hdd, also tried the same on my 40gb ps3.

Someone on an other forum told me to try on a mac, i have to wait until my sister arrives home with her mac boock pro, do you think that may work??? HELP ME PLEASE

My other forum is this: http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26516309&msg_id=303985668#303985668

Dude...

You already made one thread, one is enough.

Secondly, if your HDD is done for (yellow light of death) then I doubt you'll be accomplishing much with any type of computer to try and back up data.

Now lets look at this from a logical standpoint.

You know that your sister is coming home with her MAC. Therefore, YOU, yes YOU, will be able to try it out for yourself when she arrives.

Why do you need to create a thread ahead of time to find out if it will work or not, when YOU WILL FIND OUT as soon as she arrives?

Either way, I highly doubt it.

I highly doubt it.

RotaryRX7

Mac's are worse then PC's for recovering data since there's no good programs compatible with them.

Dude...

You already made one thread, one is enough.

Secondly, if your HDD is done for (yellow light of death) then I doubt you'll be accomplishing much with any type of computer to try and back up data.

Now lets look at this from a logical standpoint.

You know that your sister is coming home with her MAC. Therefore, YOU, yes YOU, will be able to try it out for yourself when she arrives.

Why do you need to create a thread ahead of time to find out if it will work or not, when YOU WILL FIND OUT as soon as she arrives?

Either way, I highly doubt it.

RotaryRX7

because she will came tomorrow and maybe somone knows, and besides i'm bored

Dude...

You already made one thread, one is enough.

Secondly, if your HDD is done for (yellow light of death) then I doubt you'll be accomplishing much with any type of computer to try and back up data.

Now lets look at this from a logical standpoint.

You know that your sister is coming home with her MAC. Therefore, YOU, yes YOU, will be able to try it out for yourself when she arrives.

Why do you need to create a thread ahead of time to find out if it will work or not, when YOU WILL FIND OUT as soon as she arrives?

Either way, I highly doubt it.

RotaryRX7

[QUOTE="RotaryRX7"]

I highly doubt it.

RoganSarine

Mac's are worse then PC's for recovering data since there's no good programs compatible with them.

i've no idea, i don't really like macs but someone in the other forum sayd it would work

Im curious as to

1. What version of windows are you running?

2. Did you get errors after connecting to your pc?

3. If it wasnt visible and your using XP or later you should go to control panel- admin tools - computer management - disk manager - if it inst showing here I seriously doubt a mac is going to make a difference.

Im curious as to

1. What version of windows are you running?

2. Did you get errors after connecting to your pc?

3. If it wasnt visible and your using XP or later you should go to control panel- admin tools - computer management - disk manager - if it inst showing here I seriously doubt a mac is going to make a difference.

CorporateHammer

1 i tried on vista and on XP

2 no

3 If i go there i see it but it doesn't assign a letter and to assign a letter i have to reate a particion (i don't know if that word exists but i don't have my windows on english) and to do that i have to format it

See if you have the option to mark partition as active.

See if you have the option to mark partition as active.

CorporateHammer

You should be right clicking the bar part which shows the partition. Also is it showing anything in this area?

[QUOTE="CorporateHammer"]

See if you have the option to mark partition as active.

CorporateHammer

You should be right clicking the bar part which shows the partition. Also is it showing anything in this area?

ok i'll try later and i'll keep you posted

See if you have the option to mark partition as active.

CorporateHammer

right click and it says:

import external disk (my windows it's in spanish)

convert on basic disk

help

macs suck it didn't work

[QUOTE="CorporateHammer"]

Im curious as to

1. What version of windows are you running?

2. Did you get errors after connecting to your pc?

3. If it wasnt visible and your using XP or later you should go to control panel- admin tools - computer management - disk manager - if it inst showing here I seriously doubt a mac is going to make a difference.

solidsnake798

1 i tried on vista and on XP

2 no

3 If i go there i see it but it doesn't assign a letter and to assign a letter i have to reate a particion (i don't know if that word exists but i don't have my windows on english) and to do that i have to format it

I think the problem is you have to formatt it for window's to read it as a usable HDD, it's the same when you buy a new HDD you need to format it(some new hdd comes pre-formatted for windows).

Im not sure but i think PS3 uses a different type of format for the hdd so you will never be able to read data/copy etc from windows untill you formatt it then its too late.

Unless a mac uses the same format as a ps3 does i dont think it will work but im not sure which formats for particions a mac uses.

Basicly i think your s**t out of luck sorry and you will lose you save data etc unless you the mac works.

[QUOTE="solidsnake798"][QUOTE="CorporateHammer"]

Im curious as to

1. What version of windows are you running?

2. Did you get errors after connecting to your pc?

3. If it wasnt visible and your using XP or later you should go to control panel- admin tools - computer management - disk manager - if it inst showing here I seriously doubt a mac is going to make a difference.

shadystxxx

1 i tried on vista and on XP

2 no

3 If i go there i see it but it doesn't assign a letter and to assign a letter i have to reate a particion (i don't know if that word exists but i don't have my windows on english) and to do that i have to format it

I think the problem is you have to formatt it for window's to read it as a usable HDD, it's the same when you buy a new HDD you need to format it(some new hdd comes pre-formatted for windows).

Im not sure but i think PS3 uses a different type of format for the hdd so you will never be able to read data/copy etc from windows untill you formatt it then its too late.

Unless a mac uses the same format as a ps3 does i dont think it will work but im not sure which formats for particions a mac uses.

Basicly i think your s**t out of luck sorry and you will lose you save data etc unless you the mac works.

mac didn't work