So my PS3 decided to get corrupted, tried "recover file system" and now my only option is to format. I want to recover my saved games from it. Anybody know any way to do that? Could putting the HDD in a USB dock and plug it in another PS3 could help me? Or you use some tools on PC to copy them?
I think the way it works is you have to do manual backups onto an external hdd so when your internal fucks up you can restore it. Not quite sure about the PSN+ crap, which also gives you the option to save on their servers. If there's a program that can copy them I'd be interested to hear about it. Pretty sure the hdd would be in some way 'locked' to your PS3 only. Let's hear what others have to say about it It definitely shouldn't be this hard, good work Sony!
I have PSN+, but I did not uploaded my save games in a while. I had over 100 games on the HDD and a hundred more on discs, so managing those save games is quite a hassle. I was thinking of putting another HDD in it and plug this one in USB. Dunno if it works...
Im no expert in PS3 harddrives, but if said key is required to get to read the drive (like a harddrive password) you need that. Ive been locked out of data because i dont know the passwords... they can be stored on the platters and depens on the drive if you can recover that... encryption? I dunno Back to topic, if you can read the first sector, you might be able to read more... then you can either clone or navigate to your saves... but I dont know much about ps3. I do however know that once people decide to somehow encrypt or password protect a drive... you have to have ALOTT of luck. https://www.reddit.com/r/ps3hacks/comments/33fqze/is_the_eid_root_key_unique_to_the_hdd_or_the/ Basicly tells me, if you dont have the key and/or the drive wont responds in a pc correctly, consider the data gone. Again, no expert in the ps3 field.
The PS3 *ENCRYPTS* the hard drive using it's internal crypto engine at a sector level. It's impossible to snoop around the data in it without knowing the unique per console key (eid root key) and having a dump of the flash for you to extract the disk encryption keys from the EID. You can access the data at the drive but because it's encrypted it's useless.
The help the orginial OP, as far as I understand the posts above and http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/HDD_Encryption You should make a backup of all thats posible of your drive. The data maybe unreadable because its encrypted, but once you get those keys Not sure, but if you then restore these sectors (as in, whole drive) backt o another drive, its could work... but we dont know where this coruption happend. maybe the drive is fine, but the "filesystem" is broken. if the drive is faulty, and you can recover most of the encrypted sectors, its posible that your ps3 still gives 1 option..format... so to recover then, you still need the encryption keys and all the "trouble" of recovering your data. I did notice that the decryption can work per sector basis, so If your saves are in sectors that you can backup (if the drive is in trouble) and you have the keys, you might be able to save them regardless of other sectors being broken. Your in more luck with these keys than I am with drives that are locked. Wich luckely the PS3 doesnt use. Not sure how dificult it is to get those PS3 keys tho. can you clone the drive?
Yes, the PS3 does not lock the drive and it used to not encrypt the regions that were used with Linux so you could forensically recover data from the drive, no problem (for areas allocated by the Other OS system).
