Hey there, Sometime ago I bought PS3 TOOL but I didn't have time to 'play' around with it other than to check out few debug disks I had for the PS3 I wasn't able to test earlier. Lurking around the XMB, I have found that the main profile has save file for Wonderbook and there's nearly 50GB of space taken on the HDD. Could it be possible there is some sweets on the HDD? How does one dump the HDD onto your PC and recover deleted files (if there were any of course). Unit has both HDDs in it.
Took out the DEV HDD and put it in my PC. It is detected, but Windows claims the HDD is unpartitioned and needs to be initialized. So is the DEV HDD really empty, nothing on it and completely wiped or just never used?
Someone with real knowledge can confirm, but 99.99% likely that they use a proprietary filesystem, just like the PS2 did.
The idea is to raw dump the HDD using your PC, recover your EID from the PS3 using CFW, use that EID to unencrypt it, and recover from there. Of course, the one recovery program I tried I havent been successful with, but I know some people are working on options.
Based on my experience, an empty DECR-1000 has 330/372GB of free space. It means there are 6gb of data (not 50gb). Have you checked BDEMU hdd? It may also contain some data.
I have just finished dumping the DEV HDD/BDEMU HDD to my PC and opened it in hex editor. Sadly, it's just filled with 00's, wiped.
You can't get data that way and if you have 50GB usage of the HDD's space by something you need to check other HDD (not the HDD DEV) cause when you are into the XMB in Software mode and see something like "300/372GB are free" - that says about the XMB's HDD. Maybe you will find some leftovers or a whole game. You have to use Rebug CFW+Multiman or Target Manager from ProDG. The first way is more simple.
The TOOL unit has two HDDs, one that acts like regular PS3 HDD (the one shown on pictures I sent) and the HDD DEV that is used for BDEmu. I only dumped the second one to check if there is any data on it, didn't do first yet.
Managed to copy over to pendrive BCES01866 folder which contains 2GB of data for Book of Potions. It's propably just the data that's installed onto HDD when game is being run. There are some interesting debug .xml's in there, but they could've been on the retail version as well. Got EID key ready, now to dumping the HDD.
