Difficulty

Easy

Steps

2

Time Required

                          4 - 8 hours

Sections

1

  • Hard Drive Restore
  • 2 steps

Flags

Member-Contributed Guide

An awesome member of our community made this guide. It is not managed by iFixit staff.

  • BackPlayStation 3

  • Full Screen

  • Options

  • History

  • Save to Favorites

  • Download PDF

  • Edit

  • Translate

  • Get Shareable Link

  • Embed This Guide

  • Notify Me of Changes

  • Stop Notifications

Introduction

Step 1

              Hard Drive Restore
  • When you power up, the PS3 will have to format the new hard drive.
  • You may see a message similar to the following, ‘The system software cannot be run correctly…Insert storage media that contains update data of version 4.11 or later, and then press the START and SELECT buttons at the same time…’.
  • If you are trying to restore a backup to your new hard drive, and, after following the steps from the previous message, you receive an error message similar to the following, ‘The data is corrupted (8002F225)’, then you may need to grab the latest PS3 System Software Update from http://us.playstation.com/support/system… before the system will be able to format the new drive.
  • Hit ‘X’ and continue until the formatting is complete.
  • Once the formatting is done, go to the ‘Settings’ XMB option and select ‘System Settings’ then go to ‘System Information’
  • You should now see the storage capacity of your new hard drive.

When you power up, the PS3 will have to format the new hard drive.

You may see a message similar to the following, ‘The system software cannot be run correctly…Insert storage media that contains update data of version 4.11 or later, and then press the START and SELECT buttons at the same time…’.

If you are trying to restore a backup to your new hard drive, and, after following the steps from the previous message, you receive an error message similar to the following, ‘The data is corrupted (8002F225)’, then you may need to grab the latest PS3 System Software Update from http://us.playstation.com/support/system… before the system will be able to format the new drive.

Hit ‘X’ and continue until the formatting is complete.

Once the formatting is done, go to the ‘Settings’ XMB option and select ‘System Settings’ then go to ‘System Information’

You should now see the storage capacity of your new hard drive.

1024

Step 2

  • Now, if you want to restore all of your saved game info, connect your USB hard drive that you used to do the back up on.
  • Go to the ‘Settings’ XMB menu, select ‘System Settings’ and then go to ‘Backup Utility’
  • Select ‘Restore’ and then select the USB device that should have your backed up data on it.
  • You should only have one backup to choose from.
  • The PS3 will reformat the hard drive and copy the backup, this can take up to 2 hours.
  • Congrats, now you have a PS3 with a HUGE amount of space.

Now, if you want to restore all of your saved game info, connect your USB hard drive that you used to do the back up on.

Go to the ‘Settings’ XMB menu, select ‘System Settings’ and then go to ‘Backup Utility’

Select ‘Restore’ and then select the USB device that should have your backed up data on it.

You should only have one backup to choose from.

The PS3 will reformat the hard drive and copy the backup, this can take up to 2 hours.

Congrats, now you have a PS3 with a HUGE amount of space.

Cancel: I did not complete this guide.

                                                                                      40 other people completed this guide.

Author

                                      with 9 other contributors 


                    hex337

Member since: 05/30/2010

1,306 Reputation

                                      1 Guide authored                  



                       Badges:
                       8







                                                        +5 more badges

Neil Phillips - Jun 23, 2011

Reply

i power my ps3 up after installing new hard drive, and the screen says that “no applicable update data was found. Connect storage media that contains update data of version 3.66 or later, and then press START and SELECT buttons at the same time”

where do i go next? i have all my previous data backed up on a WD 500GB usb hard drive.

what should i do next?

hex337 - Jun 26, 2011

Did you create the HD backup using the PS3?

Stacy Anderson - Nov 20, 2014

did you ever get that issue fixed?? If so what did you do?? Mine is saying the same exact thing but it is version 4.66……

Tomas - Apr 17, 2017

A bit of a late answer, but it might be useful for for visitors having this problem now.

You can fix this problem and update the ps3 by using a fat32 formatted usb stick/external hard drive with the PS3UPDAT.PUP data from the Playstation website at https://www.playstation.com/en-us/suppor… stored in the file layout PS3/UPDATE/PS3UPDATE.PUP

Then plug the usb stick in to your ps3 and press start and select. This should trigger the formatting procedure and afterwards update the ps3.

Otchie Munoz - Nov 21, 2019

Reply

You think a damaged hard drive can still be formatted?