So after many years I've finally decided to upgrade the hard drive on my phat 60GB PS3. I read how easy it is, so I looked up the relevant info, bought a hard drive off Amazon, and tried to upgrade. Except so far, it's turned out far less easy than I thought.
I ran the backup utility, which took a good hour and a half. Then I took the original hard drive slot out of the system, and the 4 little screws were an absolute bitch to take out. I ended up having to use pliers to get those suckers off. So after finally getting the old hard drive out, sticking the new one in, I boot up the system....only to get greeted by the following message: "Cannot Start. The appropriate system storage was not found"
So after restarting multiple times, it became clear that the PS3 is not recognizing the new hard drive. Which is weird because it should. When it's booting up, I can hear several clicking noises coming from the hard drive area. This is the hard drive I purchased - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AAKF8KM/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It even mentions PS3 in the product description. This is a picture of the hard drive in question - http://imgur.com/c4RissG
It does say 7200RPM, despite the Amazon description mentioning 5400RPM, but as far as I can tell, that shouldn't make a difference. So I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. Faulty hard drive maybe? Anyone have any ideas as to where it's going wrong?
I ran the backup utility, which took a good hour and a half. Then I took the original hard drive slot out of the system, and the 4 little screws were an absolute bitch to take out. I ended up having to use pliers to get those suckers off. So after finally getting the old hard drive out, sticking the new one in, I boot up the system....only to get greeted by the following message: "Cannot Start. The appropriate system storage was not found"
So after restarting multiple times, it became clear that the PS3 is not recognizing the new hard drive. Which is weird because it should. When it's booting up, I can hear several clicking noises coming from the hard drive area. This is the hard drive I purchased - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AAKF8KM/?tag=neogaf0e-20
It even mentions PS3 in the product description. This is a picture of the hard drive in question - http://imgur.com/c4RissG
It does say 7200RPM, despite the Amazon description mentioning 5400RPM, but as far as I can tell, that shouldn't make a difference. So I'm not sure what exactly the problem is. Faulty hard drive maybe? Anyone have any ideas as to where it's going wrong?