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What to do with saved data on your PS3 if you but a new slim one?

  • 16-11-2009 6:05pm
    #1
    LittleLebowski
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭


    What happens if you but a new slim PS3. Do you lose all your saved data?
    Can it be migrated over?

    I have a 40gb PS3 which is plenty of space but I have to admit I do want one of the new 250gb slim ones.

    What about games I have downloaded and paid for?

    Anyone come up against this problem recently?
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  • #2
    Rev. Kitchen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Rev. Kitchen


    Games you have downloaded you can re download from the store ( top right corner) The game saves can simply be copied onto a USB stick and saved on the new one. Easy peazy !!


  • #3
    liverpo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭liverpo


    Not all games can be saved on a memory stick - I think K2, SvR10 along with a few more


  • #4
    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    Get yourself an external hard drive and you can back up all your saved data as well as music, photos and films.

    The games on the other hand you will have to download again.


  • #5
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,556 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Guys slightly offtopic here but I want to put in a 250gig drive into my 60gig ps3.

    Can them game installs (I.e those annoying waits beofe you can play your game) get copied across?


  • #6
    Rev. Kitchen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Rev. Kitchen


    Yea before you take out the 60gb HD back it up to an external HD then put in the new HD, format it and load the stuff back on. It all takes about 2 1/2 hours


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  • #7
    LittleLebowski
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭LittleLebowski


    When you say download them again I assume you dont mean pay for them again.Are they saved as paid for on my PSN or something?


  • #8
    Vorrtexx
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭Vorrtexx


    LittleLebowski wrote: »
    When you say download them again I assume you dont mean pay for them again.Are they saved as paid for on my PSN or something?

    Yes, as long as you log in with the PSN ID you purchased them with, you can re-download them from the Download history section within the PSN Store.


  • #9
    LittleLebowski
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭LittleLebowski


    Cheers for that!


  • #10
    Rev. Kitchen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,045 ✭✭✭Rev. Kitchen


    LittleLebowski wrote: »
    When you say download them again I assume you dont mean pay for them again.Are they saved as paid for on my PSN or something?


    Yea go into the Playstation store in the top right corner you have 4 icons view cart redeem code and view downloads , click the view downloads and it lists everything you have bought or downloaded just click to download it again


  • #11
    bugs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭bugs


    I was under the impression that a full backup took the entire harddisk contents inclusive of games/saves/installs/login data/preferences.
    Am i wrong here?

    Whats stopping someone taking the drive out and doing the exact same thing i do with my pc and ghosting the entire image to a new drive? (assuming you're upgrading the drive and not moving to another ps3)


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  • #12
    gstar
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭gstar


    yes I believe you are correct, the full back up should literally back up everything on the HDD. when you are changing over to a different hdd, you load all the info back on to the new hdd


  • #13
    Super Sidious
    Registered Users Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Super Sidious


    Resi 5 wont let me copy onto a USB key... drainer!


  • #14
    Clover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,856 ✭✭✭Clover


    flynner13 wrote: »
    Resi 5 wont let me copy onto a USB key... drainer!

    You can back up your Resi 5 save onto a USB stick since the update a few months back.

    After I did the update at first it would not allow you to copy it over until you created a new save point in game , then you could copy it over to USB.


  • #15
    bugs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭bugs


    bugs wrote: »
    I was under the impression that a full backup took the entire harddisk contents inclusive of games/saves/installs/login data/preferences.
    Am i wrong here?

    Whats stopping someone taking the drive out and doing the exact same thing i do with my pc and ghosting the entire image to a new drive? (assuming you're upgrading the drive and not moving to another ps3)

    Sorry, didn't read the title correctly, hes changing to another machine, my mistake.


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