A Disaster ( As Far As My Son Is Concerned)

[shelaghfishface]

my eldest son came home to find that one of the younger ones has wiped his hard drive on the ps3............ end of the world when your 16 i spose.. is there anything he can do before blood is spilt??
can it be restored at all?


shelagh xxx

 

[Esfa]

oh dear

i dont think it can be restored

 

[shelaghfishface]

oh well, lifes a bugger, ill tell him thanks anyway

 

[rabbut]

You can get the data back, with software, if you take the PS3 itself apart to get to the HDD (assuming it is a conventional HDD with normal formatting...I'm not a PS3 owner, but there is a chance to get data back off any HDD formatted with FAT32 and NTFS) The software isn't cheap though and it involves dismanteling the PS3 to get to the HDD. I wouldn't advise it unless there was realy important data on it, even if you know what you are doing

All the best
Rabbut

 

[becca320]

my eldest son came home to find that one of the younger ones has wiped his hard drive on the ps3............ end of the world when your 16 i spose.. is there anything he can do before blood is spilt??
can it be restored at all?


shelagh xxx

I can feel some kinda situation comin on at yours tonight .... Remember if its an emergency dial 999 , anything else doesnt get any attention LMAO !!!!

 

[guppy_man]

Tell him don't worry, say to him he can have fun playing the games to get it all back again

 

[SLC Flyfishing]

As long as he hasn't played it since the erasing was done it's fixable. Most memory cards for cameras these days come with recovery software that could help bring it back. Otherwise there is more expensive (and thourough) software out there that scans a HDD and recovers.

Thing is, when someone deletes something from a HDD, it's not really deleted at all; rather the flag if you will that tells the OS where the information on the HDD is physically located is deleted. Then the data you thought you deleted hangs on your HDD until it gets written over by something else as you continue to use your computer/PS3 what have you.

SLC

 

[shelaghfishface]

oh thanks i didnt think any one would care

he seems to have clamed down now, so i have no idea if hes fixed it or not, but i i hear anymore about it,ill show him this and he can decide what to do

becca320--it was a bit touch and go for a while there lol

 

[samh12]

You should be able to recover data.
I have a ps3
Go toettings, sYstem settings, restore ps3 system, then click yes
Good luck
Sam

 

[Keithoms]

You should be able to recover data.
I have a ps3
Go toettings, sYstem settings, restore ps3 system, then click yes
Good luck
Sam

HAHA LOL.... that will just reformat it again...

 

[samh12]

Or you could call Sony themsevles and ask them.
Sam

 

[Truck]

theres no way iof getting it back but you can download game saves of the internet

 

[Krigo]

No way, it formats the whole drive. Sorry to hear that, like Truckasauras said you can download saves off of the internet.

 

[nudzy]

I asked my son (19) and he said no sorry, best just to start the games again but that can take long (?) and looked very sad for your son.

he understands the loss!

 

[jourdy288]

Ah who care's what loss, buy the kid an XBox 360, that'll put hair on his chest! (kidding) sorry, Microsoft made me insensitive (Vista, again) but just tell your son don't worry, if it's totally lost he should be able to play the game back.

Oi, necropost.