PS3 Blu-Ray Drive DIED...

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My PS3 Blu-Ray drive stopped working today. It will still read DVDs and CDs, but no Blu-Ray Discs (movies or games). Called SONY and they have filed the repair ticket and are sending me my box. It's still under warranty so at least it won't cost me anything.

Now I will have to redownload all of my games when it comes back. That sucks! I have almost 200 games. It's gonna take a week to get the games back and that's not counting the time it will take to update and install them. I'm very pissed!!!
 
This is not my week for electronics. 2 days ago the new power supply I bought for my Raspberry Pi computer died. Today my wireless router bit the dust. And then I found out the PS3 had problems. Damn...
 
I have never done this, but couldn't you just remove the hard-drive from your PS3 before you send it in for repair? Or does that void your warranty? I was under the impression that it does not, but don't take my word for it!
 
Electronics must not want to work around you.

G12

Yeah, and I forgot to mention that my drill battery "burped" and so I need to get a new battery for that too. That happened two days ago. I don't know for sure what happened, but I charged the battery the night before and tried to use it. The battery didn't hold much charge so I figured I would plug it back into the charger. As soon as I released the battery from the drill the battery released a pocket of air and reaked of electrical burning/battery acid. I didn't plug it into the charger again or back into my drill.

I have never done this, but couldn't you just remove the hard-drive from your PS3 before you send it in for repair? Or does that void your warranty? I was under the impression that it does not, but don't take my word for it!

Here's how the PS3 system works...

I have an upgraded 500GB hard drive. It doesn't void the warranty. There are even instructions provided by SONY for changing the hard drive.

All hard drives are formatted as proprietary drives in each console. If I remove my hard drive and put it into another console that drive will not work until it is reformatted as a proprietary drive for the new console.

When I send my console in for repair I am assured a working console returned...however, that doesn't necessarily mean I will get my console back...so I need to remove my 500GB hard drive that is currently in it so I have it for my repaired console. Since I don't want to have to get another drive, I need to put the original drive in it before I ship.

When SONY repairs a console, they return the console to factory default thus wiping any data that was on it...This also means that the hard drive that I put into the system to return has been formatted to the console meaning my 500GB hard drive will need to be formatted to be able to work in the repaired console.
 
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Here's how the PS3 system works...

I have an upgraded 500GB hard drive. It doesn't void the warranty. There are even instructions provided by SONY for changing the hard drive.

All hard drives are formatted as proprietary drives in each console. If I remove my hard drive and put it into another console that drive will not work until it is reformatted as a proprietary drive for the new console.

When I send my console in for repair I am assured a working console returned...however, that doesn't necessarily mean I will get my console back...so I need to remove my 500GB hard drive that is currently in it so I have it for my repaired console. Since I don't want to have to get another drive, I need to put the original drive in it before I ship.

When SONY repairs a console, they return the console to factory default thus wiping any data that was on it...This also means that the hard drive that I put into the system to return has been formatted to the console meaning my 500GB hard drive will need to be formatted to be able to work in the repaired console.

Get an external USB drive (as big as as much stuff you have) then you can just use the sony backup utility. It will let you restore everything back on the new system. Done it tons of times.

You are right - you will need for RE-Format your 500 in the new console so that's the only way to save it.
 
Get an external USB drive (as big as as much stuff you have) then you can just use the sony backup utility. It will let you restore everything back on the new system. Done it tons of times.

You are right - you will need for RE-Format your 500 in the new console so that's the only way to save it.

Agreed. As far as PS3 are concerned having a external HD for backing up your data is a worth while investment. Honestly Sony should bundle them with systems.
 
Get an external USB drive (as big as as much stuff you have) then you can just use the sony backup utility. It will let you restore everything back on the new system. Done it tons of times.

You are right - you will need for RE-Format your 500 in the new console so that's the only way to save it.

Will it transfer my games or just my settings and game saves???
 
Will it transfer my games or just my settings and game saves???

As I understand it will save everything. Games, Downloads, Saves, etc. Down to the background / theme you use. I only really backup for customers and have not really needed to restore more than once or twice as they just download everything anyway.

you don't have to have the hard drive installed to have the ps3 fixed.... Glad I'm a Eletronics Tech :)



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Daniel.

While I would agree with you that opening the system and replacing the laser would be more straightforward I contest on two points... (1) It's under warranty. Why bother? Especially when you get a 90 day extension on the same warranty. (2) If you have never repalced a laser it could be a pain to source a good quality one from all the crap on ebay as well as deal with opening the system in general.

Regardless - If you physically change systems, you WILL need to format whatever hard disk is in there from a prior system. That's how it works.
 
If my PS3 drive stopped working, I wouldn't notice for months.

I only use it for streaming movies.
 
Called SONY to get repair request claim started on Thursday (7/19). SONY sent out the shipping box on Friday (7/20), I got the box on Tuesday (7/24), I shipped it out on Thursday (7/26), SONY received my PS3 on Monday (7/30), SONY began working on my system on Tuesday (7/31), and I woke up this morning (Friday 8/3) to the FedEx guy ringing my doorbell to deliver my repaired PS3. The whole process took 2 weeks. Not too bad. Now to open the box and see what I got back...
 
Was this one of the larger original PS3 systems?

I am always eying my PS3, waiting for it to fail. It has a Gamestop refurbished sticker on the side and I had to replace the dead hard drive with a spare. So far my nightly sessions of Fallout 3 have not killed it, but I do worry every time I buy a new game for it. It was originally an 80GB model, two USB ports/no backwards compatibility. I guess when the day comes, at least I'll have a second controller for a slim/rumored 'ultra slim.'
 
Was this one of the larger original PS3 systems?

Mine is a 160GB slim that I add my hard drive to.



Looks like they just fixed mine and sent it back. I'm glad too because my system is all nice and scratch-free. I was dreading opening the box to find some crappy looking system inside. Now I gotta boot it up and start downloading my games.
 
Hell yeah! I put my 500GB hard drive in and got ready for a long week and a half redownloading my games. I set up a flash drive with the newest firmware and plugged it in. Turned on the system to find all my stuff there. Turns out SONY didn't reset my system to factory defaults. That rocks!
 
Wow, so even the slims are still having problems? Guess I'll wait for that rumored ultra slim if mine dies. Glad you got it fixed!
 
I haven't had any issues with my slim PS3. My white Xbox red ringed (black one's fine still), and my Wii disc drive died though.
 
Tried to play my games that I had downloaded on my system today and it said that I had too many systems activated. I called SONY and they said they changed the number of systems you could activate from 5.... to 2!!! What the crap!?! They said it was to combat gamesharing. That's lame. I hate that they keep taking away features that the system had at launch. Linux OS and now Activation Limits....uuugghh
 
I actually thought they allowed the five system activation specifically for game-sharing -- as a feature. I used to sort-of brag on the PS3 game sharing capabilities; well not anymore!

I definitely hear you about the removing of features. I have an original 60GB "Chrome" unit, which as you may remember from another topic I actually avoided updating, going for literally years without PSN access because I didn't want to lose the Linux capabilities of the system. At the time I was using it as a cheap desktop system... plus all the rumors of updates bricking systems did not win me over on the whole update situation either!

Just out of curiosity though: did you game share all of your games to the max? That seems like an odd error to receive.
 
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