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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 02:30 PM
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ps3 hard drive corrupt

can anyone help me everytime i turn on my ps3 it tells me the hard drive has been corrupted.. then it installs something and resets and it happens again and again... keeps installing and resetting with the same message that its corrupt

everytime i turn it on thats the first screen that pops up
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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 03:06 PM
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Buy a new hard drive, they're VERY easy to swap. One screw!
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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 03:21 PM
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^ are they expensive? is there a way to repair the old one?
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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 03:43 PM
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Buy a laptop hard drive, thats all they use
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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 03:56 PM
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Can the original drive be reformatted in a PC, or can chkdsk fix it?
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Old Nov 28, 2009 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by doopstr
Can the original drive be reformatted in a PC, or can chkdsk fix it?
Good question, not sure how Sony has formatted them. There might be a utility out there for it.
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