PS3 broken? Retrieving saved data?

[Legend83]

I know this has probably been asked a hundred times before but today, completely out of the blue, my ancient PS3 appears to have broken. When I turn it on I get a green light, then a beep then it turns off and the red light flashes.

I assume that is bad news.

My question is this - if it is dead can I access / retrieve all the saved game data? Can I transfer it if I buy a new PS3? I am a massive idiot for not backing up the data - I even have a FAT32 HD hooked up to it with movies to watch. Why never saved my game data to it I will never know - tool.

Any help gratefully received!

Cheers

L83

[tipmethewink]

I've fixed mine 3 times after watching the following tutorial. At the end of the day, what have you got to lose, as long as you don't burn your house down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgRDVcBo

[P-Jay]

Failing that you can remove the HDD's pretty easily, the process would be similar to changing the HDD, just copy the data onto the new one.

[Richyvrlimited]

P-Jay said:

Failing that you can remove the HDD's pretty easily, the process would be similar to changing the HDD, just copy the data onto the new one.

Yeah, that doesn't work, as soon as you put that drive with copied data into a PS3, the PS3 will wipe it.

[P-Jay]

Richyvrlimited said:

P-Jay said:

Failing that you can remove the HDD's pretty easily, the process would be similar to changing the HDD, just copy the data onto the new one.

Yeah, that doesn't work, as soon as you put that drive with copied data into a PS3, the PS3 will wipe it.

Can you copy the data from the existing drive on the new drive without it doing the same? I assume the new drive will be much bigger anyway.

[Hanslow]

If you can be bothered, I followed this tutorial and it worked a treat => http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-fix-a-YLOD-...

The prebake helps straighten any board warping out, and the blast does the reflow. Early days with mine, two or three weeks, but is going strong again. If you didn't want to risk keeping it, provided you got the data off it once working again, you could always trade it in for a new one.