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This test suggests that the console writes some kind of time stamp and/or random data to the hard drive every time it is powered on.Please read: A personal appeal from founder

The differences, however, were much more numerous in the beginning of the hard drive and became much more sparse farther down the hard drive. 'We found were numerous differences occurred in block-sized chunks randomly throughout the hard drive. That said, the document also states that the OS updates various sectors throughout the drive at every power-on. This would tend to confirm that one could copy sector 0 from a functioning drive to the original HDD, although one should probably choose a drive of identical capacity (or cut a larger drive to the original size) when formatting it. In any case page 15 of the document suggests that a cloned HDD will function just like the original, so the security information appears to be specific to the console hardware, not to the drive.

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Http%3A%2F%2Fquote: Although the Game OS partition is encrypted, the PS3 does not encrypt the Other OSД«ut surely sector 0 is in the encrypted section at the beginning of the drive? I dont think the whole hdd is encrypted : Then save the newly formatted copy of sector 0, recreate the original drive from the clone, and replace sector 0 with the newly saved copy. Otherwise, if the contents of sector 0 are in some way dependent on the drive, then I would suggest that the original drive be cloned, sector by sector, and then reformatted by the PS3. If the sector dumps are identical in all cases, then I would copy sector 0 to the original drive and hope for the best. This will tell us whether the drive's own parameters (eg model number, serial number, firmware version) are used in the encryption process. I would then do this a third time, using still another drive. If the sector dumps are identical, then this would suggest that the encryption key is not randomly generated. I would then do this again for the same drive.

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Therefore, my suggestion would be for the OP to install a spare HDD in the PS3, format it, and then transfer it to a PC and use a disc editor (eg HxD or DMDE) to save a copy of LBAs 0-20. Furthermore, my research would suggest that LBAs 0-20 are Sony's security sectors. Of course this assumes that the PS3's HDD formatting is consistent for any drive installed in a particular console. Assuming that is all that was done, then it may be possible to use the PS3 to recreate sector 0 on another drive, and then copy sector 0 from this second drive back to the original drive.

#PS3 SERIAL NUMBER FORMAT WINDOWS 7#

It appears that Windows 7 has overwritten sector 0 of the PS3 drive. Does anybody know of a method to fix this?ДЄISI, the OP's problem may have a potentially simple solution. I've asked around for advice on PSX-SceneДЇrom my understanding, the data on the drive is still there, it's just something wrong with the partition. Now I placed it back into my PS3 and it gives me an option to format it before it boots up the system, if selecting no, it says 'Cannot Start, the correct hard disk was not found' I did nothing further except for closing the utility and disconnecting the drive. Well, the setting quickly applied, and the drive is still not readable. Not knowing what this meant, I selected MBR, thinking it was gonna make this hard drive readable so I could copy my data off it. Not knowing this, I went into the Disk Management utility on my Windows 7 pc, and up came a pop up asking if I want to apply MBR or GPT. I later learned it's because Sony uses some kind of proprietary format that Windows will not recognize. I took out my internal PS3 HDD and used a sata connector to hook it up to my pc via usb.

I need your help guys, this is gonna require lots of knowledge about Partition Recovery and how the Sony PS3 system works.

Ps3 serial number format