Upgrading PS3 HDD

adrianne03

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Nov 24, 2013
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I recently upgraded my PS3 HDD from 320gb to 1tb without doing any backup procedures first, not realizing that Windows cannot detect PS3 encrypted HDD and I will not be able to use the old (320gb) HDD as an exernal drive to copy the games and other files back to PS3 (1tb) HDD. Will I still be able to recover my files from to old HDD if I install it back to PS3 or will it run through formatting now that i've already installed new HDD?
 

adrianne03

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I did installed it back to my PS3. Now it's asking me to put a device with update files in it. It's the same procedure that i've gone through while installing a new hard drive. Will it mess my old hard drive data?