PS3 Slim freezing on login. backing up my data

lourendo

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Hi all.
my ps3 slim freezes just after i login on the wave animation.

I have rebuilt databases and scanned hdd to no avail.

Do you have any suggestions?

I have removed the hdd and mounted to my pc (osx 10.6)

I would like to extract my data, reformat the drive in the ps3. Take the drive back out and put my data back on.

Should this work? If so do you have any insight to which files i should transfer?

Thank you for your help.
 

lourendo

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I pulled the drive and ran a surface scan. No issues. Put the drive back in and logged into my guest user account and was succesful. I then backed up my guest saves. for some reason this allowed me to login to my account, where i backed up all of my gamesaves. Its still running fine with no freezes.