So in preparation for getting the new Rock Band 2 I decided that I needed to upgrade my hard drive from the little 40GB’s it came with to something larger.  I was a little worried about what would happen to my data but looking around the web I was assured everything would be fine.  So I went to Microcenter and picked up a 160GB 2.5 SATA 5400RPM drive for about $69.  Went home and made a backup copy of the current hard drive to a portable USB drive.  Then after that took apart the PS3, which included all of popping off the side panel and removing one blue screw and then removing the screws from the cradle to put the drive in.

After that put it all back together and rebooted.  As expected it wanted to reformat the new drive, which I did and then I went to the backup menu again and went to restore from backup.  At that time it asks to format yet again but then installs everything back to the drive.  After a reboot I was pleasantly greeted with everything I had previously.  All my game saves, all my settings, all my downloads were there as expected.  The whole thing took about 2 hours but that is because the backup took about an hour and about an hour to restore.  The actual taking apart of the PS3 took me about 10 minutes.

I would suggest this upgrade if you want to do it as it is extremely easy and works as expected.  Now I can download trailers and songs and new games and not worry about the space!

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