New PS3 Firmware Causing HDD Upgrade Problems?

Channard writes "While there have been occasional reports of previous PS3 firmware upgrades causing system crashes and so forth, Sony's new firmware upgrade for the system, 3.41, is apparently stopping PS3 owners from upgrading their hard disks. This problem has been encountered by many users on Sony's forums and occurs when you try to put a new hard disk into a PS3 that already has the firmware upgrade installed. The general course of action for upgrading a PS3's drive is that you download the latest PS3 firmware onto a memory stick and, after swapping the hard drive in the PS3, plug the stick in, allowing the PS3 to properly prepare the disk for use. But as of upgrade 3.41, the PS3 fails to recognize the firmware on the stick, complaining that it can't proceed until you insert the correct firmware. Repeating the process and re-downloading the firmware does not fix the problem, as I can confirm, having encountered the problem myself. Users can put the old hard disk back in, provided they've not reformatted it for some other purpose, so all is not lost. Sony have apparently told gaming website CVG that 'The information available to our Consumer Services Department does not suggest that this is a problem PlayStation owners are likely to experience when upgrading the HDD with 3.41 update.' This seems to fly in the face of the currently available information — although whether or not this statement was issued by Kevin Butler is unclear. Either way, PS3 owners encountering this problem will likely have to wait a few days for a fix and use their old HDDs for now."

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Re:ahhh sony

[Tisha_AH]

Thank you Sony, for reminding me that this is not a kick-ass machine, just a gaming platform.

"I don't know where my head was! I fell for it hook, line and sinker, bought the 80 gig model, purchased 24 different games that I really liked, installed a 300 gig HDD, loaded the machine with Linux, heck, I was right at the point of considering it a "real" computer."

At least they stopped me from doing something really foolish... like buying more games.

I will not do any more Sony firmware upgrades out of fear of it trashing my setup. I will not be buying any more games because they will probably insist upon a firmware upgrade to operate correctly. The money that I was spending a the Sony on-line store I can save on that as well.

So it's a decent BlueRay player and I still have the games I purchased.

My mind is much clearer now. I had gone with the Sony system a few years ago because they were not Microsoft. The universe is at balance again as I have discovered the Sony is a bunch of dicks... Just like Microsoft