User Info: theknot7. User Info: chrisat Um, no. If you remove your HDD and plug it back in without using a different drive, it does not format it. Also, he's asking for a full format, not a quick format. Is safe mode the only way to do the full format factory out of the box reset? How long a format takes depends on how much stuff is on it and the size of the HDD. Removing the HDD and putting it back in does not make you format it. Ogui3 posted You can do it that way or just go to the settings option on the XMB.
More topics from this board To format C means to format the C drive, or the primary partition that Windows or your other operating system is installed on. When you format C, you erase the operating system and other information on that drive. Formatting is done automatically during the Windows installation.
Why does it take so long to format a PS3? Does formatting PS3 delete everything? Why does my PlayStation 3 keep freezing? How do you fix a PlayStation 3 that keeps freezing? Does PS3 still download turned off? User Info: bungiefan. Formatting is formatting, does not matter if quick or full, it will erase everything Not true. Quick just erases the table of contents, not all the sectors of the drive. The file system could be recovered if the tools were available to do so. However, the PS3 encrypting the drive to the specific console and using its own file system tends to defeat any such recovery tools.
For this purpose, a quick format would be fine. Thanks, I did see that warning that a quick format isn't as good as a full format and some files are recoverable I guess those tools are special enough so that an ordinary person would not have them.
You can do the restore PS3 system option from XMB Or safe mode menu option 5 and it should be good to go if you plan to sell it. Divine Assault, Ether Strike! Lansfield posted There are plenty of free tools like Recuva that can recover files from a drive formatted for Windows use. It's just that encryption and the unusual disk format for the PS3 makes such tools useless.
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