Thread: Warning before using Rebug's Hdd exchange utility

I don't know where this should be posted so I'll place it here for now. I just want to tell everyone to be careful when changing hdd using the utility provided by Rebug's firmware. I had a partition on my external hdd in fat32 ready to get the backup of my ps3, + 3 other partitions, 1 for general purpose, one with ALL my homeworks and one specially formatted for the wii. I had something like 200gb on that partition, and my ps3's internal hdd is 40 gb.

I launched the app and all, and after plugging my external hdd back on my computer, I got a nice surprise. My hdd's partitions are all gone, all data completely wiped (thank god I had some not too old backups). So make sure to use a completely empty hdd when doing this. I'll also take this post to write about how I hate how there's never enough info about what we need on the internet. When you create tools and apps that can screw things up majorly, give some ****in documentation about your ****in features.

It's called "Exchange Utility" not a "Backup Utility"

And your point is?

my point is,

use the backup utility, not the exchange utility.

and also, read the difference between exchange and backup.

And I should read this where? All I could find on google are other people looking for info.
I used the exchange utility because I thought it could bypass the problem that I have with my hdd. The update stops at 99% all the time when changing hdd the normal way.

Anyway, it clearly states on the feature list:

FEATURE – Debug for HDD Exchange Utility (Clone your HDD straight to USB HDD, NO QA Token needed)

If you know how Cloning HDD works on PC's, this will do the same thing, if you dont know or dont have any idea what it can do, dont use it.

And there's no clear state that it can solve Stuck updates with HDD Exchange Utility. It "only" meres to clone your internal HDD into USB HDD. So you can upgrade your HDD into higher capacity without loosing one of your save files and settings or whatever data stored on your console.

Well it clearly uses a different process than that of the normal Format > Firmware install, so I figured cloning it (if successful) would get my 320gb working again in my ps3. I thought it would have cloned to a partition and not the whole hdd. Someone posted on a forum that my ext hdd should be fat32 before use. Now I'm confused about how to end the process, I thought I'd just replace my internal hdd in my ps3 and that it would clone the usb drive to the new one, but it keeps telling me I need to replace the internal hdd with the drive that contains the copied files (but that's the usb hdd so it doesn't make sense).

I got my ps3 out of a red screen of death. Everything was going downhill last week, right now I'm ready to screw everything up until everything works perfectly. Arkham City file system corruption thing. This game is screwing up ps3's, cfw and ofw. I couldn't install the firmware afterwards and had to go back to my old hdd. I only used it to get to play other games mounted with rogero, I never played it, but weird enough, my friend's ps3 (ofw up to date) got the same error after shutting down the ps3 with the disc inside like me.