corrupt hard disk on playstation 3

[sadams789]

i was playing metal gear solid 4 and when i switch on the ps3 it comes up with a message saying "the hard disk file is corrupt and will be restored" when you press ok a percentage bar comes up goes to 100% but then the same message comes up again and again, please help i need my fix of metal gear!

[bongoboy]

All you need is a friend with a ps3!! Swap the hdd's and boot up your friends ps3, format the hdd, put it back in your ps3 and you may need to format it again.
Alternately you can put the ps3 hard drive in your laptop and use your system c to format it.

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/bo ard/message?board.id=techcentral&message.id=53 491
Or buy a new 2.5 sata hard drive.

[bongoboy]

sorry ,should read system c/d

[dominin]

I had exactly the same thing happen ! I couldn't find a friend willing to let me swap hard drives so I tried taking the hard disc out and using a caddy to plug it into my pc to format the drive, but my PC wouldn't recognise it. In the end I called the Playstation customer helpdesk and they got a new machine out to me the next day (apparently they can't just swap the hard drive - it has to be the whole PS3.) When I say "new" it was actually a reconditioned machine but it works fine.
One warning - if you do reformat the PS3 hard drive you will lose any data including game saves. You will have to start MSG4 again from scratch. Unless you've done a back up before it went.
I don't know what caused the crash. It was either the kids turning off the machine while a game was mid-save or it was the latest PS3 upgrade downloaded.

[sadams789]

oh ok,i'll do that,thank u very much, too be honest i'm not all that computer literate so there'll be no re-formatting things,i'll give em a call,cheers