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Flat-Headed Screwdriver
Star-Headed Screwdriver
Sata 2.5-3.5 to Usb adaptor
PS3 With HDD (Pref 2)
Computer With XP or higher
iHc xBox patch maker
PS3 HDD Toolbox
Nero 8
Zlib tool
WinHex
USB Stick
PS3 HDD Studio 2.08

All This Is Available In The Pack Im Selling That Includes All The Above Software And The Last Final Bit To The Tutorial (How To Add Patches To The .bin) You WILL Need To Know That

Preparing Your HDD

Once the HDD is taken out of the PS3 and connected to the computer then you can open up PS3 HDD Studio 2.08.
Click the "prepare HDD" tab
Select HDD Operation "Put HDD Content to 0x00 (All The HDD)"
Select Target Disk Drive: Choose your PS3 Physical Drive (Close To The Size Of Your PS3 HDD) and click "Do Process"

Unplug your HDD from your computer and put it back into your PS3.
Reinstall the update if you have to by holding down start and select (remember to have a usb stick with the most recent update plugged in.
Disconnect the internet from the PS3
On the XMB menu, go to system settings, format HDD.

Turn off your PS3 normally and plug it back into the computer then open up PS3 HDD Studio.

Click "Find & Merge" tab
Select what to seek for "Find all HDD sectors containing different then 0x00, through all HDD"
Select physical disk: Choose your PS3 HDD once again.
Choose a partlogs name: Type In "MasterImage_To_Encrypt_xxx.bin" (xxx = Your PS3 Firmware e.g. Firmware 3.30 you would type MasterImage_To_Encrypt_330.bin)
Click "Do Process"

Click the "Prepare HDD" tab
Size in bytes of data you need to Decrypt: Default
Select a dummy file: Browse to your USB drive
Click "Create Dummy File"
Connect your PS3 HDD to your PS3 and plug in the USB stick, then copy the dummy file off of the USB stick onto the PS3 HDD (In the music section, As it is an mp3).
Then connect the PS3 HDD back up to the computer.

Click the "Find & Merge" tab
Select what to seek: "Find all HDD sectors containing different then 0x00, through all HDD"
Select physical disk: Choose your PS3 HDD once again.
Choose a partlogs name: Type in "MasterImage+Dummy_To_Decrypt_xxx.bin (xxx = Your PS3 Firmware e.g. Firmware 3.30 you would type MasterImage_To_Encrypt_330.bin)
Click "Do Process"

Start WinHex.exe
Open "MasterImage+Dummy_To_Decrypt_xxx.bin"
Go to View > Record Presentation > Check All 3 Boxes
Fill in the values: First Record = Offset Of 0
Record Size 512 bytes (1 sector = 512 bytes)
Options > General > Choose an appropriate background colour (Each sector is an alternate colour)
Seek for the dummy sector (Repetitive Pattern, about halfway down the .bin file)

Click the "Find & Merge" tab
select what to seek: "find all HDD sectors starting with these 16 bytes * First 16 numbers, place here (Top row) *
Select physical drive: Choose your PS3 HDD once again
Choose a Partlogs name and obtain a .txt file (The Dummy data partlog)

Detailed Find & Merge

This section allows you to create Merged Images and the related Partlog

To create a Merged Image you must select "find all HDD sectors containing data different from 0x00" then choose a source disk and choose a Partlog and Image name.
You will get 2 files... a .txt (this is the partlog) and a .bin (this is the merged image)

To create a Dummy Data partlogs you must select "find all sectors starting with these 16 bytes" fill in the textbox with the first 16 bytes of the Dummy Sector, then choose a Source Disk and choose a Partlog name.
You will get one file... .txt (The dummy data partlog)

Decryption

0x00 a different HDD using the "prepare HDD" tab (pref a big one)
Format it like before on the PS3.
Re-download the PSN data you would like to decrypt (e.g. Go onto mw2 and download the update)
Connect it to the computer and click "Find & Merge" tab
Find all HDD sectors containing data different from 0x00
You will get a partlog-DataToBeDecrypted.txt file and a partlog-DataToBeDecrypted.bin
The last file was already merged.

Restore the MasterImage+Dummy_To_Decrypt_xxx.bin to a HDD that you will use to encrypt/decrypt.
Follow the steps further on to do this.

Select the "Decrypt Step 1" tab
Select the HDD that you just restored the .bin file to
Select the merged image file obtained just earlier (Partlog-DataToBeDecrypted.bin)
Select the Dummy Data partlog obtained just earlier aswell.
Click "Do Process" and the data will be copied to the HDD in place of the dummy file.

Attach the newly patched HDD to your PS3
Copy the dummy file from your HDD to your USB
Attach the USB to your computer

Select the "Decrypt Step 2" tab
Browse to the USb and the "Dummy99.mp3" file
Select the same merged image file and partlog from two steps ago
Choose an output file (its the decrypted result)
Click "Do Process", You will get a merged decrypted file.

Encryption

Restore the MasterImage_To_Encrypt_xxx.bin to the HDD you use to encrypt/decrypt
See below on how to do that.

Select the "Encrypt Step 1" tab
Browse to your USB, select the Merged Data to be encrypted
Select the "Do Process" button
Data will be copied to the USB

Attach the HDD you just restored to the PS3, and copy the dummy file from USB to HDD using the PS3. Turn off your PS3 and detach the HDD and attach it to your computer.

Select the "Encrypt Step 2" tab
Select the HDD with the dummy file
Browse to the Merged Data to be encrypted
Select the Dummy Data partlog from earlier
Select an output file name
Click "Do Process" and the data will be copied to your PC

Restoring A Merged Image

Select the "Expand Data" tab
Select operation: Split parts and write them in a physical disk(ALL)
Select the merged data partlog
Select the target disk
Click "Do Process"
The data will be restored (expanded) onto the selected HDD

Getting the patch_mp.ff file from the .bin file

Im afraid i paid for this so if anyone gets this far message me on here for further info.

mossy have a go at it, ur trying to hack it aint ya>?

I have tried this way.

he never said he got a lobby running its just a TUT to decrypt the HDD lol

this is aww pish

Bunyard I remember you from PS3, u claimed u had lobbies going when you didnt haha epic FAIL SON.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!! You are the unlucky 1,000,000 poster of this shit already.

just a question does Decrypting your Ps3 HDD damages it?