(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I have a yellow light of death ps3 hard drive that has all the patches, geohot, emulators, etc. What would happen if I switch that hard drive to my recently updated ps3? Will I get everything back, because I am really nervous on doing this. Please help.

It will just format the hard drive and install 4.25 on it

Exactly what ulgvd said, it needs to format it so that the new ps3 will work with that HDD "Hard Disk Drive"..and after it does all that you will notice that it's got the latest PS3 Firmware installed on it, 4.25

dang, well i really had my hopes up that it would work. Is there not a way where I can cancel update or something? I really want to do hacks since I knew how to do SOOO much.

There is no way of stopping an update, especially a PS3 Fimware, if you turn your PS3 off while it's installing the update you will basically BRICK the PS3's Hard Drive

Wow, well thats a real bummer. Sigh... Well that really sucks. Thanks for helping anyways. Is there a thread here that will show me step by step how to fix ylod? I'm really bad at doing this ngu thing because its been 2 years since I used this site. Really starting to get back into it.

it wont install 4.25 on ur hardrive that firmware is stored on the nand/nor chip not your hardrive it will just be formatted but i heard there's ways u can bypass that through the recovery menu there was a thread about it here do a search

you will keep ur patches but no more CFW

Well you won't have cfw anymore cause the ps3 is updated by the nand/nor not the actual hard drive, you can use the link below to keep the stuff on it though.

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