I upgraded the hard drive of my 60 GB Playstation 3 to a 300 GB one. Everything works great, except for occasionally when you start the PS3 up it will freeze at an error screen saying that the correct hard drive was not found. Sometimes restarting will fix this error, but it seems to only come up at random.

How do I get this error message to stop coming up ever again?

2 Answers

The first thing I'd check is the hard drive is properly seated. It sounds like your suffering from an intermittent connection.

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1. Do a backup of any save information.
2. Make sure pins are in good condition on both the hard drive and PS3 connector (check dust levels as well)
3. Plug it into a PC and do a zero data wipe using any compatible utility.
4. Plug it back into your PS3 and let your PS3 format it.

Verify that the hard drive specifications are equivalent, ie RPM, disk I/O, cache size.