PS3 won't boot up. It starts but will not load menu from the hard drive.

First go to bios by press f10 (or kay for your model of laptop )and
select main menu and check display cd dvd drive and hard drive in information.

select cd dvd or hard drive to first boot .set network as lower than hard drive.

in this pic netework is high piority for boot up. but there are no network server to boot up. there was showed as no network device, pls select hard drive and select key for change setting.

Take a windows XP CD, Switch on your PC and go to "BIOS" menu and select "Boot From CD/DVD" whichever is applicable for your pc.
Now insert the Win Xp disc i drive and start PC, Boot the Pc From CD Drive and you shall get the Blue screen of windows Installation. Restart the PC by hard pressing the power button for 30 secs.
Now you will be able to login to windows.

The next time you go into Bios check the boot order menu to make sure that the hard drive is listed first. If not changed it to boot first!!!!

the 1st option is the Hard disk drive and the one you need, boot to bios reset defaults, see if the drive will boot, if not you could have SW or HDD problems preventing boot

melissa62002

If your PS3 is not fulling booting up this is a sign that you have corrupteed data on your hard drive. The link below will take you through the process to address this issue.

http://www.fixya.com/support/r4853494-fix_playstation_3_corrupted_hard_drive

Let me know if you have any more problems or questions

Issken
http://www.fixya.com/users/issken

This is usually how they boot up with no hard drive installed. See how it starts with the hard drive removed. Try after you reseat the hard drive. Try a different hard drive. Good Luck

You can try to reformat the entire hard drive, or you can buy a new hard drive.

To reformat the drive, in the PS3 menu:

NOTE: This will erase everything you saved on the hard drive.

1) Go to the Settings menu, then select System Settings.
2) Select Format Utility, then select Format Hard Disk.
3) Select Quick Format

To replace the Hard Drive, buy any 2.5 inch notebook hard drive that has a serial ATA connection. Then remove the old hard drive from the left side of the PS3 and install the new hard drive.

It sounds like a hard drive issue. If your system can't read your hard drive it will stay on the blue Playstation screen. After a few minutes it will say it cant load from the hard drive on the screen. Try putting your hard drive in a different machine and see if it boots up.

If you can get to it without it freezing use the System Restore function under:

System->Settings>Restore PS3

If you can't get to it because of freezing you should put your hard drive into another PS3. It will see it as a new drive and prompt you to format it. Afterwards put it back into your PS3 and it will do the same thing again.

It doesn't matter which PS3 yours or the one you put your hard drive into, they're all the same as far as the process goes.

This will sort everything out.

Try a different hard drive. When you turn it on it accesses the hard drive as the menu loads. In my experience, it does that when the hard drive has an internal malfunction. Let me know if that works. Thanks.