Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Console "reseat hard drive" Questions

reseat the hard drive. If you have a FAT PS3 the hard drive is on the bottom (left side if horizontal). Remove the tray. There is a blue Screw, remove the screw and the slide the HD Tray to the Right,

...hard-drive not working properly. Try reseating the Hard-drive, its the easiest fix there is. Take off the bottom pannel, about 2 inchs long inch wide, held by a screw or two. Pull the hard-drive out ...

reseat all cables to make sure the cables aren't causing the problem. If that doesn't work then: Take out the hard drive from the PS3 and then put it back in. Sometimes reseating this will get the PS3

...and unseat and reseat the hard-drive and try again. If that doesnt work, then the CPU is not reading the Hard-drive, which in most cases is eather the hard-drive is bad, or the CPU is bad. ...

...hard drive and reseat it a couple times. Sometimes the contacts can become dirty and loose connection. I would try this first before going and buying a new one. I usually get mine off of ebay, but ...

...hard drive? 2) Stand the ps3 on it's wide base, with the touch sensitive buttons facing you 3) Open the plastic cover on the left face of the machine (the narrow base when the machine is standing ...

hard drive. Take the cables off and then hook them back up. After this turn the ps3 back on and see if the blinking red light goes away. If it doesn't then try another hard drive in the system. If the

hard drive is bad. You can try reseating it (open the door on the left side, take out the blue screw slide the HDD back and then reseat it) and it may fix it. Else looks like you may have to buy a new

...hard drive cover then the blue phillips screw. Then take out and reseat it a couple times. Most of the time this will take care of the problem. I have seen a couple hard drives go bad. To test them ...

...after you reseat the hard drive. Try a different hard drive. Good Luck Yes a manual video reset sounds like a good start, with the system off hold the power button till it beeps twice and turns