Need help with PS3 transfer [duplicate]

I got a new PS3 recently and previously I used my brothers PS3 with my own account anyways I want to transfer all my stuff onto the new one. I really don't wanna start over on all my games and plus I spent a lot of money on games I bought on the play station store so how do I get them to the new PS3... Sorry if I'm typing a lot I just want to get the right answer. Like I said before I really don't wanna start over with all my games so idk how to get the saved data onto the new one. Thanks for your help I really appreciate it

Btw I have a large USB hard drive that I could use Im not sure if that'll help or anything and I think there might be a way to transfer everything using ps+ but I don't know how I would do that..

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Best Answer

if your transferring data there's 2 methods, one requires a Playstation Plus membership and the use of the Cloud Storage to store your saved games and download them (and your purchases) to the new PS3 console.

the other method i believe should work however i can only assume it'll work based off my work on swapping my ~60 GB Interal Harddrive with a ~300 GB one

Get a External Portable Harddrive
Format the harddrive on your computer to be FAT32, this link may help however the newer your OS is i believe the harder it'll be to format to FAT32. you have no option in this since the PS3 will only recognize FAT32
Use the Backup Utility (Settings > System Settings > Backup Utility > Backup)
Use the restore function on your new PS3 (you should have seen a Restore Option when you was going though to back up)
Sign Into PSN on your new PS3
Register your console (you may need to unregister your old one, not sure what the limit is now), Download your purchases, sync Trophy Data etc.

now i should point out that up until Step 4 i have done, from Step 4 i swapped Internal Harddrives and did the restore so i'm not 100% sure as to what restrictions Sony has added in since i did this a few years ago (buying physical copies of almost every game really saves up on space)

As it is indicated in my second link some stuff wont be copied to the harddrive

The following copy-protected content will not be transferable:
Digital Right Management (DRM)

PlayStation® format software game data

PlayStation®2 format software game data

PlayStation®3 format software Game Save Data flagged as unexportable

Trophy data, trophy data is saved onto your Sony Entertainment Network account

so be aware you may loose out on same data however i think the items listed above (with the exception to Trophy Data) can be stored in the cloud with Playstation Plus Membership, but i don't have one so i got no experience with it

Also, be aware that FAT32 has a limitation

FAT32 has a limit of 3.9 Gigabytes per file, which means some high quality HD movies might have to be split into smaller files, and that makes it less than ideal for some HD content.

Source - Step 3

so if something (like a movie) is larger than 3.9 GB you're going to run into a problem however i don't think anything brought from PSN (Games, Movies, Music) would be that big and since external drives need to be FAT32 to be recognized i very much doubt you could get anything that big on it either

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How do I transfer data from my old PS3 to my new PS3?

Yes and no; the had drive type is the same, the hard drive will physically work in the new device. However, PS3 hard drives are encrypted, so if you just move the drive into a new PS3 the drive won't actually work; you'll have to reformat it.

Can you swap PS3 hard drives without formatting?

Preparations:

Pull out the old hard drive from your PS3 and free up the frame that fixes the hard drive using a screwdriver. Connect the same hard drive to your PC spare port.

Connect the new HDD to the same PC in another spare port. ...

Format the new hard drive to FAT32.

How do I transfer data from my PS3 hard drive to another?

How do you transfer a working PS3's gaming data to a different ps3? You can transfer save-data with usb-drive or make the back up of the whole HDD (on the external drive) and transfer data through the restore feature on the new system. Or you can re-downlod them via activating your profile on the other system.

How to Transfer All Your Information to a New PS3

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