Yesterday I received my non-shiny new PS3 Slim and I promptly began the process of transferring all games, game saves, videos, music, pictures, and accounts from my launch 60GB console to the new super quiet version. I decided to upgrade due to the Blu-Ray drive making nasty grinding noises on my older PS3. With it being out of warranty and backwards compatibility not meaning all that much me, I made the jump. While most of the transfer went smooth, there were a few bumps in the road.

Some of you may remember my PS3 hard drive kicking the bucket. Thanks to some friends who work in data recovery, I was able to fully recover the data on the drive and get it back in my PS3. All my Game Saves were intact and nothing major was lost, so I was free and clear to backup my system.

My first step was running the built in Backup Utility on my launch PS3. This took about 2 hours as it backed up everything I had on the system (including four PS1 classics and 18 PSN Games). Once that was all finished up, I powered down the console, unpacked the new Slim and hooked it up. After connecting to my wireless network and updating the firmware to version 3.0, I plugged in my external hard drive to begin the transfer of data. I was immediately greeted with a message that said not all data could be transferred, which I expected. I knew most PSN Games would not transfer over and had already planned to re-download all of those. After a quick 2 minute restore, I was prompted to reboot the console and everything was there… or so I thought.

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