Thanks a lot @Berion for dropping the knowledge, even if I didn't solve the problem yet your posts have helped me get a better understanding of the situation quite a bit
Wait a second because I'm getting confused now
Assuming I had the key I would use my pc to decrypt and read the disk, so if I understood what you said right I would have only one chance to do it?
Right now I've plugged that disk once in Windows using the sata to usb adapter, does this mean that...
Thank you all, I've learnt quite a lot of very interesting and useful information from you and I really appreciate it.
I did test the hdd to usb adapter, obviously I couldn't access the drive, although the indicators where different than when I connected it to pc (the indicator on the adapter...
Thank you all for your answers, I thought of an other way that I'm 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% sure that it won't work, but I'm going to ask anyway :P
Lets say I get one of these adapters that lets you use an internal hdd as external via usb, then I connect that drive to the ps3 while...
THE PROBLEM
I want to access my bricked ps3 hdd from a pc and get my saves back but I don't have the EID ROOT KEY, so I can't access the drive. I know my ps3 is cfw compatible, but im currently on 4.89 ofw and the toolset hasn't been updated, I want to know if there is any other way of ripping...