243w ago -
Update: A brief guide and F.A.Q. are available
HERE and
NDT posted a more detailed
walkthrough.
Guys,
I need a little help from the community, if possible i'd like to have from all of you uploaded somewhere (example: rapidshare) the first 2048KB of the HDD partition. Specifically i need a test conducted this way:
Power up the ps3, go to the formatting utility, and format the ps3 HDD with the option of 10GB for the ps3 system.
Power off the ps3, remove the hard disk, attach it to the PC and dump the first 2048KB.
Compress the 2048 with the program you actually prefer (rar, zip whatever) and upload and post a link here.
For the dumping part winhex (for windows) or dd (unix and windows), if any problem or question rise, feel free to contact me or other devs, thanks again for the contribution!
woow so cheap...
i guess its a day 1 buy for me 
...
One partition, no new OS's installed.
like asked i formated with a 10gb partition for the ps3 system.
2.3 firmware
The disk is not the original but another 60 GB Hitachi, HTS541060G9SA00.
Edit: Funny how large my file is compared to the others. I will do a full format and try again.
Edit2: Marginal difference in size on the second try. Only a few bytes size difference when rared.