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How to Burn Any PS3 Game to an HDD

You can save a backup copy of your PS3 games to a hard drive or USB flash drive in case the game disc is lost or damaged. Using a ̶0;swap̶1; disc, you can copy your PS3 games to a hard drive or external device in a matter of minutes.

Things You'll Need

Swap Magic software
USB flash drive
Blank CD disc

Instructions

- 1
  Go to the SKSApps website and download the USB Advance and USB Extreme applications. Save the two applications to a folder on your computer.
- 2
  Click ̶0;Start,̶1; then select ̶0;Computer.̶1; Go to the folder where you saved the USB Advance and USB Extreme files. Right-click the ̶0;USBAdvance̶1; file name and select ̶0;Extract Here.̶1; Wait a few seconds for Windows to extract the files into a new sub-folder. Extract the ̶0;Extreme̶1; file using the same method. Delete the original USB Advance and USB Extreme files after you extract the contents.
- 3
  Cut and paste the two sub-folders to the ̶0;C:\̶1; root folder in Windows Explorer.
- 4
  Open the disc tray of your computer̵7;s optical burner drive. Insert a blank CD and close the drive tray door. Launch the CD authoring application and burn the two sub-folders onto the blank disc.
- 5
  Connect the external hard drive to an open USB port if you want to burn the PS3 games to an external drive.
- 6
  Insert the PS3 game disc you want to burn into the optical drive of your computer.
- 7
  Click the ̶0;Start̶1; button and type ̶0;cmd̶1; in the search box at the bottom of the Start menu. Press the Enter key. At the command prompt, type ̶0;C:\̶1; and press Enter.
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  Enter the following command at the prompt to copy the PS3 from the game disc to the selected hard drive:
  
  ̶0;ul_install [OrignalDisc][SaveDisk][GameName][MediaType]̶1;
  
  Change ̶0;[OriginalDisc]̶1; to the drive letter for your CD/DVD drive as shown in Windows Explorer. Replace ̶0;[SaveDisk]̶1; with the drive letter for the hard drive to which you want to copy the game. Change ̶0;[GameName]̶1; to the complete title name of the game you want to copy. Replace ̶0;[MediaType]̶1; with ̶0;CD̶1; or ̶0;DVD̶1; depending upon the type of disc used for the original game.

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