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So on Sunday night i was playing Deadpool and suddenly the PS3 froze, did a forced turn off by holding down the power button (on PS3 slim). After restarting it of course asked to restore file system and everything went fine until 50% was completed and it suddenly froze again. Did a forced shutdown again only to get notified after another restoration attempt that the File System on my HDD is corrupted and the system must be formatted.

I usually use a Flash drive to backup my saves every week, but to my luck the last time i backed the saves was a month ago. Plus i have a lot of pictures, music and videos on the HDD. So i need the data on my HDD, and as many of you know the HDD is basically embedded to my console and the data on the HDD is fully encrypted. Using random software to recover the data and with my zero knowledge of this might lead to permanent loss of the data.

After a thorough search on Google.com, many noted that this might be due to bad sectors on my HDD. The search took me to the official PlayStation community forums, there was a thread about the bad sectors and data corruption and the user recommended (according to his experience of course) using HDD Regenerator.

After trying the software, i couldn't find any bad sectors at all(!). Which made things worse.

Yesterday i have found this thread on a PS3 hacking forum but from a user with almost the same situation as mine, as we both are using an unmodded console and on an Official Firmware (everything is legal). The only difference between his situation and mine is that ever since the whole thing happened, once i enter Safe mode (recovery mode) on PS3, i basically cant do anything because anything freezes.

If someone could help recovering the data (by any means, so pm if you want), or simply help me by posting another solution to this thread then please do.
When the ps3 was doing a system restore, and it froze on 50% then you forced shut it down. It corrupted all you data (saves, pictures, videos). That's why it asked for a format, but you can try and use this tool of a trusted ps3 hacker.Ps3 HDD Utility
Well you said it, the PS3 froze, nothing else i can do. And on top of that the infamous summer electricity outage had me do system restore multiple times per day even at night after 12am. The outages were random.
I will try the software you recommended now.
UPDATE: I stated in my first post that i am using official firmware so there is probably no way of accessing the unique eid root key of my HDD. It is the only way of accessing the files (browsing) on the HDD, that is why the software is useless for me. But i appreciate the digging.

Also Chafik i remember an electricity outage once stopping the system restoration, and then my PS3 worked again.
I don't know that much about OFW sorry, but I'm sure there is a way to back up your files.
That is why i didnt give up yet. I remember that there was an avid ps3 gamer here who had PS3s on OFW and CFW, he used to tinker a lot with CFW, that is why i would bet he does know a solution. If only i can remember his username.
CFW is different by a lot from OFW. CFW is already open from the ps3 and pc.
The only advantage of CFW for me was to get the EID of my HDD thus basically enabling me to browse my HDD using 3rd party software. Many people actually do that and then revert to OFW.