Well its easy all you do is format the drive to fat32 and you copy the music inside the drive and later connect the drive to ps3 and the rest should be easy.
When I upgraded my HDD I bought an external HDD backed up ALL of the data on my PS3. Then I suppose you could copy that onto your PC. TO get it back to your PS3 system you would have to use an external HDD and just copy everything over. Or use lots of Memory Sticks.
No you cant!.
Simply no bc the hdd`s content is encrypted to your ps3 serial number, so in other word just format it and begin all over.
Did you format the drive to FAT32 bc if you don't then it will not show up.
You can put the game save data onto an external USB drive
Yes.
Yes. But you will need one with a lot of free memory. When I swapped my HDD I bought 1.5tb external HDD for like £80.00. To back it up, go into settings and find the place where you back it up. Connect your ipod to your ps3 with the USB cable. Back it up.
Your account data transfers when you log into your account and should include trophies, however you want to know how to transfer what is on your harddrive and the time has passed. You needed to download your old hard drive information to transfer it. You can go to your Playstation Store account and download all of your earlier downloads from the Playstation Store skipping ones you no longer want like demos of games that did not interest you.
Changing HDD in the ps3 is very simple here's a tutorial. http://2.ly/QND
Yes but its only for the internal one not usb hdd.
Yes they both have standard notebook HDD
At this time, the only way to increase the storage on your PS3 system is to purchase an internal HDD that will have to be manually installed. You can purchase external memory but only certain things can be stored on that such as wallpaper, music, and video content.