Remarry BluRay Drives While On 3.55

Have you ever found yourself in that spot where you have a hackable PS3 but its drive has to be replaced?  Once you get that done, you find out that you still have to remarry the drive, which involves some downgrading? Well today's your lucky break as you no longer have to do that for consoles on 3.55.

The method remains relatively the same. After the drive replacement, throw some files on a USB stick and then put the PS3 into Service Mode. Here is the exact steps as quoted in the release notes:

1. Have the console on a working 3.55 firmware

2. Download the Remarry files (remarry-3.55.rar) and unpack to root of USM Mass Storage device. The following line is already changed from 1 to 0: (Manually check this file)

#———————————————
# Install Systemsoftware
# 0 = ???s?????
# 1 = ???s????
#———————————————-
0

This will make sure the drive init PUP is not installed, thus preventing RLOD because of syscon hashes on downgraded consoles.

3. Download official firmware <=3.30 as drive init PUP and put it root of USB Mass Storage device

Content of USB Mass Storage device should be thus be:

• Lv2diag.self
• manufacturing_updater_for_reset.self
• fdm_spu_module.self
• PS3UPDAT.PUP
• cfg/standalone.cfg

4. Put the service mode JIG/dongle/PSGrade into port 0 (closest to the reader) and get into factory service mode.

5. Put the created USB Mass Storage device from step 3 into port 0 (closest to the reader) and run.

Drive Init Executing means it is starting the remarry process
Drive Init Failed with big pink letters ‘NG (No Good!) means the process failed. Most likely solved by fixing the communication issue with the drive.

6. After you run the initial remarry process, do not take it out of factory service mode.

7. Put a BD movie disc in and run it on the PS3. (This restores your DRL files!)

8. Then you can take it out of factory service mode.

9. Launch as normal.

Simple enough fix to get yourself another 100% working PS3. Grab all the stuff you need below.

Source: PSX-Scene

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