How to Clone PS3 SSD/HDD and Game Save Data for RPCS3

Is this possible? I've love to clone my PS3 drive (FAT32) that already has ALL of my games, DLC, and game saves for use with RPCS3. I have the same question about importing game saves into the emulator, too.

ANY help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. PS3 was such a great design in terms of UI and available software. It's sad that the system hardware was always doomed to fail through its use of lead-free solder and overheating issues.

You need to copy /dev_hdd0/ from your PS3 to the emulator

You need to copy /dev_hdd0/ from your PS3 to the emulator

So if I copy it as a FAT32 Partition to another drive/partition of the same size, I should be able to access that, correct? What folder of the emulator would I copy/paste this into?

Also, once done, how would the emulator reference the cloned drive? Would I mount it with DaemonTools, or I just give it a drive letter for the emulator?

Thanks for your help!!

I don't understand what you mean. You can't clone a PS3 drive on PC as it's encrypted. You need to open it from console and copy what you want from it.

I don't understand what you mean. You can't clone a PS3 drive on PC as it's encrypted. You need to open it from console and copy what you want from it.

Ah, ok. So console drives can't be cloned because of the encryption?

When you say "copy /dev_hdd0/" while file are you referring to, and is this for importing game saves into the emulator?

/dev_hdd0/ is a mounted partition console, it contains all game data and user data
You can copy it 1:1 to the emulator, the only thing you'll have to modify to work on the emulator are Game Saves if you wish to resume from console ones, the rest is fine