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I found a few similar threads to this but nothing that addressed my particular question -

Yesterday my 60Gb PS3 stopped reading any form of disc . Gutted, wtf? etc. In all other ways it's fine, psn downloads work, the internet browser works, movies and music from usb devices work.

After a bit of reading on the internet it's evident the blu ray drive is the issue, I found a few 'fixes' that did nothing so I'm looking at either a repair or a new console. I'm leaning towards a new slim for the larger HDD space. If I get one will I be able to transfer everything from my 60Gb across? I've got loads and loads of stuff on my HDD you see, 26 psn games, updates and patches for a tonne of games and their related saves. I know I can back up most of the saves but it's the other stuff I really want to be able to transfer, my broadband is really slow so having to download all my stuff again would literally take days.

So has anyone else done a system to system transfer and if so did it copy across everything?

And does anyone fancy buying a mostly working 60Gb PS3? You can repair it then wallow in the joys of backwards compatibility, charge 4 dualshocks AT ONCE then look at pictures of stuff from SD cards. Imagine that.

http://uk.playstation.com/ps3/support/n ... r-utility/

this is how it done

but you should aslo read this

http://www.gamesonsmash.com/?p=13845

its not as black and white as it seems

look for as user on youtube called djwhetzel, he has some good demo videos

Thanks Thin Ice, that first link is to the guide I was planning to use - hopefully if I follow that I should be OK.

That 2nd link just confused me though, the article confirmed that everything will be copied as I want but the rambling dude in the comments threw me. I don't think he was trying to transfer to a second PS3? Anyway the lesson there seems to be if someone tells you to delete your hard drive give it some serious thought before doing so.