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ndjr · 2008-04-05 07:37:42

How do you remove the PS3 SAK (Swiss Army Knife) from the PS3 system? it does not help to format the drive!

Mr.TurnSignal · 2008-04-05 07:59:28

If you dont want it on there then you have to format. Just leave it and forget about it cuz thats the only way. Why do you want to remove it anyways?

ndjr · 2008-04-05 08:11:59

Mr.TurnSignal wrote:
If you dont want it on there then you have to format. Just leave it and forget about it cuz thats the only way. Why do you want to remove it anyways?

I have done a format, it do not go away! SAK dont install on the harddrive, I dont know where it installs?

I just dont need it anymore

Last edited by ndjr (2008-04-05 08:14:00)

xXKILLERXx12 · 2008-04-05 08:49:21

Wrong section. Should of been in HELP. Anyways, like Mr.T said just forget about it. Its not that be right?

NEMESIS0744 · 2008-04-05 08:52:33

Try restoring your PS3.

ndjr · 2008-04-05 09:20:03

NEMESIS0744 wrote:
Try restoring your PS3.

I tried, it still will not go away! where the heck does it install? and how do you get rid of it?

DVC · 2008-04-05 10:00:01

It installs in the OtherOS partition of your drive. When you select to format, do not allow 10GB for OtherOS, just give the entire drive to GameOS. That will get rid of it, and if it doesn't you are doing something wrong.

ndjr · 2008-04-05 10:37:15

DVC wrote:
It installs in the OtherOS partition of your drive. When you select to format, do not allow 10GB for OtherOS, just give the entire drive to GameOS. That will get rid of it, and if it doesn't you are doing something wrong.

No way, even if I replace the original PS3 drive by a brand new harddrive, it still possible to boot up in SAK

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NEMESIS0744 · 2008-04-05 11:21:21

Thats because it doesn't save to HDD. The only way to "get rid off it" is to replace it with a different installer. Why do you care so much to get rid of it, anyway?

ndjr · 2008-04-05 11:32:52

NEMESIS0744 wrote:
Thats because it doesn't save to HDD. The only way to "get rid off it" is to replace it with a different installer. Why do you care so much to get rid of it, anyway?

no big reason, just want to restore the PS3 to it`s original state

so the only way to remove it is to replace it with another OS ?

is there no way to just delete the thing?

edit: wait I think it`s gone, you have to format the drive from the SAK OS

Last edited by ndjr (2008-04-05 11:39:48)

Mr.TurnSignal · 2008-04-05 13:57:51

Well i hope you didnt go to tooo much trouble just to remove that one little thing.

nickb827 · 2008-04-05 21:21:02

I do... I think it would be funny.
Sorry for my sense of cynicism.

NEMESIS0744 · 2008-04-06 00:01:22

I think the term your looking for is "Sadistic".

lildesiikid · 2008-04-06 00:11:46

i think he means sarcasm

nickb827 · 2008-04-06 02:04:57

No, I meant sadistic.

Arakon · 2008-04-06 05:48:25

it installs in the NAND flash, like the other bootloaders for otheros. just install i.e. the original linux bootloader there.

BornEvil · 2008-07-20 08:49:39

Hey guys same issue as original poster. I have a major reason for wanting to get this out. I have 25Gb that I patitioned off that I would like to get back. I fell for the Ferrox hoax. I get SAKs use but I haven't the need for a preloader with no end. I don't have an app to write to it so no use for it you know. Some one that has a clue about the way the PS3 actually works please let me know if a way to gut this out exist. I have looked all over and I am still looking. I can't get any info any where and I am out of ideas on my own. Format via the PS3 utility on formats the presurved partition that the PS3 os is on. What I need is more in the realm of a partition utility. I was woundering if theres a method to fully partition and format the system then fool the ps3 into reformating in its language. keep me in the loop if any one can figure this out. SAK isn't a bad thing its just a preloader for a utility. Kinda like a shell. If Ferrox did exist in a working state it would run a state like this to swap into a new file system structure. It how ever is useless due to the fact that it never had a compleated thought to it.

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