thanks for the link Corso, may come in handy in the future. I meant save games and game data. The username is the same on both just the ps3 is different. I had an old ps3 which I replaced but backed up the hdd of the old ps3 using dd in linux. If you place the old hdd to a new ps3 you are asked to format it and can't recover your game saves or any other data, including game data and even photos, because it is encrypted to a given ps3 system. : (