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Guides \ How To Back Up Your NAND


by LoveIsMurder13

Requirements

NOTE:

Don't worry about the Magic Memory stick or the Pandora battery if you haven't got them yet. I'll guide you through them too.



Guide:

Step One: Format your PSP Memory stick (Back up everything on your memory stick before doing this, just copy and paste somewhere on your computer) to do this, go to System settings and click format memory stick. Download

Step Two: Totalnewbie easy installer and extract it from the RAR file using Winrar.

Step Three: Plug your PSP in your computer and press on the start.exe and just follow the program. If it asks about, I can't remember what just click enter (I WILL get back to this one) It should ask if you want to format press Y then hit enter and just follow the rest.

Step Four: Now everything you need should be installed on your PSP before anything I would suggest going into Pandora Battery Creator and backing up your battery eeprom (It in the menu, not need to guide you through that, I hope)(If it says the game could not be started, go into recovery menu* and go into configuration and change your Kernal), DO NOT TURN IT INTO A PANDORA BATTERY YET.

Step Five: Now plug your PSP into the computer and on the root of your PSP there should be something called eeprom, now copy and paste that to your hard drive somewhere.

Step Six: Now what you might want to do is fully charge your PSP or keep it on the charger. Now go back into Pandora Battery Creator and click X(I think it’s X, press the one that says to create Pandora Battery).

Step Seven: Turn off your PSP and pull out the battery, wait like 5 seconds or something, and then put it back in. The green light should be on. ALL Lights should be lit up (INCLUDING YOUR WLAN & YOUR MEMORY STICK LIGHTS), The screen should be black and now it should come up with a few options.

NOTE: If you can choose to change yours back to 1.50 if you want to re-install CFW if you want or just to take it off or whatever)If you choose to change it back to 1.50 or recover 3.71 M33 see BJ2's Guide

Step Eight: Obviously, you should press the button (I’m thinking its square for some strange reason, but I could be wrong) that says BACK UP NAND. After that’s finished, turn off your PSP and take out your battery.

Step Nine: Leave the battery out and plug in the charger, now turn it on without the battery in it. Once it’s on, put the battery back in and you can take out the charger if you want. Go into Pandora Battery Creator and press square and it will change your battery back into a normal battery.

Step Ten: Now what you'll probably want to do is back up your IDKeys. To do this, download IDStorage Manager V 1.3(link in requirements section). Now plug your PSP into the computer and go into PSP then go into the folder called GAME and the copy IdStoragerManager folder into there.

Step Eleven: start it up on your PSP (If it doesn't work, swap your Kernal mode, but it shouldn't be a problem) and just press Square and then it ask you to press X to dump the keys to your memory stick.

Step Twelve: Once that's finished, keep that all on the memory stick and back it up on your computer, even the IdStorage Manager. If you change your IDKeys you will probably stuff your PSP. If you do manage to do that. start the program up, and Press X to verify/fix Keys and then click X once again and it should fix them.

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dragon74
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LoveIsMurder13 said:
hummer said: why do you need to do this though?
Just in case you somehow manage to screw up/ change your unique keys when touching the flash and whatnot.



Ahh, so if your not screwing around with the flash, u dont really need to back up nand?
Thanks for clearing this up guys!
04/03/2008
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LoveIsMurder13
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dandaman said: Yeah thats why I said you can never have enough tutorials, it's good to get a different opinion on how to do something especially when it's as tricky as this is for noobs.

The only way I knew of to fully brick a psp was to write someone elses nand to your psp but I'm pretty sure I read something about running devhook on time machine can fully brick your psp.




Ooh, I don't run devhook anyways.

Yeah...This guide was pretty easy to make. First time I made both of them/ tried and got it working so I wrote it. It's not that hard..Especially if you follow this.

But it's not even hard if you don't use guides like these. All you have to do is read carefully and do as it says and your all good to go. If your unsure in the slightest bit though. ASK SOMEONE. before you screw your PSP.

I think repop fried something in his PSP and he didn't know what he did, but that's something completely different...
27/02/2008
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dandaman
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Yeah thats why I said you can never have enough tutorials, it's good to get a different opinion on how to do something especially when it's as tricky as this is for noobs.
The only way I knew of to fully brick a psp was to write someone elses nand to your psp but I'm pretty sure I read something about running devhook on time machine can fully brick your psp.
27/02/2008
IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!
LoveIsMurder13
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hummer said: why do you need to do this though?



Just in case you somehow manage to screw up/ change your unique keys when touching the flash and whatnot.
26/02/2008
Brisbane, Queensland
LoveIsMurder13
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dandaman said: dragon74 said: whats a nand? Isnt it the place that overcharges for chicken?

It's an exact copy of your psp, not just your flash0/1/2/3 but files you can't access and your idStorage keys that are unique to your psp.

LoveIsMurder13 said: Yeah...But this is kind of also a guide to help people create a Pandora Battery & Magic Memory Stick and helps them some other ways I guess.

There was a guide to do that right before this one...lol I suppose you can never have enough advice about making a pandora's battery and magic ms.



Hahaha, yeah. I finished it over at TXD but didn't post it until like now... Well, it was half complete but yeah...Almost done I should say but you do know how many people stuff this up or ask about it...
26/02/2008
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hummer
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why do you need to do this though?
26/02/2008
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dandaman
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dragon74 said: whats a nand? Isnt it the place that overcharges for chicken?



It's an exact copy of your psp, not just your flash0/1/2/3 but files you can't access and your idStorage keys that are unique to your psp.

LoveIsMurder13 said: Yeah...But this is kind of also a guide to help people create a Pandora Battery & Magic Memory Stick and helps them some other ways I guess.



There was a guide to do that right before this one...lol I suppose you can never have enough advice about making a pandora's battery and magic ms.
26/02/2008
IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!
LoveIsMurder13
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dragon74 said: whats a nand? Isnt it the place that overcharges for chicken?



Hahaha, I thought that was Nando's??

It's just like, argghh. It holds like all your unique keys and I think it holds something else in it too but I can't be sure what it does exactly, lol. I know it's really important if you stuff up your unique IDKeys.
26/02/2008
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dragon74
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whats a nand? Isnt it the place that overcharges for chicken?
26/02/2008
I've got more games than an Asian teenager! 390M33-2(+.[____]·:·)
dandaman
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The keys that idStorage manager backs up aren't that important they can be written from generic keys (anyones backup) but the keys the nand dumper writes are unique...Noobz playing with nand dumps is a scary thought.
The damage you can do while using nand dumps all the time can make your psp a permanent brick if you write the wrong dump...by permanent I mean pandora won't fix it.
26/02/2008
IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!
LoveIsMurder13
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Yeah...But this is kind of also a guide to help people create a Pandora Battery & Magic Memory Stick and helps them some other ways I guess. I wasn't too sure about IDKeys but always best to be safe I guess.
25/02/2008
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dandaman
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If you don't wanna do all that you can just download nand dumper from here dadudeondacouch.hostsnake.com/ and run it on any 3.XX cfw psp and dump your nand.

ID Storage manager only backs up non-unique keys so there isn't much point in that you can get them from anyone and ALL ID storage keys are backed up in the nand dump...nand dumps are a complete image of your psp, thats why it's the only way to fix your psp if your flash another persons nand and your unique keys get corrupted.

If you use the program above it will make a complete dump of your psp and then one day if you somehow manage to completely stuff your psp by corrupting the ID storage (extremely unlikely, it's only caused by writing incorrect nand dumps 80% of the time) you can use the dump...thats a better option if you don't have a pandora's battery and it only dumps the nand so it's much safer...if you want to restore a nand or have multiple nand dumps saved on your psp goto the same page and download nand manager.
25/02/2008
IT'S EVOLUTION BABY!!!
insectoid
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on this site they are black bars. I wasn't told not to use them...so i did.
24/02/2008
http://www.games-den.blogspot.com/
BJ2
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i see no <h1> headings?
or on this site are they the black bars?
24/02/2008
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abuu91
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I thought Roy didn't like us using the <h1> headings?

Neatly laid out though. It's got my vote.
24/02/2008
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insectoid
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done and done. I also updated with those last few steps you sent me. let me know if there's anything else you need.
24/02/2008
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LoveIsMurder13
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Oh, Insectoid, can you please put a note next to the easy installer that it is quite a large file (187MB I think) but totally worth it.

Edit: IDStorage added. Thanks Insectoid!
24/02/2008
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Lewace11
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Thanks LIM!! I've backed up my NAND
24/02/2008
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insectoid
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thanks to LIM for the guide!

digg it everyone!
24/02/2008
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