The Hard Drive is external - below a plastic cover on the end plate.
This can be re-formatted using specialist softwarte - downloadable.
New HD can be purchased, but needs to be formatted for PS3
new_home, February 2010
Hi, if its fried, it'll never work again. Send it to Sony. One screw in base and it all falls out, dont know what u r going to do in there tho. Good luck.