ok..i just woke up since i was up till 8:00 am this morning messing with it..but I've successfully backed up and booted beatles rock band...i could not for the life of me boot backed up cod games..this is nothing new...I just gotta learn a little more...but from what i've read, apart from the COD series, games are booting from HD..The NES/SNES emu's i have wouldn't install on the 2nd mod (you have to install 2 mods..one on top of the other)...I'm going back to factory tonight to see if the emus will install under geohot's and run under the 2nd mod...I'll post a complete how to after I get everything working...supposedly ppl have gotten MW2/black ops to boot from disk, but there are no videos of it, and I don't believe it till I see it...Something to note is the ps1/ps2 emus...our PS3 is _not_ backward compatible...but the emu's are on the HDD..and I can't think of a better emu to use than the one created by the original console manufacturer