Sony has acted fast to relieve its PlayStation 3 owners of recent HDD woes. Apparently, the latest system software update which the company had released on July 27 was causing a few hitches when it came to those who had replaced the hard disk drive in the home gaming console.

Though with identical names, Sony assures that the software update to the erratic firmware 3.41 would thoroughly address the HDD issues, and will even include a couple of bug fixes. Sony says the new modifications are too insignificant to be rewarded with a change in the version.

In its official blog post, Sony writes:

“For those users who are replacing the PS3 hard disk drive: we are aware of the symptoms with the system software update 3.41, released on July 27, and that it will cause the update to stop in some occasions while replacing the PlayStation 3 (PS3) Hard Disk Drive (HDD) if the PS3 system is installed with version 3.41.

To resolve these symptoms, we have released a new version of system software update 3.41 with a very minor change (the version number does not change) on August 2. If you are experiencing such symptoms when replacing the HDD of your PS3 system, we kindly ask you to use the latest data and try again. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused, and appreciate your understanding and continued support.”