Lost HDD to CFW PS3 Slim

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I have a slim ps3 here that had coldboot CFW. However I lost the original HDD to it thanks to opening the system to clean, and getting a 8 month depression stint...so now I am stuck here

From some quick googling, apparently I just need to find the same exact CFW I was on, and put it on a flash drive and use the built in recovery menu? Is this true? If so is there a way to find out what I may have been on? This system has not been used in years
 

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Use a hardware NOR dumper and then run PS3 Dump Checker on it. The latest firmware will show up as ROS0 and the previous firmware (updated from) will be ROS1.

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Can also just install 3.55 OFW and upgrade to CFW from there.
Oof I hope it does not come to needing a hardware dumper. Whoever had this system previously jacked up all the screws and stripped them to hell so this thing isn't gonna come apart.

I just tried 3.55 OFW however, and after pressing "start + select" The system seems to fail to find my update file with a error message that states

"No applicable update data found" and wants me to try 2.70 OFW or later.

I have the file located at ""E:\PS3\UPDATE\PS3UPDAT.PUP""
 

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Oof I hope it does not come to needing a hardware dumper. Whoever had this system previously jacked up all the screws and stripped them to hell so this thing isn't gonna come apart.

I just tried 3.55 OFW however, and after pressing "start + select" The system seems to fail to find my update file with a error message that states

"No applicable update data found" and wants me to try 2.70 OFW or later.

I have the file located at ""E:\PS3\UPDATE\PS3UPDAT.PUP""
Do you remember what firmware or year the PS3 was on before?
 

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Do you remember what firmware or year the PS3 was on before?
I want to say it was on Rebug. I recall a scorpion when the console booted to XMB.

I did also update the CFW a little over a year ago. So its possible I'm on an early 4.x version. That probably doesn't help much without more specifics does it ha

If it helps, I also just tried flashing the latest Cobra PUP file with the same exact error message
 

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