Nick Harding Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 Hi Guys Im useless with these kind of things so bare with me. Brought a new 1tb external hard drive, mainly for just storage untill i thought " i could use it for the ps3 aswell" so plugged it in and it dosent recognise it. re-connected to the laptop and had a play with it. Windows will only format it NTFS or exFAT. The ps3 will only recognise it if it is FAT32. Iv had a brief read around a few places, but i get easily confused with this stuff. I read somewhere that from vista onwards windows has stopped being able to convert from NTFS or exFAT to FAT32. I know its a long shot, but has anyone else had this problem? or am i just not able to use it for the ps3? Thanks for any help with this. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 If I were you I'd looking into getting some partition software like Partition Magic and doing it from there - should be able to create a single FAT32 partition that way, or you could even stick something like 250gb for the PS3 and the rest for normal use. That should work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 I know windows doesn't like making fat32's above 32gb so try the instructions here and see how you get on! http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/formatting-external-hard-drive-to-fat-32/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Harding Posted January 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 Cheers guys literally just after posting this i went into control panel, Administrative tools, Computer Management, disk management, and managed to make a few partitions so iv got like 90 gb dedicated to ps3 stuff then the rest for storage. Such a mega arse ache though. Cheers lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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