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i'd guess the new drive has been formated to NTFS & i think the ps3 needs Fat or Fat32

hope this helps

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& if it is Fat32 they will need to be placed into Folders wont they?
My Movies r in a folder named :-VIDEO

My Windows XP doesn't allow me to format in Fat32!? Is there any sites that will allow me to do it?



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Andy - look for an executable called "fat32format.exe" (Google)
You know that the drive will be wiped when you re-format right?

This item was edited on Tuesday, 8th December 2009, 17:24

I pressed 'start' on my desktop and then selected 'run'. Using the C Prompt I've ordered it to reformat it in FAT32. Just started now and its up to 3% so hope it get's to the end and completes the task!!
Yeh I realise I will lose everything but I just want it to run on the PS3 and then be able to click and drag files to it at will.
Many thanks for your guidance...



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My Windows XP doesn't allow me to format in Fat32!?Correct.
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Andy - look for an executable called "fat32format.exe" (Google) Superb app - will reformat in about a second (quick format obviously).
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I pressed 'start' on my desktop and then selected 'run'. Using the C Prompt I've ordered it to reformat it in FAT32.Did it work? XP only allows formatting of FAT32 volumes upto about 32GB I think...or have you used fat32format?
I just want it to run on the PS3 and then be able to click and drag files to it at will.
As long as they're smaller than 4GB........
Really wish they'd add NTFS support to the PS3.

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I used a freeware program called swissknife to format my external hard drive to use with my PS3.
Hadn't had any reason to use it since, but it was very easy to do.

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Did it work?

No it didn't! After what must have been 5 hours it simply reached 100% then stated that the external hard drive was too big to format(??).

I was also going to use swissknife but according to various reviews on the net people are having problems with it. I wasn't prepared to wait another 5 hours just to be told that the hard drive was too big to format again.

Anyway , all's ended well as I stumbled across this. I advise anyone to use this as it formatted the drive in a mere 10 seconds and it works like a dream on my PS3!!!

Well happy with it.....


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"stumbled across" - Andy, that's the tool I was talking about originally.