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I purchased a Seagate external hard drive today and loaded a few mp3`s and avi`s onto it. I plugged it into the PS3 before but it won`t read it whatsoever!? I have a Western Digital and Toshiba hard drive which works like a dream.
Is there anyway I can fix this problem? Im wondering if I would have to reformat it but it states in the booklet that I don`t have to...also I didn`t have to reformat the other two hard drives!

Many thanks....



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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

& 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?

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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. 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... :D



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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. >:(

Ste

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!!! :D

Well happy with it.....


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