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Oxblood
05-22-2007, 02:42 PM
Sorry, if this has already been answered.

There is a lot of activity in the community with people pulling out the factory harddisc and adding a larger one.

Do you think Sony would or can allow users to connect a USB external harddrive to hold additional data or to be the actual primary drive?

thanks
Clixx
05-22-2007, 02:43 PM
Haven't tried an actual drive yet, but USB keys work just fine.
Smokey
05-22-2007, 02:43 PM
yeah mate you can no worries :)

hold additional data or to be the actual primary drive?
dont know about that bit... primary HDD has to be hooked up SATA though not usb
VG Aficionado
05-22-2007, 02:57 PM
You can store pictures, music, videos and even copies of game saves, but you need the internal hard drive to store demos and purchased games.
F089/H
05-22-2007, 03:07 PM
Yeah what VG said...
dendj55
05-22-2007, 04:38 PM
I cannot get the PS3 to recognize my external hard drive via usb interface. Anyone else have this problem?
Applefiend
05-22-2007, 04:45 PM
Make sure it's FAT32, not NTFS or something like that.
dendj55
05-22-2007, 09:04 PM
I appreciate your thoughts Applefiend, but does anyone know for sure before I reformat a 250GB drive to FAT32?
Sephiroth_VII
05-22-2007, 10:15 PM
NTFS is owned by MS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS), so you'll need to use FAT32, which is compatible with PS3's file system.
Segitz
05-23-2007, 09:01 AM
Gladly, it was finally reverse engineered into the Linux kernel, by the ntfs3-ng team!

I cant stress this enough, I had my fair share of problems with NTFS
Eidorian
05-23-2007, 09:07 AM
So how do you format a greater then 32 GB drive to FAT32 just using Windows?
dendj55
05-23-2007, 02:15 PM
So how do you format a greater then 32 GB drive to FAT32 just using Windows?

I was wondering the same thing...? Anyone know the answer to this?
Segitz
05-23-2007, 04:38 PM
Just do it?

If your HD only shows 32GB, then you ran into the old ATA "bug". Theres an hotfix (or rather just update or so) for Windows XP and 2000 for this.

Or you just jumpered it wrong.
Eidorian
05-23-2007, 06:57 PM
Just do it?

If your HD only shows 32GB, then you ran into the old ATA "bug". Theres an hotfix (or rather just update or so) for Windows XP and 2000 for this.

Or you just jumpered it wrong.You can't format a drive greater then 32 GB to FAT32 using just Windows 2000/XP or later...