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Hey guys,
I recently bought a 750gb external drive to store files etc that I want to use on my PS3. The drive was not recognized, and after I little research I see it is because the PS3 only recognizes drive in Fat32 format. I also discovered this formatting cannot be done through windows, and that I would need to get 3rd party software.
My question to the forum is, has anyone else had to do this? Can you recommend any software that has been used succesfully? I am looking to format the whole drive and not just a partition so that I can use it anywhere I choose.
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I used a program called SwissKnife to format mine.
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Did you use the free version? No issues with the drive since doing it?
That is my real fear, damaging the drive.
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why can't you just plug it into a windows computer as a 2nd hard-drive...format it as fat32, and then pop it in the playstation?
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Windows only lets you format to Fat32 for 32gb and under for some dumb reason.
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Did you use the free version? No issues with the drive since doing it?
That is my real fear, damaging the drive.
No issues, works fine on the PS3 and my PC and yes I used the free version.
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Excellent. Thanks everyone. I will try this program tonight and see what happens.
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So I downloaded and installed Swissknife, but it only gives me a Fat16 option, not Fat32. Any ideas?
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I tried swiss knife after some googling and it did not work for me, either.
What I found to work was Acronis Disk Director, but it is not free. I formatted a 500gb sata drive on Windows 7 with it to put inside my ps3 and I used the original 160gb as an external, I have had no problems with that setup so far after about a year of using it.
There is a way to get your ps3 to recognize NTFS, but you'll need a homebrew program called multiman though, which does not run on Sony's official firmware.
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So I downloaded and installed Swissknife, but it only gives me a Fat16 option, not Fat32. Any ideas?
IDK it has been a few years since I did it. Here is the program I used.
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Don't know if it has changed or not since I used it.
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I downloaded Acronis and it quickly formatted the drive to Fat32. I began copying my files back on the drive when I left for work and will verify everything works when I get home.
Thanks Mattack!
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So I downloaded and installed Swissknife, but it only gives me a Fat16 option, not Fat32. Any ideas?
IDK it has been a few years since I did it. Here is the program I used.
web page
Don't know if it has changed or not since I used it.
No worries, thanks for the suggestion. 
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No prob
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