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daveyp187 · 06-20-2011

i used partition magic

make sure u set a drive letter or it wont work,as i found out

MeanMachine · 06-29-2011

do i need to change the " allocation " or leave it on 32768?

ps3hacker12 · 07-08-2011

Originally Posted by sln531

Ok i guess that's my problem then...thanks so much man i have been going crazy wanting to pull my hair out lamo

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I tried for just the hell of it to partion the hard drive for just 2tb formatted to fat32 and that still did not work ether hmmmm

Did you try formatting like 1.5tb/1.5tb in the end? If so did it work well?

advocatusdiaboli · 07-08-2011

Linux approach

Code:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1

X = the letter of the drive you would like to format.
1 = the partition on the desired drive.

1.5 and 2 TB formats well and works as external HDD, and sometimes as "internal" through PS3 HDXT depending on its sleep mode.

3 TB however is ignored.

AliMoose · 09-02-2011

Originally Posted by MeanMachine

do i need to change the " allocation " or leave it on 32768?

i second this question

itskamel · 09-02-2011

Originally Posted by MeanMachine

do i need to change the " allocation " or leave it on 32768?

leave it the same. that is what i did. and everything works fine.

SmartX · 09-03-2011

I found Hiren's BootDVD 14.1 handy (available via p2p bit torrent) because it included MiniXP to boot into. So that from there you can use these executables in the command prompt. This is handy for those that don't have a copy of windows around.

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How to format an External Hard drive to Fat32 if it is larger than 30GB

06-29-2011	#22
MeanMachine Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 39 Likes: 17 Liked 2 Times in 2 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	do i need to change the " allocation " or leave it on 32768?

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SmartX Apprentice Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 2 Likes: 1 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I found Hiren's BootDVD 14.1 handy (available via p2p bit torrent) because it included MiniXP to boot into. So that from there you can use these executables in the command prompt. This is handy for those that don't have a copy of windows around.

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