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Jamie-C
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22nd May 11 at 22:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Want it formatted to FAT32 so I can put movies on it and then the PS3 can read them straight off the hard drive. Windows only lets you do it up to 38GB or something.

I used swissknife and formatted it to FAT32 and it didn't work, so I created a 4GB partition in FAT32 with windows disk management and tried it and it worked fine, so swissknife must be shit

Any reccomendations on what software to use?
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What drive is it? WD do a piece of software I've used to format a 1TB drive of theirs, not sure if it would work with other manufacturers though?
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22nd May 11 at 23:55   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cant remember what i used to do mine

i'll have a think
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Buffalo. I'm sure if I googled it I'd get loads but I'm just wondering if people have experience with any thats worked as some obviously don't.
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i think it was swissknife
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diskpart will do it
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FAT32 supports drives up to 2TB in size only, so if your drive is bigger then it won't work.
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Its only 500GB. It is actually in FAT32 at the moment but the PS3 just won't read it for some reason, yet when I formatted with the windows version it read it fine

I'll try diskpart then, cheers pow



[Edited on 23-05-2011 by Jamie-C]
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Sorted it
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You will need to get some sort of file chopper to fit on big mkv files.

I use MKV2VOB works well splits files into 4gb chunks.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamie-C
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diskpart?
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Thanks Mr Powell
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IS it scary you know my name
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No not particularly tbh David

[Edited on 24-05-2011 by Jamie-C]

 
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