PSN Video and Music General

[Vernon_Hardapple]

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LightMyFire1988 wrote:

when i went to format my 1 terabyte hardrive the only option was exFAT.  Is that what i want with allocation unit size at 32 KB?

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No, exFAT is not the same.

Assuming you are using Windows, download and use the HP USB Storage Format Tool.

[hotiger123]

my 750gb external hdd is formatted as a fat32 and my slim wont recognize it how do i fix this

[hotiger123]

my 750 gigs external hdd is formatted as a fat32 and my slim wont recognize it how do i fix this

[TADARRELL21]

Can you let me know step by step what you did.  I have a 16 year old son and we are trying install a 320 gig harddrive.  On the computer it is showing that it is in FAT32 format, but when I put it in the playstation it says that there is no information on the storage, but I can see it when I go to my computer and right click on the external drive.

[EMOPANDA72]

LOL at fonzei I just backed all my data up onto another hard drive formatted to fat 32 and stuck all the data back on, its so easy to do, don't cry like a little girl because you can't get your way.

[ProfessorTripp]

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TADARRELL21 wrote:

Can you let me know step by step what you did.  I have a 16 year old son and we are trying install a 320 gig harddrive.  On the computer it is showing that it is in FAT32 format, but when I put it in the playstation it says that there is no information on the storage, but I can see it when I go to my computer and right click on the external drive.

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If you don't have the media setup in specific folders that the PS3 requires in order to show on the XMB by default you will need to highlight the drive on the PS3, press triangle, and select Display all.  Hopefully that will help.

Also remember that only videos show up under the Videos category, only music files under Music, etc.

[pinkhelio55]

New HD's seems to be unrecognised now. Is there a 'search for USB media option' somewhere? My old WD HD's still work, but the 3 different new one's that were purchased within the last month don't pop up anymore.

[K-ROCK72]

You can stream the media (movies, pics and music) from for computer to the PS3 via your wireless network, no need to transfer them to an external hard drive. Use windows media  to share or download PS3 media server to your PC.

[dgeez123z]

hey my android phone used to be recognized by my PS3 now all of a sudden its not. Any ideas?  i used to play all movies and music from it until recently.  Dont really know what sparked the change either.

[dragonexe007]

Hey. I just got a WD 1 Tb elements HDD.
And what i can gather from this thread is that it MUST be fat32 to work on the ps3. Well, since its new, i have no probs with formatting. However, will formatting it to fat32 affect its connection capability to my PC? [windows 7 ultimate)