PS3 External HD Problem

Peve · 31 Oct 2008 at 22:11

Hi,

I am having a bit of a problem with my PS3 picking up my external HD.

I have a Icy Box enclosure with a 300gb IDE drive inside it. The drive has been formatted as FAT32 but the PS3 will not pick it up.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

brakeinup · 1 Nov 2008 at 09:12

http://www.tomkiss.net/blog/usb_hdd_not_working_with_playstation_3_format_as_fat32/

Nismo · 1 Nov 2008 at 09:33

brakeinup said:
http://www.tomkiss.net/blog/usb_hdd_not_working_with_playstation_3_format_as_fat32/

Does that really help him? He's already formatted to FAT32 (although I would double check this!) and the comments in that thread point to at least one other example of the same thing, but no solution (I doubt the drive is not compatible).

Peve · 1 Nov 2008 at 09:46

Nismo said:
Does that really help him? He's already formatted to FAT32 (although I would double check this!) and the comments in that thread point to at least one other example of the same thing, but no solution (I doubt the drive is not compatible).

I have double checked it is formatted as FAT32 and have formatted it on multiple machines just to make sure. Used all the USB ports on the PS3 but still nothing

My 360 picks up the drive fine as well.

Streeteh · 1 Nov 2008 at 09:48

Does the harddrive icon appear but no files present within? Or does the icon itself not even appear?

ic1male · 1 Nov 2008 at 09:56

Have you got multiple partitions on the drive?

Peve · 1 Nov 2008 at 10:00

No hard drive icon appears in the menu and nope only got one 280Gb ish partition.

Streeteh · 1 Nov 2008 at 10:03

Hmmm, that's a bit of a git. Did you format it yourself using windows xp? If so would you be able to reformat it? Apparently this tool has fixed some peoples issues.

brakeinup · 1 Nov 2008 at 11:08

Nismo said:
Does that really help him? He's already formatted to FAT32 (although I would double check this!) and the comments in that thread point to at least one other example of the same thing, but no solution (I doubt the drive is not compatible).

It was a start. I took 20 seconds to google it, posted it and got on with something else not computer related. If was of no help then sorry about that.