PS3 Partition Manager

EvilFranky · 15 Feb 2009 at 16:01

Hi guys,

Was given a 250 GB 2.5" SATA HD from a friend. Thought it would be an ideal upgrade for the 40 GB PS3 I have got.

I completed a bit level backup of the original 40 GB drive to the 250 GB drive. All seemed perfectly fine, all my movies, saved games, music ect. were now on the bigger drive.

Unfortunatley, the PS3 is not using the rest of the drive, it sees the 250 GB but is reporting that there is only 9 GB free. The backup has created the 40 GB partition on the new 250 GB drive without extending it out.

What format does the PS3 use for its filesystem? And do you know of a utility that will let me extend this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

orderoftheflame · 15 Feb 2009 at 17:31

EvilFranky said:
Hi guys,

Was given a 250 GB 2.5" SATA HD from a friend. Thought it would be an ideal upgrade for the 40 GB PS3 I have got.

I completed a bit level backup of the original 40 GB drive to the 250 GB drive. All seemed perfectly fine, all my movies, saved games, music ect. were now on the bigger drive.

Unfortunatley, the PS3 is not using the rest of the drive, it sees the 250 GB but is reporting that there is only 9 GB free. The backup has created the 40 GB partition on the new 250 GB drive without extending it out.

What format does the PS3 use for its filesystem? And do you know of a utility that will let me extend this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Did you actually format the drive with the option on the PS3? My HDD went straight to it's proper capacity when I stuck it in. :confused:

rp2000 · 15 Feb 2009 at 17:34

orderoftheflame said:
Did you actually format the drive with the option on the PS3? My HDD went straight to it's proper capacity when I stuck it in.

He used a bit copy method so it is like cloning a 40GB drive onto a 250GB drive. Only problem is the partition tables/MBR are unchanged so the rest of the space is wasted.

OP: Why can't you just use the built in backup method in the PS3 to backup your 40GB drive to some external USB based device, then swap HDD, let PS3 reformat the new drive appropriately, then restore the data using the built in restore method.

rp2000

EvilFranky · 15 Feb 2009 at 18:21

I don't have an external device to back the data to.

I'd prefer to do it like that, would save this hassle, but there must be a way

rp2000 · 15 Feb 2009 at 18:23

EvilFranky said:
I don't have an external device to back the data to.

I'd prefer to do it like that, would save this hassle, but there must be a way

Considering that all your music and videos can be re-copied form their original source, games saves transferred with USB stick and demos/content can be redownloaded.

What is the largest size USB stick you have?

rp2000

Joebob · 15 Feb 2009 at 18:29

Why not do what I did when backing up. Put 250GB drive into external USB caddie then backup to new 250GB drive then copy backup file onto PC HDD. Pop new 250GB drive in PS3 and format it - put 40GB drive in caddie and format to fat32 via PC. Copy backup file from PC to 40GB drive and then restore to PS3.... worked for me.